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Hacker News (2020)

Trump Halts U.S. Funding of World Health Organization
110 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude
110 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Breaking RSA Security with a Low Noise D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Annealer
110 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Designing Up Banking
110 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
How to trigger races reliably in the Linux kernel
110 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Significant JavaScript projects from 2006 to 2020
110 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Fast high-level programming languages
110 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling
110 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Are There Laws of History?
110 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study
110 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
110 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended
110 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Can developer productivity be measured?
110 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Hacking the Planet With Notcurses: A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics [pdf]
110 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
L-System
110 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk
110 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Wordpress market share keeps growing
110 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
How the CPython compiler works
110 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC director says
110 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Re: Flex Dance: open-source dance pad
110 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
How Taiwan’s Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy
110 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Tone-Deafness Test
110 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Hotels of Pyongyang
110 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
110 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
109 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Debian 10.7 Released
109 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
The HP-35
109 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
We Are Built to Forget
109 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Don’t Think, Just Defunctionalize
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
New Explainable AI Algorithms
109 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Preact: Fast 3kb React Alternative with the Same API, Components and Virtual DOM
109 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Guilemacs – Emacs with Guile Scheme
109 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison
109 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Video chats short-circuit a brain function essential for trust?
109 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware
109 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
The vocal ranges of the greatest artists of all time
109 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
This Community is Available in the App
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M
109 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust
109 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
WireGuard as VPN Server on Kubernetes with AdBlocking
109 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
The President and the Bomb, Part IV
109 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (2011)
109 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (2003) [pdf]
109 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
109 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Show HN: An online collaborative UML editor using PlantUML
109 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Two Workers Are Quadratically Better Than One
109 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
The Changing World Order
109 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Interval Tree Clocks
109 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio
109 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model
109 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
A Statistical Analysis of Coughing Patterns on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’
109 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984)
109 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
109 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
109 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
A grandmother made a forest on her own [video]
109 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
3D Electron Orbitals of Hydrogen
109 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Torture prevalent, effective in popular movies, study finds
109 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
The magnetic universe begins to come into view
109 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
REBOL Oneliners
109 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Reactive Probabilistic Programming
109 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
109 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Fourier Filtering
109 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Cryptographic Signatures, Surprising Pitfalls, and LetsEncrypt
109 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
109 points • comment • may 21, 2020
A Sober Look at Bayesian Neural Networks
109 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
We Still Need Howard Zinn
109 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Launch HN: Cotter (YC W20) – Secure One-Click Phone Number Login
109 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Teletext Bad Apple
109 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Design like it’s 1999
109 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Unfck the Internet
109 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
GCC 9.3
109 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire
109 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
109 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Immutable Databases
109 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Have Aliens Found Us? (2019)
109 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Lamphone: Real-Time Passive Sound Recovery from Light Bulb Vibrations
109 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Clang vs. other open-source compilers
109 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Space Engine – The Universe Simulator
109 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Deleting data distributed throughout a microservice architecture
109 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Building Containers Without Docker
109 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
How toilet paper is made (2014) [video]
109 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Not Just Nuclear: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn
109 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Welcome to the Virosphere
109 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
109 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback
109 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
The Business Case for Formal Methods
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Single-Celled Organism Appears to Make Decisions (2019)
109 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
109 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
The source of the e1000e corruption bug (2008)
109 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
The Adventures of OS: Starting a Process
109 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
AWS Boilerplate
109 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Seen everywhere in last U.S. crisis, moral hazard is nowhere in this one
109 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)
109 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again (2018)
109 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Tools I use: argparse builder
109 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Learn Istio: A Service Mesh and Istio Resource List
109 points • comment • may 11, 2020
A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
109 points • comment • aug 08, 2020