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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Build an 8-bit CPU from scratch

    48 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  2. Semantics of C in K Framework

    48 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  3. Show HN: Interactive Rubik's Cube with sub-puzzles for solution steps

    48 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  4. Show HN: I built a virtual concert venue for artists

    48 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  5. Zodiac ‘340 Cypher’ Cracked

    48 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  6. Jair Bolsonaro: Organized Crime and Corruption 2020 Person of the Year

    48 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  7. Zhaoxin ZX-E / KX-6000 CPU review

    48 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  8. On the Many Mysteries of the European Eel

    48 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  9. Git2graph: Generate a Git graph structure from linear Git history

    48 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  10. Writing a BNF Grammar

    48 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  11. How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters

    48 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  12. Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

    48 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  13. Math Keeps Changing

    48 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  14. Zcash Open Major Grants

    48 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  15. Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard

    48 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

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

    48 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  17. New coronavirus strain up to 70% more transmissible

    48 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

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

    48 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  19. Can Charlie Kaufman Get Out of His Head?

    47 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  20. Tesla to raise up to $5B in share offering, its second in three months

    47 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  21. Big-endian mode supported for Raspberry Pi with bootable images available

    47 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  22. Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut – Nikkei Asia

    47 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  23. Feedback: Errors, filesystems, magic numbers, and more

    47 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  24. How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners

    47 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  25. Dismissing Python Garbage Collection (2017)

    47 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  26. Producer of Netflix Three body problem found poisoned

    47 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  27. From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort

    47 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  28. Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing

    47 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  29. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)

    46 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  30. Augmented Reality and the Surveillance Society

    46 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  31. Free-space optical links for space communication networks

    46 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  32. The U.S. Army Is Creating Robots with Synthetically Grown Muscle

    46 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  33. Sci-Hub and Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After High Court Complaint

    46 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  34. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin

    46 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  35. Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan

    46 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  36. SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching with launch tower

    46 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  37. Thousands of fraudsters are selling via Shopify, analysis finds

    46 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  38. Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report says

    46 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  39. Famous Zodiac 340 cipher finally solved after 51 years

    46 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  40. My Ken Williams Story

    46 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  41. Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings

    46 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  42. Being bilingual makes swearing easier

    46 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  43. Game of Life running on Penrose tiles

    46 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  44. Amazon’s surveillance drones violate FCC rules

    46 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  45. Tesla FSD Beta 8 tested for self-driving performance in snowy conditions

    46 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  46. What caused Shimano's Coasting-program to fail? (2010)

    46 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  47. CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream

    46 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  48. Houdini.how

    46 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  49. iPhone 6s falls out of a plane and survives, with all the action recorded

    46 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  50. AstraZeneca to be exempt from Covid vaccine liability claims in most countries

    46 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  51. Knotwork Designer

    46 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  52. A technique from human archaeology could help restore sea otter populations

    46 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  53. Project Kuiper's custom-built antenna architecture

    46 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  54. VAccel: Hardware Acceleration for Lightweight Hypervisors

    46 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  55. Show HN: Visualizing Deep Features from Podcasts

    46 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Employees who exersised stock options: how did it go?

    46 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  57. CoroBase: Database engine using C++20 coroutines to hide cache misses

    45 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  58. My Life in Cars

    45 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  59. Windows Subsystem for Linux performance is close to bare-metal Linux

    45 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty

    45 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  61. Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas

    45 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  62. PTM – Page Table Manipulation from Usermode

    45 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  63. China is the greatest enemy to freedom – US intelligence chief

    45 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  64. Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course Free from NYU

    45 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  65. Exasperated Exuberance

    45 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  66. Wagnerism

    45 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  67. Posenet Fruit Ninja in the Browser (Tensorflow.js and Posenet)

    45 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  68. As Vaccines Are Rolled Out, Get Ready for False Side Effects

    45 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  69. German Radio Turns 100

    45 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  70. Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 doses of vaccine

    45 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  71. Ask HN: What's that Game that predicts your choices?

    45 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  72. The Galileo Eccentric Satellite Surprise

    45 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  73. AMB – Ancient Machine Book Format

    45 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  74. “modern phone encryption sort of sucks”

    45 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  75. YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online

    44 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  76. J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85 (1984)

    44 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  77. Bitcoin breaks above $20k for the first time ever

    44 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  78. Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (2018)

    44 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  79. The Import on Interaction Pattern

    44 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  80. Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks

    44 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

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

    44 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  82. Libriscv: RISC-V Binary Translation

    44 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  83. If you've been laid off, please avoid this mistake in interviews

    44 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  84. Show HN: A convenient graphical image annotation tool

    44 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  85. Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination

    44 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  86. How Much YouTube Paid Me in 2020 (with a million subscribers)

    44 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  87. Life of a Vitess Cluster

    44 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  88. Why I keep a personal log of bugs

    44 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  89. Hawala traders are being squeezed by regulators and Covid-19

    44 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  90. Generic Mitigations

    44 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  91. Ask HN: Successful one-person non-SaaS online businesses?

    44 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  92. Three Cheers for Solutionism?

    44 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  93. PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing

    44 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  94. Atlantropa

    44 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  95. A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  96. Why Bitcoin Could Be Banned or Criminalized in the Coming Years

    44 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  97. The Death of Zappos Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior

    44 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. Ask HW: Qubes OS alternative on LXD containers

    44 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  99. Show HN: Mantel-top computerized musical chimes with MicroPython on an ESP-32

    43 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  100. The Babel Routing Protocol

    43 points • comment • dec 21, 2020