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Hacker News (2020)

What happens to all the old wind turbines?
69 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
The only catfish native to the Western U.S. is running out of water
69 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Most airlines face bankruptcy by end of May, industry body warns
69 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
69 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread (2017)
69 points • comment • may 11, 2020
PyPy: A Faster Python Implementation
69 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
99% of Those Who Died from Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
69 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Samsung researchers build solid-state EV battery with 500-mile range
69 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Simlish, the language that defined The Sims
69 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes
69 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
A recursive descent parser in Forth
69 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
69 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Shrinking my static site
69 points • comment • may 03, 2020
An Ecology of Mind: A daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson
69 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council
69 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Sin and Siege: The End of the Crusades
69 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43
69 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Switch from Ruby to Crystal
69 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Understanding Memory Cards
69 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home
69 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
YouTube Gives Us Love Without the Messiness
69 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (2018)
69 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
69 points • comment • may 10, 2020
A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2
69 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Show HN: An example GraphQL server written in Rust
69 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Breaking the Solidity compiler with a fuzzer
69 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997
69 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Horizontal totalitarianism in life and literature
69 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
69 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Making Blurry Faces Photorealistic Goes Only So Far
69 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
The Myth of Architect as Chess Master
69 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet
69 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Saudi Arabia ripped off my open-source app and published it on the App Store
69 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
British Museum makes lost Hokusai drawings available online
69 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
The Gondwana Link: A plan to create a 1000km corridor of bushland
69 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
A new licensing program to support the news industry
69 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
The First Computers in East Africa and what became of them (2015)
69 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Florida Current is weaker now than at any point in the past century
69 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
69 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
‘Five Eyes’ Nations Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory
69 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? (2019)
69 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Vim Koans
69 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says
69 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country If Their Schools Are Online-Only
69 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
On Surviving Screens and Social Media in Isolation
69 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories
69 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
A Developer's Guide to Surviving the Coronapocalypse
69 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
The Tech Behind the Mind-Reading Pangolin Dress
69 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Tiger at US zoo tests positive for coronavirus
69 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams
69 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
55% Yelp businesses that were temp closed are now perm
69 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
New – M6g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
69 points • comment • may 11, 2020
How to Write a Better Weblog (2002)
69 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification
69 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
How dice changed over 2k years to be more fair (2018)
69 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
A Conversation with Alan Kay (2004)
69 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Excessive phone use linked to problems with productivity, relationships, health
69 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Truisms (1978)
69 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Craig Federighi confirms Apple Silicon Macs will not support booting other OS
69 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Show HN: Querying JSON documents using SQL-like language in Scala
69 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Custom domains now available on Substack
69 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Tesla, Musk must face shareholder lawsuit over going-private tweet
69 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Mental Model: Second Order Thinking
69 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Show HN: Create apps from GraphQL APIs without writing code
69 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
We’ve Already Defunded the Police. But Only the Ones Policing the Rich
69 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Artificial Intelligence as the year 2000 approaches (1992)
69 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Android 11 is taking away the camera picker, forcing use of the built-in camera
69 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup
69 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Amazon warns Alexa Echo Buds earphones pose overheating safety risk
69 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
69 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Roughly 2000 blogs running on a $7/month dyno
69 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Goethe’s Colors: A Visual Catalogue
69 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Acorn Archimedes – A Technical Introduction (1987) [video]
69 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
New FreeBSD Code of Conduct
69 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
No one can manage projects, especially technology projects
69 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
The Language of Science
69 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ethereum
69 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Low-code vs model-driven: are they the same?
69 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Forbidden Stories – Cartel Project: global network of investigative journalists
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
What to Say When You're Asked for Your Salary History
69 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Fractal Architectures: A Software Craftsman's take to Infrastructure as Code
69 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
69 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Approaching object might become Earth’s mini-moon
69 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Medical debt collection firm R1 RCM hit in ransomware attack
69 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Bitwise conversion of doubles using only floating point multiply and divide
69 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
69 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Show HN: Free HTML/CSS Landing Page Templates Without JavaScript
69 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Binary Search Reconsidered (2018)
69 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play
69 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)
69 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Owncast Instances
69 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient state computer system
69 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
What Happened In 2020
68 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
What Is the Sound of Thought?
68 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
A Proof of Useful Work for Artificial Intelligence on the Blockchain
68 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made with little forethought?
68 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Running decade-old games in containers
68 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine
68 points • comment • nov 15, 2020