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Hacker News (2020)

Optacon
88 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Candidate to Lead the W.H.O. Accused of Covering Up Epidemics (2017)
88 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Scheme.forth.jl: Scheme in Forth in Julia
88 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Show HN: Wisdom-of-crowds survey tool that finds hidden consensus at scale
88 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising
88 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods
88 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Electronic Whole Earth Catalog
88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers fees for exceeding their usage cap
88 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
A modern tool for the Windows kernel exploration and observability
88 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?
88 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger
88 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
From the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy
88 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Show HN: Solid, a free and MIT licensed design system / UI kit for Bootstrap 4
88 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Ubuntu Mate
88 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Dolphins learn from their peers to use empty shells to catch fish
88 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Bevy: A Game Engine in Rust
88 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The Chaos at Condé Nast
88 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Travelex being held to ransom by hackers
88 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps
88 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Dutch Scientists Find a Novel Coronavirus Early-Warning Signal
88 points • comment • may 27, 2020
After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators
88 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983)
88 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017)
88 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
A Simple Scheme Compiler (1997)
88 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Soup.io Will Be Discontinued
88 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees
88 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Brazil Suspends WhatsApp Payments
88 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
88 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering (2001) [pdf]
88 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Fedora Muscian's Guide
88 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale
88 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
88 points • comment • may 16, 2020
FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates
88 points • comment • may 16, 2020
UN experts say hacking of Bezos phone suggests effort to influence news coverage
88 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
88 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Haskell web framework IHP aims to make web development type-safe and easy
88 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Those Mythological "Jobs Of Tomorrow"
88 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?
88 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
88 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript engine, with a focus on portability
88 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Test Anything Protocol
88 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Making a New World: Armistice Soundwave (2018)
88 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? (2018)
88 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization
88 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Germany's Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing WhatsApp/Messenger backdoor
88 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?
88 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver
88 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?
88 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]
88 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Ask HN: Is a SaaS provider expected to have a trademark in every country?
88 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy
88 points • comment • may 21, 2020
You don't need no service mesh
88 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots
88 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
How to be a Roman emperor
88 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
OCaml User Survey 2020 Results
88 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
MODNet: Is a Green Screen Necessary for Real-Time Human Matting?
88 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
The engineering of birds’ nests
88 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Plan the Sprint, Not the Project
88 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Choosing a Rust web framework
88 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Hell is Other People: an experiment in anti-social media
88 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Hacked from a lightbulb
88 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops?
88 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly
88 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training
88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Multicore OCaml: October 2020
88 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Elon Musk: Tons of C++/C engineers needed
88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019)
88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Show HN: ip2unix – Turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets
88 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
A Guide to Managing Remote Teams
88 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
88 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic
88 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Prjoxide: Documenting Lattice's 28nm FPGA parts
88 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Russian election data revisited (2018)
88 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Charisma: Now You’ve Got It, Now You Don’t
88 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Weather.com Has Become the Pawn of a Data Theft Scheme
88 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
88 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007)
88 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Nginx Service Mesh
88 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
ReCAPTCHA and the Anonymous Experience
88 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
An ultra-simplified example of a modern compiler written in JavaScript
88 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Most Americans don’t have enough assets to withstand 3 months without income
88 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Against Covid-19
88 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Drawing Machines
88 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Otvdm/winevdm: run old Windows software in 64-bit Windows
88 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Pwned Passwords, Version 6
88 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Hallucinations and Delirium
88 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language
88 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Rocket Lab vehicle lost during second stage burn on 13th mission
88 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
88 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Seven Bridges of Königsberg
88 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?
88 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
City of London: Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)
88 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform
88 points • comment • may 19, 2020
How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers
88 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Linus Torvalds on the new MacBook Air
88 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Rebekah Neumann's search for enlightenment fueled WeWork's collapse
88 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
'All lies': how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq
88 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Scottish Power: "Billing chaos caused by a new IT system"
88 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]
88 points • comment • dec 31, 2020