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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. The Hyperbezier Pen Tool

    115 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  2. FuzzOS – an operating system which is designed specifically for fuzzing

    115 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  3. Booting an M1 Mac from an external disk

    115 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  4. Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago

    114 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  5. Apple Silicon Games - 400+ Game Performance Reports for Apple Silicon Macs

    114 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  6. Repairability

    114 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  7. State of Common Lisp Survey 2020

    114 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  8. Hundreds riot at iPhone factory in India over exploitation claims

    114 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  9. A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants

    114 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  10. Contributing Without Code

    114 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  11. Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport

    114 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  12. ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU

    114 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  13. Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (2017)

    114 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  14. RoboScan: Lego+Raspberry Pi-powered analog film roll scanner

    113 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  15. Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]

    113 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  16. NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi

    113 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  17. My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge

    113 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  18. Eyes hint at hidden mental-health conditions (2019)

    113 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  19. YARA – The pattern matching swiss knife

    113 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  20. New setup for 2020

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  21. Monoliths as a Service

    112 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  22. ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ

    112 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  23. Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer

    112 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  24. John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89

    112 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  25. Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  26. Feature Casualties of Large Databases

    112 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  27. Thai baby elephant hit by motorcycle survives after receiving CPR

    111 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  28. Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

    111 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  29. Some U.S. Colleges Cut Tuition

    111 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  30. The stock market is the cheapest since 1980

    111 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  31. Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC director says

    110 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  32. Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy

    110 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  33. The mythical “fast” web page

    110 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  34. L-System

    110 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  35. Can developer productivity be measured?

    110 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  36. Re: Flex Dance: open-source dance pad

    110 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  37. Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany

    110 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  38. Wordpress market share keeps growing

    110 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  39. The HP-35

    109 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  40. Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust

    109 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  41. Debian 10.7 Released

    109 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  42. Don’t Think, Just Defunctionalize

    109 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  43. This Community is Available in the App

    109 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  44. The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System

    109 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  45. Preact: Fast 3kb React Alternative with the Same API, Components and Virtual DOM

    109 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  46. Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison

    109 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  47. Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware

    109 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  48. A Tiny Lispy Transpiler

    108 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  49. Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe

    108 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  50. Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch

    108 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  51. Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer

    108 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  52. The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1

    108 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  53. Pierre Cardin has died

    108 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  54. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

    107 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  55. Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists

    107 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  56. PFAS “forever” chemicals found in hundreds more everyday products

    107 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  57. Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (2017)

    107 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  58. Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records

    107 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  59. Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely

    107 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher

    107 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  61. Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters

    106 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  62. California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE

    106 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  63. We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us

    106 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  64. Show HN: Voyager – write a web crawler/scraper as a state machine in Rust

    106 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  65. Software Design for Flexibility

    106 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  66. Encryption Lava Lamps (2017)

    105 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  67. The Social Life of Forests

    105 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  68. CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars

    105 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  69. WireGuard: Great protocol, but skip the Mac app

    105 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  70. The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health [pdf]

    105 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  71. Github: Token authentication requirements for Git operations

    105 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  72. In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree

    105 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  73. Bob Dylan Sells Entire Catalog of Songs to Universal Music Publishing

    105 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  74. Ask HN: I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?

    105 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  75. VisiData in 60 Seconds

    104 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  76. Siteswap

    104 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  77. Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts

    104 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  78. Spirals, Snowflakes and Trees: Recursion in Pictures

    104 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  79. Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram

    104 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  80. Defensive Programming

    104 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  81. Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome

    103 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  82. How to Think about Correlation?

    103 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  83. Should you Work Hard? (2019)

    103 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  84. More Americans are shoplifting food

    103 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  85. Show HN: NN-512 – Generate standalone C code for neural nets

    103 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  86. The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook

    103 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  87. Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an EV with a solid-state battery

    103 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  88. Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling

    103 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  89. Show HN: I have found the world's greatest landing page

    103 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  90. Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable

    103 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  91. Mozart: Leck mich im Arsch

    103 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  92. 2020 had some significant silver linings

    103 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  93. Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing

    103 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  94. Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard

    102 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  95. The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (1986)

    102 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  96. The Strength of Being Misunderstood

    102 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  97. Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica

    102 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  98. The Raspberry Pi 4 has a fan now – the Case Fan

    102 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  99. Show HN: Offline-First Personal Kanban

    102 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  100. California judge says L.A. officials 'arbitrarily' set outdoor dining ban

    102 points • comment • dec 10, 2020