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Hacker News (2020)

The other side of sea level change
38 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
“Hey Google, stop tracking me”
38 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
The Secrets of Monkey Island’s Source Code
38 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Ask HN: Why do we pay taxes if the Fed can just print money?
38 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Amazon reviews for scented candles, before and during the pandemic
38 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
API that uses neural networks to scrape product data
38 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Starlink beta pricing revealed as SpaceX sends invite emails
38 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
At Astra, failure is an option
38 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Jack: Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great
38 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Reasons not to use the Discord communications system
38 points • comment • may 02, 2020
UN actively passing names of Uighur dissidents to Chinese regime
38 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Pantai Remis Landslide
38 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Patient dies after ransomware attack reroutes her to remote hospital
38 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Show HN: Tailwind Button Playground
38 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Software and Hardware for General Robots
38 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
The Aesthetic Splendor of “The Simpsons”
38 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Fastener Design Manual (1990)
38 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Ask HN: The most impressive non-academic achievement?
38 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Dick Costolo on leadership at Coinbase
38 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]
38 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Transinistria, the Area Between Moldova and Ukraine
38 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
The 2038 problem is already affecting some systems
38 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D)
38 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
History of the Murphy Bed
38 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
When life was literally full of crap
38 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
UK COVID19 model published [pdf]
38 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
The Rapture Happened but I Wasn’t Called
38 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Physics, History and Haskell – Interview with Rinat Stryungis
38 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Understanding static single assignment forms
38 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Testing Dataflow Analyses for Precision and Soundness
38 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
38 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [video]
38 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Points of contact – a short history of door handles
38 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
A Meta for Computers
38 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Show HN: Video-input, an HTML element that acts like a video form field
38 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
RISE: A functional pattern-based data-parallel language in MLIR [pdf]
38 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Learnings from Running a Longevity Startup
38 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Rare Gabon burial cave sheds light on little known period in African history
38 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Gravimetric Radar: Gravity-Based Detection of a Point-Mass Moving in Static Back
38 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Philly Restaurants Revolt over Unauthorized Food Delivery “Partnerships”
38 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Modeling the Human Trajectory
38 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
I Stopped a Credit Card Thief from Ripping Off 3,537 People
38 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular (2016)
38 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Zuckerberg Dismisses Fact-Checking
38 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Floating-Point Formats and Deep Learning
38 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was great for bacteria
38 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
BMW wants to charge a subscription fee to enable heated steering wheel
38 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Machine Learning Field Guide
38 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa with Plastic
38 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
K Fragments
38 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Klein Vision’s AirCar, a Flying Car Prototype, Completes Maiden Flight
38 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
38 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
James Randi in Memoriam, 1928–2020
38 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
A Bottom-Up View of Kotlin Coroutines
38 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
In Search of King David’s Lost Empire
38 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
“The Plague” – Albert Camus (1948) [pdf]
38 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
How to Pretend That You Are Smart
38 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
We’re not going back to normal
38 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Apollo Experience Report – The Role of Flight Mission Rules (1974) [pdf]
38 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Things I'd Change About Auto-Correct
38 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Nuclear energy is in fact better than renewables (for us and the environment)
38 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Evernote Gave Dark Web Dealer’s Notes to the DEA
38 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
I couldn't buy a car because my email address was 'invalid'
38 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
AMD CEO Lisa Su is highest paid CEO in S&P 500
38 points • comment • may 27, 2020
A Honeybee’s Tongue Is More Swiss Army Knife Than Ladle
38 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Show HN: Self-hosted and self-contained web app password manager written in Go
38 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
iFixit finds iPhone 12 camera repair impossible without proprietary Apple tool
38 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
The economics of unused gift cards
38 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Show HN: BGJar – SVG background generator for your websites
38 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Productivity tips
38 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Why We Let White-Collar Criminals Get Away with Their Crimes
38 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Is a supermarket discount coupon worth giving away your privacy?
38 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom's End-to-End Encryption
38 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Stop Covid-19 by taking your temperature
38 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Monads and Intensionality – Lucid is not an aberration
38 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
G7 statement canceled: US wants to call it the Wuhan virus
38 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Waking Life: Johan Varendonck had to study what was available: his daydreams
38 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Show HN: I've built yet another distraction free writing app which exports LaTeX
38 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Do-it-Yourself Vaccines for Covid-19
38 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The booming stock market shows America is diseased
38 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Making Skeletonised Leaves
38 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
No, you cannot have a third of my life
38 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Graphene microbubbles make perfect lenses
38 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
SpaceX Software Team AMA
38 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Can you 3D print Damascus steel? Pretty much, yeah
38 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning [pdf]
38 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Patterns of Biophilic Design
38 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Optical payloads for small satellites: a sector overview
38 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
The Science of Brute Force (2017)
38 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
62% of general counsels use Excel and email to manage contract data: survey
38 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Multivitamins' 'benefits' are all in your head: study
38 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment
38 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Belarus president: “Until you kill me, there will be no other elections”
38 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation
38 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck
38 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Show HN: CodeQL-Like Analyzer for Go
38 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Rizin – open-source Reverse Engineering framework forked from radare2
38 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
First-principles calculations shed light on semiconductor defects
38 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Securing Lasting Freedoms for All
38 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
We bootstrapped an interview prep business to $35,000/month
38 points • comment • jan 02, 2020