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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. The Strength of Being Misunderstood

    102 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  2. Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail

    102 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  3. Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils

    102 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

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

    102 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  5. Show HN: Offline-First Personal Kanban

    102 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

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

    102 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  7. OpenSSL Security Advisory – EDIPARTYNAME null pointer de-reference

    101 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  8. Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon

    101 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  9. Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit

    101 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  10. Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Reboots Pirate Honeypot Scheme from Prison

    101 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  11. Britain’s electricity since 2010: fossil fuel use nearly halves

    101 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  12. Show HN: Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game

    101 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  13. Head of Remote Work

    101 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  14. Wikipedia's in Trouble (2019)

    100 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  15. Why a land-value tax is inevitable

    100 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  16. Leading someone with more years of experience than my age

    100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  17. A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984)

    100 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  18. Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with Covid-19

    100 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  19. It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn

    100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  20. Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?

    100 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  21. Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11

    99 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  22. 18XX Train Games

    99 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  23. Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020

    99 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  24. Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks

    99 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  25. Managing an underperformer who thinks they’re doing great

    99 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  26. The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads

    99 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  27. MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4.2B to charity

    99 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  28. NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

    99 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  29. How to let go of a lifelong dream

    99 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  30. World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

    99 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  31. How Python attributes work

    99 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  32. Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network

    99 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  33. Notebook Is A Better Readme

    98 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  34. Implementing join planning in our open source Golang SQL query engine

    98 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  35. Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems

    98 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  36. Florida Agents Raid Home of Rebekah Jones, Former State Data Scientist

    98 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  37. All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once

    98 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  38. The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban

    98 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  39. Macs with T2, M1 chips cannot be restored to factory state without Apple

    98 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  40. Selling a Tiny Project

    98 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  41. Redox OS 0.6.0

    98 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  42. Understanding mRNA Covid-19 vaccines

    98 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  43. Finding Software Bugs Using Symbolic Execution

    98 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  44. Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual

    98 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  45. LuckysheetServer – Google Sheets-like realtime collaborative spreadsheet

    97 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  46. U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration

    97 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  47. Experts: Evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones' home flimsy

    97 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  48. Evolution of my role as a founder CTO

    97 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  49. Canada's 350-year-old department store Hudson's Bay locked out by landlords

    97 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  50. Reverse Engineering the TP-Link HS110

    97 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  51. Libre Barcode Project

    97 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  52. “I took FSFE to court. This is my story”

    97 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  53. We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India

    97 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  54. Dialup: Serendipitous Voice Chat

    97 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  55. Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries

    96 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  56. Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

    96 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  57. Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election

    96 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  58. Computer science is not software engineering

    96 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  59. What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)

    96 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  60. The Rise and Fall of Minitel

    96 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  61. Redox OS 0.6, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system

    96 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  62. Common Problems in Financial Services Reconciliation

    96 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims

    95 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  64. Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf]

    95 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  65. An open source portable terminal for every dev

    95 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  66. SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet

    95 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  67. Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup

    95 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  68. In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops

    95 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  69. Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online

    95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  70. No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

    95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  71. When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'

    95 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  72. A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0

    94 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  73. FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification

    94 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  74. Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters

    94 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  75. Mobile Home Skyscrapers: The Elusive Dream of Vertical Urban Trailer Parks

    94 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  76. Vacietis, a C compiler targeting Common Lisp

    94 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  77. Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer vaccine trigger allergic reactions

    94 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  78. Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music

    94 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  79. Ethr Is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and ICMP

    94 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  80. Foundations of Probabilistic Programming

    94 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  81. Google Cloud: $72,000 bill overnight

    93 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  82. Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS

    93 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  83. Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

    93 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  84. Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]

    93 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  85. Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (1996)

    93 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  86. Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug

    93 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  87. How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?

    93 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  88. Draw.io and Terraform = Brainboard, Graphical Way to Do Terraform

    93 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  89. Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”

    93 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  90. The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (1971)

    93 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  91. Debian CD Image for AArch64 Windows Laptops

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  92. Oso – open-source policy engine for authorization in Rust

    92 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  93. Why Content Is King

    92 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  94. AWS Proton

    92 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  95. Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language

    92 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  96. Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen

    92 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  97. ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook

    92 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  98. The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis

    92 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  99. Unraveling the role of the microbiome in major depressive disorder

    92 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  100. Code Browser

    92 points • comment • dec 28, 2020