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Hacker News (2020)

Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
79 points • comment • may 13, 2020
A Horrible Experiment
79 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
A one hundred thousand-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of silicon
79 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
GitPals – Find team for cooperative development
79 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Jet Fuel Is Now So Cheap It’s Being Blended for Use by Ships
79 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
What to do if the bank says you're dead
79 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Complexity in Operating Systems
79 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Atom-Thin Switches Could Route 5G and 6G Radio Signals
79 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
The Base58 Encoding Scheme
79 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
79 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves
79 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
The mine that built the atomic bomb
79 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
In Defence of Half-Arsing
79 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
The Origin of the Shell
79 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991)
79 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Project Covalence
79 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Tesla says its battery innovations will deliver its goal of a $25,000 car
79 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Large explosion in Beirut
79 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics
79 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Neurotoxic peptides isolated from venom of giant Australian stinging tree
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Excerpt from Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez (2016)
79 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years
79 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C
79 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX
79 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]
79 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
What is the purpose of issuing laws/regulations without penalty? (2017)
79 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs
79 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
The Leaderless Organization (2012)
79 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs
79 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
IP-in-IP protocol routes arbitrary traffic by default
79 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Google Play bans third-party app for YouTube alternative BitChute
79 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Slo Mo Guys created a great video of the Apple Watch water-ejection system
79 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
VLC and Qt – A History [video]
79 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
79 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh
79 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
The accidental genius of Yo
79 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics
79 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Show HN: Remotely Controlled Escape Room
79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
The Anthropologist in an Economist World
79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
A happy ending for King Lear? Trauma of plague caused Shakespeare to change it
79 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
The Marvel of Mozart’s Letters
78 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?
78 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Earth-sized exoplanet ‘habitable zone’
78 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading
78 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
AutoMLPipeline – Create and evaluate machine learning pipeline architectures
78 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Show HN: Exophysics – WebGL2 particle simulator
78 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More
78 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
HP-28S Battery Compartment Door
78 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Lambda Store: Serverless Redis
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Show HN: Neuropod – Uber ATG's open source deep learning inference engine
78 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
A concise guide to the latest Go generics draft design
78 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
From Zero to Zero Trust
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) [pdf]
78 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
What Is a Game? (2018)
78 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II
78 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017)
78 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Eddie's Ink Chip Hack (2002)
78 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly weep?
78 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
GNU World Order
78 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Young people are funneled into fields that don’t reward risk-taking
78 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Ask HN: How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age?
78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Relating natural language aptitude to differences in learning programming
78 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
A Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation
78 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Research UNIX: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 [pdf]
78 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Yacd – Decrypts FairPlay applications on iOS 13.4.1 and lower, no jb required
78 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Systems smart enough to know when they're not smart enough (2017)
78 points • comment • may 06, 2020
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System
78 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
78 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Vienna, City of Paradox
78 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Raft Is So Fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through Mean Girls
78 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Show HN: GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing
78 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
The Chloe 280SE, a New Z80 Microcomputer
78 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying on Millions of iPhone Users
78 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Chelsea Manning Tries to Kill Herself in Jail, Lawyers Say
78 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Jean-Michel Basquiat on How to Be an Artist
78 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
78 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (2017)
78 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Comparing Software Engineer Salaries Across Cities
78 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf]
78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Qnice – An Elegant 16 Bit Processor
78 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Why Use ECC? (2015)
78 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus
78 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
International Standard Paper Sizes
78 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Importance of Tongue Fat
78 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Global CO2 Emissions in 2019
78 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Dawn, a WebGPU Implementation in C++
78 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
The unexpected rule of adjectival ordering in English (2016)
78 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors
78 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
OpenRCT2 0.3
78 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career
78 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Show HN: Kretes – Build full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL
78 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Coronavirus Work from Home Model
78 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
With cops away, it’s like Capitol Hill is slipping back to the Pinkerton’s era
78 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
New Zealand PM: No open borders for 'a long time'
78 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Unraveling the linothorax mystery (2013)
78 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Whiteboard exercises are a terrible way to investigate coding ability (2012)
78 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Why Twilio Acquired Segment
78 points • comment • oct 14, 2020