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Hacker News (2020)

Amateur sleuths crack one of the Zodiac Killer's ciphers after 51 years
55 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Show HN: Generate realistic handwriting with neural networks [demo]
55 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Major Microsoft Outage
55 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning
55 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Japanese Architecture of the 1980-90s (2019)
55 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Americans Are Getting More Money from Unemployment Than They Were from Their Job
55 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Firefly Reboot Coming to Disney+
55 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Postmaster general reorganizes USPS ahead of November election
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Escaping Science's Paradox
55 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Java Edition is moving house
55 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
TwilioQuest – A RPG game to help learn JavaScript
55 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Use Netlify Functions and the Twitter API v2 as a CMS for Your Gatsby Blog
55 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
How to Learn Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Guide for Software Engineers
55 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Why do electron shells have set limits? (1999)
55 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
55 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Amazon and Ring create surveillance drone that flies around inside your house
55 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Gmail account disabled and locked out
55 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
What does code readability mean? (2018)
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Symbolic execution with SymCC: Don't interpret, compile
55 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
The $2B Mall Rats
55 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Deno vs. Node (cold-start on AWS lambda)
55 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75M on Targeted Anti-Trump Ads
55 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
A Little Fellow with a Big Head: On Fernando Pessoa
55 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Repository for Old Macintosh Software
55 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Overriding C++ virtual functions at run time
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Option Hacking the Tektronix TDS 420A
55 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
App stores, trust and anti-trust
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
ByteDance asks federal apeals court to vacate US order forcing it to sell TikTok
55 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Found this little gem on my $55K Model Y
55 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality
55 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Two Hundred Different Misspellings of Schwarzenegger
55 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
DEA seized father’s life savings at airport without alleging any crime occurred
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
The Covid-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony
54 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Gearbox – A web framework written in Go
54 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Making Postgres stored procedures 9X faster in Citus
54 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Boost VC closes $40M fund as revamped ‘sci-fi’ accelerator
54 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Restoring the first recording of computer music (2016)
54 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Three Colors: Blue
54 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Oxford University vaccine shows 70% protection
54 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Ask HN: Does anyone have celiac disease and how do you deal with that?
54 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Men can be fired for taking paternity leave
54 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
How an English Energy Crisis Helped Create Champagne
54 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
How to Build a State
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of JavaScript
54 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Dupes and Duplicity
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
“Just Like at Madrid, Comrades”
54 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Why an Apple search engine has a real shot at competing with Google
54 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
That 1970s Feeling
54 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Open Source Media Service CCTV/Video Recording/Object Detection
54 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Japan confirms coronavirus infections without symptoms
54 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Forbidden Haskell Types
54 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Algorithmically-created medicine to be used on humans for first time
54 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
How to Eat If You Want Better Sleep
54 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could have been prevented
54 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Developing affordable, gene-based cures for sickle cell and HIV
54 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Designing UI for VR Hand Tracking Applications
54 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Kautilya Arthashastra and its relevance to Urban Planning Studies [pdf]
54 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
54 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Mighty Buildings (YC W18) can 3D-print houses, even the roof
54 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook
54 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – study
54 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life
54 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Seamlessly Swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app
54 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Distributed transactions are not microservices
54 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
I No Longer Tell My Friends about Anki/SuperMemo
54 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Lunch with Freeman Dyson
54 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Show HN: A minimal stack based VM in C
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide protection against Covid-19
54 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Exxon to Slash 14,000 Jobs Worldwide as Oil Demand Drops
54 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It
54 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
New Particle Collision Math May Offer Quantum Clues
54 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Tinygo is now officially a Google sponsored project
54 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
The Birth of New Spain
54 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Amazon scientists author popular deep-learning book
54 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Nsibidi
54 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Marey’s Trains
54 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
The first first-person shooter (2015)
54 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnerability
54 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Ask HN: Where do you draw the line between a co-founder and early employee?
54 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing?
54 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
iPhone 12
54 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Lessons for a Young Scientist
54 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Agonising surgery paved the way for anaesthetics
54 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
54 points • comment • may 28, 2020
How to Write Unit Tests for Logging
54 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Occam programming language
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold Available for Preorder: Hold onto Your Wallet
54 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Warren Abstract Machine
54 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Using machine learning to detect deficient coverage in colonoscopy screenings
54 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
PostgreSQL for Those Who Can’t Even
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
macOS Icons
54 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (1975) [pdf]
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Ammonia as a fuel for compression ignition engines
54 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm
54 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Kinetic Artwork Attempts to Get a ‘Little Piece of Privacy’
54 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
F-Droid at 36c3
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Curve Detecting Neurons
54 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Notification of Enforcement Discretion for telehealth remote communications
54 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Oculus admits they will NOT help with Oculus Paperweight
54 points • comment • dec 04, 2020