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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. CentOS 8 vs. Amazon Linux 2

    26 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  2. Fictional 'Black Jet' Toys, Models, and Video Games from the 1980s to Today

    26 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  3. Odroid-Go Super

    26 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  4. The World’s First Medical Records

    26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  5. The Death of the Newsfeed (2018)

    26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  6. Silicon Valley's hunger problems grow during a time of record profits

    26 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  7. Stop-saying-PHP-is-dead

    25 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  8. Resolving the Time Paradox Implied by Functional Programs

    25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  9. Manuscripts.io

    25 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  10. A notebook-free notebook or Jupyter dev env for coders

    25 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  11. Sonic attacks on US diplomats likely microwave energy, government study says

    25 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  12. Show HN: This Wojak Does Not Exist

    25 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  13. A Fraud Operation Stole Millions from Online Bank Accounts

    25 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  14. A Modest Proposal for Building the Future

    25 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  15. How to steal photos off someone’s iPhone from across the street

    25 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  16. Facebook blasts Apple in new ads over iPhone privacy change

    25 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  17. Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google

    25 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  18. Geometry by Design: Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia

    25 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  19. AWS Lambda is winning, but first it had to die

    25 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  20. The Aquarium: A child’s isolating illness (2011)

    25 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  21. Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon, Other Conspiracy Theories

    25 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  22. Telegram is not as private and secure as most of its users think

    25 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  23. FBI says white supremacists plotted attack on US power grid

    25 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  24. Bitcoin paper wallet generator bitcoinwalletpaper.com leaks private key

    25 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  25. Wonder

    25 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  26. When Failures Align

    25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  27. Automated tool to study and reverse-engineer algorithmic recommendation systems

    25 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  28. Community Takes All: The Power of Social+

    25 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  29. Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine: literature review

    25 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  30. Megadose of vitamin C may treat sepsis

    25 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  31. The Weaknesses of Full Text Searching (2008) [pdf]

    25 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  32. In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet

    25 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  33. Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples lands in Australia

    25 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  34. Ask HN: Why are personalised ads bad?

    25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  35. How to Remove Yourself from Data Broker Websites

    25 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  36. TeX: A Tale of Two Worlds

    25 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  37. DuckDB now has a Node.js API

    25 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  38. Congress Sneaks Case Act, Felony Streaming Bill into Government Funding Omnibus

    25 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  39. Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?

    25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  40. Hacker’s Discovery Changes Understanding of the Antikythera Mechanism

    25 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  41. Top Down Operator Precedence (2007)

    25 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  42. Why Doesn’t Gravity Happen Instantly?

    25 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  43. Ask HN: About Financial Inequity

    25 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  44. We’re Rebranding PrestoSQL as Trino

    24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  45. One Year of Load Balancing

    24 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  46. Powerful Cellphone Location Surveillance Used in Europe, Middle East, Australia

    24 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  47. Platform Monetization: Dealing with High Adoption Barriers

    24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  48. First Alzheimer's Blood Test Rolled Out for Clinical Use in US

    24 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  49. Unicorn Traits – Early Signs of a Bilion Dollar Company

    24 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  50. How UI developers can adapt, not die

    24 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  51. Corona Contact Tracing Germany

    24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  52. Elasticsearch new features: 2020 year in review

    24 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  53. Building a React Native App for Your Christmas Lights

    24 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  54. AstraZeneca vaccine not ready for quick European approval

    24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  55. Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform

    24 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  56. Clockwise/Spiral Rule

    24 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  57. Mystery illness puts 450 in hospital in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh

    24 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Is anyone using Linux on the 2020 Thinkpad X1 Fold?

    24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  59. Ruby 3.0 Changes

    24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  60. Make Amazon Pay

    24 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  61. Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages [pdf]

    24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  62. How to backup and decrypt Signal for iPhone message history

    24 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  63. Air pollution a cause in girl's death, coroner rules in landmark case

    24 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  64. Show HN: GuitarLSTM-Create deep learning models of guitar amps/pedals in minutes

    24 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  65. KFC's KFConsole Is Real: Secret Ingredient Is Intel Silicon

    24 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  66. Why Domain Specific Languages? A Collection of Anecdotes

    24 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  67. Hacker interview – Gummo [video]

    24 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  68. Indian iPhone Factory Attacked by Angry Workers

    24 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  69. Unrecognizable: William Gaddis’s American Pessimism

    24 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  70. The Key to Armenia’s Tank Losses: The Sensors, Not the Shooters

    24 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  71. Some healthcare workers refuse to take Covid-19 vaccine

    24 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  72. Occupational Depression Inventory: A new tool for clinicians and epidemiologists

    24 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  73. Underlay – The world’s distributed knowledge graph

    24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  74. The Army’s Official Face Mask to Be Issued to New Soldiers in 2021

    24 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  75. Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?

    24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  76. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Leaves Silicon Valley for Texas

    24 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  77. Another new Covid-19 virus variant found in Nigeria, says Africa CDC

    24 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  78. There is much less intellectual diversity now than there was 100 years ago

    24 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  79. Laura Poitras: I Am Guilty of Violating the Espionage Act

    24 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  80. The M1 MacBook Air: Perfection

    23 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  81. Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught?

    23 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  82. China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology

    23 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  83. Ask HN: How do you send custom notifications to your phone?

    23 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  84. King's Day Speech (2016)

    23 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  85. The Perfect Media Server – 2020 Edition

    23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  86. New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt

    23 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  87. Tall people are less supportive of government redistribution of wealth

    23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  88. Microsoft broke autosave in Word, forcing you to use OneDrive for it

    23 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  89. My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

    23 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  90. Ask HN: Where do you regularly discover interesting links on internet?

    23 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  91. How Surveillance Companies track you using Mobile Networks [video]

    23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  92. Vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza

    23 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  93. FDA Authorizes Ellume as First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Test for COVID

    23 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  94. Ask HN: Is PyTorch better than TensorFlow for production?

    23 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  95. Show HN: I Built a Synthesizer with WASM

    23 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  96. CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban

    23 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  97. Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease (2018)

    23 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. Firsts in 2020 (or, A little dose of good news for C++) – Herb Sutter

    23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  99. About those new Covid mutations

    23 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  100. Argentina legalises abortion in landmark moment for women's rights

    23 points • comment • dec 30, 2020