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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories

    92 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  2. TerraPi modular case system for Raspberry Pi supports multiple SSD's, DIN rail

    92 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  3. Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language

    92 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  4. Why Content Is King

    92 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  5. How To Safely Store A Password (2010)

    92 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  6. One red paperclip

    92 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  7. Google Poly is shutting down

    92 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  8. NASA's Through-Hole Workmanship Req (2002)

    92 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

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

    92 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  10. Free software needs free documentation

    92 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  11. Raster CRT Typography (According to Dec)

    91 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  12. Autofocus for the 16mm Telephoto Lens Mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera

    91 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  13. Extremist Programming (2012)

    91 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  14. Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

    91 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  15. A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA

    91 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  16. The Erlang Rationale (2008) [pdf]

    91 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  17. Futures explained in 200 lines of Rust

    91 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  18. BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima

    90 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  19. Is deep learning a new kind of programming?

    90 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  20. Faroe Island roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean

    90 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  21. Listenlater.fm – A Read-It-Later service for your ears

    90 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  22. The Chrome Root Program

    90 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  23. Stanford MLSys Seminar Series

    90 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  24. Four Types of Kanji (2019)

    90 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  25. Best online communities for software developers

    90 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  26. Equity guide for employees at fast-growing companies

    89 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  27. Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets?

    89 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  28. WMR – Tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps

    89 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  29. Volbx – Qt-based spreadsheet app for data manipulation

    89 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  30. Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off

    89 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  31. Exploring supervisors’ two‐faced response to their past abusive behavior

    89 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  32. I tried the first no-kill, lab-grown chicken burger

    89 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  33. Cyberpunk 2077 a 'warning' about the future

    89 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  34. Rails 6.1.0 Released

    89 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  35. A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to Track User Locations

    89 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  36. Show HN: Edamagit – Magit for VSCode

    89 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  37. The Solar Storm of 2012

    89 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  38. Why are great athletes more likely to be younger siblings?

    89 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  39. Cardio fitness notifications are available today on Apple Watch

    89 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  40. On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  41. Applying TLA+ in cloud systems [video]

    88 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  42. A modern tool for the Windows kernel exploration and observability

    88 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  43. Hackers last year conducted a 'dry run' of SolarWinds breach

    88 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  44. Adopting Ruby 3 types with RBS

    88 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  45. US deaths in 2020 top 3M, by far most ever counted

    88 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  46. Gamers allege EA uses dynamic difficulty adjustment so players spend more money

    88 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  47. Show HN: Wisdom-of-crowds survey tool that finds hidden consensus at scale

    88 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  48. Israeli Cyber Experts Uncover Attack on 85,000 MySQL Servers

    88 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  49. Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017)

    88 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  50. The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]

    88 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  51. Germany begins legal action against Facebook for their Oculus login requirements

    87 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  52. Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids

    87 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  53. Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?

    87 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  54. UK-EU trade deal refers to Netscape Communicator 4 as “modern email software”

    87 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  55. Causality Is Graphically Simple

    87 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  56. A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis

    87 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  57. Common security issues with crypto websites and APIs

    87 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  58. A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon

    86 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  59. More information on the plant disturbance at Olkiluoto 2

    86 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. VisUAL – A highly visual ARM emulator

    86 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  61. The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (2014) [video]

    86 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  62. An oral history of the hamburger icon (2019)

    86 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  63. CentOS Stream, or Debian?

    86 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  64. Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform

    86 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  65. Switching from Apple to Lenovo

    86 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  66. Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (1985)

    85 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  67. UX, Then Architecture, Then Tools

    85 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  68. What if incomes grew like GDP?

    85 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  69. Making a digital clock in Google Sheets

    85 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  70. U.S. House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

    85 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  71. A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)

    85 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  72. Using Topology to Classify Labelled Graphs

    85 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  73. Postdocs under pressure: ‘Can I even do this any more?’

    85 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  74. Show HN: Tuchu – Automatically highlight the important parts of a document

    85 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  75. Measuring "efficiency" in document prepration: Microsoft Word vs. LaTex

    85 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  76. Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collab (2018)

    85 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  77. Cloud Run adds min instances feature for latency-sensitive apps

    85 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  78. Virtualize Your Network on FreeBSD with VNET

    85 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  79. Show HN: Crossminds.ai – A knowledge graph indexed AI research video library

    85 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  80. For Apollo 11 he wasn’t on the moon, but his coffee was warm (2019)

    85 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  81. The Semantic Future of the Web

    85 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  82. Rudy Giuliani got monoclonal antibodies. You probably can’t

    85 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  83. Grenfell Tower inquiry: key things we’ve learned this year

    85 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  84. Vitamin D metabolites and the gut microbiome in older men

    85 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  85. Seasonal Spirals

    85 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  86. Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry

    85 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  87. Exhaustiveness Checking with Mypy

    84 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  88. Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested

    84 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  89. Ultimate Debian Database

    84 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  90. Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization

    84 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  91. How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip

    84 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  92. Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal

    84 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  93. The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

    84 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  94. The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide

    84 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  95. Major browsers are getting hit in widespread malware attacks

    84 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  96. The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary

    84 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  97. UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

    84 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  98. Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco

    83 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  99. Investors double down on stocks, pushing margin debt to record

    83 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  100. The Myth of Code Coverage

    83 points • comment • dec 04, 2020