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Hacker News (2020)

ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture – an alternative to SPAs
89 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Estimating the ROI of Insulation
89 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
89 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live with Their Parents
89 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Netflix urged to slow streaming to prevent breaking the internet
89 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Who Smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
89 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
In Praise of Phone Calls
89 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball
89 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password and more
89 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Declarative Shadow DOM
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Open Ventilator Registry
89 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Web Neural Network API
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks
89 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off
89 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
“Like” at Your Own Risk
89 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Malicious NPM package opens backdoors on programmers' computers
89 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture (2012)
89 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Brex Lays Off 62 Employees
89 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
SEC Gets Win in Test of Authority to Regulate Cryptocurrency Sales
89 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Show HN: NFreezer – Encrypted-at-rest remote backup tool
89 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Google's Down
89 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison
89 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
ImPlot: Advanced 2D Plotting for Dear ImGui
89 points • comment • may 09, 2020
US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
89 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower
89 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Lora-based device-to-device smartphone communication for crisis scenarios [pdf]
89 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
REBOL Shell Interface
89 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?
89 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
89 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Show HN: Quake 1 movement physics reinforcement learning project
89 points • comment • may 02, 2020
US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," leaving "buckets of mail"
89 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Podcasts are my new Wikipedia
89 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change
89 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Thieves are targeting beehives with growing sophistication
89 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
WMR – Tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps
89 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
James Taylor (JHU bioinformatics leader) has died at 40
89 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Discount chains are thriving, but what do they do to poor communities?
89 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Spain to Roll Out Permanent Universal Basic Income ‘Soon’
89 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
How to get people to work on your project (2007)
89 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
“I, along with almost all of Disney Imagineering, am furloughed without pay”
89 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity
89 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA's Perseverance Rover
89 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
What ‘less lethal’ weapons do
89 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
AB2712 – California Universal Basic Income
89 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
A ritual for your product increases satisfaction and spending
89 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
89 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Single-use JIT Performance on x86 Processors
89 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Go Debugging with Delve, or No More Fmt.Printfs
89 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
89 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts
89 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
A JavaScript implementation of Git
89 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth – Gary Gygax’s first published D&D module
89 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs
89 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Coq is a Lean Typechecker
89 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
The Sony “Star Eater” (2017)
89 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs
89 points • comment • may 22, 2020
How Rust Lets Us Monitor 30k API calls/min
89 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Video Game Heritage and Preservation
89 points • comment • may 22, 2020
JITSploitation I: A JIT Bug
89 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Show HN: Brök – Find broken links in text documents
89 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought
89 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019)
89 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Are Package Registries Holding Open-Source Hostage?
89 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids
89 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Docable: Literate Runbooks and Interactive Tutorials from Markdown
89 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Exploring supervisors’ two‐faced response to their past abusive behavior
89 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets?
89 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Ansible 2.10
89 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Earth's mountains form in millions of years, Moon ones near instantaneously
89 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh
89 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police
89 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account
89 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The Corporatization of Nursing Homes
89 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
“I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”
89 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
88 points • comment • may 02, 2020
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]
88 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Against Covid-19
88 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Applying TLA+ in cloud systems [video]
88 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Scottish Power: "Billing chaos caused by a new IT system"
88 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Gamers allege EA uses dynamic difficulty adjustment so players spend more money
88 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale
88 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Show HN: Wisdom-of-crowds survey tool that finds hidden consensus at scale
88 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates
88 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps
88 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators
88 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization
88 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform
88 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering (2001) [pdf]
88 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
The Interruptible Programmer (2010)
88 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Prjoxide: Documenting Lattice's 28nm FPGA parts
88 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
88 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Plan the Sprint, Not the Project
88 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
An ultra-simplified example of a modern compiler written in JavaScript
88 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?
88 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Weather.com Has Become the Pawn of a Data Theft Scheme
88 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
A Guide to Managing Remote Teams
88 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language
88 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019)
88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020