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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Show HN: I built a comprehensive Ark ETF tracker

    137 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  2. Emacs Survey 2020 Results

    137 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

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

    137 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  4. Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector

    137 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  5. Longbets: A bioerror will lead to one million casualties by Dec 2020

    136 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  6. Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work

    136 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  7. Between two Lisps

    136 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  8. John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

    136 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  9. IMAP API – self hosted daemon to access IMAP and SMTP accounts via HTTP API

    136 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  10. The future of electricity is local

    136 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  11. A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest–while staying in formation

    135 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  12. Bit Twiddling Hacks

    135 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  13. What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)

    135 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  14. Facebook Profits as Users Are Ripped Off by Scam Ads

    135 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  15. Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions

    135 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  16. Show HN: Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts

    135 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  17. Excess mortality from March to December of 2020

    135 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  18. Taking PHP Seriously (2016)

    135 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  19. Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression

    135 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  20. Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with domestically built plane

    135 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  21. Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve

    135 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  22. IPv6 WireGuard Peering

    134 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  23. A New Take on RSS

    134 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  24. Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

    134 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  25. Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud gaming apps

    134 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  26. Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders

    134 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  27. Inciteful: Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature

    134 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  28. Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

    134 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  29. Ham radio and astronauts

    134 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  30. Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

    133 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  31. Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System

    133 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  32. Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

    133 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  33. On the Graying of Gnome

    133 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  34. Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

    133 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  35. Casio Graphing Scientific Calculator Fx-9860GIII Comes with MicroPython

    133 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  36. Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021

    133 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  37. Airbnb’s Stunning IPO

    132 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  38. AWS Joins the Blender Development Fund

    132 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  39. Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)

    132 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  40. Code Points

    132 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  41. Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial

    132 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  42. Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

    132 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  43. Creative Code-Generated Art

    131 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  44. Building a simple neural net in Java

    131 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  45. Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies

    131 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  46. Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers

    131 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  47. Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again

    131 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  48. New version of Apple-1 DIY kits start shipping

    131 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  49. Cemetery of Soviet Computers

    131 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  50. Manga Guide to Lisp

    131 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  51. Types of Dark Patterns

    130 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  52. Tesla Service Centers Are Preventing Delivery Refusals in Weird Ways

    130 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  53. Hyperbeam: A 1-1 E2E encrypted internet pipe powered by Hyperswarm

    130 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  54. HiFiBerryOS

    130 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  55. How the New Yorker Fell into the “Weird Japan” Trap

    130 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  56. Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

    130 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  57. Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test

    130 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  58. Risk-First Software Development

    130 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  59. Listen to Wikipedia

    130 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  60. Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

    130 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  61. Show HN: Make slides with text, markdown, YAML, JSON or JavaScript, your call

    129 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  62. ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources

    129 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  63. How Texas Can Become the Next Silicon Valley

    129 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  64. Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta

    129 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  65. The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

    129 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  66. Rebekah Jones' house raided at gunpoint

    129 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  67. Free Pascal

    128 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  68. Show HN: I wrote a book about Debugging CSS

    128 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  69. The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

    128 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  70. Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub

    128 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  71. Facebook reveals 'SuperCell' tower to increase connectivity in rural areas

    128 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  72. Talk Less, Listen More

    127 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  73. What Did the Past Smell Like?

    127 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  74. Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect

    127 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  75. Niex: Jupyter Notebooks but Using Elixir

    127 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  76. Winamp Skins Collection

    127 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  77. Commoditize your complement (2019)

    127 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  78. Stanisław Lem's Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home

    127 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  79. The US Dollar Could Outlast the American Empire

    126 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  80. PureOS: Freedom, Privacy, and Security

    126 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  81. Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese

    126 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  82. Apple Silicon M1 Disruption

    126 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  83. Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)

    126 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  84. An unemployed trader who became a $700M exile

    126 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  85. Tribes of Programming (2017)

    126 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  86. HermiTux – A Linux binary-compatible unikernel

    125 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  87. Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust

    125 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  88. If you can't play the new VR version of Myst, why not play the Apple II demake

    125 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  89. Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP

    125 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  90. Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa

    125 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  91. Periodic table of the web's APIs

    125 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  92. Understanding how AES encryption works

    125 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  93. A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later (2012)

    125 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  94. Finding Critical Open Source Projects

    125 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  95. Rancher Lab Acquired by SUSE

    124 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  96. Germany's State Distance-Learning University

    124 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  97. Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages

    124 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes

    124 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  99. FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship

    124 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  100. Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (2015)

    124 points • comment • dec 13, 2020