woid

top stories

Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Against Essential and Accidental Complexity

    242 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  2. Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it

    242 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  3. Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains

    242 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  4. The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing

    241 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  5. SwiftUI tutorials rewritten completely

    240 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  6. An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013)

    240 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  7. What does privacy mean under surveillance capitalism?

    240 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  8. Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler

    240 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  9. FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

    239 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  10. Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (2004)

    239 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  11. ORC – Nim's new memory managment

    239 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  12. How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser

    239 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  13. Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack

    239 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  14. Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices

    239 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  15. Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)

    238 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  16. The Future of Clojure

    238 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  17. Claude Shannon Invented the Future

    238 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  18. Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

    238 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  19. The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway

    237 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  20. How I read books: a guide on how to learn

    237 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  21. Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?

    237 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  22. V (Vlang) 0.2

    237 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  23. Rust 1.49.0

    237 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  24. Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

    236 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  25. Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi

    236 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  26. Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping

    236 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  27. Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours

    235 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  28. Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?

    235 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  29. Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

    235 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  30. New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

    234 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  31. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

    234 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  32. French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules

    234 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  33. UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal

    233 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  34. Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years

    233 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  35. SEC formally sues cryptocurrency company Ripple

    233 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  36. Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra

    233 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  37. Cider 1.0

    233 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  38. The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators

    232 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  39. Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency

    232 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  40. California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state

    232 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  41. Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source

    231 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  42. FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

    231 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  43. Raft Visualization

    231 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  44. Show HN: Simple-graph – a graph database in SQLite

    231 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  45. Little Tasks, Little Trust

    230 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  46. Executable PNGs

    230 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  47. Joining Apple 40 years ago

    230 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  48. 1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video]

    230 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  49. Zoomquilt 2 (2007)

    229 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  50. How Video Works

    229 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  51. Sockets in Your Shell

    229 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  52. GameLisp: Scripting language for Rust game development

    229 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  53. Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation

    229 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  54. The State of Linux Debuggers

    228 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  55. Show HN: Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server

    228 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

    226 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  57. Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing

    226 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  58. My Engineering Axioms

    226 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  59. The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil

    225 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

    225 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  61. ARM and Lock-Free Programming

    224 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  62. Fixing a 3 year old bug in Nvidia GeForce Experience

    223 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  63. Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable

    223 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  64. AWS Fault Injection Simulator

    223 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  65. An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26M

    223 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  66. Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1

    222 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  67. Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes

    222 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  68. What Shape Are You?

    221 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  69. Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library

    221 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  70. Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975)

    220 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  71. Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration

    220 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  72. Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based energy-saving platform

    220 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  73. Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller

    220 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  74. Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?

    219 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  75. Show HN: LinkAce – Self-hosted, FOSS bookmark archive

    219 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  76. Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

    219 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  77. GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

    219 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  78. Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter

    218 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  79. IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support

    218 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  80. Python at Scale: Strict Modules

    218 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  81. Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world

    218 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  82. What’s the best non-smart TV sold today?

    217 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  83. South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn

    217 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  84. Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore (2013)

    217 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  85. Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams

    217 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  86. Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

    217 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  87. Google Finance Finally Updated

    217 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  88. Benefits of Walking

    216 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  89. Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components

    215 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  90. Introducing the Open Library Explorer

    215 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  91. Firefox not planning on supporting PWA

    215 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  92. Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US

    215 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  93. Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface

    215 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  94. Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between two locations

    214 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  95. Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

    214 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  96. Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles

    214 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  97. Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?

    213 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  98. How I Met My Wife (1994)

    213 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  99. Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader

    213 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  100. DRY Is a Trade-Off

    213 points • comment • dec 17, 2020