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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. MIT disciplining professor with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  3. A top scientist questioned virus lockdowns on Fox News. The backlash was fierce

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  4. The ambiguity between “Map” (data-structure) and “map” (higher order function)

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  5. Time Travel Without the Paradoxes

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  6. How to design a new programming language

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  7. Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks (2018)

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  8. Zoom Exec Allegedly Doctored Child Porn to Smear Tiananmen Sq Memorial Activist

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  9. SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass Duo multi-factor authentication

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  10. FreeDV 700E and Compression

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  11. Quantum computational advantage using photons

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  12. Doubts Raised on Number of Internet Users (1994)

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  13. Cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  14. Sinister sounds: podcasts are becoming the new medium of misinformation

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  15. Edmund Clarke, 2007 Winner of the Turing Award, Dies of Covid-19

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  16. Moon hoax: why not use telescopes to look at the landers?

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  17. Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  18. Petrovich

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  19. Covid-19 Changed Science Forever

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  20. Virginia Removes Its Robert E. Lee Statue from U.S. Capitol

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  21. 8M Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic, study says

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  22. Nassim Taleb’s Yuuuuuge Mistakes Interpreting the Danish Mask Study

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  23. DeepKey: A novel anti-counterfeiting method powered by AI and PUF

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  24. Prosecuted and disqualified, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  25. Apple Car Production Slated for 2024 with 'Next Level' Battery Technology

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  26. This Was the Busiest Year for IPOs Since the Dot-Com Bubble

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  27. New theory reveals fundamental building blocks of the universe

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  28. My best software engineering interview experience

    4 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  29. I wanted to be Mark Zuckerberg, but I became Mark FATkerberg instead

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  30. All the ways Microsoft Teams tracks you and how to stop it

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  31. AWS EC2 issues in us-west-2

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  32. Stop Making Bloatware

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  33. Navalny says Russian officer admits putting poison in underwear

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  34. Show HN: Micro framework for ESP32 applications connected to GCP with MQTT

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  35. Ask HN: Can someone recommend a game for a programming competition?

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  36. Musk Has Moved to Texas

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  37. Show HN: WebSnake A non-blocking HTTP/HTTPS lib in Python

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  38. Software Assertions and Code Quality (2006)

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  39. The case of the extra 40 ms

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  40. Dbxfs: Open-source Dropbox client for hackers

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  41. Amazon’s Zoox unveils passenger robotaxi

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  42. Edmund Clarke Has Died

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  43. Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  44. Neural Reverse Engineering of Stripped Binaries Using Augmented CFGs

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  45. China is opening world's largest radio telescope up to international scientists

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  46. How to Generate a Sequence of Unique Random Integers (2012)

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  47. A wild mink in Utah has Covid-19

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  48. Matter Cannot Travel Faster Than Light

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  49. Timnit Gebru’s last days at Google

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  50. Elon Musk Decries ‘MBA-Ization’ of America

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  51. Is the creator economy winner take all?

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  52. Comprehensive Guide to Email Deliverability

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  53. Psychedelic Study Reveals How LSD Changes the Brain

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  54. Zoox unveils a self-driving car that could become Amazon’s first robotaxi

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  55. Covid-19 airborne transmission measured 21 ft along airflow path indoors

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  56. How to handle cold sales messages when you're a founder

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  57. Workplace bullying case against FSFE, Matthias Kirschner

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  58. Betterment CEO Jon Stein Steps Down

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  59. Importing Your Goodreads and Accessing Them with Open Library’s APIs

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  60. If one person with you has Covid-19, how long are you safe?

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  61. The Atlantic: Trump fantasizing about martial law to ‘redo’ election

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  62. Expert Survey on Formal Methods [pdf]

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  63. I've Never Been a Businessman

    4 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  64. FDA Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  65. Proud Boys and antifa: A right-wing activist met a left-wing anti-fascist (2019)

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  66. Study: Covid-19 virus could enter the brain

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  67. Zero click iMessage zeroday used to hack the iPhones of 36 journalists

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  68. Former congressman proposes paying 1500 USD incentive to vaccine recipients

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  69. Israel's Government Collapses

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  70. Fishing by Lantern on an Island in Kenya

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  71. How to Download and Install Windows 8.1 for Free (Updated)

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  72. Ask HN: Why is naming things in programming so hard?

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  73. NTP's Fate Hinges on 'Father Time'

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  74. AT&T service outage in TN/KY following Christmas-day bombing

    4 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  75. Snowden: “We Can Fix a Broken System”

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  76. Ask HN: Why HN Doesn't Have Tags?

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  77. Dennis Ritchie on Recursive Functions

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  78. Is Enlightenment Compatible with Sex Scandals?

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  79. The father of fiber optics passed away today

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  80. Help me find a gig worker

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  82. Show HN : CROLO - AI powered automated banner designer

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  83. Chinese parts, hidden ownership, growing scrutiny: U.S. voting machines (2019)

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  84. Covid and California’s farmworkers: study lays bare disproportionate risks

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  85. Antrim Michigan Forensics Report Preliminary Summary on Dominion Voting Systems [pdf]

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  86. The European Space Agency Is Going to Use a Giant Claw to Grab Space Junk

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  87. Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  88. Racial priority for Covid-19 vaccine distribution poses problems

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  89. Trump-Pelosi $2k Stimulus Checks Are a Mistake

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  90. The M1-based MacBooks don’t even blink when the display configuration changes

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  91. Game of Life – Hexagonal Version

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  92. The year deepfakes went mainstream

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  93. Pump station hidden inside a house

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  94. Reddit clone Voat says it will shut down on Christmas

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  95. Covid Spurs Families to Shun Nursing Homes, a Shift That Appears Long Lasting

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  96. Why is it that a lot of successful entrepreneurs are sociopaths/narcissists?

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  97. Ask HN: How to Write Readable Code?

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  98. China is ramping up its other big trade war

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  99. When His Mother Died of Covid-19, This Artist Started Tracking Her Online Data

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  100. Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020