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Hacker News (2020)

Software Needs Philosophers (2006)
50 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
OpenWrt 19.07.0 first stable release
50 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves
50 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
50 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems
50 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Intellectual Humility
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
2500x: Convert Your Images to HTML tags
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Memory Management Reference (2018)
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
People on SO have been working together on a single polyglot program for 4 years
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Wealth is what you don't spend
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin
50 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
New Safe Memory Reclamation Feature in UMA
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
4chan reveals online voter exploit that can be used for ballot interference
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Show HN: Public APIs Collection
50 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references
50 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Stannard Rock Light
50 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
US adults who mostly rely on social media for news are less informed
50 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Google refuses to remove the state-sponsored app used to spy on Russian citizens
50 points • comment • may 16, 2020
It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming
50 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Think you want to die at home? You might want to think twice about that
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Nikola CEO Trevor Milton Resigns
50 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
SRE for single-tiered software applications
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
IFTTT introduces IFTTT Pro, free accounts now limited to 3 applets
50 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Gitlab.com Is Moving to 13.0
50 points • comment • may 10, 2020
A Gopher View of Gemini
50 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora (2014)
50 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
The Friden EC-130, one of the world's first electronic calculators
50 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Zoom End-to-End Encryption Whitepaper
50 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Researchers at McAfee tricked two Teslas into autonomously speeding up by 50 MPH
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
OneLook – Dictionary Search with Wildcards
50 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
50 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Researchers discover the microbiome's role in attacking cancerous tumors
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Why I'm Building a Side Dish (and Maybe You Should Too)
50 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Cracking the knuckles is probably harmless
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Show HN: html-vault – create self-contained HTML for password protected content
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says
50 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Disprove quantum immortality without risking your life (2019)
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Party Line – 1:1 chat across the political spectrum
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Gitlab 12.8 Released with Log Explorer, NuGet, and Compliance
50 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Biden will be 46th president
50 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
South Korea reports recovered Covid-19 patients testing positive again
50 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Origin of the trefoil radiation warning sign
50 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]
50 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Individual Investors Get Burned by Collapse of Complex Securities
50 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Facebook Shuts Down ‘Stop the Steal’ Group
50 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Ask HN: I feel like I should be working all the time and its killing me
50 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Modularizing SQL? (2007)
50 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Using Google Analytics without GDPR consent
50 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Ask HN: Is YouTube Working Properly?
50 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Software Entropy
50 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Inventing Game of Life (2014) [video]
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
RIP iCloud, Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale
50 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Show HN: Cycell2d.com – A Cellular Morphogenesis Sandbox
50 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
An experiment about how we view history
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
ShellHub enables teams to easily access any Linux device behind firewall and NAT
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook
50 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Nushell – A New Type of Shell
50 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Nvidia Driver not yet supported for Linux Kernel 5.9
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Sonos: Working with big tech sucks
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Buridan's Principle (1984) [pdf]
50 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
From a jumble of secret reports, damning data on big banks and dirty money
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Show HN: SpectX launches the free edition of its raw log file / blob analyzer
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
How to Navigate Being the Only Woman on Your Team
50 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
A Layperson's Security Framework
50 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1
50 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
WTF? I cannot cancel my NYTimes subscription online?
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
How to Type 3x Faster
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
New threat to the economy: Americans are saving like it's the 1980s
50 points • comment • may 24, 2020
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Gaia-X: Technical Architecture [pdf]
50 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
The Supreme Court Hears Oracle vs. Google Tomorrow
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Paper Notes (2019)
50 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
NHS data: Can Sir Tim Berners-Lee fix it?
50 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Facial Hairstyles and Filtering Facepiece Respirators [pdf]
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Simple Bacteria Offer Clues to the Origins of Photosynthesis
50 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
‘Oumuamua: A Hydrogen Iceberg?
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Info is available about which college majors pay off, students aren’t using it
50 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, CHAZ
50 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Preliminary Theory of the In-Group Contrarian
50 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Modelling explains why blues and greens are nature's brightest colors
50 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Bad programming ideas that only become apparent after years
50 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Show HN: Bach.sh is a real unit testing framework for Bash
50 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Gesture Recognition with Line Integrals
50 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup, can't turn them off
50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions
50 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Towards native security defenses for the web ecosystem
50 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (2003)
50 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
A new Live Fourier Transform demonstration (2014) [video]
50 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Show HN: I made a crate for creating interactive chord diagrams in Rust
50 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52M
50 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Zuckerberg: this election is not going to be business as usual
50 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
LIVR: Language Independent Validation Rules
50 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Wrist Routine – 8 Exercises to Fix Hand and Wrist Pain
50 points • comment • oct 10, 2020