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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Real wireframe teapot mounted inside a Commodore Pet display (2004)

    53 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  2. Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

    53 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  3. A Scary Amount of Nutrition Science Has Deep Ties to the Food Industry, Study

    53 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  4. Haynes Stops Printing Famous Workshop Manuals

    53 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  5. Reverse Engineering my Christmas Tree

    53 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  6. PSA: Stripe emails to your customers include an unremovable advertisement

    53 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  7. Jailhouse: Linux-Based Partitioning Hypervisor

    53 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  8. T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)

    53 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  9. Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 recorder

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  10. Writing my first Gameboy Emulator

    53 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  11. Free internet for all not such a bad idea

    53 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  12. Edward the Confessor, a model of piety, was a surprisingly effective ruler

    52 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  13. Mysterious black spot in polar explorer's diary offers gruesome clue to his fate

    52 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  14. The Historical Cost of Light

    52 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  15. Episode 341: Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

    52 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  16. The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable

    52 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  17. Show HN: BeautifulCode, generate beautiful images of your source code

    52 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  18. Build a Two-Way Pager with Lora

    52 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  19. When DevSecOps goes wrong: a short lesson from Huawei's source code

    52 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  20. Anticipating vaccine, forecast expects recovery to begin in spring 2021

    52 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  21. It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really?

    52 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  22. Writing a custom iterator in modern C++

    52 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  23. Undocumented immigrants far less likely to commit crimes in U.S. than citizens

    52 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  24. Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages

    52 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  25. Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?

    52 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  26. Developer progression as a function of navigating complexity

    52 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  27. Probabilistic Flakiness: How do you test your tests?

    52 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  28. Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?

    51 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  29. As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened

    51 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  30. 'This is not science fiction,' say scientists pushing for 'neuro-rights'

    51 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  31. Thinking About Decentralized Communities

    51 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  32. The Lobster Programming Language

    51 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  33. Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing

    51 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  34. Leaving the Grace of This World

    51 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  35. Interesting Research Programs from the 2010s

    51 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  36. What Privacy Is For (2012)

    51 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  37. Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook?

    51 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  38. This happened to me while I was scrolling through Twitter

    51 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  39. Printable, flexible battery offers 10 times the density of lithium-ion

    51 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  40. Deprecating the __cfduid cookie

    51 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  41. Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20sec at 100M degrees

    51 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  42. Humans are remarkably safe at driving

    51 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  43. Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym

    51 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  44. Build your own async primitive

    51 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  45. Plato in Sicily

    51 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  46. FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses

    51 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  47. Original CentOS founder intends to create new fork of RHEL

    51 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  48. Russian 'doomsday' plane's radio equipment stolen by thieves

    51 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  49. Using Google Analytics without GDPR consent

    50 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  50. Modular unikernel designed to run applications securely on micro-VMs

    50 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  51. Paul Graham on Replit's Growth

    50 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  52. 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

    50 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  53. Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture

    50 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  54. Strange Things LINK Knows about 80x86 Processors (1997)

    50 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  55. Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully. – The Stanford Daily

    50 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  56. Bad programming ideas that only become apparent after years

    50 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  57. How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook

    50 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  58. Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves

    50 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  59. Info is available about which college majors pay off, students aren’t using it

    50 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  60. Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: Coronavirus’ spread indoors

    50 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  61. Growing the .NET Ecosystem

    50 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  62. Email providers – which one to choose?

    50 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  63. Show HN: I made a crate for creating interactive chord diagrams in Rust

    50 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  64. Software Needs Philosophers (2006)

    50 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  65. Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52M

    50 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  66. Bathroom Reading

    50 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  67. The ‘Indiana Jones’ Supernatural Horror Movie That Almost Was (2017)

    49 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  68. Python Print() and Beyond

    49 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  69. Show HN: Vue-Notion – An unofficial Notion renderer

    49 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  70. Super Nintendo World theme park

    49 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  71. Vitamin D and Covid-19

    49 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  72. Countries build 9 mile wide tree wall across Africa to prevent Sahara advancing (2014)

    49 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  73. Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs

    49 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  74. US House passes bill to tear down judiciary’s paywall

    49 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  75. Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles

    49 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  76. A Xilinx ZYNQ Linux FPGA Board for Under $20

    49 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  77. College Students Are Pissed They Wasted Money on a Covid Semester from Hell

    49 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  78. Flower – A Friendly Federated Learning Framework

    49 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  79. Bulverism is to “assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error”

    49 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  80. How we processed €5M in donations in 2 hours using Cloudflare and Stripe

    49 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  81. Twin – Tailwind with the flexibility of CSS-in-JS

    49 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  82. The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades (1998)

    49 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  83. The Photographer Who Set Out to Watch Herself Age

    49 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  84. My million dollar domain hobby

    49 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  85. Cave Paintings and Sculptures

    49 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  86. First commercial curved CMOS sensor from startup CURVE

    49 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  87. Akku: Experimental Bluetooth headset battery monitoring application for macOS

    49 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  88. The Children of Pornhub

    49 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  89. End-User Programming (2019)

    49 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  90. The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West

    49 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  91. Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard

    48 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  92. Manawyrm/ISA8019 – RTL8019-based ISA network card, NE2000-compatible

    48 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  93. New coronavirus strain up to 70% more transmissible

    48 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  94. Red Star (novel)

    48 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  95. Show HN: Deep Email Validator

    48 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  96. Zodiac ‘340 Cypher’ Cracked

    48 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  97. Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own

    48 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  98. Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003)

    48 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  99. Element AI sold for $230M, as founders saw value mostly wiped out: document

    48 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  100. Hope is an alternative to markup languages

    48 points • comment • dec 03, 2020