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Hacker News (2020)

Improving on QBasic's Random Number Generator
61 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Why is unauthenticated encryption insecure?
61 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf]
60 points • comment • may 25, 2020
The reluctant debut of the A14 processor
60 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Pg_timetable: PostgreSQL Job Scheduling
60 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google
60 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Anatomists of Melancholy in the Age of Coronavirus
60 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
What's Behind Technological Hype?
60 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Great Debate (astronomy)
60 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
5 Arrested, charged as illegal agents for China (Re: PRC's 'Operation Fox Hunt')
60 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
60 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Show HN: I made a platform for free-to-play games
60 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks
60 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Advancing our approach to digital currency
60 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Show HN: SkyAlt – Accessible database and analytics
60 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
60 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Airbus A320 Family Non-Normal Notes [pdf]
60 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
NAPI Polling in Kernel Threads
60 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
FCC’s Approval of SpaceX’s Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful
60 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
AlpineJS Guides and Examples
60 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Safety Meeting
60 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea
60 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
On the Benefits of Anthropomorphizing
60 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Code Health: Make Interfaces Hard to Misuse (2018)
60 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?
60 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Chardetng: A More Compact Character Encoding Detector for the Legacy Web
60 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Show HN: Mini social network that I made as my first MERN stack project
60 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
60 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
WeWork has a new CEO who is a real estate exec
60 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware
60 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
The Eye – Open Directory Data Archive
60 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Worries grow over a K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy
60 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
F-Droid Is a Key Source for Academics and Researchers
60 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
The Future of the Free Software Foundation
60 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Python Developers Survey 2019 Results
60 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Why Silicon Valley has so many Bad Managers
60 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Google photos allowed the wrong users to download videos
60 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Decentralized Reinforcement Learning
60 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus
60 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
BBR v2: Model-based Congestion Control Performance Optimizations [slides]
60 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
“Toggle-plexing” Sprites on the Commodore 64 (2019)
60 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
60 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Where Do New Ideas Come From?
60 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too
60 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Potential false-positive rate among the 'asymptomatic infected individuals'
60 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Explain Shell: match command-line arguments to their help text
60 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Coronavirus: Some recovered patients may have reduced lung function
60 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Data and graphs showing millenials' bad economic odds
60 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Oligodynamic Effect
60 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)
60 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
How Bad Is the Coronavirus? Let’s Run the Numbers
60 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Radio Engineer Files Objection to WIPE
60 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Video game development in Iran
60 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)
60 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
The Discovery of Radium by Marie Curie
60 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Catacomb Games: Play the series that pioneered the first-person shooter genre
60 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
DHS plans urgently needed to address identified challenges before 2020 elections [pdf]
60 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Show HN: How to X with Y. Engineering questions, answered
60 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor
60 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
We Chose a Distributed SQL Database to Complement MySQL
60 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
How we launched full-immersion VR arenas and developed our VR games
60 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think
60 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Cats, lasers and Raspberry Pi
60 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Alan Turing – In Our Time
60 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves
60 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Tech CEOs Invoke the American Dream to Obscure the Nightmare They Created
60 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Touching the asteroid Ryugu revealed secrets of its surface and changing orbit
60 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Peter Thiel Says Covid Marks 21st Century’s True Start
60 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
60 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Problems with Remote Learning
60 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Canada, U.S. preparing to close border to non-essential travel
60 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Ask HN: Is it possible to get PhD without completing bachelors
60 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
The 1-Bit Instrument
60 points • comment • may 11, 2020
An Old New Adventure
60 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Cryptocurrency system using body activity data
60 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Ask HN: Natural language processing to identify grammar in a text?
60 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Antarctica is teeming with microbes
60 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Lyft to use only electric cars by 2030
60 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
3D printable necessities for life during a pandemic (Prusa contest)
60 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
European communications startup Infobip raises $200M for over $1B valuation
60 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
SuperCollider – A platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
60 points • comment • may 23, 2020
California Exodus: An online industry seizes Covid to sell the Red State Dream
60 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Media.ccc.de in Roku Channel Store
60 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Sled Theoretical Performance Guide
60 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Masks really work to reduce the spread of Covid-19
60 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Progress, Stagnation, and Flying Cars
60 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Retroshare: Secure Communication for Everyone
60 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Gopherspace in the Year 2020
60 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
The future of college is online, and it’s cheaper
60 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Show HN: I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API
60 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter
60 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
The Fake Cisco – Hunting for Backdoors in Counterfeit Cisco Devices [pdf]
60 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Radio-Astronomical Imaging: FPGAs vs. GPUs (2019) [pdf]
60 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Show HN: Deploy to K8s without YAML using ShuttleOps
60 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Security recommendations for any device that depends on random numbers (2013)
60 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
A Child’s Guide to Spinors (2016) [pdf]
60 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Ask HN: Best Office Chair?
60 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
What Makes Sand Soft?
60 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)
60 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
No one is safe in Hong Kong anymore. Leave when you still can
60 points • comment • jul 06, 2020