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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Kite Power for Mauritius

    13 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  2. 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving

    13 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  3. Show HN: Fyipe – Status Page, PagerDuty, Pingdom All in One

    12 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  4. Static Calls in Linux 5.10

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  5. Explosive Hydroforming a Steel Sphere [video]

    12 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  6. Show HN: TerminusDB 4.0 'Data and Content Management in a Box'

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  7. AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says Google Fired Her After Research Dispute, Email

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  8. Nasdaq threatens 75% of companies to appoint women and LGBT or diverse directors

    12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  9. What Is Functional Programming?

    12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  10. Git-cheat – Beautiful, easy to reach Git cheat sheet in your terminal

    12 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  11. Mentions of the term “simp” across Twitch chat doubled following its ban

    12 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  12. Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with Covid-19

    12 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  13. LibFirm: An optimizing compiler back-end

    12 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  14. Ask HN: What is the best place to sell domain names in 2021?

    12 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  15. Ask HN: How to land web development contracts through cold emails

    12 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  16. 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry reveals he's short Tesla

    12 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  17. YouTube to Delete New False Election Videos – Even Trump’s

    12 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  18. Company Culture Is More Important Than Rules and Policies

    12 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  19. When Seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position

    12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  20. The Naval Bombing Experiments: An Account of the Bombing (1921)

    12 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  21. A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers

    12 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  22. Show HN: A CI/CD for Archlinux packages with webinterface and optional AUR push

    12 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  23. Ignore all nutrition studies without a control group

    12 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  24. Covid bill calls for Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs

    12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  25. “How Could a Reasonable Person Ever Inject Heroin?”

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  26. Search engine startups try to take on Google

    12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  27. Deepfake queen to deliver Christmas message

    12 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  28. Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple

    12 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  29. Emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK

    12 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  30. China's Chang'e-5 Moon mission probe touches down

    12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  31. Show HN: Free, secure dev tunnels with custom domains using Fly and WireGuard

    12 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  32. The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret

    12 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  33. Affirm Postpones Its Initial Public Offering

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  34. Hacker News is also seeing downtime (not just Google)

    12 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  35. Spain will register people who refuse Covid vaccine, says health minister

    12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  36. Months later, the great Twitter hack still boggles my mind

    12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  37. Casey Muratori on getting rid of OOP mindset [video]

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  38. Chinese Communist Party think tank staffer offered to pay me for 'sources'

    12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  39. Chinese Video Game Tycoon Dead After Alleged Poisoning

    12 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  40. PGCon 2020 Playlist

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  41. Van Buren appeal arguments in light of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ambiguity

    12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  42. The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty

    12 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  43. Google's antitrust mess: All the major cases it's facing in the US and Europe

    12 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  44. Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid

    12 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  45. Major Design Changes Coming in Gnome 40, Out Next Year

    12 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  46. Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN?

    12 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  47. Postgres IVM (Incremental View Maintenance) Preview

    12 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  48. Ask HN: How can an ecommerce business compete with Amazon?

    12 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  49. Tome raiders: solving a great book heist

    12 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  50. Flax Engine – Competition for Godot/Unreal/Unity?

    12 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  51. China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  52. Ask HN: What music do you listen to

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  53. Thoughts on Compile-Time Function Evaluation and Type Systems

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  54. OnlyFans Is a Billion-Dollar Media Giant Hiding in Plain Sight

    12 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  55. The Angel of History

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  56. Endangered Elements

    12 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  57. Antarctica no longer Covid free: 36 research base members test positive

    12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  58. Chang'e-5 Moon mission has landed, China says

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  59. Ask HN: How to Get into Google?

    12 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  60. SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant exhibits efficient replication

    12 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  61. Asus confirms 3080 Ti graphics card with 20GB memory

    12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  62. What is a letter?: Literary correspondence in the age of instant communications

    12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  63. GitHub Security: Getting Started with Dependabot

    12 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  64. Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back

    12 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  65. Open letter by Google employees in support of Dr. Gebru

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  66. Git commits are snapshots, not diffs

    12 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  67. New FIREFLY series coming out, but not on TV

    12 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  68. MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past

    12 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  69. Walt Disney World digitally adds masks to guests not wearing them in ride photos

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  70. George Steiner, The Art of Criticism No. 2 (1995)

    12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  71. ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers for Cheating

    12 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  72. SolarWinds doesn't have a Chief Information Security Officer

    12 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  73. Nashville Bombing Suspect Anthony Warner's Possible Ties to 5G Conspiracy Theory

    12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Where can I get MRI datasets?

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  75. The rich reaction to bubonic plague has eerie similarities to Covid-19 pandemic

    12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  76. Police raid home of Florida Covid data whistleblower

    12 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  77. Feds say Facebook broke US law offering permanent jobs to H-1B workers

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  78. China bans Scratch, MIT's programming language for kids

    12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  79. Seed firing drones that plant thousands of trees/day

    12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  80. Privacy needs to be built into the Internet

    12 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  81. Satirist to the Galaxy

    12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  82. ‘I’m Haunted by What I Did’ as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department

    12 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  83. Accurate Estimations

    12 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  84. Organizational Update from OpenAI

    12 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  85. A Guide to Enterprise Event-Driven Architecture

    12 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  86. Massachusetts Regulators to File Complaint Against Robinhood

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  87. Drug reverses age-related cognitive decline within days

    12 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  88. Ask HN: What hobbies do you pursue in your free time

    11 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  89. The Debian web updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  90. Offa’s Dyke: Britain’s unmarked ‘no-man’s land’

    11 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  91. Bouncy Castle cryptography bug enables easy password brute-force and auth bypass

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  92. All that’s redacted in the Texas lawsuit against Google

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  93. The economics of the human hair trade

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  94. Doctors need to be paid less and it needs to be easier to become a doctor.

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  95. Unconscious Algorithms

    11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  96. Creating a MIDI pass-through recorder

    11 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  97. Washington’s Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale

    11 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  98. Saudi Arabia halts all travel over new COVID strain

    11 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  99. Nexus 1.0: A Major Release for Type-Safe, Code-First GraphQL APIs

    11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  100. Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Apologizes and Offers Refund for Game Glitches

    11 points • comment • dec 14, 2020