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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas!

    83 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  2. Big Sur 11.1 External Display Issues

    83 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  3. SeL4 Whitepaper [pdf]

    83 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  4. Sugar – a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat

    83 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  5. The Myth of Code Coverage

    83 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  6. Subuser: Docker as Desktop Programs

    83 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  7. Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand

    83 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  8. Rocky Linux: Community enterprise OS compatible with RHEL

    83 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  9. Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty

    83 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  10. Map of quotation marks in European languages

    83 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  11. A flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872 by infecting horses

    82 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  12. Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB

    82 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  13. CubicDOOM a ray-casting game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)

    82 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  14. Apple Took Three Years to Cut Ties with Supplier That Used Underage Labor

    82 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  15. Progress Over Perfection

    82 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  16. CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat”

    82 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  17. Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?

    82 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  18. Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange

    82 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  19. Roger Penrose: Beauty above all

    82 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  20. Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?

    82 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  21. When free software isn't practically superior (2015)

    81 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  22. Our Year in Review: How We’ve Made Firefox Faster in 2020

    81 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  23. Ask HN: Why does an article critical of Paul Graham get removed?

    81 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  24. More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese

    81 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  25. Getting Started with Lisp (2019)

    81 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  26. Is Stencil a Better React?

    81 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  27. Show HN: Wasmino = WASM and Arduino – Running Arduino Code in Browser

    81 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  28. Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention Economy?

    81 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  29. Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]

    80 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  30. Show HN: Deep learning tool that repairs damaged/faded photos

    80 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  31. Running BSDs on AMD Ryzen 5000 Series – FreeBSD/Linux Benchmarks

    80 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  32. Go 1.16 Beta 1

    80 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  33. This Week in Rust 368

    80 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  34. Fruit Walls

    80 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  35. Messenger API Updates for Europe

    80 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  36. Molly

    80 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  37. Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs

    80 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  38. What We Know of Sappho

    80 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  39. Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?

    80 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  40. That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles

    80 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  41. Filmbox – Physically accurate motion picture film emulation

    79 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  42. “A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C

    79 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  43. The Base58 Encoding Scheme

    79 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  44. A happy ending for King Lear? Trauma of plague caused Shakespeare to change it

    79 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  45. Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js

    79 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  46. Semantic Clojure Formatting

    78 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  47. Changes to Code Search Indexing

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  48. The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development

    78 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  49. Reverse engineering the Nest home/away API

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  50. The Parity of Zero

    78 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  51. Show HN: Exophysics – WebGL2 particle simulator

    78 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  52. Jean-Michel Basquiat on How to Be an Artist

    78 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  53. Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online

    78 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  54. Yo WASM – The Easy Way to WebAssembly

    78 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  55. Telegram's getting ads

    78 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  56. GNU World Order

    78 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  57. Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?

    78 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  58. Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (2017)

    78 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  59. Dash: Scalable Hashing on Persistent Memory [pdf]

    78 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  60. Super Wood (2018)

    78 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  61. Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading

    78 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  62. Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs

    78 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. The unexpected rule of adjectival ordering in English (2016)

    78 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  64. Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic

    77 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  65. NN-SVG: Generate publication-ready NN-architecture schematics

    77 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  66. Sweden edges closer to NATO membership

    77 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  67. Uhubctl – control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs

    77 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  68. How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI

    77 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  69. These breakthroughs will make 2021 better than 2020

    77 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  70. RC3 talk: How to survive in spacecraft [video]

    77 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  71. Substack Reader: An RSS feed reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions

    76 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  72. Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  73. Evolving Container Security with Linux User Namespaces

    76 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  74. On Design Patterns in C++

    76 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  75. Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (1996)

    76 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  76. Facebook’s campaign against Apple is against users and small businesses

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  77. Pine retail stores vs. community stores

    76 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  78. Show HN: Argos Translate – Open-source offline translation app written in Python

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  79. Getting Started in BBC Basic

    76 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  80. 250M people participate in nationwide strike in India

    76 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  81. Show HN: DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains

    76 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  82. MasterCard data analytics opt-out page: where did it go?

    75 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  83. From LEGOs to Ziploc: The Science of the Snap Fit

    75 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  84. Show HN: A new way to share and collaborate on links

    75 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  85. Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)

    75 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  86. Sea water district cooling feasibility analysis for Hawaii [pdf] (2002)

    75 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  87. Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

    75 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  88. Chinese Demography

    75 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  89. In-Database Machine Learning [pdf]

    75 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  90. Solving Algorithmic Problems in Python with Pytest (2019)

    75 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  91. Google CEO pledges to investigate exit of top AI ethicist

    75 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  92. Show HN: How to make full colour PCB art

    74 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  93. Defold engine code overview

    74 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  94. Army computer models unveil secret to quieter small drones

    74 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  95. Getting rid of NPM scripts

    74 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  96. Bitcoin still makes no sense

    74 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  97. Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

    74 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. A Computer Culture for Children [video]

    74 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  99. Show HN: CoScreen 1.0 – radically different pair/team programming

    74 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  100. Cloudquery: Easily ask questions about your cloud infrastructure

    73 points • comment • dec 14, 2020