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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Functional Programming in Bash Scripts

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Why don't companies want to employ people on 4 day per week contracts?

    8 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  3. Toolchains as Code

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  4. Moving to Austin: Your Guide to Living, Working and Playing in ATX

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  5. Why can’t the US build consumer electronic products? (2015)

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  6. Bupstash

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  7. NASA's Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  8. Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  9. Twitter to remove “false” claims about seriousness of Covid-19

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  10. Ryan Kaji, 9, earns $29.5m as this year's highest-paid YouTuber

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  11. Boston Dynamics sells to Hyundai Motor Group in $1.1B deal

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  12. Dozens sue Amazon's Ring after camera hack leads to threats and racial slurs

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  13. Google workers reject company's account of AI researcher's exit

    8 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  14. Bank of Japan Becomes Biggest Japan Stock Owner with $434B Hoard

    8 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  15. Why Biden's National Security Adviser Plans to Focus on the U.S. Middle Class

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  16. T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  17. By Their Epithets Shall Ye Know Them

    8 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  18. Show HN: Extremely simple, fast, efficient, cross-platform serialization format

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

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

    8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  20. Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered in Amazon rainforest

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  21. Risk8s Business: Risk Analysis of Kubernetes Clusters

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  22. Ireland is the next country to jump at controlling online speech

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  23. Shallow Trees with Heavy Leaves

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  24. Nullboard: Minimalist Kanban Board

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  25. Atheris Python Fuzzer

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  26. Glenn Greenwald: Big Tech is censoring Covid debate

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  27. Twitch Bans ‘Simp’

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  28. Show HN: A book that explains “the cloud” for your non-technical friends/family

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  29. New AI can deepfake movements of a person from just 1 image

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  30. Manager at AMZN ignoring community issues – worst documentation ever

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  31. Standing with Dr. Timnit Gebru

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  32. Study Demonstrates Seafood Contains the Heaviest Amount of Microplastics

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  33. Silicon Valley Wins as SEC Allows Direct Listings to Raise Cash

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  34. Chrome is making everything slow *even when it's not running

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  35. New open source ACME proxy/front end for CAs e.g. EJBCA

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  36. Daily Hacker News data dump

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  37. Parler’s downloads fell off a cliff

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  38. E-bikes and e-scooters should transform our cities in 2021

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  39. Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  40. Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  41. On Design Patterns in C++

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  42. Gold vs. Bitcoin is a self-defeating doom-loop

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  43. Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam 'from nearby star'

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  44. Cookstrip

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  45. AstraZeneca: ‘Winning’ vaccine formula is 100% effective against severe Covid-19

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  46. Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  47. Finding a technical co-founder means playing the long game

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  48. Airlines will no longer be required to transport emotional support animals

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  49. Immediately After Moving to Texas, Elon Musk Announces Tesla AR-15

    7 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  50. Show HN: Deploy a translation API for 100+ languages with machine learning

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  51. Scientific Writing and “Science Writing” (2015)

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  52. Chang'e 5 lifts off from the Moon with 2 Kilogrammes of lunar samples

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  53. Windows 7: A year after end-of-support deadline, millions choose not to upgrade

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  54. Thinking About Decentralized Communities

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  55. All good writing is swimming underwater and holding your breath

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  56. More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  57. Robotaxis get the green light for paid rides in California

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  58. 'Mysterious object hurtling towards Earth' is a 1966 booster rocket

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  59. Show HN: Copy/paste data into Excalidraw to generate beautiful charts

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  60. Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  61. Phosphorus equivalent of graphene makes reconfigurable transistors

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  62. We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  63. Prosecutors say Trump’s Twitter was hacked by guessing his password: maga2020

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  64. Apple pulls iPhone app promoting secret parties during the Covid-19 pandemic

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  65. Ripple statement in response to SEC's lawsuit

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  66. Show HN: MIDI to Blob Opera Converter

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  67. Show HN: Cyberpunk Trainer – My First OSS Project

    7 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  68. Gitlab is being valued at more than $6B in secondary share sale

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  69. Smart Doorbell Disaster: Many Brands Vulnerable to Attack

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  70. OpenBook: An Open Source eBook Reader

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  71. Ask HN: Are there any HN-like communities for programming discussions?

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  72. Debian updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  73. The SolarWinds Perfect Storm: Default Password, Access Sales and More

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  74. AWS Lambda now bills in 1ms increments

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  75. Congress creates new copyright court that could make trolling easier

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  76. Covid-19 New Variant Causes Alarm Around the World

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  77. SolarWinds Update Server Could Be Accessed in 2019 Using Password Solarwinds123

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  78. The outdoor sportsmen who say they removed the Utah monolith

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  79. The Sacklers’ group chat of pain

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  80. States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online Ads

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  81. QCard.link – The minimalist and private way to share contact information

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  82. Drug firms may deny actual Covid vaccine to volunteers who received placebos

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  83. Ars Technica’s best games of 2020

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Giving new co-founder 40% equity at seed round?

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  85. ‘Breaking Bread with the Dead’ Review: Old Books in a New Class

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  86. Ask HN: Would you rent an office cabin?

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  87. Using a Video Game to Understand the Origin of Emotions

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  88. Ask HN: What are your New Year's resolutions for 2021?

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  89. Georgia Vote Fraud Caught on Camera

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  90. Perfection is a process, not the result

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  91. Highly useful Linux commands and configurations (2010)

    7 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  92. Costs of War [pdf]

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  93. Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  94. Ask HN: What is the best article you read online this year?

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  95. ‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Blasts HBO Max Streaming Deal

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  96. AI Box

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  97. Data of 243M Brazilians exposed online via website source code

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  98. The Prosperity Hoax: The world is awash in happy talk about poverty

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  99. The Case Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  100. Apache Flink 1.12 with a batch execution mode in DataStream API, K8s HA released

    7 points • comment • dec 10, 2020