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Hacker News (2020)

The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1
108 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
The Treachery of Image Files
108 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer
108 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes
108 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)
108 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56
108 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
108 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Is there a known recent Linux locking bug that affects the OCaml runtime?
107 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Google Earth finally available in browsers other than Chrome
107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
HashiCorp forbids its software being used in China
107 points • comment • may 29, 2020
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body
107 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Police Riot
107 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Largest multi-city traffic dataset available
107 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Extra Ideas for Computing
107 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Coronavirus and the blindness of authoritarianism
107 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
When Lightning Strikes Thrice: Breaking Thunderbolt 3 Security
107 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Sugary drink tax models show health gains, cost reductions, but vary by design
107 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Touch Typing on a Gamepad
107 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
JP Morgan economists warn of 'catastrophic' climate change
107 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
The Persian Art of Etiquette (2016)
107 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
A simple way to get more value from tracing
107 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
107 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
A New Back End for Cranelift: Instruction Selection
107 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Entropy in the Universe
107 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines (2015)
107 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Panolens.js: A JavaScript Panorama Viewer
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Linux 5.5 to Offer Mainline Support for SGI's Octane MIPS Workstations
107 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Ambitions for a Unix Shell
107 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
107 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
107 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Qt and Open Source
107 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Keybase Joins Zoom
107 points • comment • may 07, 2020
PGCon 2020 is free and will stream beginning May 26th
107 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Urkel – authenticated key-value store written in C
107 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
How Can You Help the Internet Archive?
107 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker
107 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Engineering challenges for children during lockdown
107 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Monte Carlo Geometry Processing
107 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News
107 points • comment • may 13, 2020
The most expensive typefaces (2019)
107 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server
107 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design
107 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
GitHub Certifications (Beta)
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Cloudflare: Is anyone else seeing DNS outages?
107 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking
107 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
107 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Third-Party Audit of Rustls
107 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (2011)
107 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators
107 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Printing tiny, high-precision objects
107 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
PIA Airbus 320 Crashes near Karachi
107 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World
107 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
107 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
107 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)
107 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Billionaires Want People Back to Work. Employees Aren’t So Sure
107 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
A Static Future: The magic of compile-time workflows
107 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Cloudflare Dashboard and API Service Issues
107 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Vehicle Testing Permits
107 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Switching from Sketch to Figma
107 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
The “Dying Seas” of the Anthropocene
107 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Is the US about to split the internet?
107 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
PFAS “forever” chemicals found in hundreds more everyday products
107 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
The Design Squiggle
107 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Improving breast reconstruction surgery with a web-based survey
107 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Ogden's Basic English
107 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Implementing single-file web components
107 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov
107 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings [pdf]
107 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
107 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Z80 CPU User Manual (2016)
107 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher
107 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
107 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Polyphasic sleep takes napping to the extreme
107 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf]
107 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
FBI Surveillance Vendor Threatens to Sue Tech Reporters for Crime of Journalism
107 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit
107 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (2017)
107 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Intel enters the laptop discrete GPU market with Xe Max
107 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology
107 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees
107 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
107 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Weird and Innovative Chips (2007)
107 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Kissat SAT Solver
107 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks
107 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (2016)
107 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
107 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records
107 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
First photo of HS2 tunnel boring machines
107 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
NanoTritium 20-Year Betavoltaic Battery
107 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature
107 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade
107 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Why we've never fallen in love with virtual reality
107 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely
107 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Surge of virus misinformation stumps Facebook and Twitter
107 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
107 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021
107 points • comment • jul 12, 2020