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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Our commitment to privacy in Microsoft Productivity Score

    9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  2. The Wave/Particle Duality of Git Commits

    9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  3. If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef(2017)

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  4. Visualizing Mobile App Performance with Specto

    9 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  5. The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics

    9 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  6. Ask HN: Why are stories such a big trend?

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  7. Ask HN: Is anyone using ArchLinux for server production environments?

    9 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  8. Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written by Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (2017)

    8 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  9. By Their Epithets Shall Ye Know Them

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  10. AI tool can distinguish between a conspiracy theory and a true conspiracy

    8 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  11. Massachusetts lawmakers vote to pass statewide police ban on facial recognition

    8 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  12. College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics

    8 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  13. Kentucky wants to make it a felony to post law enforcement names online

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  14. Advent of Code Templates from Repl.it

    8 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  15. Show HN: This Person Exists

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  16. AstraZeneca to Buy Alexion for $39B

    8 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  17. How Microsoft crushed Slack

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  18. 'Amnesia:33' TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Devices to Attacks

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  19. Ask HN: Running Hashcat on the M1?

    8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  20. Data Compression with Arithmetic Coding

    8 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  21. Bay Area county launches door-to-door testing amid 'dire' surge

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  22. States Sue Google over Digital Ad Practices

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  23. Highly Available Spatial Data: Finding Pubs in London

    8 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  24. Fauci urges calm as mutated Covid-19 strain from UK found in California

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  25. The SolarWinds Breach: Why Your Work Computers Are Down Today

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  26. Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger's equation

    8 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  27. Shitlist Driven Development (2016)

    8 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  28. Show HN: Drive My Robot

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  29. I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks

    8 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  30. Air Canada Boeing 737 Max ferry flight diverts after engine issue

    8 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  31. Bcachefs Under Review with All Known Blockers Resolved

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  32. Feynman: Rules of Chess [video]

    8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  33. A Defense of Offensive Jokes

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  34. How my Twitter Hijacks Happened

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  35. Cloudflare launches Pages, a platform to deploy and host JAMstack sites

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  36. SolarWinds hides list of high-profile customers after devastating hack

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  37. I've never worked for Google. Yet, I have a story to share

    8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  38. Zipf's Law

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  39. The Fetishization of Mr. Rogers’s ‘Look for the Helpers’

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  40. Thank the Fed for the Stock Market’s Run–and the Plodding Pace to Come

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  41. Microsoft Crushed Slack

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  42. Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine

    8 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  43. A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  44. Only 7 of Stanford's first 5000 vaccines were designed for medical residents

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  45. Alzheimer’s: New protein found in spinal fluid indicates stage of the disease

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  46. Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  47. Cut Your Cloud Computing Costs by Half with Unikraft

    8 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  48. How long have you been on HN and have you learned a lot

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  49. Twitter Is in China’s Pocket

    8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  50. Sodium-Ion Batteries Emerge as Cheaper Alternative to Lithium

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  51. Robinhood's Gamification Combines Surveillance Capitalism and Finance Capitalism

    8 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  52. Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) (2014)

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  53. Dunning–Kruger Effect

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  54. A Black AI Ethicist on Her Experiences at Google and Controversial Departure

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  55. Somebody Tell This Guy He Can Just Buy a Cup to Keep Upstairs

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  56. Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Has a New Startup That Melds Blockchain and Green Tech

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  57. Microsoft designing its own ARM-based chips for servers and Surface PCs

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  58. Internal Medicine Doctors Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  59. On the lack of innovation in the last 20 years

    8 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  60. We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  61. Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  62. The Unsung Heroine of Lichenology

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  63. Navalny: I called one of my killers. He confessed. (Now with English subtitles)

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  64. US Dept Treasury seeks feedback on its proposed (privacy invasive) crypto rules

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  65. Xenu, Leader of the Galactic Federation

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  66. Romanesco broccoli has a form naturally approximating a fractal

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  67. Resignate

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  68. Russia’s SolarWinds Attack – Schneier on Security

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  69. U.S. Marines Won’t Stop Taking LSD

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  70. MicroStrategy Announces over $1B in Total Bitcoin Purchases in 2020

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  71. Apple starts selling yoga mats

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  72. Create bootable USB drives the easy way (Windows)

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  73. American Red Cross Study Suggests Possible New Covid-19 Timeline in the US

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  74. Things I Learned in 2020

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  75. Acheiropoieta – On art not made with hands

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  76. Battery Electric vs Hydrogen Fuel Cell: Efficiency Comparison

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  77. Tptacek vs. Filosottile on rolling own crypto

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  78. Ask HN: How do I get out of data science?

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  79. Open-source developers say securing their code is a soul-withering waste of time

    8 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  80. The Covid-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Livestreams with Music a Felony

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  81. Apple a/UX: The First Unix Mac OS

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  82. Why East Germany is a map zombie

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  83. Still Amazing! 1950's Teleregister Numerical Displays

    8 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm?

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  85. Opaque: Passwords Never Leave Your Device

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  86. Google AMP lets the gatekeeper control what’s beyond the gate

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  87. Could AI be the future of bike race coverage?

    8 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  88. iPhones can now automatically recognize and label buttons UI for blind users

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  89. Statement from Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty about new strain of Covid-19

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  90. Ask HN: Folks who play games with physical disabilities, what features help?

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  91. Top Python Libraries of 2020

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  92. Chinese games billionaire dies 'after poisoning'

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  93. Texas breaks from CDC in vaccinating elderly over police and teachers

    8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  94. Year of the Asterisk

    8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  95. Burner phones and banking apps: Chinese brokers laundering Mexican drug money

    8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  96. Uber, DoorDash Raising Prices in California to Fund Driver Perks

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  97. Is Elon Musk Wrong About Lithium?

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  98. The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  99. The new and improved Developer Advocacy Handbook is out

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  100. Show HN: Plot your Docker Image’s downloads over time

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020