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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

    403 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  2. Shitlist Driven Development (2016)

    402 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  3. Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

    402 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  4. ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

    400 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  5. A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators

    399 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  6. Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test

    397 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  7. Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?

    397 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  8. Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person

    397 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  9. Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

    396 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  10. Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

    395 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  11. SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight

    394 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  12. Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact

    393 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  13. How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)

    393 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  14. Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths

    393 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  15. Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world

    393 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  16. Why Jira Sucks

    392 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  17. The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free

    392 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  18. EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech

    392 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  19. Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V

    389 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  20. Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime

    388 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  21. Rails 6.1

    387 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  22. Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole

    386 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  23. Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer

    385 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  24. Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence

    384 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  25. EmacsConf 2020 Talks

    383 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  26. Why do I care the open web is dying?

    381 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  27. Expanding Fuchsia's open source model

    380 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  28. EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants

    379 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  29. WebAssembly Studio

    379 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  30. Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China

    377 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  31. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

    377 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  32. I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates

    375 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  33. Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy

    375 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  34. FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services

    372 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  35. LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

    371 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  36. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

    371 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  37. Games people play with cash flow

    370 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  38. Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year

    368 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  39. Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

    368 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  40. Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

    367 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  41. Self-Hosting Still Pays

    366 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  42. System76 – Pangolin

    366 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  43. No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding

    365 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  44. GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark

    364 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  45. Analog TV Station on ESP8266

    363 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  46. How We Built the GitHub Globe

    363 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  47. I assume I’m below average (2010)

    361 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  48. Lode Runner

    361 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  49. A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM

    360 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  50. Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry

    360 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  51. Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

    360 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  52. Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

    358 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  53. Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)

    358 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  54. A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

    356 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  55. A computer science study plan to become a software engineer

    356 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  56. Voat Is Shutting Down

    355 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  57. Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development

    354 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  58. How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

    354 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  59. Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday

    354 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  60. Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

    354 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  61. To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

    353 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  62. HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash

    353 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  63. 14 nations commit to protect oceans

    352 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  64. SEC charges Ripple and two executives

    351 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  65. Hexagonal Grids (2013)

    351 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  66. Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

    350 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  67. The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’

    349 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  68. Oracle Moving HQ to Austin

    349 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  69. HTTP/2 Push is dead

    348 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  70. Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs

    346 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  71. API pagination design

    345 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  72. Vercel raise $40M Series B

    345 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  73. Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative

    344 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  74. It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine

    343 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  75. Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance

    343 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  76. John le Carré has died

    342 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  77. Linux 5.10

    342 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  78. FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test

    341 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  79. This is Real, That's Not

    341 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  80. Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

    340 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  81. Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

    340 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  82. Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B

    339 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  83. Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon

    339 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  84. Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes

    338 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  85. Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death

    338 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  86. Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

    338 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  87. U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors

    338 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  88. SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES

    337 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  89. New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform

    337 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  90. Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber

    337 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  91. The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system

    337 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  92. How to buy gifts that people actually want

    337 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  93. How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss

    337 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  94. How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs

    336 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  95. A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars

    335 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  96. Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters

    334 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  97. Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong

    333 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  98. Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks

    331 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  99. NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy

    331 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  100. Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

    331 points • comment • dec 30, 2020