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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Go on ARM and Beyond

    43 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  2. Photonic Quantum Advantage?

    43 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  3. Simplo batteries breaking MacBook logic boards?

    43 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  4. Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for development work?

    43 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  5. Congress bans anonymous shell companies

    43 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  6. ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After 10 Years Selling Linux Hardware

    43 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  7. DIY Dynamic DNS with Netlify API and Bash

    43 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  8. Thirty Years of ‘Against Measurement’

    43 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  9. Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast

    43 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  10. Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career into a McJob

    43 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  11. Professor livestreams entire Computer Science course in 12 hours

    43 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  12. Graphik: An identity-aware document and graph database

    43 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  13. 'What's that Skip?' Researchers say kangaroos can communicate with people

    43 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  14. The Moral Case for a Wealth Tax Has Never Been Clearer

    43 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  15. The Babel Routing Protocol

    43 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  16. Factor Graph Grammars [pdf]

    43 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  17. China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight

    43 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  18. GOL Airlines to Resume 737 Max Flights on Wednesday

    43 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  19. Show HN: A TO-DO app that fits inside a single tweet

    43 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  20. Working with Unikernel Volumes in Nanos

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  21. Stack operations on a guitar loop pedal

    42 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  22. Officials seize 27k artifacts looted by a single French treasure hunter

    42 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  23. No CS Degree – inspiring stories from developers without CS degrees

    42 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  24. The Asian flu epidemic of 1957 was a turning point for antibiotics (2007)

    42 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  25. Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale

    42 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  26. Why New York’s Mob Mythology Endures

    42 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  27. A 12.48 Inch (1304x984) Three-Color E-Paper Display by Waveshare

    42 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  28. Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself

    42 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  29. Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point

    42 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  30. Where Have All the Ammonites Gone?

    42 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  31. 'New variant' of coronavirus identified

    42 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  32. Memory Pool System by Ravenbrook

    42 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  33. Decoding the Language of Genomes

    42 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  34. Evidence that investors penalize female founders for lack of industry fit

    42 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  35. Apple Fitness+

    42 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  36. The Scientific Case for Two Spaces After a Period (2018)

    42 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  37. Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry

    42 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  38. 2020: The year in databases at Google Cloud

    42 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  39. Privacy Labels and Lookalike Audiences

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  40. Pornhub Releases Statements About Credit Cards, New York Times Allegations

    42 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  41. Identifying Twitter users who repost unreliable news sources

    42 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  42. Why Do Models That Predict Failure Fail? [pdf]

    41 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  43. Nuclear weapons agency breached amid cyber onslaught

    41 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  44. Pornhub banned from credit card networks

    41 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  45. MasterCard and Visa will stop processing cards for Pornhub

    41 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  46. Curl Supports NASA

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  47. Networking Tools Every Developer Needs to Know

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  48. Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  49. Unit-testing a console app

    41 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  50. The first DNA 'tricorder' in your pocket

    41 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  51. Ketamine may ease depression by restoring brains sensitivity to prediction error

    41 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  52. Lifestyle Inflation. It's a wealth killer

    41 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  53. Google fires AI researcher Timnit Gebru over critical email

    41 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  54. Guide to Effective Linux and Bash for Data Scientists

    41 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  55. Regex literals optimization (or how to cheat on benchmarks)

    41 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  56. Is the preprocessor still needed in C++? (2017)

    41 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  57. Stateoftheart.ai – 2M+ papers, 2K+ datasets

    41 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Is it realistic to make a good living as a sole software developer

    41 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  59. Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change – By Neil Postman, 1998

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  60. Florida police raid Covid data whistleblower’s house with guns drawn

    41 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  61. Wonders, Not Miracles

    41 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  62. Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book

    41 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  63. The spatial information content of the honey bee waggle dance

    41 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  64. Ask HN: Best books for dealing with workplace politics and dishonesty?

    41 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  65. Osmocom icE1usb: Open hardware USB E1/T1 adapter

    40 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  66. RemoveJS – Remove JavaScript from any website

    40 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  67. Why Is There So Much Crap Software in the World

    40 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  68. iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit

    40 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  69. Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?

    40 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  70. Kubectl Create Pizza

    40 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  71. Ask HN: Which job sites are people using for remote jobs?

    40 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  72. China’s ‘Tainted’ Cotton

    40 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  73. Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

    40 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  74. Writing a BitTorrent engine in Rust

    40 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  75. Apple is now building the chip it needs to ditch Qualcomm like it ditched Intel

    40 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  76. Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel?

    40 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  77. How to Be a 10x Developer

    40 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  78. Understanding Peer-to-Peer Git Forges with Radicle

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  79. Gaming Mathematics: Probability

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  80. Stimulating Consciousness

    40 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  81. Facebook account banned after posting about breaking neck while playing VR

    40 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  82. Bohmian Mechanics (2017)

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  83. Airflow Videos Show Masks with Exhalation Valves Don't Slow Spread of Covid-19

    40 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  84. The Zen of Index.html

    40 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  85. Testicular Compression Boosts Testosterone (1993)

    40 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  86. Networking at the Speed of Light: Understanding Fiber Optics (2019)

    40 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  87. iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review: Zion NP

    40 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  88. Functional Programming Is Not What Makes Haskell Great

    40 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  89. A piece of flavor text that inspired three and a half different cards

    40 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  90. “Under-the-hood of GraphQL”-look at the execute req part of the query lifecycle

    39 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  91. Interfaces for Explaining Transformer Language Models

    39 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  92. Show HN: Discover $ monthly revenue of OnlyFans models

    39 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  93. Nobody says hi in San Francisco

    39 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  94. Iranian nuclear scientist was killed using 'satellite-controlled machine gun'

    39 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  95. Paying Medieval Taxes Using Eels

    39 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  96. Show HN: Play the Chrome T-Rex game by physically jumping

    39 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  97. Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack

    39 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  98. Dozens sue Amazon's Ring after camera hack leads to threats and racial slurs

    39 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  99. Signs You’re Building a World-Class Team

    39 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  100. Russia gives Kremlin critic Navalny an ultimatum: Return immediately or jail

    39 points • comment • dec 28, 2020