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Hacker News (2020)

Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI
5 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Ask HN: Are there any downsides to building a blog using only HTML pages?
5 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
What Cassandra users think of their NoSQL DBMS
5 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Personal property/human remains stolen/destroyed to prep for TechCrunch Disrupt
5 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
NASA Detects Lattice Confinement Fusion
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Deepfakes Are Going to Wreak Havoc on Society. We Are Not Prepared
5 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Drug trafficker facing death sentence escapes jail through sewage pipes
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Show HN: Open end-to-end Computer Vision Platform
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Visx – D3 + React Visualization Components by Airbnb
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Gangster Capitalism and the American Theft of Chinese Innovation
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Useful Python syntax that nobody knows about
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Bose introduces a new pair of sleep-focused earbuds
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Paul Graham on the Bay Area tech companies have done the most good in the world
5 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Hola: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux written in Rust
5 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
DOJ to Seek Congressional Curbs on Immunity for Internet Companies
5 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Show HN: Scribble – Realtime Whiteboarding for Developers
5 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Black market for negative Covid-19 test results, with fakes starting around $200
4 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Reddit AMA: We're about to launch a new 360 VR camera to film a spacewalk
4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Prosecuted and disqualified, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Twitter appears to prefer white people for thumbnails
4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps – Now Powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
4 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
As info flows through brain heirarchy, higher regions use higher-frequency waves
4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Save Money and Uninstall Tinder
4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
The case of the extra 40 ms
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
The Next Covid Crisis: What If People Won’t Take a Vaccine?
4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Apple puts major supplier Pegatron on probation for labor violations
4 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Payload, singleton, and stride lengths
4 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
A Fully Functional Rubik's Cube in a True Type Font
4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Investing in the customer experience increases engagement and awareness
4 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Neural Reverse Engineering of Stripped Binaries Using Augmented CFGs
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
The Dancing Plague of 1518
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Help me find a gig worker
4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
The Power of Writing Things Down
4 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
I wrote a book about sales objections
4 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
California's Covid-19 positivity rate drops below 3%
4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Cosmos DB Is Expensive
4 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Ask HN: What are good Qs to check the emotional state of a person before hiring?
4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Zoox unveils a self-driving car that could become Amazon’s first robotaxi
4 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
No more warnings: America has weeks to save Democracy
4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity
4 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Study shows coronavirus mutating and potentially evolving amid rapid U.S. spread
4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Interview with two Vice Presidents at Apple about the new M1 chip [video]
4 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox
4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Coronavirus has caused nearly 300k more deaths than expected in typical year
4 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Cameroon has slashed the fee for buying a .cm domain
4 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Apple's new M1 graphics makes resolution shifts instantaneous
4 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Berlin church hosts Muslim prayer in 'amazing sign of solidarity'
4 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Show HN: Easiest way to create GitHub social images
4 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Democracy books disappear from Hong Kong libraries
4 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
P: A language for asynchronous event-driven programming and model checking
4 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: A place that lists free games
4 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Edmund Clarke Has Died
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Solar geoengineering could cause unwanted changes in climate, modelling suggests
4 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
China sends world's first 6G test satellite into orbit
4 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Welcome to Flush-Down Economics
4 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Musk Has Moved to Texas
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Why Do Solar Farms Keep Killing Birds? Call the AI Bird Watcher
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Molecular water detected on the sunlit Moon by SOFIA
4 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Pascal Bare Bones (OS)
4 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Dominion Voting Machines hacked in real-time at the Senate hearing
4 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Facebook will label violating posts from public figures going forward
4 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Virginia Removes Its Robert E. Lee Statue from U.S. Capitol
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Coronavirus Man Made According to Discoverer of HIV
4 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
4 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Monadic Functional Control Flow Micro-Library for JavaScript/TypeScript
4 points • comment • may 21, 2020
'On the Origin of Species' was released on this day in 1859
4 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Antibody tests support obvious: Covid-19 is much more lethal than flu
4 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
List of aspect ratios of national flags
4 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
The Diversity Trap
4 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
New theory reveals fundamental building blocks of the universe
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Highly circular objects spotted in deep space
4 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Using “Virtio-Fs” on a Unikernel
4 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Schrödinger’s Packet Drops
4 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness
4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Losing trust in AWS. SNS is broken for 24 days
4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media
4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
(MLB) Introducing Statcast 2020: Hawk-Eye and Google Cloud
4 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
We’ll Need More Than One Vaccine to Beat the Pandemic
4 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
John Collison: Growing the Internet Economy
4 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
I wanted to be Mark Zuckerberg, but I became Mark FATkerberg instead
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written by American in Mangled English
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Matters
4 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
The Early Coronavirus Warning That Woke Up Wall Street
4 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Google Pay gets a major redesign with a new emphasis on personal finance
4 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Blockstream Satellite 2.0
4 points • comment • may 06, 2020
This Was the Busiest Year for IPOs Since the Dot-Com Bubble
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Noam Chomsky: The world is at the most dangerous moment in human history
4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
The Atlantic: Trump fantasizing about martial law to ‘redo’ election
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Lessons from Decade with Erlang (2018)
4 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Right-Wing Social Media Finalizes Its Divorce from Reality
4 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Amateur J.C. Penney Traders Beg Judge to Save Them from Wipeout
4 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Game of Life – Hexagonal Version
4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
The immune response to coronavirus is complicated
4 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Dbxfs: Open-source Dropbox client for hackers
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Making a House with a 3D Pen
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
An Air Purifier May Be the Most Important Thing You Can Do to Improve Health
4 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
The End of Podcasting’s Innocence
4 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Ask HN: Does each individual have a social duty to better themselves?
4 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
After 7 years, Snowden gets validation
4 points • comment • sep 04, 2020