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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Loeb at First Sight: The Classics Come in Red and Green (2013)

    31 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  2. LA jet pack guy captured on video

    31 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  3. The Most Influential 80-Plus-Year-Olds in America

    31 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  4. Eyes on the prize: my year as a Booker judge

    31 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  5. Mary Kenneth Keller

    31 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  6. if...then...else had to be invented (2019)

    31 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  7. A Compendium of SIMD Boolean Array Algorithms in APL (2016) [video]

    31 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  8. Freud and Fathers

    31 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  9. Menstruation apps store excessive information

    31 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for YouTube hard?

    31 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  11. Slash GraphQL – The fastest way to build GraphQL apps

    31 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  12. Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates

    31 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  13. Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal

    31 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  14. Ask HN: Content creators who've signed up for Brave's BAT, how's it going?

    31 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  15. Grubhub sets default tip to $0

    31 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  16. A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Monetary Theory [pdf]

    31 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  17. A Crypto User Sent $50k to a Smart Contract. It's Gone Forever

    31 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  18. Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory

    31 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  19. Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews

    31 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  20. I Still Use D

    31 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  21. Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: 'We can get the web we want' (2019)

    31 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  22. How to kill the university

    31 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  23. High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cutting-Edge Cables

    31 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  24. Improving urban GPS accuracy on Android

    31 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  25. Why are there so few children’s books set in the suburbs?

    31 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  26. Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg

    30 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  27. Snowflake CEO Collects a $95M Payout – Every Month

    30 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  28. How We Identified Navalny's FSB Stalkers

    30 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  29. The growing peril of war with China over Taiwan

    30 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  30. Ask HN: Why do they make cars go so fast if its illegal?

    30 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  31. Private spies infiltrated Amazon strike taking photos of workers and journalists

    30 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  32. Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon

    30 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  33. Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020

    30 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  34. ContractPatch

    30 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  35. Central and Southern California have 0 percent ICU capacity

    30 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  36. The first trilobite (2011)

    30 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  37. US Congress S.3571 Banking for All Act

    30 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  38. Telegram's future plans

    30 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  39. Barr: No Evidence of Fraud That Would Change Election Outcome

    30 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  40. Show HN: Wave – Realtime Web Apps and Dashboards for Python

    30 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  41. Things We've Learned from NASA's Mars InSight

    30 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  42. Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem

    30 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  43. In Defense of Blub Studies

    30 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  44. Phony Targets

    30 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  45. Evictions Associated with More Than 10k Deaths from Covid-19

    30 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  46. AWS Goes After Microsoft’s SQL Server with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

    30 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  47. Adding Composite Video to a Famicom

    30 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  48. The Story of T

    30 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  49. Tax cuts make the rich richer but are of no value to overall economy – study

    30 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  50. PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Architecture – A Practical Analysis

    30 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  51. Smash Training Retrospective

    30 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  52. New SUPERNOVA backdoor found in SolarWinds cyberattack analysis

    30 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  53. .kkrieger

    30 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  54. The Knowledge of London for cab drivers

    30 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  55. Riding the Indie Business Rollercoaster My 2020 year in review

    30 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  56. Symmetry, Algebra, and the Monster

    30 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  57. Tendis: A high-performance distributed storage system

    30 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  58. Show HN: ArXivist, search and store papers from a command line

    30 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  59. I Created a Trading Simulator

    30 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  60. 50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to “trickle down”

    30 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  61. Show HN: MediaCMS – An open source, self hosted video and media CMS

    29 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  62. Leary–Lettvin Debate

    29 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  63. Tesla (TSLA) is open to merging with other automakers

    29 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  64. Building an Event Storage

    29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  65. Amazon and Walmrt not sharing extra profits made during pandemic with employees

    29 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  66. “Mobile emulator farms” used to steal millions from US and EU banks

    29 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  67. US Covid relief bill smaller than either parties pre-election promises

    29 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  68. Nintendo Switch Emulator

    29 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  69. Other Unix: Autres Unix, autres moeurs

    29 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  70. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS Certificate

    29 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  71. Show HN: Entropy Based Password Validation

    29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  72. IodéOS = LineageOS 17.1 and MicroG and adblocker

    29 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  73. Arcan versus Xorg: Feature Parity and Beyond

    29 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  74. Eliminating nicotine from tobacco products could help millions of smokers quit

    29 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  75. How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor [video]

    29 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  76. Work from Home: Tech Companies Cut Pay of Workers Moving Out of Big Cities

    29 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  77. Scientists and philosopher team up, propose a new way to categorize minerals

    29 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  78. Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe

    29 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  79. Zoom Shared US User Data with Beijing

    29 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  80. Against Redeeming Catastrophe: In Memory of Ruth Klüger

    29 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  81. Vindicated scientist demonstrated surgery alternatives for stroke victims

    29 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  82. Google inexplicably takes away wide-angle astrophotography from Pixel phones

    29 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  83. Jetons: Their Use and History (1986)

    29 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  84. Monetizing the Final Frontier

    29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  85. Humans Made a Space Barrier Around Earth

    29 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  86. Are We on the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?

    29 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  87. Top% of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Combined

    29 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  88. JPMorgan Bank wrongly charged 170k customers fees. Fed refused to penalize it

    29 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  89. Hedge fund Third Point urges Intel to explore deal options

    29 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  90. Covid forces Davos forum to move to Singapore

    29 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  91. I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage)

    29 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  92. Sony Pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from Playstation Store

    29 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  93. Vitamin D and Covid-19: evidence and recommendations for supplementation

    29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  94. Bitcoin Tops $24K, Setting New All-Time High

    28 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  95. Show HN: Espial — an open-source, web-based bookmarking server

    28 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  96. U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers

    28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  97. TikTok Bans MLMs and Content That Aims to Deceive People for Financial Gain

    28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  98. Court Suspends ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer from Practicing Law

    28 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  99. How Chase Sapphire retained customers

    28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  100. The Rise (and Inevitable Fall) of Citizen Kane

    28 points • comment • dec 05, 2020