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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

    66 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  2. Orthodox C++

    66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  3. Differential Topology with Prof. John W. Milnor (1965) [video]

    65 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  4. Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments

    65 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  5. Half-Precision Floating-Point, Visualized

    65 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  6. A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy

    65 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  7. How the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA

    65 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  8. Chemicals in Plastic Waste Are Killing Us

    65 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  9. Flash Player EOL, Adobe Announces 12-Day Grace Period

    65 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  10. I Did the Math on My Town’s Cul-de-Sacs. Here's What I Found

    65 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  11. ‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states

    65 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  12. The opioid effects of gluten exorphins: asymptomatic celiac disease (2015)

    65 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  13. Research in Programming Languages (2012)

    65 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  14. Bees Are Now Considered the Most Important Living Thing on Earth

    65 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  15. Spirulina Algae Photobioreactor (2017)

    65 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  16. Nomad v1.0 release – workload orchestration

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  17. iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

    64 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  18. Over 60% of people view journalism as more dangerous than ten years ago

    64 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  19. The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes

    64 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  20. A Brief History of Jamaican Jerk

    64 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  21. Singapore approves lab-grown 'chicken' meat

    64 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  22. Bubblesort, rocksort, and cocktail-shaker sort

    64 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  23. Teardown: Identifying Apple M1's distinct circuit blocks

    64 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  24. Show HN: History suggest box for your shell

    64 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  25. IMF would use your search history for credit scores

    64 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  26. Show HN: Disassembling a C64 Game from Scratch: Jeff Minter's Gridrunner

    64 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  27. Down Here, They Sometimes Call It 'Boy'

    64 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  28. Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020

    63 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  29. Show HN: Haxon, CLI tooling to retrieve data from Axon police body cams

    63 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  30. Coronavirus: Spain to keep registry of those who refuse Covid vaccine

    63 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  31. How are Docker images built? A look into overlay file-systems

    63 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  32. Notion API

    63 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  33. Concurrency: Implement withUnsafe[Throwing]Continuation

    63 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  34. Iconic Print, “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa,” Recreated with 50k Lego Bricks

    63 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  35. Havana syndrome: 'directed' radio frequency likely cause of illness

    63 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  36. Fuzzy logic rice cookers (2016)

    63 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  37. 64-bit RISC-V core claims 10x better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other 3-5GHz CPU

    63 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  38. Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs [pdf]

    63 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  39. Open-source browser history page with analytics

    62 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  40. What's the deal with openportstats.com?

    62 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  41. Uber Eats avoids ruling on workers' status by settling with delivery rider

    62 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  42. Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube

    62 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  43. Web analytics should at least meet the standards of informed consent

    62 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  44. Team uses copper to image Alzheimer's aggregates in the brain

    62 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  45. Automate any tasks that require multiple entries of data in a browser

    62 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  46. Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

    62 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  47. Foo to Bar: Naming Conventions in Haskell

    62 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  48. Health Canada opens the door to psychedelic therapies

    62 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  49. An oral history of the Bed Bath and Beyond coupon

    62 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  50. High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets

    62 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  51. New Pip resolver takes a long time to complete

    62 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  52. Christmas Is Bird-Counting Season (2016)

    61 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  53. Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (2011)

    61 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  54. Section 230 is Good, Actually

    61 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  55. Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991)

    61 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  56. Catherine Dulac Finds Brain Circuitry Behind Sex-Specific Behaviors

    61 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  57. Show HN: Twitch controls Minecraft

    61 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  58. A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++

    61 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  59. Zhoreeq/ipfd: An imageboard, but images are stored in a peer-to-peer network

    61 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  60. Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying and Nobody Knows Why (2019)

    61 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  61. A light-weight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation)

    61 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  62. SpaceX: Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test

    61 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. Progress Toward a Safer Psychedelic Drug to Treat Depression and Addiction

    61 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  64. Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

    61 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  65. Understanding Minecraft Performance (2011)

    61 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  66. Code Review Best Practices – Lessons from the Trenches

    61 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  67. An Old New Adventure

    60 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  68. No Country for Old Developers

    60 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  69. Jonesforth Port to RISC-V

    60 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  70. The Famicube Project

    60 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  71. Überzug: A CLI utility for drawing images on terminals

    60 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  72. Peter Thiel Says Covid Marks 21st Century’s True Start

    60 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  73. Modern Tire-pressure monitoring system Sensors: Let's try a DoS attack

    60 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  74. The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real

    60 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  75. ZeroPi – $9.99 SBC with 512MB and Gigabit Ethernet

    60 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  76. About those vector icons (2011)

    60 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  77. The Chaos of the Dice: A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge (2013)

    60 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  78. Peertube 3.0-rc1 released, with P2P livestreaming

    60 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  79. Show HN: Building an E-Ink Calendar and a UI Toolkit along the way

    60 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  80. Firefox to ship 'network partitioning' as a new anti-tracking defense

    60 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  81. Top Retractions of 2020

    59 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  82. Andrew Yang Leads in NYC Mayoral Race

    59 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  83. Mgmt: Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management

    59 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  84. A large scale analysis of hundreds of in-memory cache clusters at Twitter [pdf]

    59 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  85. The U.S. has recorded over 250k cases in a day for the first time

    59 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  86. MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities

    59 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  87. Facebook Banned Our SaaS Website

    59 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  88. Compiling Qt with Docker multi-stage and multi-platform

    59 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  89. Show HN: Juicebox – Quickly create beautiful, interactive data presentations

    59 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  90. Teach Debugging (2014)

    59 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  91. Ask HN: Do you miss being excited about programming/tech?

    59 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  92. Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (2002) [pdf]

    59 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  93. My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good

    59 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  94. How to Reliably Scale Your Data Platform for High Volumes

    59 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  95. Design tool for easy (and interactive) 3D web experiences: Spline

    59 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  96. How Takashi Murakami Got His Start as an Artist

    58 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  97. James Gunn (1923-2020)

    58 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  98. It’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages

    58 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  99. The New History of the Milky Way

    58 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  100. The TLA+ Video Course

    58 points • comment • dec 23, 2020