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Hacker News (2020)

Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future
85 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Setting the story straight on quite a few issues
85 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]
85 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Coronavirus: A third of hospital patients develop dangerous blood clots
85 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Singapore rears moquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria to combat dengue
85 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS
85 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have changed lifestyles for good
85 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Learn to code by creating working applications
85 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
A review of Bel, Eve, and a silly VR rant
85 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
For Apollo 11 he wasn’t on the moon, but his coffee was warm (2019)
85 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Postdocs under pressure: ‘Can I even do this any more?’
85 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Netflix original series no longer get time to breathe
84 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN
84 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D
84 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
The semver trick (2019)
84 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
OpenAPI v3.1 and JSON Schema 2019-09
84 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool
84 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery
84 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Talon – scriptable voice/gaze input
84 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
84 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and the Times
84 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
China Uighurs 'moved into factory forced labour' for foreign brands
84 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3
84 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Charlatans sell bogus treatment exposing blood to UV light (2016)
84 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air
84 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore
84 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Ask HN: What is the smartest career path to take?
84 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
C program proofs with Frama-C and its weakest-precondition plugin [pdf]
84 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Apple Silicon M1 – What to Expect, Based on A14
84 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox
84 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)
84 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Novel Laser-Based Method Effectively De-Ices Aircraft
84 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change
84 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Fuzzy Logic
84 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Kafka in Pieces
84 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)
84 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack
84 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
84 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Exhaustiveness Checking with Mypy
84 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
84 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Albatrosses who catch pirates on the high seas
84 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (2017)
84 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip
84 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya
84 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
No, MI5 should not have more control over social media
84 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
'Remarkable' MIP*=RE proof describes how to solve seemingly impossible problem
84 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Equations system with a black rectangle in LaTeX
84 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
The first video of individual atoms bonding and breaking
84 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Toward a Technological Cage for the Masses
84 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera
84 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
84 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
What would Dijkstra do? Proving the associativity of min
84 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Formalizing Text Editors in Coq
84 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Dining Cryptographers Problem
84 points • comment • may 03, 2020
TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday
84 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio
84 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
How Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs (2015)
84 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for New York Residents
84 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Pentagon Planned for a Bitcoin Rebellion
84 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Delayed Gratification: A Slow Journalism Magazine
84 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
CSVs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
84 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator
84 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card (2008)
84 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Recursive SQL Queries with PostgreSQL
84 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above
84 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups with Terraform
84 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Comet streaking past Earth, providing spectacular show
84 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic
84 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?
84 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
F-35 logistics system to be reinvented and renamed, official says
84 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct
84 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (2008)
84 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
P.L. Deshpande
84 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Show HN: Algoviz, Interactive a* Pathfinding Visualization
84 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Empty stadiums have shrunk football teams’ home advantage
84 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world (2019)
84 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Apple accuses Epic of “Willful, brazen, and unlawful” conduct
84 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
The propeller is giving way to the pump-jet propulsor on larger submarines
84 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Coronavirus ravages California’s Central Valley, following a cruel familiar path
84 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius (2017)
84 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
How WebAssembly Changes Software Distribution
84 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
U.S. retailers plan to stop paying rent to offset virus closures
84 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
OpenSSL Raccoon Attack (CVE-2020-1968)
84 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
iPhone 11 Pro Emits Twice the Amount of Radiation for Safe Use
84 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
The Puzzle Toad
84 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Time safety is more important than memory safety
84 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Western Digital’s SMR disks won’t work for ZFS, but they’re okay for most NASes
84 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Japan to close schools nationwide to control spread of virus
84 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide
84 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
One corner of U.S. oil market has already seen negative prices
84 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
84 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations
84 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
I'm paying over 10k to stare at a screen and be told to “teach myself”
84 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Dimensional Analysis in Programming Languages (2018)
84 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
I'm going to experiment by being Blind and Alone for 24 Hours
84 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Deep Borehole Disposal
84 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
MIT Drake
84 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Writing HTML with Racket and X-Expressions (2019)
84 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Home Office
84 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
When debugging, attitude matters
84 points • comment • apr 03, 2020