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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies of Covid-19 at 41

    15 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  2. Can bacteria be killed by purely physical trauma?

    15 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  3. 10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It's in the Covid-19 relief bill

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  4. Turn ur photos to sketch DL Model

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  5. My evolution writing JSON-REST APIs

    15 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  6. They risk their lives cleaning hospitals. Now, they are getting vaccinated

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  7. No Code Resource List

    15 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  8. Castles in the Sky: San Francisco Denmark Diary Love Mystery

    15 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  9. Ask HN: What are the highest compounding life habits?

    15 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  10. New Raspberry Pi OS Release – December 2020

    15 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  11. A New Hypothesis Challenges Dark Matter

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  12. Israeli spy firm suspected of accessing global telecoms

    15 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  13. Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]

    15 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  14. ImageNet trained CNNs are biased towards recognising textures rather than shapes

    15 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  15. The Map of Mathematics

    15 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  16. When hiring in secondary markets, seek out great teachers and avid learners

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  17. We Had the Covid-19 Vaccine the Whole Time

    15 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  18. The Family with No Fingerprints

    15 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  19. Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

    15 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  20. Ask HN: How can a person be more playful?

    15 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  21. Origins of the “OK” Word

    15 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  22. No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report

    15 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  23. Microsoft breached in suspected Russian hack using SolarWinds

    15 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  24. New Features in CMake 3.19

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  25. New mystery metal monolith appears on a California mountaintop

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  26. Never work as a software engineer in a startup

    15 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  27. Audiophile Monster Cables vs a Coat Hanger (2008)

    15 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  28. Why Miami will become a global tech hub

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  29. Why Grimm left Facebook and whishes Zuckerberg jailed

    15 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  30. 'Like finding life on Mars': the underground orchid in Australia

    15 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  31. Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects' alibis

    15 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  32. MandalaGaba – a free tool for creating Zen Geometry

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  33. States plead poverty, but they are flush with cash

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  34. Ask HN: What is one unexpected positive thing that happened to you in 2020?

    15 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  35. The likelihood principle in model check and model evaluation

    15 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  36. Git cake: when is my readme’s birthday?

    15 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  37. Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine

    15 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  38. Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  39. Following the many migrations and adaptations of Assyrian music

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  40. Edmund M. Clarke, recipient of 2007 Turing Award, passes away from Covid-19

    15 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  41. U.S. bill proposes only banks should issue stablecoins

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  42. Drug reverses age-related cognitive decline within days

    15 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  43. Andrew Gelman on Pedro Domingos' claim that algorithms are incapable of bias

    15 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  44. Ask HN: Best Programming Books of 2020?

    15 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  45. Pilot Chuck Yeager Dies at 97, Had 'The Right Stuff' and Then Some

    15 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  46. Google hit by antitrust lawsuit from almost 40 states over search dominance

    15 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  47. Gaia 'discovery machine' updates star catalogue

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  48. Sweeping new study shows 50 years of 'trickle-down economics' was a 'sham'

    15 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  49. Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption

    15 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  50. Painting by Prime Number (2018)

    15 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  51. Burnley's Pastor Mick – from dangerous drug dealer to lifesaver

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  52. BlackRock CEO Reveals the Surprise ‘Real Impact’ of Bitcoin on the U.S. Dollar

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  53. New York Issues First-in-Nation Moratorium on Facial Recognition in Schools

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  54. Australia sues Facebook over Onavo VPN for misleading and deceptive conduct

    15 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  55. Uber, After Years of Trying, Is Handing Off Its Self-Driving Car Project

    15 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do?

    15 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  57. Chrome 88: Digital Goods, Lighting Estimation in Augmented Reality, and More

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  58. Plastic pipes are polluting drinking water systems after wildfires

    15 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  59. Bitcoin hits 20K

    15 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  60. Sweden’s Annual Deaths Remain the Same

    15 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  61. Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  62. Programmer, developer, engineer? What do you call yourself and why?

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  63. Chief of staff to FDA chief: Vaccine must be authorized by Friday or resign

    14 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  64. CBP proposes to require mug shots of all non-US citizen travelers

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  65. World Health Organization Open Source Communication Channel

    14 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  66. EU greenhouse gas emissions down 24% since 1990

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  67. Google Has a Color Picker

    14 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  68. William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone (2019)

    14 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  69. Anti-Censorship VPN Service Agrees to Block Major Pirate Sites

    14 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  70. Google Poly will be shutting down on June 30, 2021

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  71. Thousands of tech workers apply to be a Finn for 90 days in migration scheme

    14 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  72. The Revolutionary Colossus

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  73. MI6 kept quiet about 'criminality' of agent with ‘licence to kill’

    14 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  74. The Great Migration Mystery

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  75. BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima

    14 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  76. Mathematical Game Theory

    14 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  77. Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  78. Act as if everyone you know has just tested positive

    14 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  79. Ask HN: Got promoted with a near zero increase. Time to leave?

    14 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  80. “When @computerfemme was fired, the VP of security at Google Cloud . . .”

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  81. Show HN: Noscript.it – browse and share links with JavaScript disabled

    14 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  82. Leaked files expose infiltration of UK firms by Chinese Communist Party

    14 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  83. The Teeny Tiny Mansion – adventure game formally proven to have no “dead ends”

    14 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Why There Is No Ask Me Anything on Hacker News?

    14 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  85. Show HN: Probably the most comprehensive weather API currently available

    14 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  86. Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads over ad-tracking

    14 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  87. Thieves Broke into Russia’s Il-80 Doomsday Plane

    14 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  88. Bay Area AT&T Fiber Customers suffering bit flipping for two weeks

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  89. Facebook Shutting Irish Units at Center of Tax Dispute

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  90. Facebook to police anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White

    14 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  91. Urban Explorers Reveal a Treasure Trove of Soviet Computing Power

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  92. How Many Customers Does a Successful Side Hustle Need? Just 99

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  93. Intel to Outsource 'Atom and Xeon Based SoCs' to TSMC

    14 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  94. Why We Switched from bcc-tools to libbpf-tools for BPF Performance Analysis

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  95. BlackRock’s list of climate commitments just got longer

    14 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  96. US Department of Energy backs five advanced nuclear reactor concepts

    14 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  97. Computer Science Degree – Is it worthy it? Should You Get it?

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  98. Vietnam targeted in complex supply chain attack

    14 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  99. Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium

    14 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  100. Building a Better Monolith (With WebAssembly)

    14 points • comment • dec 08, 2020