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Hacker News (2020)

More Descent, Less Gradient
124 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor
124 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Stanford Medicine COVID-19 test now in use
124 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, has died
124 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
How to Try Out Management
124 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Why did Warren Buffett invest $6B+ in centuries-old Japanese trading houses?
124 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
A Mathematician’s Apology
124 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proactive policing’ (2017)
124 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Why we’re writing machine learning infrastructure in Go, not Python
124 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Generative Art with CSS (2019)
124 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Adjusted Age-Specific Case Fatality Ratio During for COVID-19 in Hubei [pdf]
124 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Removing old, obsolete dams restores life to creeks and streams
124 points • comment • may 24, 2020
James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'
124 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming
124 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)
124 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
The Dark Core of Personality (2018)
124 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Show HN: Slower News
124 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
I Cannot Remain Silent
124 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Say Goodbye to CoreOS
124 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Gravity is unlikely to be the cause of quantum collapse, experiment suggests
124 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
How the brain encodes landmarks that help us navigate
124 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen
124 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher
124 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
124 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Salary Stream – Software Engineer Offers
124 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you
124 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
AbstractAlgebra: Computer algebra package for Julia language
124 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Headlamp: a new UI for Kubernetes
124 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Building a Raspberry Pi GPS Speedometer
124 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
How to sell open source software: Guacamole case study
124 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)
124 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse
124 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Man diagnosed with coronavirus near Seattle is being treated largely by a robot
124 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness
124 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say
124 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
124 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Nvidia Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
124 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps
124 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Boeing finds debris left in new 737 MAXes, now in storage
124 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced
124 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of your users?
124 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Show HN: Blunt – A CSS Layout Framework for Minimalists
124 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Free CS Courses – Amazon Future Engineer
124 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple
124 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Is APL Dead? Not anymore
124 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Astronomers reveal first direct image of Beta Pictoris C
124 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Scroll: Ad-free subscription for news sites
124 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month
124 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
IDA Home is coming
124 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Ask HN: Parents, what are you doing for school this fall?
124 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Asciiflow in vs Code
124 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs
124 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth [video]
124 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]
124 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Raku vs. Perl
124 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors [pdf]
124 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
124 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Simple Image Vectorization
124 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages
124 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautiful photos
124 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company in departure notes
124 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390
124 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Germany's State Distance-Learning University
124 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT
124 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes
124 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
DIY Single-Chip 2D Retro Game Console
124 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (2015)
124 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey
124 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
How Microsoft crushed Slack
124 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Relax for the Same Result (2015)
124 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk
124 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Millions of animals missing from scientific studies
124 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video]
124 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries
124 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
F*** Cloud Messaging
124 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Reverse-engineering the first FPGA chip, the XC2064
124 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Unicornify
124 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Q2 2020 Update
124 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Lessons for Early Stage Founders
123 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapses, Ending an Era of World-Class Research
123 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Show HN: Cygnus-X1 – A Thrust Vectoring Model Rocket Flight Computer
123 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Oura Ring 2 Teardown
123 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering
123 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
123 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Show HN: Galène Videoconferencing Server
123 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Police act like laws don't apply to them because of Qualified Immunity
123 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Why nullable types?
123 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Langcraft: Compile LLVM IR to Minecraft data packs
123 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites
123 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: Lag – Know Before You Go
123 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
What Is Life? (2019)
123 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Elements C++ GUI Library
123 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Cracking the meat-allergy mystery with the tick-bite link
123 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?
123 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Building a scalable e-commerce data model
123 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Announce bad news without lying to your team
123 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks
123 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: primitive functions
123 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)
123 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell
123 points • comment • jul 16, 2020