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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Lost Your Job? You Shouldn’t Have to Lose Your Home

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  2. What If We Nuke the Moon?

    6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  3. Some Windows 10 users about to be force upgraded if they use older versions

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  4. Airbnb shares set to double in IPO

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  5. How do C++ using-directives work?

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  6. Cyberpunk 2077 shines on next-gen consoles and Stadia but old hardware struggles

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  7. A couple hid in two Philadelphia churches for 843 days to avoid deportation

    6 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  8. Google tells Australian Government it is considering withdrawing “completely”

    6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  9. Show HN: I made a 3rd party Paper.js API Reference site with search

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  10. Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  11. Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption

    6 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  12. FDA Says Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Meets Success Criteria

    6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  13. Peter Jackson explains the changes he made for Lord of the Rings’ 4K edition

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  14. QAnon and the Fragility of Truth

    6 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  15. We Downloaded 10M Jupyter Notebooks from GitHub – This Is What We Learned

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  16. Ask HN: How is Kotlin for the back end compared to Java?

    6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  17. Dead Simple Time-Domain Reflectometry with Just a Battery and an Oscilloscope

    6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  18. Ask HN: Can non degree-holder use the title Software Engineer?

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  19. Uber App Size Origins

    6 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  20. An accessible introduction to type theory and implementing a type-checker

    6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  21. Show HN: I ported a classic game from Flash to WebGL

    6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  22. Aevum's Space Launch Plane Is A-5 Vigilante Sized, Its Claims Are Even Bigger

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  23. A New Therapy to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection Just Started Trials

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  24. Zoom employee in China charged with shutting meetings commemorating Tiananmen

    6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  25. East TN baby breaks record after being born from embryo frozen 27 years

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  26. How Microsoft crushed Slack: Why the era of worker centered work tools is over

    6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  27. Voyager Probes Spot Previously Unknown Phenomenon in Deep Space

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  28. Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, eye damage from glaucoma in mice

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  29. The Myth of ‘Pagan’ Christmas

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  30. Facebook sued for 'denying opportunities to US workers'

    6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  31. Why Google has an unfair advantage in advertising

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  32. The Curl Year 2020

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  33. Warner to release all 2021 films with same-day streaming

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  34. Earth mass extinctions of life occur in 27M-year cycles

    6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  35. CentOS has been forked by its founder

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  36. Long a Holdout from Covid-19 Restrictions, Sweden Ends Its Pandemic Experiment

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  37. China Creates 55B Tons of Artificial Rain a Year

    6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  38. Open Source Does Not Equal Secure

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  39. SQLite 3.34.0 Released

    6 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  40. Russian Hackers Broke into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect

    6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  41. Ask HN: How Do You Roadmap

    6 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  42. A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  43. Puerto Rican scientists mourn loss of Arecibo Observatory's iconic telescope

    6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  44. The monoliths in Utah, California, and Romania, explained

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  45. CentOS Is Dead

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  46. The Future Is Already Here

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  47. Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas

    6 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  48. Peak Oil Is Suddenly Upon Us

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  49. Inside the Google/FB ad deal at the heart of the price-fixing lawsuit

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  50. Tony Hsieh’s Nitrous Oxide Use, Love of Candles May Have Contributed to Death

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  51. The U.S. Internet Is Being Starved of Its Potential

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  52. Drones Are Destabilizing Global Politics

    6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  53. Ask HN: Do you use dedicated paper notebooks? For what purpose?

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  54. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  55. China bans 105 apps including TripAdvisor

    6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  56. Babylonian Map of the World

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  57. En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez

    6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  58. What Happens When the 1% Go Remote

    6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  59. Coinbase delisting XRP on 19 Jan

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  60. Building a Distributed Android Remote Testing Platform

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  61. To Learn Japanese, You Need a Rocketship

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  62. NYPD Cops Cash in on (evidence optional) Sex Trade Arrests of Black/Brown NY'rs

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  63. How to answer over 200 investor questions

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  64. Dutch prosecutors: Trump’s Twitter hacked by guessing password: maga2020

    6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  65. Gold and Dollar: How Money Became Worthless [video]

    6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  66. ACR – Autoconf Replacement, AMR – Automake Replacement

    6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  67. Json-diff

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  68. We Must Tear Down the Barriers That Impede Scientific Progress

    6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  69. Show HN: We build a script engine to automate K8s tasks like bash for ur box

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  70. 2,596 Trades in One Term: Inside Senator Perdue’s Stock Portfolio

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  71. Multicore OCaml – What's coming in 2021

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  72. A client-centric specification of database isolation

    6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  73. Would you get a Covid vaccine in exchange for a $1,500 stimulus check?

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  74. More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  75. Oracle’s Larry Ellison Says He Has Moved to Hawaii, Fleeing California

    6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  76. Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK over Covid variant

    6 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  77. The Future of Vaccines

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  78. Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email

    6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  79. The Six Stages of Civilizations

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  80. VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  81. What happens when you open source everything?

    6 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  82. Starship Launch in 1 Min

    6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  83. Crypto user received $11K in donations for $50K mistake

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  84. Metaprogramming

    6 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  85. On Trusting Macintosh Hardware

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  86. Trump vetoes $740B defense bill, citing “failure to terminate” Section 230

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  87. The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media

    6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  88. Law enforcement take down three bulletproof VPN providers

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  89. Abusing my computer science knowledge to cheat at Catan

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  90. The 'Close Door' Buttons in Elevators Don't Do Anything (2016)

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  91. New model F, ultracompact F77 keyboard impressions

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  92. Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to Covid-19

    6 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  93. New CRISPR-based Covid-19 test uses smartphone cameras to spot virus RNA

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  94. Ask HN: Data Scientist without a PhD?

    6 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  95. My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  96. Senate Passes Bill to Clear Green-Card Backlog for Indian Immigrants

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  97. Endangered Firefox: The State of Mozilla

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  98. Reddit Acquires Dubsmash

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  99. Russians Are Believed to Have Used Microsoft Resellers in Cyberattacks

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  100. Global Top Companies [pdf]

    6 points • comment • dec 24, 2020