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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power plant

    212 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  2. Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS

    212 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  3. Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse

    212 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  4. Things I Learnt in 2020

    212 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  5. Show HN: Slices – puzzle game

    211 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  6. Buy Don't Build

    211 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  7. A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize

    211 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  8. 'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves – US report

    211 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  9. In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?

    210 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  10. Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action

    210 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  11. Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks

    210 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  12. Japan developing wooden satellites to cut down on space junk

    210 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  13. The Impossible Mirror Scene in 'Contact'

    209 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  14. FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits

    209 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  15. Human Clock

    209 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  16. Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10

    209 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  17. TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs

    209 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  18. Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories

    209 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  19. Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters

    209 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  20. Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

    209 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  21. Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

    209 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  22. Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google

    209 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  23. Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2

    208 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  24. London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain

    208 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  25. Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python

    208 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  26. Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’

    208 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  27. The Economics of Christmas Trees

    208 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  28. Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program

    208 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  29. How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

    207 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  30. PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images

    207 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  31. Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks

    207 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  32. Am I Disabled?

    207 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  33. Zstandard v1.4.7

    207 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  34. Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time

    207 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  35. Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education

    206 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  36. A new release for GNU Octave

    206 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  37. TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming from a smartphone

    206 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  38. Mitsubishi Heavy to build biggest zero-carbon steel plant

    205 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  39. Hell Yes CSS

    205 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  40. How much math you need for programming (2014)

    205 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  41. Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi

    205 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  42. The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar

    205 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  43. FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine

    204 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  44. New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support

    204 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  45. Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

    204 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  46. Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range

    203 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  47. UX Issues with Notion

    203 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  48. Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

    203 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  49. FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend

    203 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  50. An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It

    203 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  51. Adobe has released the last Flash update ever

    202 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  52. Common Expression Language

    202 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  53. Chinese authorities detain Bloomberg News staff member

    202 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  54. An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project

    201 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  55. How to Find Focus

    201 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  56. Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier

    201 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  57. A founder’s guide to understanding users

    201 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  58. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990)

    201 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  59. Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life

    200 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  60. MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites unlawful content

    200 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  61. Datasette.io, an official project website for Datasette

    199 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  62. Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

    199 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  63. I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it

    199 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  64. Google Analytics Opt Out

    199 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  65. mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug?

    199 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  66. How the novel coronavirus has evolved

    199 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  67. How does Brown University know where you are?

    199 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  68. Security expert warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access server

    199 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  69. Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market

    198 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  70. AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

    198 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  71. Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)

    198 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  72. Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads

    198 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  73. Hypercore protocol: a distributed (P2P) append-only log

    198 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  74. Amazon Managed Service for Grafana

    197 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  75. Noise-canceling headphones without the headphone

    197 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  76. Materialize Raises a $32M Series B

    197 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  77. Stored Procedures as a Back End

    197 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  78. Guide to Effective Reading

    196 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  79. Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses

    196 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  80. Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side (2016)

    196 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  81. Possible Radio Emission from Exoplanet Detected

    196 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  82. Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015)

    196 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  83. Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix

    195 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  84. Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015)

    195 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  85. USDS Digital Services Playbook

    195 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  86. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (2018)

    195 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  87. MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

    194 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  88. Major Flaws of Human Thinking

    194 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Losing all interest in programming, what now?

    193 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  90. Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation

    193 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  91. Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life

    193 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  92. Bash 5.1

    193 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  93. The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want?

    193 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  94. How Payment Transaction Processing Works

    192 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  95. More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused of Cheating in Academic Scandal

    192 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  96. Museum of Bad Album Covers

    192 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  97. Morgan Stanley to Shift About $120B of Assets to Germany

    192 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  98. The Architecture of IMGZ

    192 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  99. I Bought Apple Silicon

    192 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  100. Google partners with SkyWater to enable open source manufacturing of ASICs

    192 points • comment • dec 02, 2020