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Hacker News (2020)

Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook?
51 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
The myth of the developer that can't code
51 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Oswald Spengler – an intellectual life
51 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
America’s Havana: Thousands Say “Ciao” to San Francisco
51 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Computation of a 30750-Bit Binary Field Discrete Logarithm
51 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
CISA Rumor Control
51 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Why is the microbiome important in some animals but not others?
51 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
In the animal kingdom, the astonishing power of the number instinct
51 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Probability Models for Customer-Base Analysis (2013) [pdf]
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Taking Theatre Online with WebGL and WebRTC
51 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Granfalloon technique
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Ask HN: Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?
51 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Study says Uber and Lyft generate 70% more pollution than the trips they replace
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
PlayCanvas launches glTF 2.0 Viewer Tool
51 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Novel Coronavirus situation reports
51 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time
51 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Amazon suspends all deliveries in France
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Topology-Aware Service Routing on Kubernetes with Linkerd
51 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
David Shaw vs. Seymour Papert Debate (1995) [video]
51 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
When to Mock
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Learning How to Learn Japanese
51 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Tree planting is a great idea that could become a dangerous climate distraction
51 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Slow lorises are one of the world’s only venomous mammals
51 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Librem 5 Is Calling
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Lightmatter's Mars SoC Bends Light to Process Data
51 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
51 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Interviews with makers of high-end mechanical keyboards
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Hundreds join line at NYC ATM to access unemployment benefits
51 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed
51 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
The Return of the Milkman
51 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
ESP8266 as Open Source Hardware
51 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Tracking solar collector without electronics (2011) [video]
51 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
A deeply flawed lawsuit that would do nothing to help consumers
51 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Hummingbird: Compile trained ML models into tensor computation
51 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Kids and Time
51 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process
51 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Elon Musk calls for breakup of Amazon
51 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Posting JSON with an HTML Form (2016)
51 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Shodan Dojo – Learning Shodan through katas
51 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Precursor, a mobile open-source electronics platform for developing secure apps
51 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
French brotherhood burying the dead since 1188
51 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche?
51 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Lisp in 2020?
51 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Chime, a Go Editor for macOS – v1.0 Now Available
51 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
How we upgraded PostgreSQL
51 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Us online tuition move hits foreign visas
51 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics; visualize your data (2016)
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Japan's Brand New Bullet Train Is Earthquake-Proof
51 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Microsoft joins App Store backlash after xCloud game streaming blocked
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?
51 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses
51 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
U.S. Stocks Rise After S&P 500’s Record Close
51 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs
51 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
What Privacy Is For (2012)
51 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
DeGoogle My Life
51 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
51 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Remote First at Brex
51 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Anti-Mask League of San Francisco
51 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Sengi – A FLOSS multi-account Mastodon and Pleroma desktop client
51 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Interesting Research Programs from the 2010s
51 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
YouTube Alternatives at a Glance
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
What's New in C# 9.0
51 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Development of the Domain Name System (1988) [pdf]
51 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
The Lobster Programming Language
51 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Leaving the Grace of This World
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Low incidence of daily active tobacco smoking in patients with symptomatic C19
50 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: Coronavirus’ spread indoors
50 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
50 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture
50 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Espanso: Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust
50 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
FedEx teams up with Reliable Robotics on autonomous cargo planes
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with Covid-19, are dying from strokes
50 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Inexcusable insecurity in Windows
50 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
50 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Show HN: Essays curated for you with machine learning
50 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
VC Charles Hudson on ‘the conversation no one has during an upmarket’
50 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Can Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure?
50 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Top Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Killed on Trump’s Orders, Officials Say
50 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Announcing Rust 1.48.0
50 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Help fight trafficking by uploading photos of your hotel room
50 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Final Exam
50 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Salvador Dali’s Script for the Marx Brothers
50 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Bathroom Reading
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Autopsies offer key clues for early-stage Covid-19 patients
50 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Modular unikernel designed to run applications securely on micro-VMs
50 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
No, your FOIA request cannot wait ‘until this emergency is over’
50 points • comment • may 12, 2020
How to Start A Niche Content Site
50 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code
50 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully. – The Stanford Daily
50 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Fixing Scrum (2019)
50 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Signposts for “when to hire more QA testers”
50 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
How domain experts create diagrams, and implications for tool design [pdf]
50 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Unexpected electric current that could stabilize fusion reactions discovered
50 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Facebook is running anti-vax ads, despite its ban on vaccine misinformation
50 points • comment • jan 09, 2020