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Hacker News (2020)

Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test general relativity
95 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change
95 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Stack-Oriented Programming
95 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard
95 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
95 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018)
95 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend
95 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
95 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
TFHE: Fast Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus
95 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Building DIY LED strips for fun
95 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
A Case Study of Complex Table Design
95 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander
95 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning
95 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
The Expression Problem
95 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Stupid light software
95 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Feral pig populations have grown to unmanageable numbers
95 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad
95 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows
95 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data
95 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
On “White Fragility”
95 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock
95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Show HN: Tunnelto.dev – expose localhost with a public URL (built in Rust)
95 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup
95 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer
95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19
95 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)
95 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Odroid-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Weird Constants in Math Problems
95 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
NetBSD 9.1
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Physics is stuck
95 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
How to better ventilate your home
95 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux
95 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (2016)
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
The 10,000,000,000th Prime Number (1994)
95 points • comment • may 26, 2020
The Unix `Who` Command
95 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Markets, Rent and WFH
95 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
NASA Funded Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Propellantless Propulsion
95 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year
95 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation
95 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Simple WireGuard Docker network setup
95 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students
95 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Throw away code
95 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Security researcher hacks Tesla via Bluetooth LE keyless entry vulnerability
95 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock
95 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
An un-edited view of Saturn
94 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters
94 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
GitHub was down again
94 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook
94 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including ‘Do Not Be a Fool’
94 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery
94 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Facebook Now Lets You Turn Any 2D Photo into a 3D Image Using AI
94 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
94 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect heat
94 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Cassette tape-based navigation system from 1971
94 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Python 2 Is Dead
94 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
94 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Tripadvisor lays off 25% of workforce
94 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
It’s strange what people put up with in C#
94 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Fat pointers in C using libcello
94 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving Capability' Falls Short of Its Name
94 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
What you need to know about the Covid-19 vaccine
94 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Ask HN: How can I prevent myself from being doxxed?
94 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
311 years ago, Alexander Selkirk was rescued on a desert island
94 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
94 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer
94 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
North Pacific Logbook
94 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
A Tale of Two Ships [pdf]
94 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
A Closer Look at the Super NES Doom Source Code Release [video]
94 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Show HN: Codeflow – Understand a codebase quicker with PowerPoint-like tutorials
94 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions
94 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
LISP I Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf]
94 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
ELF Statifier, self-contained dynamically linked executables
94 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Juul Co-Founder James Monsees Is Stepping Down
94 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming
94 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
TSA officers who tested positive for coronavirus did pat-downs at SJC airport
94 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported
94 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Pitch Drop Experiment
94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Humankind neither nasty nor brutish
94 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Writing a triple polyglot script
94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Getting Started with Ansible
94 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Association of insulin resistance marker with severity and mortality of Covid-19
94 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Some aspects of memory get better as we age
94 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Show HN: I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture
94 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Analyzing the attacks on my website
94 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Ethr Is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and ICMP
94 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?
94 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript
94 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
'42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters
94 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Views on Error Handling
94 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Getting started on Twitter as a scientist
94 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer
94 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Covid-19 in Hungary: Viktor Orbán pursues dictatorial powers
94 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Circle Packing
94 points • comment • may 30, 2020
In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
94 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Life without line numbers for 6% smaller Go binaries
94 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Flight Attendants and Covid-19
94 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Pibooth: A PhotoBooth application for Raspberry Pi and opencv compatible devices
94 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
What are the best powers to play in Diplomacy?
94 points • comment • may 10, 2020