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Hacker News (2020)

An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Time Zone Bugs I Ran Into
50 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
The World’s Richest Families 2020
50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Music for Plants
50 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
University Endowment Sued for Under performing the S&P 500
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Abstracting Abstract Machines (2010) [pdf]
50 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Anyone want to build a new public education system with me?
50 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
US government accuses TikTok of being a mouthpiece for the Communist Party
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
A New Exoplanet and a Martian Helicopter
49 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The Synchronicity of Pauli and Jung
49 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Breaking a Monopoly
49 points • comment • may 07, 2020
The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread
49 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Early treatment of Covid-19 with HCQ and AZ:retrospective analysis of 1061 cases
49 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Risk of War Crimes Charges for U.S. Grows over Saudi Strikes in Yemen
49 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Ask HN: Why are there almost no intermediate-level learning resources?
49 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Build easy animations with Julia
49 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Show HN: Chrome extension to blur personal data before screen capture
49 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Python Print() and Beyond
49 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven
49 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Ossia score – a sequencer designed to create interactive audio-visual shows
49 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out"
49 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
My million dollar domain hobby
49 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Show HN: Intrusion Detection in Real-time
49 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Vitamin D and Covid-19
49 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Calendar Blocking can boost developer productivity in Quarantine
49 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2020)
49 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Cracking WordPress passwords with 20 lines of Go
49 points • comment • may 31, 2020
The magic of ion channels in the neurons
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Ask HN: People who rejected a FAANG offer. Why?
49 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Comments on optimizations around string concatenation
49 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
49 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Progress Studies School
49 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
My experience with the CARES Act
49 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Computational Linear Algebra for Programmers (2017)
49 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
49 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Stator: A full-stack boilerplate – releases, deployments, enforced conventions
49 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
It’s Not Too Late to Go on Offense Against the Coronavirus
49 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Bletchley Park’s contribution to WW2 'over-rated'
49 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Understanding Duolingo’s quiet $10M raise
49 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak
49 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited
49 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
ForgeFed: A federation protocol for interop between version control services
49 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Myths about Diabetes
49 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Could a tree help find a decaying corpse nearby?
49 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
WhatsApp eyes lending feature in India as Amazon rolls out Pay Later
49 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Programming Sucks
49 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Durability vs. Availability
49 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Is a Turtle an Animal or a Fish?
49 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Right to Repair: It seems lobbyists want my videos censored
49 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Contravariant Functors Are Weird
49 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on Alt Twitter
49 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
The Minecraft Institvte of Technology
49 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Fungal Architecture
49 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc
49 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Ask HN: Why was system admin re-branded as devops?
49 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Abakcus: A collection of mathematics and science stuff
49 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
A LoraWan Pager
49 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Covid-19 Can Damage the Brain
49 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Unsmear: Convert to and from timescales with smeared leap seconds
49 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA in 1869, a century before Watson and Crick
49 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Ask HN: What is your learning plan for 2020?
49 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker of Sri Lanka
49 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Smart devices are eating the market for accessibly-priced watches
49 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
49 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
49 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Want to Solve Venture Capital's Diversity Problem? Start with Pension Funds
49 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
The first US layoffs from the coronavirus are here
49 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Train a GPT-2-1.5b Text-Generating Model with GPU for Free
49 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Zombie Coal
49 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Building FunctionTrace, a graphical Python profiler
49 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Making a miniature IBM 1401 scale model
49 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Querying an RDF triplestore using SPARQL and Relational pipes
49 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Musk’s SpaceX Plans a Spinoff, IPO for Starlink Business
49 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Connecting the Atari ST to the Internet with an ESP8266 (2017)
49 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Missouri Sues Televangelist Jim Bakker for Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure
49 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release by mailing list data mining
49 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Native desktop apps are far superior to Web/Electron
49 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Bulverism is to “assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error”
49 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Millions holed up at home as U.S. routines shift profoundly
49 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Parallels Desktop for Mac Running on Mac with Apple Silicon
49 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Kim Jong Un in Critical Condition
49 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
A Gentle Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions
49 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Bay Area Counties announcing a “virtual lockdown”
49 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Minorities
49 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
How Long Will macOS Be Unix?
49 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky
49 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
San Francisco faces fiscal chaos
49 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Workers Unbound
49 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
IBM Outages
49 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
NHS planning to start covid vaccination of under 50s by end of January
49 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Emacs Tools for Screenplays (2014)
49 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Homescapes and Gardenscapes ads banned as misleading
49 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Uber drivers say earnings are falling, and many have no other income
49 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Robust Spammer Detection by Nash Reinforcement Learning
49 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Rational Math Catches Slippery Irrational Numbers
49 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Investing in Isovalent
49 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive
49 points • comment • may 19, 2020
APT29 targets Covid-19 vaccine development
49 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
TfL closes 40 tube stations, suspends Night Tube, fewer trains, buses next week
49 points • comment • mar 19, 2020