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Hacker News (2020)

Designing GraphQL schemas
73 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Exactly how much physical memory is installed?
73 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Making game engines is a waste of time – I probably won’t stop making them
73 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone
73 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
73 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
73 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete
73 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
A Tale of Two Libcs
73 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Psychological effects of coding style (2016)
73 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (2004)
73 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo
73 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Who invented the lightbulb?
73 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Microservices – Combinatorial Explosion of Versions
73 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Ubooquity: Free home server for your comics and ebooks library
73 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Do notation considered harmful
73 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Time has come for four-day week, say European politicians
73 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions
73 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Scary Outage Stories from CTOs
73 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Caltrain Vibration and Volatility Analysis
73 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
How to write warm emails
73 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Stable perovskite-silicon printable solar cells with 25% efficiency
73 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World
73 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf]
73 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
73 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Comedian changes name to Hugo Boss to challenge trademark law
73 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Child sexual abuse material could be going undetected because of ‘false reports’
73 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Risky Business: Interview with Marc Andreessen (2018)
73 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Demystifying MLsub – The Simple Essence of Algebraic Subtyping
73 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Show HN: Excalidraw – a whiteboard tool that lets you sketch hand-drawn diagrams
73 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
A Fast, Cheap and Scary Way to Cool the Planet
73 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
A Defer Statement for C
73 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Compiling to Assembly from Scratch: the book, released
73 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
A Five-Hour, $5k “Super Physical” Exam
73 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
A new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects
73 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Summer Sea Ice Could End This Decade: The Voyage to the End of Ice
73 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
SLO Adoption at Twitter
73 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Cabin Fever
73 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw over Workers
73 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join
73 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (2014)
73 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
'Nature is taking back Venice': wildlife returns to tourist-free city
73 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Ask HN: I'm quitting my job, will create a game – any advice?
73 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus
73 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Florida’s justification for raiding whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking shaky
73 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
DIY Positive Pressure Suit
73 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
100 years to solve an integral: The history of the Mercator map
73 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Front (YC S14) raises $59M round led by other tech CEOs
73 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Creality Developing Belt-Driven Desktop 3D Printer
73 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Svelte Is Unappealing
73 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal coronaviruses
73 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Adafruit deemed an essential service to make Personal Protection Equipment
73 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly
73 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Python goto implemented with system trace function (2017)
73 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Military police considered using controversial heat ray against D.C. protesters
73 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Powerful Radio Signal from Deep Space
73 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilon
73 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
TileDB 2.0 and the Future of Data Science
73 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Ask HN: How Do You Blog?
73 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Activity
73 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
The man who invented the Zamboni
73 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Building data liberation infrastructure
73 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Reading Hard-to-Read Gravestones (2014)
73 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
US now nation with most coronavirus cases
73 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
The Mozilla Manifesto
73 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
73 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy
73 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
A Prometheus fork for cloud scale anomaly detection across metrics and logs
73 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study
73 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Determining an Election in K
73 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
How to update U-Boot for PostmarketOS on the Pine Phone
73 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Huawei is dividing Western nations
73 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State
73 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Arm is offering early-stage startups free access to its chip designs
73 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains
73 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Rules for Writers
73 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Wayeb: A Complex Event Processing and Forecasting Engine
73 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Compiling PHP's Eval() to .NET
73 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps
73 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Medtronics killed the low cost ventilator
73 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites
73 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment): Multiuser Forth VR (1994)
73 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas
73 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Japan’s Lost-and-Found System
73 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle
73 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Comfortable with Uncomfortable
73 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Android is a truly terrible software development platform
73 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter
73 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?
73 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Capability Myths Demolished (2003)
73 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
At Least 37M People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror
73 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
State Machine in Real Life
73 points • comment • may 02, 2020
What Makes a Picture Good?
73 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
The Power of the Niche
73 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
73 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Using floating-point numbers for money
73 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (2011)
73 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time
73 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
David Fincher’s Impossible Eye
73 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10%
73 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Inside the stacked RAM modules used in the Apple III
73 points • comment • oct 31, 2020