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Hacker News (2020)

Lossless Compression of English Short Messages
49 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
UK government releases scientific evidence supporting Covid-19 response
49 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Noam Chomsky GCAS Lecture
49 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: Protection in Influenza Pandemic? (2013) [pdf]
49 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
GM’s new series of Ultium Drive electric motors
49 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression
49 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Show HN: Vue-Notion – An unofficial Notion renderer
49 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation
49 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West
49 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Paid protesters supporting Meng Wanzhou at her extradition hearing
49 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
'Long Covid' may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Mozilla re-enables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because of Coronavirus (and Google)
49 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Building Your Own C Interpreter (1989)
49 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Group Lasso Regularization
49 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Frank Gehry started off building cities with his grandma
49 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
US orders Google, Facebook and others to reveal details of years of acquisitions
49 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles
49 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
49 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text
49 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Littlewood’s Law and the global media
49 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
FB Tries to Stop Research Exposing 'Political Disinformation' in Ad Practices
49 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
EU-Commissioned Study Proposes European Firewall [pdf]
49 points • comment • may 08, 2020
College Students Are Pissed They Wasted Money on a Covid Semester from Hell
49 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
SF Bar Owner to Yelp: ‘Fuck All of These People Entirely’
49 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Show HN: Rentify – Build your rental empire today
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Agent-Based Modelling for Hospital Resource Allocation in Viral Crises
49 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Japan to release Fukushima's contaminated water into sea: reports
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Becoming a 10x Developer (2018)
49 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Local bookstores have a new weapon in the fight with Amazon
49 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Knight vs. Snail (2013)
49 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
The Rule of Three (2017)
49 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
End-User Programming (2019)
49 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Show HN: One Soft Landing – hire people that were recently laid off
49 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Super Nintendo World theme park
49 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective
49 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Cave Paintings and Sculptures
49 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Google is shutting down Neighbourly
49 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Show HN: HerJobs-Diversify remote teams with female talent from emerging country
49 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Exploring constraint programming with CL's Screamer
49 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Former eBay security director arrested for harassing journalist with cockroaches
49 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Can You Write a Vectorized Reduction Operation? (2016)
49 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Drug Themes in Science Fiction, by Robert Silverberg (1974) [pdf]
49 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Ask HN: How to get good at designing big and complex applications?
49 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs
49 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Windows 10 quietly got a built-in network sniffer, how to use
49 points • comment • may 23, 2020
The futuristic cargo ship made of wood
49 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
The godfather of fake news (2018)
49 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Flower – A Friendly Federated Learning Framework
49 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Our Methane Problem Could Be Bigger Than Scientists Thought
49 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered in ancient city
49 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Rainbow Proof Shows Graphs Have Uniform Parts
49 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
49 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Artificial intelligence yields a powerful new antibiotic
49 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Free Learning Resources related to Web-Development
49 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Remembering Freeman Dyson
49 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Ex-NSA Hacker Finds a Way to Hack Mac Users via Microsoft Office
49 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Tell HN: YC is hosting a Work at a Startup Expo in Los Angeles on March 7
49 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Why Was Benjamin Franklin’s Basement Filled with Skeletons? (2013)
49 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Uber Moving Away from Microservices
49 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Akku: Experimental Bluetooth headset battery monitoring application for macOS
49 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Cash registers in Poland fail due to new year bug (PL)
49 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Build your next app with a graph database
49 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Bespoke software, and a really simple RSS aggregator
49 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Writing a user manual at work makes teams less anxious and more productive
49 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Mitchell Baker Named CEO of Mozilla
49 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Twin – Tailwind with the flexibility of CSS-in-JS
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
The Tadpole Paper Mill
49 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Shipping Progressive Web Apps everywhere
49 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Custom Object Recognition for Non-Developers
49 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Is the Saudi Government Plotting Against Another U.S.-Based Critic?
49 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
How Bochs Works Under the Hood (2012) [pdf]
49 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Ask HN: Is it me or PWAs are pretty much dead?
49 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’?
49 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
How we processed €5M in donations in 2 hours using Cloudflare and Stripe
49 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Spatial Software
49 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
30 years of family videos in an AI archive
49 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
40 uses for Germanium Diodes (1950) [pdf]
49 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Dante's Peek
49 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
The Botanist (2018) [video]
49 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Getting Audio Visualizations Working with Web Audio API
49 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
How to Write Shared Libraries (2011) [pdf]
49 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
What's so great about Go?
49 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO Warns
49 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Working on iPad
49 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
UK’s NHS Covid-19 App
49 points • comment • may 07, 2020
The Children of Pornhub
49 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
U.S. Army Vintage Racer Concept Suggests Hypersonic Entry For Loitering UAS
49 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
A Xilinx ZYNQ Linux FPGA Board for Under $20
49 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main
49 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades (1998)
49 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Government’s Use of Algorithm Serves Up False Fraud Charges
49 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Show HN: ProsperStack – Use Stripe to automatically prevent cancellations
49 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Park Police denies tear gas on peaceful protesters. Evidence suggests otherwise
49 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Parallax effect in browser using web-camera
49 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Dirichlet Process Mixture Models in Pyro
49 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
GPT-3 writing tool that generates surprisingly compelling characters/plot twists
49 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Fidelity chief warns of global corporate solvency crisis
49 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
IoT Smart Lock Vulnerability Spotlights Bigger Issues
49 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
An English Clergyman’s Advice for Quarantine
49 points • comment • may 27, 2020