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Hacker News (2020)

Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy
128 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Idris 2 version 0.2.1
128 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Commoditize your complement (2019)
127 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media
127 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Niex: Jupyter Notebooks but Using Elixir
127 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Julia GPU
127 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Stanisław Lem's Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home
127 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Getting a biometric security key right
127 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Talk Less, Listen More
127 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy
127 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect
127 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Winamp Skins Collection
127 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
What Did the Past Smell Like?
127 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
127 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Swiss Cat Ladders: Documenting and Deconstructing Feline-Friendly Infrastructure
127 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program
127 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles
127 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables
127 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation
127 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf]
127 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
US plans to produce ‘Iberian’ ham in Texas and Georgia
127 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Former Chief Security Officer for Uber Charged with Obstruction of Justice
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
ANSI Common Lisp (1995)
127 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars
127 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Jordan does not block, it throttles internet access
127 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Trying something again
127 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Australia wildfires: 500M animals and plants killed as glaciers turn black
127 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State
127 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming
127 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune (2019)
127 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows
127 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
A crash course in just-in-time compilers (2017)
127 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
WebAssembly brings extensibility to network proxies
127 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Digital sound processing tutorial
127 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Ask HN: No formal software education – is there hope for me?
127 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM
127 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Stress hormones in our diet may be a missing link between food and wellness
127 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil
127 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distribution
127 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine
127 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
How to Find a SaaS Idea
127 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function
127 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Simulacra and Simulation
127 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
127 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
The Economics of Clean Code
127 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Escape from Creek Fire
127 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Empty studio sets: BBC backgrounds for your video calls
127 points • comment • may 07, 2020
RTX3080 TensorFlow and NAMD Performance on Linux
127 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt
127 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
House cancels vote to renew surveillance powers after Trump threatened veto
127 points • comment • may 28, 2020
A Light Box in Heavy Times
127 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
127 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
New math proves that a special kind of space-time is unstable
127 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Michael Hawley of MIT's Media Lab has died
127 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
127 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
127 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Show HN: Use-sound, a React hook for sound effects on the web
127 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Sktime: A Unified Python Toolbox for Machine Learning with Time Series
127 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown
127 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
UK Covid-19 data underreported due to file size limit exceeded
127 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition
127 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Durable Objects in Production
127 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Learning Rust in 2020
127 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board
127 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform
127 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration
127 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
The Wall, a modular microLED display
127 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device
127 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Libcsp: a fast C concurrency library influenced by the CSP model
127 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Show HN: Global sailing navigation simulator using real weather/ocean data
127 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Finding unique items: hash vs. sort
127 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
127 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language
127 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Build Your Own Weasley Location Clock
127 points • comment • may 19, 2020
France rules Google must pay news firms for content
127 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
127 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Was Knuth Really Framed?
127 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Our Immune System
127 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software
127 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Hangover, Win64/Win32 applications on arm64/ppc64le/x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac
127 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Launch HN: Data Mechanics (YC S19) – The Simplest Way to Run Apache Spark
127 points • comment • may 11, 2020
UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage
127 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Ginger milk curd (2014)
127 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Attempts to make Python fast
127 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Autistic futures trader who triggered flash crash spared prison
127 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Ethics in Geo
127 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests
127 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Show HN: Watch what files any Linux process accesses
127 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining
127 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking 2TB of user data
127 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
‘Excited delirium’, used by police to justify brutality, is junk science
127 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly
127 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud
126 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
German ship completes historic Arctic expedition
126 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Botanical illustration is becoming endangered
126 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?
126 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Software Development: Mistakes I Made
126 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?
126 points • comment • may 27, 2020