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Hacker News (2020)

Show HN: Maildown – super simple email API
32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Thomas Piketty’s plan to fix the economy
32 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Pongmechanik
32 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Generating Crime Safe CSRF Tokens
32 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
The lawn mower eyetracking pattern for scanning comparison tables
32 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Show HN: Decentralized Automation Framework in YAML
32 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter
32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
The brains cells that guide animals
32 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
‘I Have Never Seen So Many Toadstools.’ A Bumper Crop of Mushrooms in Ukraine
32 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Ask HN: I find writing difficult, how do I make it easy?
32 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
The flaws of macOS Containers and defaults
32 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
The Parallelism Blues: when faster code is slower
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Babylonian Mathematics (2003) [pdf]
32 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
The secret behind “unkillable” Android backdoor called xHelper has been revealed
32 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Proptee: £0 commission property stock exchange
32 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high
32 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Programming with Punched Cards (2005) [pdf]
32 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
There's a New Language Server and Code Formatter for Erlang
32 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Pope endorses same sex civil unions
32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”
32 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
US Army’s New Drone Swarm May Be Weapon of Mass Destruction
32 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering aimed at VFX creators
32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961) [pdf]
32 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
The persistence of COBOL: why a 60-year old language is still in demand
32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
How to get your first 100 users as a SaaS startup founder?
32 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November
32 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Re-creating some of Hey's features using Fastmail
32 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
US approves $1.8bn weapons sale to Taiwan
32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Fixing indoor air is a way to curb the spread of Covid-19
32 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations for 2020
32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Complain HN: The new GitHub's layout is a monstrosity
32 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Toronto police pay $16.5m to protesters wrongfully held at 2010 G20 summit
32 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave
32 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Open Source Everything
32 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
QA job interview questions for managers to ask
32 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Wine 5.10 Release
32 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
The prison email company charging millions
32 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Reasoning by Lego: The wrong way to think about cryptography
32 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, angering Beijing
32 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
US dropped record number of bombs on Afghanistan last year
32 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Do any Open Source Licences require source history?
32 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
The European Union Is Facing Its Worst Recession Ever. Watch Out, World
32 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Has to Be a Joke, Because If It’s Not
32 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Marpa will parse anything that can be written in BNF
32 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Open Syllabus Project: Computer Science
32 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Apple's M1 processor spotlights Intel's chip challenges
32 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Political interference with CDC's weekly scientific reports
32 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
You don’t have free will, but don’t worry
32 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Dealing with Security Holes in Chips
32 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
College Degrees Used to Make Families Wealthier. That’s No Longer True
31 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Middle-Age Crisis: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
31 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable?
31 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Axial-DeepLab: Long-Range Modeling in All Layers for Panoptic Segmentation
31 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Ask HN: Without Einstein, would General Relativity be discovered by now?
31 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company
31 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
An ultrafast microscope for the quantum world
31 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Quartex Pascal, Status
31 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Gamer Janken, or How to Pick a First Player
31 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
My Dad, the Pornographer (2015)
31 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers
31 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Ask HN: What educational YouTube channels do you watch?
31 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable
31 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2020 – Research Papers
31 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
The file system of an integrated local network – Apollo File System (1985)
31 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Exploring LibreOffice 7.0
31 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Extreme rainfall triggered the 2018 rift eruption at Kīlauea Volcano
31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
California Pair Charged with 41 Count Voter Fraud on Behalf of Homeless People
31 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
An American Uprising
31 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Docker in 10 Minutes
31 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Esperanto, an International Language
31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States
31 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
31 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Improving urban GPS accuracy on Android
31 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Coronavirus: Would you volunteer to be exposed? These Stanford grads did
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
The Physicist’s New Book of Life
31 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Stockholm expected to reach herd immunity in May, Swedish ambassador says
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Changes of Mind – The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention
31 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
DevOps Career Accelerator Series
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Mystery Unmanned Craft Seen Off Florida May Be Secret Sharc Spy Vessel
31 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
2600: Spring Issue and Important Update
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Jackfruit: The ‘vegan sensation’ that saved Sri Lanka
31 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Turning Water into Watts
31 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory
31 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Casio CQ-1 calculator and clock
31 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Another 1.006M Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
31 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin crashing massively right now?
31 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Show HN: Gumroad Analytics on Steroids
31 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Unlikely discovery of a mouth-brooding fish that lives in the deep sea
31 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
A psychologist rethinking human emotion
31 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Ask HN: Will you stop Googling now, that it removed URLs and added favicons?
31 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
LA jet pack guy captured on video
31 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Please get your parents off Facebook
31 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Covid-19 brought the 'largest criminology experiment in history'
31 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy
31 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Chipping Away at Moore's Law
31 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Slope Soaring Tips for Beginners (2004)
31 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet
31 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Planet of the Censoring Humans
31 points • comment • may 30, 2020