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Hacker News (2020)

VirtualMIDISynth
44 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (2011)
44 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
With unprecedented force and speed, a global recession is likely taking hold
44 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Names and Identities Change – You Should Design for That
44 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
German Club St. Pauli Badge on UK Anti-Terrorism Guide Under 'Left Wing Signs'
44 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
In defense of hiring based on side projects
44 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Collecting stamps from countries that don’t exist
44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
No Time but the Present
44 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Asteroids: By the Numbers
44 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Gitlab Saleswomen “told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'”
44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox
44 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
I Lost My Life to Airbnb
44 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Police unions aren't “unions” in the traditional sense
44 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection
44 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Why I keep a personal log of bugs
44 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Customizable Tiny Linux OS for Your Development Needs Optimized for Chromebooks
44 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Show HN: Sidequest – A personal ticket system that lives inside Slack
44 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
ICE using state of emergency to arrest people obeying the shelter in place order
44 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
The Import on Interaction Pattern
44 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Bal Des Ardents
44 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
44 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller
44 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Donald Trump suggests delay to 2020 US presidential election
44 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
44 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Three Cheers for Solutionism?
44 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Tesla workers’ unemployment may be suspended if they don't return, emails show
44 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
44 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Combining knowledge graphs, quickly and accurately
44 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Senate Republicans propose law to outlaw end-to-end encryption
44 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs (2015)
44 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Beware of Async/Await
44 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
GameStop instructs employees to ignore law enforcement and not shut down
44 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
No More Bold Visions of the Future
44 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Show HN: I built an app that ensures that I track my home office working hours
44 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Hawala traders are being squeezed by regulators and Covid-19
44 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Widely disseminated hydroxychlroquine study retracted by authors
44 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) [pdf]
44 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Headlinese
44 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
World's biggest museum exhibition of Bob Ross paintings. How'd it wind up in BC?
44 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
1900 NYC colorized by latest and unreleased DeOldify model
44 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Win “Active Hours” underscores how you’re not in control of your devices (2016)
44 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
All About Polymorphics (1960) [video]
44 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support
44 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Emergency ventilator mask made with snorkeling mask and 3D printed valve
44 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
How to become a Bayesian (2016)
44 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Spectrum Kills Home Security Business, Refuses Refunds
44 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Data Definition and Code Generation in Tcl (2014) [pdf]
44 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Building an online coaching agency for IELTS test prep
44 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
OpenPOWER Summit 2020
44 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
44 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
44 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Jets of bacteria carry microscopic cargo
44 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing
44 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
WHO warns United States could become coronavirus epicenter
44 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
44 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Cold-Water Swimming
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Apparatus with Magnets
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
No free view? No review.
44 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub
44 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Arctic Circle oil spill prompts Putin to declare state of emergency
44 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?
44 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Huawei Charged in Racketeering Conspiracy and Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Pepsi Once Owned the World’s 6th Largest Military Fleet
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
How to Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda
44 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Never Use Floats for Money (2016)
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Tech gig worker underclass: customer service reps who have to pay to talk to you
44 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Deepfake version of Travis Scott
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
44 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Trump rolls back US water pollution controls
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet
44 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
44 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Ask HN: Successful one-person non-SaaS online businesses?
44 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
fpx: easy USB‑C power for all your devices
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Review: Lamy Safari (2008)
44 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Shadow attacks: hiding and replacing content in signed PDFs
44 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Into the Tar Pit
44 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Does computing make the world better?
44 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone
44 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Porting a Wolfenstein-type engine to the MEGA65
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Researchers study how birds retweet news
44 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
44 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
What happened after Portugal decriminalised all drugs? [video]
44 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Show HN: DNS Live on Handshake
44 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Tesla jumps 14% on S&P 500 inclusion speculation Now the 10th by market value
44 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Germany Phased Out Nuclear Power and Deadly Emissions Spiked
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
The Bourne collection: the history of online search
44 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount
44 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Peter Weir’s 'Witness' (2017)
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Quicksilver: Configuration Distribution at Internet Scale
44 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Slate Star Codex must remain anonymous
44 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Why We Wish for Wilderness
44 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
On a Typical Day: Daniel Ek
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
CASPaxos: Linearizable Databases Without Logs
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
California duplex bill, SB 1120, dies: Assembly approval comes too late
44 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Canada Invests in Ontario’s Electric Vehicle Network
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display on human skin
44 points • comment • jul 22, 2020