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Hacker News (2020)

The Rise and Fall of Minitel
96 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries
96 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Thermoelectric Stoves vs. Solar Panels
96 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Apple adds 192-room hotel to plans of Northwest Austin campus
96 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Functional Programming for Array-Based Parallelism
96 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
When Rubber Hits the Road, and Washes Away
96 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54
96 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Publishing an F-Droid Repo using a Hardware Security Module
96 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
The Citroën Ami and the future of urban transportation
96 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The missing harm of manual dispatch in Julia
96 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
AMD at a Tipping Point with Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators
96 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Tone of Voice Guide
96 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium
96 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Studies in Intelligence [pdf]
96 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Show HN: Biff – Self-hosted Firebase alternative for Clojure
96 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
The new 'gold rush' for green lithium
96 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
96 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3
96 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf]
95 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
95 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'
95 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Before the BSD Kernel Starts: Part One on AMD64
95 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops
95 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
95 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”
95 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods
95 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Running DOS Apps on Windows
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire (2017)
95 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines
95 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk
95 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies
95 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Ask HN: What are some hard-tech blogs that you follow?
95 points • comment • may 16, 2020
United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf]
95 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]
95 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
XMPP works – 1 July 2020
95 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
95 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
An open source portable terminal for every dev
95 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
A young Venus had water for 2B years, habitable for longer than Mars
95 points • comment • may 02, 2020
The Most Counterintuitive Recession Ever
95 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Show HN: A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C
95 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Email based PGP encrypted chat
95 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Recoil – A state management library for React
95 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Astrophysicists detect the strongest magnetic field in the universe
95 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
How early American inventors funded their ventures
95 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
What happened to all the non-programmers? (2015)
95 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Launch HN: DeepSource (YC W20) – Find and fix issues during code reviews
95 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month
95 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill
95 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer
95 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
How to receive a million packets per second (2015)
95 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Designing the perfect TypeScript schema validation library
95 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]
95 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature
95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
The 10,000 Year Clock
95 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
What Is Color Management?
95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Data-Oriented Programming in Python
95 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force Washington state road closure
95 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms
95 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Show HN: Pisa – Full Text Search Engine Written in C++
95 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Corsair Gaming S-1
95 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire
95 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
What motivates the authors of video game walkthroughs and FAQs?
95 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Groceries and Delivered Goods Decontamination Station Instructions
95 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US
95 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Explore ancient Athens online in 3D models
95 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Lithium ranked the highest performance web application platform
95 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
95 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August
95 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
A Woman in Black: The last judicial duel in France
95 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
MDatePickerView – Quick and Easy iOS Date Picker
95 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
The self-driving car is a red herring
95 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant
95 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Hundreds of Botswana elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
95 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools
95 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Bead Sort
95 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Show HN: CloudWright – Build apps in your own cloud
95 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Shapes is a real-time vector graphics library for Unity
95 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Vanilla Production in Geodesic Domes
95 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Tell HN: Skiena's “The Algorithm Design Manual” currently free from publisher
95 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
95 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
The Fed now owns Walmart debt
95 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Show HN: Vusic – A Simple Web Player for Apple Music Built with Vue and Vuex
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Microsoft Statement in Support of Epic [pdf]
95 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Show HN: A curated set of colour combinations
95 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
The Best and Worst Microcontroller SDKs
95 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve
95 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers
95 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Migrating ZooKeeper into Kubernetes
95 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
95 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Gravity: Upstream Kubernetes packaging tools
95 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
95 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
OYO furloughs thousands of employees as revenue drops by over 50%
95 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (2018)
95 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Type I and Type II Errors: The Inevitable Errors in Optimization Experiments
95 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce
95 points • comment • oct 12, 2020