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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. How Microsoft crushed Slack

    124 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

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

    124 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  3. Show HN: Cygnus-X1 – A Thrust Vectoring Model Rocket Flight Computer

    123 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  4. Cracking the meat-allergy mystery with the tick-bite link

    123 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  5. Lessons for Early Stage Founders

    123 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  6. Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks

    123 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  7. Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering

    123 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  8. Liquidity Is Coming

    123 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  9. Building a scalable e-commerce data model

    123 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  10. What Is Life? (2019)

    123 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  11. Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapses, Ending an Era of World-Class Research

    123 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  12. Show HN: Galène Videoconferencing Server

    123 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  13. Why nullable types?

    123 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  14. Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites

    123 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  15. QEMU Advent Calendar 2020

    122 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  16. Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

    122 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  17. Commits are shapshots, not diffs

    122 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  18. Teaching the Unfortunate Parts

    122 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  19. Areweyet

    122 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  20. Airflow 2.0

    122 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  21. Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship

    122 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  22. PHP RFC: Enumerations

    122 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  23. Scaling Down Deep Learning

    122 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  24. An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men

    122 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  25. The Piet-GPU Vision

    122 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  26. Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google

    122 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  27. Self-victimhood is a personality type, researchers find

    122 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  28. The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me

    122 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  29. BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL

    122 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  30. Hypersim, Photorealistic Synthetic Dataset for Indoor Scene Understanding

    121 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  31. Show HN: System for Private Data Management

    121 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  32. Win by Segfault and Other Notes on Exploiting Chess Engines

    121 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  33. Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown: Learning Autonomy on the Jetson Nano

    121 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  34. UK warns people with serious allergies to avoid Pfizer vaccine

    121 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  35. When important components become scarce: CPUs, GPUs

    121 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  36. “It Turns Out” (2010)

    121 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  37. So-called sophisticated cyberattack against US government, a simple GitHub leak

    121 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  38. How we made the PJON network protocol from scratch

    121 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  39. Distilleries that made hand sanitizer charged $14k surprise fee by FDA

    121 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  40. FreeBSD src repository has transitioned from Subversion to Git

    121 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  41. WireGuard Bounce Server Setup

    120 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  42. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

    120 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  43. Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  44. Why can we smell copper?

    120 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  45. Show HN: Four years of profitable side-projects

    120 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  46. 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

    120 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  47. Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs

    120 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  48. EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards

    119 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  49. The Owl’s Right Eye (2019)

    119 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  50. A New species of whale has been discovered off the western coast of Mexico

    119 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  51. New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night

    119 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  52. Domino’s Pizza drove increase in stock value by acting like a startup

    119 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  53. World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

    119 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  54. Going All in on the Mac App Store

    118 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  55. Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+

    118 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  56. Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

    118 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  57. Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers

    118 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  58. Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks

    118 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  59. A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp

    118 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. The Erosion of Deep Literacy

    118 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  61. January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all

    118 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  62. Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python

    118 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  63. Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines

    118 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  64. Real Time Continuous Blood Monitoring

    118 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  65. Military scrambling to understand aviation crash risk from new 5G sale

    117 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  66. 10 KB Club: With links to popular HN, Reddit, Lobsters threads for each website

    117 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  67. Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light

    117 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  68. TiddlyWiki 5.1.23

    117 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  69. bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree

    117 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  70. How the CCP Does Job Promotions

    117 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  71. Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern

    117 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  72. Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform

    117 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  73. Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio]

    117 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  74. A family with no fingerprints

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  75. Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I

    117 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  76. My Procedurally Generated Music Is Awful

    117 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  77. Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  78. Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020

    117 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  79. Etsy was a twee culture punchline, now it’s a Wall Street darling

    117 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  80. Kubernetes 1.20

    117 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  81. Brian Chesky on Ron Conway

    116 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  82. Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language

    116 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  83. Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful

    116 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  84. Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO

    116 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  85. That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture

    116 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  86. Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

    116 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  87. A new population of blue whales was discovered hiding in the Indian Ocean

    116 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  88. Mastering Pinterest SEO: An insider's guide

    116 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  89. IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

    116 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  90. U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come

    116 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  91. Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males

    115 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  92. PC DOS Reimagined

    115 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  93. More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

    115 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  94. I can’t work the hours I did in 2020 again yet struggling to see how to avoid it

    115 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  95. Deep Graph Library: Easy Deep Learning on Graphs

    115 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  96. My Favorite Books 2020

    115 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  97. IceStick Tutorial: experience FPGA design and RISC-V using $40 FPGA device

    115 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. BBC Micro Bot – Creative Retro Coding

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  99. Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook

    115 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  100. The Hyperbezier Pen Tool

    115 points • comment • dec 27, 2020