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Hacker News (2020)

How to Make a Memex
100 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
100 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
BigCommerce S1
100 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
The Wolfram Physics Project
100 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Frama-C: Modular Analysis of C Programs
100 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Show HN: I scraped local court records to find dirty cops
100 points • comment • may 18, 2020
The world of cheap produce and its consequences
100 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself
100 points • comment • may 21, 2020
How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
100 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
What Color Is Your Function? (2015)
100 points • comment • may 18, 2020
The rise of platonic co-parenting
100 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
BGP and RPKI
100 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?
100 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Show HN: kutty, jQuery-free intercooler.js
100 points • comment • may 15, 2020
How a $175 covid-19 test led to $2,479 in charges
100 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
I quit contracting 6 months ago
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Inside the Coronavirus
100 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn
100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning
100 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?
100 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (2008)
100 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984)
100 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices
100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
100 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Database Version Control with Liquibase
100 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
How Iceland got teens to say no to drugs (2017)
100 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Show HN: Tweek – Fast to-do weekly calendar app
100 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Hootsuite CEO terminating contract with ICE
100 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
100 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII
100 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Which McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are Broken?
100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
99 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Managing an underperformer who thinks they’re doing great
99 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
99 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11
99 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020
99 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) sunsetting DC/OS and focusing on Kubernetes
99 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster
99 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
99 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4.2B to charity
99 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House antitrust committee chair
99 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
How Python attributes work
99 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?
99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
How to let go of a lifelong dream
99 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Instrumentation in Go
99 points • comment • may 26, 2020
18XX Train Games
99 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries
99 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp)
99 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
How Eduardo Saverin sold Facebook ads in 2004 (2012)
99 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data
99 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network
99 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
73% Of Inmates At An Ohio Prison Test Positive For Coronavirus. 0 deaths so far
99 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Close and tranquil solar system has astronomers excited
99 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Show HN: Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM
99 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
99 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
New report on the cellular effects of a calorie-restricted diet in rats
99 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says
99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape
99 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here
99 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities
99 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Ad block and you don't stop
99 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy
99 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2012)
99 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds
99 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent
99 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Implementing Raft, Part 3: Persistence and Optimizations
99 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Empathy and perspective taking: How social skills are built
99 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
99 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
TIC-80 version 0.80
99 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
A man launched a new ISP from his garage (2018) [video]
99 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Amnesty International to halt India operations
99 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
WinWorld: online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software
99 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use
99 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Pathfinding Demystified (2014)
99 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
How to Hide a Billion Dollars: Three Techniques the Ultrarich Use to Dodge Ex-Sp
99 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012)
99 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
“Accentism” is real, but impossible to end
99 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
A commit history of BERT and its forks
99 points • comment • may 09, 2020
The Concurnas Programming Language
99 points • comment • may 27, 2020
What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
99 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Chromecast with Google TV
99 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
The SOC2 Starting Seven
99 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Map of Computing Architectures for AWS
99 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
'Universal memory' research passes new milestone
99 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000
99 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action
99 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Silurian Hypothesis: Were There Civilizations on Earth Before Humans? (2018)
99 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?
99 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years
99 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
When bad UX is good
99 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working?
99 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Senator dumped up to $1.6M of stock after reassuring public on Covid-19
99 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
The Covid Science Wars
99 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Catching SQL errors at build time
99 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Alzheimer's: 'Promising' blood test for early stage of disease
99 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
99 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages
99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Ask HN: Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?
99 points • comment • mar 28, 2020