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Hacker News (2020)

Brittle starfish are second known example of vision in an organism without eyes
70 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Tad, a desktop application for viewing and analyzing tabular data
70 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Scientists who risked death testing vaccines on themselves
70 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016)
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Two New Moms Return to Work – One in Seattle, One in Stockholm
70 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
The NoJS Club
70 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Online Jamming and Concert Technology
70 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
70 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Show HN: Link-lock – Distributed app to password-protect URLs
70 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Lambda Fellows
70 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Some Boeing 737s can't land on some runways with true heading 270 [pdf]
70 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf]
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Redis official site not working because it cannot connect to a redis
70 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Amazon Wants to Train 29M People to Work in the Cloud
70 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language
70 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Chasing a Performance Regression with Erlang/OTP 22
70 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Seattle lab uncovered coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators
70 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Show HN: An Aesthetically Pleasing Arch Linux Distro
70 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong (2018)
70 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
From NASA to Amtrak, These Are All the Government Agencies with Tactical Teams
70 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Writing 1/3 in binary (2014) [video]
70 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Show HN: Discover shared videos and live broadcasts from Reddit
70 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Layoffs Are Coming
70 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
PHP 8.0.0 beta 2
70 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Microsoft unveils full Xbox Series X specs with 1TB expansion cards
70 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
3D Printing Integrated Circuits: What's Possible Now and in the Future?
70 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
How much innate knowledge can the genome encode?
70 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
The “Eat What You Kill” execution strategy (2015)
70 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Biggest U.S. airlines spent bulk of free cash flow on stock repurchases
70 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives
70 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It
70 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Across furtive videocons, junior VCs wait for the layoffs to begin
70 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Crispr gene editing in human embryos wreaks chromosomal mayhem
70 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Show HN: Hallway – make working from home less lonely
70 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
A broken algorithm that affected American transportation
70 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Wrestling Python into LLVM Intermediate Representation (2019) [video]
70 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
ExamSoft's remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns
70 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Tau PET imaging beats amyloid-based approach in battle against Alzheimer’s
70 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage (2018)
70 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Taika Waititi Calls Out Apple's MacBook Keyboard Backstage at the Oscars
70 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
NIST Samate – Source Code Security Analyzers
70 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Apple’s abandonment of Intel chips is inevitable (2018)
70 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Tcl for Web Nerds (2011)
70 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
The Design of the US Interstate Highway System (1944) [pdf]
70 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Raindrop 5.0
70 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
The complexity of downloading favicons
70 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
SciTer, HTML/CSS Engine, May Go Open Source via Kickstarter
70 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts
70 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity (2015)
70 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Miracles You’ll See in the Next Fifty Years (1950)
70 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once
70 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers
70 points • comment • may 09, 2020
OPDS – Easy to Use, Open and Decentralized Content Distribution
70 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Dotscience is shutting down
70 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Faasd – Lightweight Serverless for Raspberry Pi
70 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
The SIR Model of Epidemics
70 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
RPCS3 Inside Look: A Deep-Dive into Hardware and Performance Scaling
70 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Branch prediction minutiae in LZ decoders
70 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
RTX3090 TensorFlow, NAMD and HPCG Performance on Linux
70 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals
70 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Optimizations on Linear Search
70 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Simulating an epidemic [video]
70 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon
70 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Keeping secrets in memfd areas
70 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat – The White House
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Coronavirus Infections–More Than Just the Common Cold
70 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
3D printed hands are giving Syrian children a second chance
70 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1
70 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Show HN: Run the unmodified iOS kernel image on the VIM3 development board
70 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Building the ultimate home office again
70 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
GitHub: Increased Error Rates
70 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Rainway forces signing up to Discord in order to delete your account
70 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution
70 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
70 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
A Reply to “Let’s stop copying C”
70 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Show HN: Your DevOps Control Plane, in Slack
70 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Formal proof and analysis of an incremental cycle detection algorithm
70 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
NASA rushing to complete Mars launch before planet moves out of range
70 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
A chat protocol for remote lectures
70 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s
70 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Fun with Combinators
70 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Aurora is finally ready to show the world what it’s been up to
70 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Bison and wolf populations are reviving in parts of Europe
70 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Why Explore the Moon
70 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms
70 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Precious Plastic Version 4 [video]
70 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Amazon Music attempted to forbid podcasters from disparaging Amazon
70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7
70 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
The Dark Side of the ‘Angel’s Share’ (2019)
70 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Go 1.14.2 and Go 1.13.10 are released
70 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Twtxt Is a Self-Hosted, Twitter-Like Decentralised MicroBlogging Platform
70 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
TalkBack: A new keyboard for typing braille on Android
70 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
70 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Daily Life with the Offline Laptop
70 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound
70 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Show HN: Memgraph – Transactional, in-memory, cypher-compatible graph database
70 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Proton irradiation decelerates intergranular corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys
70 points • comment • jul 28, 2020