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Hacker News (2020)

Progress Toward a Safer Psychedelic Drug to Treat Depression and Addiction
61 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Microsoft had shifted at least $39B in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico
61 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
61 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
NYPD Union Doxes Mayor's Daughter on Twitter
61 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Bye Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot
61 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Technology Will Soon Give Us Precise Control Over Our Brains and Genes?
61 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Show HN: My Book on Evolutionary Algorithms, Written in Python Notebooks
61 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
61 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
61 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white'
61 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language
61 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Basic Methods for Finding Zeroes and Mins / Maxes of Functions
61 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
61 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: 1918 Flu
61 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine
61 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Conda now supports PyPy builds
61 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
61 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Show HN: ConvTools – generates Python code of conversions, aggregations, joins
61 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Some thoughts on JSON vs. S-expressions (2012)
61 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
I'm calling Bullshit on Medtronic's Open Sourcing of a ventilator design
61 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012)
61 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Team reveals genomic history of ancient civilizations in the Andes
61 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Algorand Consensus Protocol
61 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Pas6502 – Object Pascal dialect compiler to 6502
61 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
61 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Ask HN: Are we looking at a recession ahead?
61 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Why is unauthenticated encryption insecure?
61 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
The Lord of the Flies: when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
61 points • comment • may 09, 2020
How the oil industry made us doubt climate change
61 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
We're in for 2 Months
61 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
URLs in C (2011)
61 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Gray Goo
61 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Optimizing the Timing of Brainwork
61 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Close Look at CSRF Tokens
61 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Section 230 is Good, Actually
61 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
The Trapper Keeper (2017)
61 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Mutant garden (cartesian genetic programming)
61 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020
61 points • comment • may 22, 2020
The Foundations of Liberia
61 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Ask HN: Do other people have days in which they're dumber than usual?
61 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
The Scourge of Hygiene Theater
61 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Polyphonic overtone singing explained visually (2014) [video]
61 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Peregrine: A Pattern-Aware Graph Mining System
61 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?
61 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
USA v David Correia: Devices sent from client to attorney not privileged [pdf]
61 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Show HN: Nautilus: A Docker Compose Charting Tool
61 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Nilang.jl – A Reversible Julia DSL
61 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Japan doesn't test staff for covid19 cause they cannot work if infected
61 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL
61 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Show HN: PagerNation – A simple, free, and secure browser-based intercom
61 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Maud: Compile-time HTML templates for Rust
61 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
AES-based Synthetic IDs: deterministic AE for 64-bit integers
61 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review
61 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Police tracked a terror suspect until his phone went dark after Facebook warning
61 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval
61 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later
61 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Sergey Brin has a secret disaster relief charity
61 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Surveillance Capitalism
61 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
It's Talos all the way down
61 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
A Field Guide to zkSNARKs Part I: A Primer on Computation
61 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Beware the Google Password Manager
61 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Less is exponentially more (2012)
61 points • comment • may 12, 2020
What You Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (2018) [pdf]
61 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home
61 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise
61 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Show HN: Cortex – Open-source alternative to SageMaker for model serving
61 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
BLEU Score: Bilingual Evaluation Understudy
61 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Show HN: NestDrop – realtime VJ engine using Milkdrop
61 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Bold for Delphi Is Open Source
61 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks
61 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Understanding Minecraft Performance (2011)
61 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change
61 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
61 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Apple subpoenas Santander and US intelligence contractor on use of Corellium
61 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (2014)
61 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Minimizing Logic Expressions
61 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Show HN: Free API service for crypto and foreign exchange rates
61 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
61 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
A light-weight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation)
61 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
A study out of thin air
61 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Europe’s Startup Unicorns
61 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Matrix calculus for deep learning part 2
61 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal
61 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Ask HN: What are your outdoor friendly remote work tips?
61 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters
61 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
New List of Americans Tracked Without Needing a Warrant
61 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease?
61 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Building a Gaming PC for 100$: Is It Possible?
61 points • comment • may 16, 2020
What I Learned About UX Writing from a British Prog Drummer and David Lynch
61 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)
61 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Improving on QBasic's Random Number Generator
61 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Compact forwarding information for the Z Garbage Collector in the OpenJDK
61 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
What do executives do, anyway?
61 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit
61 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
The Diary of Thomas Edison on Vacation (1885)
61 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
What makes a good REPL? (2017)
61 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Watch a Tesla Fail an Automatic Braking Test and Vaporize a Robot Pedestrian
61 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
The Lancet: World population projections by 2100
61 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991)
61 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: Twitch controls Minecraft
61 points • comment • dec 24, 2020