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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail

    172 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  2. AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly

    172 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  3. How to Start a Startup (2014)

    172 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  4. FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine

    172 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  5. About 150 U.S. Cadillac Dealers to Exit Brand, Rather Than Sell Electric Cars

    172 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  6. Pixar's Universal Scene Description Now on Pypi

    172 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  7. Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development

    172 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  8. A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests

    172 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  9. Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax

    171 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  10. Bootstrap 5 Beta 1

    171 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  11. Nature invented play long before it invented us

    171 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  12. I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years

    171 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  13. I accidentally built a spying app

    170 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  14. Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as group rejects substitute

    170 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  15. SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0

    170 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  16. Exotic Programming Ideas

    170 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  17. Where Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel

    170 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  18. Show HN: Recurring reviews to track the whole lifecycle of a product

    169 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  19. Some Differences Between macOS and Common Unix Systems

    169 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  20. Neverware is now part of Google

    169 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  21. Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team

    169 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  22. Germany: 'Colossal' cyberattack knocks out Funke news group

    168 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  23. Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone

    168 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  24. What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study

    168 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  25. Anticipatory Procastrination [pdf]

    167 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  26. We should administer Covid-19 vaccines as fast as possible, not reserve doses

    167 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  27. Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS

    167 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  28. The Mystery of Deceased Hiker ‘Mostly Harmless’ Is at Long Last Solved

    167 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  29. Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3

    167 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  30. The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor

    167 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  31. Security firm FireEye got hacked

    166 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  32. How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser

    166 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  33. Show HN: End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude

    166 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  34. Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures

    166 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  35. Debugging WebAssembly with Modern Tools

    166 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  36. Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy

    166 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  37. Project Loom and Structured Concurrency

    166 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  38. Legally Free Python Books List

    166 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  39. Medo: A modern UHD 4K open source Media editor for Haiku OS in less than 1.44 Mb

    165 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  40. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

    165 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  41. Writing a Memory Allocator (2019)

    165 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  42. Show HN: I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing

    165 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  43. The best things and stuff of 2020

    165 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  44. A case study on strict null checks

    164 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  45. Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web

    164 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  46. Learnable Programming (2012)

    164 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  47. Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report

    164 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  48. Nannou – A Creative Coding Framework for Rust

    164 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  49. Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten security guards in Norway

    163 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  50. A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition

    163 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  51. I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust

    163 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  52. Backdoor in Zyxel Products

    163 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  53. Norman Abramson has died

    163 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  54. Adobe Lightroom v6 is Falling Apart

    162 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  55. Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO

    162 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  56. Interview Transcript – Donald Knuth [pdf]

    162 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  57. Unix Recovery Legend (1986)

    162 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  58. Preliminary Incident Statement

    162 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)

    162 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  60. Olbers' Paradox

    161 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  61. $100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2

    161 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  62. Binary Decision Diagrams (2010)

    161 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  63. Understanding ProRAW

    161 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  64. Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs

    161 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  65. Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads (2012)

    161 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  66. Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters

    161 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  67. TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement

    160 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  68. Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook

    160 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  69. Flow Browser Preview on the Raspberry Pi 400

    160 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  70. Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea

    160 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  71. Show HN: Keytap2 – acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on n-gram frequencies

    160 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  72. Apple iCloud account and sign in outage affecting some users for over 24 hours

    159 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  73. TP-Link Archer VR1600V V2 Super User Password Cracked

    159 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  74. New Sauerbraten 2020 Edition Released

    159 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  75. Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019)

    159 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  76. Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys

    159 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  77. Figma: The product design team’s process

    158 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  78. Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible

    158 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  79. Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email

    158 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  80. Functional programming in C++ (2012)

    157 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  81. Octopuses Like to Punch Fish

    157 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  82. We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0

    157 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  83. New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  84. Show HN: The Agora – an experimental social network

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  85. CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”

    157 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  86. Book publishers call on Apple to match 15% commission granted to developers

    156 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  87. Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes

    156 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  88. How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time

    156 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  89. Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

    156 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  90. Porting a 100% local app to the web

    156 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  91. New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD

    156 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  92. Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating

    155 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  93. Underwater Roundabout in the Faroe Islands

    155 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  94. Flanderization

    155 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  95. Asteroid capsule located in Australian desert

    155 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  96. Long-acting injectable is effective in preventing HIV acquisition in women

    155 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  97. Coca-Cola named world’s worst plastic polluter for third straight year

    155 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  98. Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

    154 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  99. Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers

    154 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  100. The Smalltalk Zoo

    154 points • comment • dec 17, 2020