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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. The Genius of RISC-V Microprocessors

    154 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  2. Threema apps are Open Source

    154 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  3. Teardown of the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal

    154 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  4. Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

    154 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  5. Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers

    154 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  6. Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages, for deploying and hosting JAMstack

    153 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  7. National parks of New Zealand in 3D

    153 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  8. APIs All the Way Down

    153 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  9. 'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018)

    153 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  10. US ends era of emotional support animals on planes

    153 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  11. Sequoia PGP 1.0 Released: The Seedling Is a Sapling

    153 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  12. Fictional Videogame Stills

    153 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  13. Geometrize: Turn Images into Geometric Primitives

    153 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  14. OSv – Linux binary compatible unikernel for virtualized environments

    152 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  15. Thank HN: All of you, this place, gives me hope

    152 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  16. The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

    152 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  17. Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi

    152 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  18. Interactive C++ for Data Science

    152 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  19. Emails show Navy's 'UFO' patents went through significant internal review

    152 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  20. The Quantum Ad-List contains domains used by ads, trackers, malware

    151 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  21. Observable and Creative Coding

    151 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  22. 80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming

    151 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  23. I've walked away from software development

    151 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  24. Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

    151 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  25. Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo

    151 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  26. The future of 32-bit Linux

    151 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  27. UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category

    151 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  28. How a British Covid-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start

    151 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  29. Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market

    150 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  30. The Abolition of Work (2002)

    150 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  31. Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard

    150 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  32. Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate

    150 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  33. Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo

    150 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  34. Open Security Training: open license training material for computer security

    150 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  35. EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B

    149 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  36. Experimenting on My Hearing Loss

    149 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  37. Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf]

    149 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  38. Kate is 20 years old

    149 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  39. Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE

    149 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  40. Show HN: CodeSwing – A CodePen-like interactive playground, built into VS Code

    148 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  41. Mannequin.js: An Articulated Mannequin Figure Library

    148 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  42. How we built scalable spatial indexing in CockroachDB

    147 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  43. Getting our first thousand users in one day

    147 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  44. AR with SceneKit and Metal

    147 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  45. Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers

    147 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  46. Unlimited is like a Ponzi Scheme

    147 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  47. Centos.rip

    146 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  48. Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player

    146 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  49. Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough

    146 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  50. Learning to Play the Chaos Game

    146 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  51. The “$20M to $500M” Question: Adding Top Down Sales

    146 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  52. Let’s Encrypt moving to new CA root

    146 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  53. Ramstein air base in Germany experiences potential incoming missile scare

    145 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  54. Pijul: Commutation and Scalability

    145 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  55. How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits

    145 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  56. Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization

    145 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  57. The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git history (2017)

    144 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  58. Stripe: Platform of Platforms

    144 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  59. Categories of personal information collected

    144 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  60. The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable

    144 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  61. An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (2012)

    144 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  62. Hacker Public Radio

    143 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  63. Researchers Who Exposed VW Gain Little Reward from Success

    143 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  64. Skybolt: A C++ planetary environment rendering engine with Python bindings

    143 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  65. HN Readers

    143 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  66. Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phishing scam

    143 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  67. A man who posted himself to Australia (2015)

    143 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  68. Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

    142 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  69. Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?

    142 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  70. Farewell, Periscope

    142 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  71. University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI

    141 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  72. The Dec 21, 2020 Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

    141 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  73. Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)

    141 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  74. No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

    141 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  75. How to cook a medieval feast: recipes from the Middle Ages

    140 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  76. The Rise and Fall of Ambrosia Software (2019)

    140 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  77. Mesa 20.3 released with out-of-the-box support for Arm's Mali Bifrost GPUs

    140 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  78. Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]

    140 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  79. Google removes some IAC browser extensions for 'policy violations'

    140 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  80. You Should Write a User Guide

    140 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  81. Show HN: TreeOS – A 16-bit bootsector Christmas tree demo

    140 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  82. Do not sign a contract with Snowflake

    140 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  83. Positioning Your Startup Is Vital

    140 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  84. Video taken by pilots of what could be the elusive Los Angeles jet pack guy

    139 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  85. Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation

    139 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  86. Well, Actually – Physics Answers

    139 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  87. A guide to product analytics tools for startups

    139 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  88. An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft

    139 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  89. Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML

    139 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  90. Pandemic Villains: Robinhood

    139 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  91. Modern mathematics emerged from “The House of Wisdom” in the 13th century

    139 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  92. Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm

    138 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  93. Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700

    138 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  94. Project Oberon 2013 on RISC-V

    138 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  95. Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: Self-Destructive Last Months of Zappos Visionary

    138 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  96. A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win back control of its ccTLD

    138 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  97. Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector

    137 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  98. Precursor’s Custom PCBs

    137 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  99. AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.”

    137 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  100. Emacs Survey 2020 Results

    137 points • comment • dec 11, 2020