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Hacker News (2020)

Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite
83 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Comparing Covid-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is Like Comparing Apples to Oranges
83 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women
83 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Compiler Auto-Vectorization with Imitation Learning [pdf]
83 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
83 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Study Confirms Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections Right
83 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance
83 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
99% of those who died from virus had other illness, Italy says
83 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11
83 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
83 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings
83 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM
83 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64
83 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
On Facts and Thinking
83 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Supercapacitors from Standard Bricks
83 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
How UI-driven state increases accidental complexity
83 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Facebook Campus
83 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks
83 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
CodiMD, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown notes
83 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Fixing the Desktop Linux Security Model
83 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Apache Spark Release 3.0.0
83 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Radical Solutions
83 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Post PC
83 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Why Does the DICOM Standard Exist?
83 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Palantir Moves Headquarters to Denver from Silicon Valley
83 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public
83 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Toki Pona – An attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words
83 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
83 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Zig 0.7.0 tagged
83 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Announcing Bluetooth LE Audio
83 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows
83 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Instant dev environments for cloud-native apps
83 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Viral effects are not network effects
83 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
83 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)
83 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs
83 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Validating Kubernetes YAML for best practice and policies
83 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
No. 10 Downing Street hiring data scientists, physicists, weirdos
83 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years
83 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code
83 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
83 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Cary Grant's LSD Therapy in the 1950s
83 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries
83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
The Birth of Calculus (1986) [video]
83 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
CZ-4C R/B passed over LeoLabs Kiwi Space Radar – with no signs of debris
83 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System
83 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
We need less powerful languages (2015)
83 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Cellular Automata in the Browser
83 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
GAlculator – Geometric Algebra Pocket Calculator
83 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Monitor your web page's total memory usage with `performance.measureMemory()`
83 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Solr 8.6.1
83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
“Theire Soe Admirable Herbe”: How the English Found Cannabis
83 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults
83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Million Kegs Are Going Stale
83 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
The Spite Software License
83 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
The wear patterns of jeans aren’t good forensic evidence
83 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
The secret economics of a VIP party
83 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Rust for Clojurists (2015)
83 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (2017)
83 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Aboriginal Languages
83 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist
83 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates
83 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
What Is the Small Web?
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Why build another website builder?
83 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Google makes breaking change to publishing Sheets as data
83 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
An Almond-Based Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Depression in Diabetics
83 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US
83 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand
83 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Work from home is dead, long live work from anywhere
83 points • comment • may 25, 2020
The Turing-Completeness Problem
83 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
2020 Had the Warmest September on Record, Data Shows
83 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs (2016) [pdf]
83 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]
83 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Iran state hackers caught in intercepted videos
83 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
‘CSS X’
83 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Graviton Database: ZFS for key-value stores
83 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Sugar – a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat
83 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
The Myth of Code Coverage
83 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
A 40KB Optimization Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth
83 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing
82 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange
82 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
In Further Praise of Dependent Types
82 points • comment • may 11, 2020
SpaceX raises $1.9B
82 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64 (2018)
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Drogon – C++14/17-based rapid HTTP and web application framework
82 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Session: An open-source private messenger that doesn’t need your phone number
82 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Europe's recession will be even deeper than expected
82 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
New Intel Microcodes for Windows 10 Released to Fix CPU Bugs
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Telecom auctions have failed India
82 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels
82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Parabola on ReMarkable: A Guide [pdf]
82 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Hacking an Audi: performing a man-in-the-middle attack on FlexRay
82 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Show HN: A simple Poker API to calculate the winning hand/s
82 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Interior Mutability Patterns in Rust
82 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Intelligence Without Reason (1991) [pdf]
82 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Show HN: Generative art with ant colony optimization algorithms
82 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool
82 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Asm-dom, a minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA
82 points • comment • mar 15, 2020