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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Bitcoin Versus Fiat Currency: Why is the BTC “bubble” reinflating?

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  2. Apple’s Shocking MacBook Pro Leak Confirms Upgrade

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  3. When Google’s Artificial Intelligence Goes Homophobic

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  4. Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics – With Stephen Wolfram

    3 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  5. Childhood Without Other Children: A Generation Is Raised in Quarantine

    3 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  6. Alligators can regrow severed tails, surprising scientists

    3 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  7. Flawed Facial Recognition Leads to Arrest and Jail for New Jersey Man

    3 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  8. Deliveroo Down Internationally

    3 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  9. Why Politicians Embrace Covid Restrictions, Even If They Don’t Work

    3 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Has anyone joined the growth.design UX course and has opinions?

    3 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  11. The PS4's Dreams Game Is Hurting from a Lack of Players

    3 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  12. Astronauts harvest radishes grown aboard the International Space Station

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  13. How mRNA Vaccines Work

    3 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  14. Established Titles – Become a Lord Today

    3 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  15. What it takes to break RAM with electrostatic discharge

    3 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  16. Belgian Minister of Budget publish prices of Covid vaccines by mistake

    3 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  17. On Horizons

    3 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  18. Traffic Jam? Blame Induced Demand (2018)

    3 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  19. Google’s Fitbit acquisition wins EU approval

    3 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  20. Deku: Declarative binary reading and writing in Rust

    3 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  21. Pantone picks two Colors of the Year

    3 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  22. The Power of Recursive Macros in Vim

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  23. US Passes Spending Bill with Case Act and Felony Streaming Proposal

    3 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  24. Ask HN: Have you received your packages?

    3 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  25. mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher

    3 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  26. What Are the Best Languages for Web Application Development in 2021?

    3 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  27. Singapore restaurant first ever to serve Eat Just lab-grown chicken

    3 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  28. A list of small teams behind billion dollar start-ups

    3 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  29. The PlayPump: What Went Wrong?

    3 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  30. No Country for Old Developers

    3 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  31. FAA establishes new drone flying permissions and finalizes Remote ID

    3 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  32. Comparison Between Web Browsers

    3 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  33. True Pandemic Toll in the U.S. Reaches 345,000

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  34. Bitcoin price above $20k records new all-time-high

    3 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  35. FreeBSD Fridays: Introduction to Cheri

    3 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  36. Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread

    3 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  37. The Mystery of the Disappearing Manuscripts

    3 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  38. UK authorises Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

    3 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  39. A Libre, WebAssembly-based, GPU-accelerated teleradiology solution

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  40. Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are 'institutionally racist'

    3 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  41. Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society

    3 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  42. Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

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

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  44. “Who Wants to Be a Guinea Pig?”: Health Workers Balk at Vaccine

    3 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  45. Repo contains the Stadia instance kernel and build system

    3 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  46. China pulls back from the world: rethinking BRI

    3 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  47. iPhone 12 unexpectedly dropping LTE and 5G service for some users

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  48. POOM – A Remarkable Pico-8 Powered 8-Bit Doom Demake

    3 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  49. The Eisel-Lemire ParseNumberF64 Algorithm

    3 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  50. Tech was ahead of Covid curve at every stage but couldn’t bring rest of us along

    3 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  51. Google Researcher Says She Was Fired over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  52. China's Chang'e 5 probe lands on the moon

    3 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  53. $3K Robot Didn't Complain About Carrying My Groceries

    3 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  54. Facebook says it will remove coronavirus vaccine misinformation

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  55. Validation Is a Mirage

    3 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  56. Put a Hardened Edge on Mild Steel with Just a Drill Bit. Sort Of

    3 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  57. US House passes federal cannabis decriminalization bill

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  58. Elsevier concerned about their journal containing hundreds of Star Trek articles

    3 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  59. China Achieves Quantum Supremacy

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  60. Simple-Decision-Making-Framework/

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  61. Westerners Grow Wary of China Travel over Threat of Detention

    3 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  62. Analysis of Apple M1 Is Happening – and, Thermal Imaging?

    3 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  63. How to create a lightweight web component with LitElement

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  64. NumPy – Ndarray Object

    3 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

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

    3 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  66. Core i9-11900, i7-11700, i7-11700K Specs Reportedly Exposed In New Leak

    3 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  67. Hacking Mutable Instruments Grids – Getting Started

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  68. Crafting a Story from Scratch

    3 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  69. Why AI is so power-hungry

    3 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  70. Emerging Apps and Challenges for Advanced Packaging

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  71. Researchers offer new theory on 'Venus' figurines

    3 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  72. Apple’s SSL Metrics Is Hanging My App

    3 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  73. What are some of the tools for a Solo marketer?

    3 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  74. “Smellicopter” uses amputated moth antenna to navigate towards smells

    3 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  75. An Old and Fishy Tale

    3 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  76. Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast [video]

    3 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  77. The largest open library dataset (transcript)

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  78. Video: Key takeaways from our investigation on a suspected Chinese spy

    3 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  79. Our National Debt Denial

    3 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  80. These People Helped Shape Video Game Culture in 2020

    3 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  81. Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line

    3 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  82. Old Stockholm Telephone Tower

    3 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  83. XTrackCAD 5.2.1

    3 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  84. Scientists Identified a Green, Poisonous Gas Used on Portland Protesters

    3 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  85. Informality is entropy to formal design; a war of attrition against abstraction

    3 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  86. Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness (2020)

    3 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  87. Electrocharged respirator fabrics with common materials: A candy machine N95

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  88. Why soil is one of the most amazing things on Earth

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  89. Sketch on power of native apps versus Figma on power of browser apps

    3 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  90. Dictionary.com releases a list of the words it wants people to stop using

    3 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  91. Which Schools Leave Parents with the Most College Loan Debt?

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  92. Antitrust Suits Challenging Facebook’s Acquisitions Are a Welcome Sight

    3 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  93. Porsche Taycan humiliates Lamborghini Aventador SV in a drag race

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  94. Automatminer: ML Pipelines for Materials Science

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  95. When life was literally full of crap

    3 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  96. Blade Runner Game Director Louis Castle

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  97. What Happened to the Democrats Who Never Accepted Bush’s Election

    3 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  98. Man Who Found Hidden Treasure in the Rocky Mountains Is Revealed

    3 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  99. Building the Fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA Raid

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  100. Trump's Twitter account was hacked, Dutch ministry confirms

    3 points • comment • dec 17, 2020