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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. TimescaleDB tech lead calls VictoriaMetrics comparison biased

    18 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  2. Faculty Senate Condemns Covid-19 Actions of Hoover’s Scott Atlas

    18 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  3. 'Machine-gun with AI' used to kill Iran scientist

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  4. Infer powering Microsoft’s Infer#, a new static analyzer for C#

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  5. A New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears

    18 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  6. How do I know if I’m ready to interview at FAANG?

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  7. Making The Time Element More Accessible

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  8. Did Joseph Smith Use Psychedelic Substances to Facilitate Visionary Experiences? [pdf]

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  9. 3D Modeling Finds Surprising Source of the Shots That Killed Iranian Scientist

    18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  10. Musk tweets he reached out to Apple's Tim Cook for acquiring Tesla

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  11. Sound C Code Decompilation for a Subset of x86-64 Binaries [pdf]

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  12. General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0

    18 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  13. The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

    18 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  14. Google Waives $1.5B DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  15. Spotify Employee Accused of Deleting Joe Rogan’s Alex Jones Interview

    18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  16. Not Apple, Google and Facebook Are Killing the Free Internet

    18 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  17. UK supermarkets report a surge in vegan food sales while expanding ranges

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  18. UK approves Pfizer vaccine for rollout next week

    18 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  19. I Left Feminism

    18 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  20. A little puzzle with printf() and C argument passing

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  21. PicoLisp on PicoLisp on LLVM-IR

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  22. U.S. charges China-based Zoom executive with disrupting Tiananmen commemorations

    18 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  23. XScreenSaver 5.45

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  24. Yes, the KFConsole Is Real and It's Spectacular

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  25. Google Illegally Fired and Spied on Workers Who Tried to Organize, Agency Says

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  26. Scientists make a sodium-ion battery density breakthrough

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  27. WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  28. Tesla: Soaring share price creates army of 'Teslanaires'

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  29. The future for general-purpose computing

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  30. Louisville Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Will Be Fired

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  31. Star Wars Novelists Seek Years of Missing Royalty Payments from Disney

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  32. Apple outages, Apple injustices – FSF perspective

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  33. Unesco recognises Finland's sauna culture

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  34. Telegram to begin monetizing the app as it approaches 500M users

    18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  35. Apps Are Helping to Gut the Restaurant Industry

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  36. Elon Musk: During the darkest days […] I reached out to Tim Cook

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  37. The day I woke up to find my industry had vanished

    18 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  38. QNX 1.2 Virtualized

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  39. Ancient Petra – Lost and Found

    18 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  40. Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the Year: What Happened?

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  41. Raiders of the Lost Steel (2016)

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  42. Gavin Newsom's businesses collectively got nearly $3M in PPP loans

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  43. Ask HN: How to figure out if someone is smart during a casual conversation?

    18 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  44. Senate GOP Blocks $2k stimulus checks

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  45. “This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Before Covid Death

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  46. Show HN: Unconstrained Ghost Hosting For $25/month

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  47. Ask HN: Will the dev tools that don't work on M1 chips be fixed next year?

    18 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  48. GOG walks back release of controversial horror game Devotion

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  49. John Le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  50. CD Projekt Is Adjusting Cyberpunk 2077's 'Distracting' Amount of Dildos

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  51. What’s the Point of Gigabit Broadband?

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  52. The anti-porn religious lobby just destroyed the livelihoods of pornographers

    18 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  53. The Evolution of Religion (2010) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  54. Dreaming in Code

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  55. WeWork: How the $3.5B Flex Space Giant Is Engineering a Comeback

    18 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  56. High Density and Sustainability

    18 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  57. FBI and Europol Shut Down 'Bulletproof' VPN Service That Helped Criminals

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  58. Prehistoric Horses: Exploring the meaning of Lascaux’s galloping herds

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  59. Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  60. Show HN: Timeless HN – random good HN stories from the past

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  61. 30 Years Later: Early Days of the Web

    17 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  62. Samsung just updated one of its phone apps to serve you even more ads

    17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  63. Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

    17 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  64. ASR33 Consumables

    17 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  65. Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK

    17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  66. Noam Chomsky on the Future of Deep Learning

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  67. Command Line Interface Guidelines

    17 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  68. Ask HN: To which FOSS projects will you donate a little something?

    17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  69. Show HN: Kube Jobs – Curated Kubernetes Jobs

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  70. The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur

    17 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  71. CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  72. An introduction to property-based testing with QuickCheck

    17 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  73. Cyberpunk Game Maker Faces Hostile Staff After Failed Launch

    17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  74. The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  75. Bill proposed in NYC would charge residents $3 for all packages ordered online

    17 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  76. My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code

    17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  77. Ask HN: What are the best decisions you’ve made?

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  78. Libreddit – a private front-end for Reddit

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  79. Salaries at Facebook

    17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  80. The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs

    17 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  81. Ask HN: Best companies working on climate in 2020?

    17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  82. The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  83. Deleted words from Xi's economic policy speak volumes

    17 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  84. Show HN: Dither Me This – an online image dithering tool

    17 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  85. What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?

    17 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  86. The Dark Future Where Payments Are Politicized and Bitcoin Wins

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  87. The Google Disease Afflicting AWS

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  88. Ask HN: Best “Big Data” Course?

    17 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  89. YouTube just nuked my Account

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  90. The hell-raising story of Uber rewriting their app in Swift

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  91. Beijing Accelerates Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing

    17 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  92. The pandemic has taken surveillance of workers to the next level

    17 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  93. NSudo – run processes as System or TrustedInstaller

    17 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  94. Ask HN: How Stable Is Pijul?

    17 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  95. Rocky Linux December 2020 community update

    17 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  96. The 99% Invisible City

    17 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  97. Discuss HN: The Last 10 Years

    17 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  98. Better learning with shape-shifting objects

    17 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  99. Show HN: Create Your Own Cryptocurrency

    17 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  100. Apple reportedly working on a 32-core processor for high-end Macs

    17 points • comment • dec 07, 2020