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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Structure of a Hallucinogen-Activated Gq-Coupled 5-HT2A Serotonin Receptor [pdf]

    6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  2. Pardons Were the Framers’ Blind Spot

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  3. Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru

    6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  4. Anduril is an open-source firmware for flashlights

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  5. Show HN: Diggy – a reactive Python notebook in the browser

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  6. Developer Exception Engineering

    6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

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

    6 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  8. Whirlwind Tour of Stack (Haskell Build Tool) for Beginners

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  9. I wish I never bought Bitcoin

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  10. The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star

    6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  11. Let’s put the straw man of pandemic denial out of his misery

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  12. A flowchart for considering VC advice

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  13. Britain tried to 'erase' India's third gender

    6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  14. The terms simp, virgin, and incel will all be banned on Twitch

    6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  15. Ask HN: Best Resources for Compiler Construction

    6 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  16. The Vaccine Works Fast

    6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  17. YouTube tests video appeals a new way for suspended channels to beg for clemency

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  18. The 'Three Martini Lunch' Tax Deduction

    6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  19. The Great Covid Class War

    6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  20. HPE is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston

    6 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  21. ‘Dark Knight,’, ‘Grease,’ ‘Blues Brothers’, etc. Added to National Film Registry

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  22. Sangoma, developers of FreePBX, have been hit with ransomware

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  23. Name of Canada

    6 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  24. "I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful software."

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  25. Feds logged website visitors in 2019, citing Patriot Act authority

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  26. Show HN: Getting AWS STS Credentials from GSuite Credentials

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  27. Listening to phone calls with stock consumer devices

    6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  28. David Hume Helped Me Solve My Midlife Crisis

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  29. Ask HN: I just became a father, what is the only book I should read?

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  30. Treasury Department’s Senior Leaders Were Targeted by Hacking

    6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  31. A solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  32. Second top Black female Google employee says she was recently ousted

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  33. California Bar Exam Flagged a THIRD of Applicants as Cheating

    6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  34. An indentation way to Lisp(based on Cirru)

    6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  35. Extract or Die – San Francisco Techxodus

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  36. Ask HN: What are your top Wi-Fi routers to buy in 2020?

    6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  37. H1B Salaries: When to Trust the Data and when to ask questions

    6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  38. VLang for Automation Scripting – A Super Fast Bash, Python, & Go Alternative

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  39. White House told FDA chief to approve Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or resign

    6 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  40. Ask HN: How does one become a better Software Engineer?

    6 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  41. FIA develops “100% sustainable” biofuel for Formula 1

    6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  42. Beaker Browser 1.0

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  43. Apple Is Working on a Car

    6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  44. CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools

    6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  45. Covid: WHO looks at possible 'e-vaccination certificates' for travel

    6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  46. Ghostbusters and the Secret of Monkey Island- The fan game

    6 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

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

    6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  48. US companies riddled with members of Chinese Communist Party

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  49. Amazon Kubernetes Distro (EKS-D)

    6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  50. Experts Release Open Letter: Covid-19 Preys on Those with Vitamin D Deficiency

    6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  51. Chinese Spy Was Paid by the DNC

    6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  52. When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? – McKinsey

    6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  53. What’s Your Hour in ‘Silicon Valley Time’? (2015)

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

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

    6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  55. America’s first commercial space SAR (Synthetic-Aperture Radar) imagery

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  56. Show HN: Poetry Link, a website for writing poetry collaboratively

    6 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  57. Self-hosted open source GStreamer based video streaming platform

    6 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  58. Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses

    6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  59. Show HN: Auto frame like Nvidia Broadcast but in the browser with TensorFlow

    6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  60. Using Pl/PgSQL to Calculate New Postgres Columns

    6 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  61. Retvals, terrible teaching, and admitting we have a problem

    6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  62. A Microsoft executive accidentally exposed one of the ugly truths of tech

    6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  63. With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  64. Lars Arge Has Died

    6 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  65. Ask HN: What do you think of a 4 hour work day?

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  66. Pulse Oximeter Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients

    6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  67. Ask HN: How many paying customers which don't use your SaaS do you have?

    6 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  68. Fintech neobank Xinja to close, return banking license

    6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Best Apps/Systems to Organize Reading Material

    6 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  70. Uber sells air taxi business Elevate to Joby Aviation, shedding last moonshot

    6 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  71. Intel: Subpar 10 nm yields, server CPU plus 7 nm delays, production outsourcing

    6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  72. Owncast: A self hosted Twitch alternative

    6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  73. Elementary OS on Raspberry Pi

    6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  74. Backing a gingerbread supermassive black hole

    5 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  75. Ransomware Is Headed Down a Dire Path

    5 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  76. SMS OTP form best practices

    5 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  77. German lockdown: Merkel announces tough new Covid curbs

    5 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  78. Chaos Mesh Promises to Bring Order to Chaos Engineering

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  79. Ask HN: Anyone Use Rent-a-Company

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  80. Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  81. Vaccine Roundup, Late December (AZ vaccine and the UK "strain")

    5 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  82. Building an Audience Is a Marathon

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  83. NJ latest state to join Supreme Court battle over income taxes on remote workers

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  84. Ask HN: What video games got you thinking about society this year?

    5 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  85. I compiled the world's first JavaScript engine back to JavaScript

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  86. Belgium’s shops were shut ‘as a coronavirus shock tactic’

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  87. Ask HN: What are some channels that make you glad YouTube exists?

    5 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  88. Commutation and Scalability

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  89. Twenty-six iPhones Hacked at Once Simply by Pointing an Antenna at Them

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  90. Sticking to It

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  91. Expensify.cash

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  92. With Hacking, the United States Needs to Stop Playing the Victim

    5 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  93. China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  94. Ask HN: Do You Journal a Lot?

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  95. Urgent appeal to Paul Graham, etc.: Please help kickstart Common Lisp revolution

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  96. FDA Recommends Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  97. Blue Light: Beware the Ways It'll Damage Your Sleep

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. Mailspring email client appears to be abandoned

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  99. The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  100. Congress Covid relief cramed in controversial changes to copyright

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2020