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Hacker News (2020)

Ask HN: How do you protect your Mailserver from DDoS Attacks?
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Why UPS drivers don't turn left and you probably shouldn't either
28 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Russian Covid vaccine scientist dead w stab wounds after falling from 14th floor
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Data shows schools aren’t super-spreaders
28 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Ask HN: How should open source support critical dependencies?
28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
History of Egghead Software Stores
28 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Marginal Revolution Vrs Hacker News
28 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Princeton grad says Ivy League made him 'social climbing weasel'
28 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Microsoft will release a new perpetually licensed Office in 2021
28 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Tell HN: Amazon recruiters scraping HN profiles
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Court Suspends ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer from Practicing Law
28 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Feds Vowed to Quell Unrest in Portland. Local Leaders Are Telling Them to Leave
28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Enzyme: Cross-language Automatic differentiation for LLVM IR
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
What If ‘Capitalism’ Isn't the Problem? [audio]
28 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Ongoing (Albeit Secret) Campaign of Patent Extortion Against Linux Distributions
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017)
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene?
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
I Am the Facebook Algorithm and I Come to You Now, Requesting a Swift Death
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world
28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Google is shutting down Area 120’s popular ‘Rivet’ kids reading app
28 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Ask HN: How is architecture practiced at FAANG companies?
28 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Leaked Apple ARM CPU benchmark beats Intel Core i9 16-inch MacBook Pro
28 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Transistor 2N2222: all you need to know
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Ask HN: What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Conversation and Ideas
28 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk (2016)
28 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Fasting 3 days each quarter
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good?
28 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Why So Much Science Is Wrong
28 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Where are the bones of Hans Holbein?
28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Ask HN: What evidence would convince you of intelligent extra-terrestrial life?
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Why desaturating in Photoshop is useless (for painters)
27 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Electronic amoeba finds solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
StoneCutter: A Very High Level Instruction Set Design Language
27 points • comment • may 29, 2020
The Anti-Social Novelist
27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Don’t Be Fooled by America’s Flattening Curve
27 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
27 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
The New Coronavirus Growth Debate
27 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Altair 8800 Clone
27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Want to Ditch Zoom? Jitsi Offers an Open-Source Alternative
27 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes
27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
XCode May Come to iPhone and iPad in iOS 14
27 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
My Comments on “Hitting the High Notes” (2005)
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Postfix: A Simple Stack Language (2005) [pdf]
27 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
M1 MacBook Air vs. Intel MacBook Air
27 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain?
27 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
The precision of locomotor odometry in humans (2008) [pdf]
27 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
An Introduction to LLDB Reproducers
27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Insanity vs Intelligence: Pinky and the Brain Conspiracy Theory
27 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
To the proud owner of a Golang script scraping the hell out of PyPI
27 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about Earn IT
27 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Wildfire smoke is loaded with microbes
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora
27 points • comment • may 01, 2020
A Python Substitute? I Tried the Best Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Joe Lycett: Comedian changes his name to Hugo Boss
27 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
“your app will fit on two Heroku Standard 1x dynos and one Standard 0 database”
27 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Investigating whether and how devs understand open-source software licensing
27 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Empire of Fantasy
27 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Dante’s Exile
27 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
FDA Fining Distillers for Making Hand Sanitizer
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Happy World Tapir Day
27 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
JupyterCon 2020: Code of Conduct Reports
27 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Fine-Grained Replicated State Machines for a Cluster Storage System (NSDI 2020)
27 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Using Python's Bisect Module
27 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Show HN: SaaS landing page examples for design inspiration
27 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Pointers are Easy, Optimization is Complicated
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Leaked Amazon Doc: Diversity Inversely Correlated with Unionization
27 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Two Beautiful Rust Programs
27 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Ask HN: How do I convince Chase that I shouldn't be receiving other's info?
27 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Rainer Weiss: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Nobel Prizes [audio]
27 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Show HN: A simple app to cryptographically time-lock files
27 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
'Moonshot' hype illustrates the UK government's obsession with tech hyperbole
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
NYT Threatens to Dox SlateStarCodex
27 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Proving that 1 and 1 = 2 in Rust
27 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down
27 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
The Atlantic fully retracts story by Ruth Shalit Barrett
27 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
CashRegister in PyQt5 with barcode logon and 32 programmable buttons
27 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Almost half of all jobs lost during pandemic may be gone permanently
27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Juggling Dynamics
27 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
A Man Who Helped Turn 4chan into the Internet's Racist Engine
27 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
How we test Wi-Fi gear
27 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
NASA SpaceX Crew enters iPad pin in plain view of camera
27 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
PeerTube 2.2 Is Out
27 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Show HN: Claim rare and inactive GitHub usernames
27 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
DiscoverAli – A weekly newsletter of inexpensive, interesting products
27 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Keep Science Irrational
27 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
My life as a quiz obsessive
27 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Covid forced bookstores online. Can they survive?
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Tips for Building Voice User Interfaces
27 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Ask HN: Is any ultrasonic aortic valve decalcification available to the public?
27 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Rust, WebAssembly, and the Future of Serverless by Steve Klabnik
27 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
CNN Worked with Army PsyOps Group During Kosovo War (2000)
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use
27 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Fast reinforcement learning through composition of behavior
27 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Renaissance hedge fund loses 20% this year
27 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Audible-visuals: Audio visualizer experiments
27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
New research links soybean oil to metabolic and neurological changes in mice
27 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Ever wonder what your dog is thinking?
27 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Fossils of rangeomorphs, which dominated the oceans more than 500M years ago
27 points • comment • mar 07, 2020