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Hacker News (2020)

36 Days of Type
52 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Untangling Mechanized Proofs
52 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Customizing Your Shell
52 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Mysterious ‘super-archaic’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors
52 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1955)
52 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Carmack on Apple successfully migrating from 68k to PPC to x86 to ARM
52 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Graph2Plan: Learning Floorplan Generation from Layout Graphs
52 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Google Contractors Say Their Work Is Being Shipped to Poland After Unionizing
52 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
The genuine polymath is still one in a million
52 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started
52 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?
52 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
52 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable
52 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Hardware Floating Point
52 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Developer progression as a function of navigating complexity
52 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Episode 341: Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
52 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Allowing CMake functions to return(value)
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
The CSS Standardization Process
52 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Scientists uncover first atomic structure of Epstein-Bar virus nucleocapsid
52 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry?
52 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
52 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
5k people have pledged to give 10%+ of their income to effective charities
52 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter
52 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Slaughterbots
52 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?
52 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Third-party macOS apps fail when Apple Gatekeeper codesigning servers under load
52 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
The Guns of Bitcoin (2017)
52 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Lufthansa trialing lie-flat Economy seat concept
52 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
The Gap: Where Machine Learning Education Falls Short
52 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Create React App 4.0
52 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Grep-3.5 Released
52 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Undocumented immigrants far less likely to commit crimes in U.S. than citizens
52 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Show HN: Zyro – AI Powered Website Builder
52 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Writing a custom iterator in modern C++
52 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Run for Your Life
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
52 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Ask HN: How Blog/side projects helped you land a job
52 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Star Citizen Alpha 3.10
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Wittgenstein wrote a dictionary for elementary school students
52 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Anticipating vaccine, forecast expects recovery to begin in spring 2021
52 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Apple Event 2020
52 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
On Blockchain Commit Times: How miners choose Bitcoin transactions [pdf]
52 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Probabilistic Flakiness: How do you test your tests?
52 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Build a Two-Way Pager with Lora
52 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
The Historical Cost of Light
52 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
When DevSecOps goes wrong: a short lesson from Huawei's source code
52 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Wirecard: The scandal spreads to German politics
52 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Bddisasm: The Bitdefender x86 Disassembler
52 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Structured Procrastination
52 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
The day I trolled the entire internet: accidental research project CVE-2020-1350
52 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
ARRL – The National Association for Amateur (Ham) Radio
52 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Interesting Research Programs from the 2010s
51 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Elon Musk calls for breakup of Amazon
51 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
The Challenges of Building Inferencing Chips
51 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Humans are remarkably safe at driving
51 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Why did Slack win out over IRC? (2018)
51 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Tracking solar collector without electronics (2011) [video]
51 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Solar Orbiter to pass through the tails of Comet ATLAS
51 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Evaluating Precursor’s Hardware Security
51 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
On Iteration and Recursion [pdf]
51 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Demystifying the second law of thermodynamics
51 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Hard-Coding Bottom-Up Code Generation Tables to Save Time and Space (1991) [pdf]
51 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
51 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Marine Corps Bans Public Display of Confederate Flag
51 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
YouTube Alternatives at a Glance
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Keystone: A lightweight multi-architecture assembler framework
51 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power
51 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
The Armoured Glass Box Is an Instrument of Torture
51 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Deprecating the __cfduid cookie
51 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster
51 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Firefox considering off-by-default preference for loading user.js files
51 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Qovery Engine – open-source multi-cloud deployment
51 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Why is the microbiome important in some animals but not others?
51 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
The Sin of Sloth – an external module system for C
51 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Ask HN: Has anyone been fired because they were job hunting?
51 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Hundreds join line at NYC ATM to access unemployment benefits
51 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America
51 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
ESP8266 as Open Source Hardware
51 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Revisiting how we put together Linux systems (2014)
51 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Assange Hearing Day 12
51 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Kitchen Knives: The New Bling (2013) [pdf]
51 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Bogus Racism Charge Melts Down Elite Progressive Listserv
51 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Last Week on My Mac: Deceived by the Finder
51 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
U.S. Stocks Rise After S&P 500’s Record Close
51 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
The Long Buy
51 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Wills of Tadeusz Kościuszko
51 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Ampyx Power: Wind energy systems using tethered wings above 200 meters
51 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
51 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
What's Gone Wrong in Schooling?
51 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019)
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Essentials of Interpretation
51 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
This happened to me while I was scrolling through Twitter
51 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Synchronization gear
51 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Permanently Flipped Workplace
51 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
A stiff sentence: redacting Julian Assange from the record
51 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
New Jersey police are pressing felony charges for retweeting an officer’s photo
51 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
EGA Chapter 1: The Language of Schemes
51 points • comment • feb 06, 2020