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Hacker News (2020)

Compiling Lua 5.2 from 2013 with Turbo C 1.0 from 1990 (2014) [video]
21 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Semantic knowledge influences visual working memory in adults and children
21 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Next-Generation Virtual Assistants Will Be Far Sexier Than Alexa and Siri
21 points • comment • may 08, 2020
What If Data Scientists Had Licenses Like Lawyers?
21 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Can I buy your side project?
21 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
The Trump administration is burying dozens of studies about renewable energy
21 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
$249 Gets You a 400MP Scanning Camera for Macro Photography and Panorama Images
21 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Tunnels and Trolls
21 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Swift Covid-19 vaccine within reach, say Swiss scientists
21 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Stoicism may allow us to live better, but don't underestimate the value of anger
21 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Seagate says Network Attached Storage and SMR don’t mix
21 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
VPNs might finally be dead thanks to Twingate, startup built by Dropbox alums
21 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Why the media is so polarized – and how it polarizes us
21 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
19 years of difference – running Windows XP and MS Office 2003 in a VM
21 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
The Rise of the Valkyries
21 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Deprecate GraphQL Subscriptions over WebSockets in Favour of SSE/EventSource API
21 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Citroën unveils the Ami, a super-cheap electric car you can buy for $6,600
21 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
An insomniac's journey to regular sleep
21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Body Camera
21 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Digital Revenue Exceeds Print for First Time for New York Times Company
21 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Source code to CS:GO and TF2 leaks
21 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Why Elon Musk is not an engineer
21 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
AWS Chatbot – ChatOps for Slack and Chime
21 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Show HN: Plugin to add persisted GraphQL queries to WordPress
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
iOS 14 Notifies Users When an App or Widget Reads Your Clipboard
21 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Adopt your elePHPant now, the only original PHP elephant
21 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Telegram abandons its TON blockchain platform
21 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Ask HN: Is it okay to downvote without explaining why?
21 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Dirac, Penrose, and Wolfram
21 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Paycheck to Paycheck
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions
21 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
QAnon and the Emergence of the Unreal (2019)
21 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Ubuntu 20.04 arrives with Linux 5.4 kernel and WireGuard VPN
21 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
8-Bit Spirituals
21 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Iron law of wages
21 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Love in Plague Time
21 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
SiFive to Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC
21 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Pseudoscience and Covid-19 – we’ve had enough already
21 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Anti-aging: oxygen therapy increases telomere length by up to 20%
21 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Electronic Handheld Game Museum (2017)
21 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Creating Effective Tutorials for Your Dev Team
21 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Twitter Deletes Tweet about Censorship on Twitter After Retweet by President
21 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
21 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Jim Cramer, “Mad Money” host, declares fossil fuels dead
21 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Germany cut fossil fuels as much as did the U.S., but at far greater expense
21 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Guided by Plant Voices
21 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Actifio squashes employee shareholders ‘like cockroaches’
21 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
A Man Who Designed Ghost Armies and Opera Houses (2016)
21 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
What's the Deal with SvelteKit?
21 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Anthony Fauci says staying closed too long could cause irreparable damage
21 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Just Culture: Standardizing Fire Service Accountability
21 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing, but things may soon improve
21 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Speedscope – A fast, interactive web-based viewer for performance profiles
21 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Show HN: A new innovative Chrome extension to expand your vocabulary
21 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Show HN: Anima 4 (YC S18) – Turn design work into developer-friendly React code
21 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
A sad update about SideQuest – We cannot remain open source
21 points • comment • may 04, 2020
China rethinks the Jack Ma model
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Study traces evolution of acoustic communication
21 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
What If There _Is_ Life on Venus?
21 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
The food we buy is shrinking (2018)
21 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Apple’s New Era Has Begun
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Why is the NY Times threatening to reveal blogger Scott Alexander’s identity?
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
VSCode Stories
21 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Show HN: I built a service to help companies save 35%+ on their AWS bills
21 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Debugging async generator errors in Rust
21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
How Do I Stop Forgetting What I Learned So Quickly?
21 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Organic meats found to have the same greenhouse impact as regular meats
21 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
John le Carré: Why we should learn German (2017)
21 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Microsoft Lays Off Employees from Azure Team
21 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
We still see the world like the mathematician and poet who first mapped it
21 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Comma 2 (openpilot) beats both Autopilot and Super Cruise in Consumer Reports
21 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Rust – JWT Workflow Project
21 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Ship that brought ammonium nitrate to Beirut
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
U.S. Believes Ukraine Plane Was Shot Down by Iran: U.S. Official
21 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Turning the Body into a Wire
21 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Google CEO tells employees return to office won't happen until at least June 1
21 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by temblors, study suggests
21 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World
21 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Why should we all wear face masks?
21 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Full Deno Tutorial
21 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Amazon Sidewalk (Echo/Ring mesh network with neighbours) is opt-out
21 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Configure Mynewt for SPI Flash on PineTime Smart Watch (NRF52)
21 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Parsing All of Wikipedia to an Offline Encyclopedia
21 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong (2019)
21 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Fingerprinting
21 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Erlang/OTP 23 Highlights
21 points • comment • may 13, 2020
AI Update, Late 2020 – Dumpster Fire
21 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Naps don’t work for everyone. Genetic differences are why
21 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
You don’t need SMS-2FA
21 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Volatile Software (2012)
21 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
21 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Security flaws found in UK NHS contact-tracing app
21 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Twenty different masks tested. Here's what will best protect during the pandemic
21 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Moxie Marlinspike: The ecosystem is moving
21 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2020?
21 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) [pdf]
21 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Dickens in Brooklyn
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
India reports its first case of coronavirus
21 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just receive 1.3% of VC funding
21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020