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Hacker News (2020)

Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security
258 points • comment • may 07, 2020
The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
258 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
ClojureScript 1.10.741
258 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
GitHub is degraded/down
258 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]
258 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices
258 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
The cheap pen that changed writing forever
258 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Giving Americans Money to Offset Coronavirus Impact Gains Support in Congress
258 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
How do Unix pipes work?
258 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA
258 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
It’s easier to manage four people than one person
258 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain
258 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers
258 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
eBPF Is Awesome
258 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
258 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
258 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
258 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
The Warby Parker clones are imploding
258 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
A 73-year-old Japanese artist took YouTube by storm
257 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Germany bans digital doppelganger passport photos
257 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board
257 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
257 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
257 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet
257 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
We thought it was just a respiratory virus
257 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts
257 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)
257 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
257 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
How to Edit Your Own Writing
257 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts
257 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
257 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
257 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers
257 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
257 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready
257 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity
257 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Deno 1.4
257 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts
257 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold
257 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech
257 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in Phoenix
257 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99
257 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Father Reginald Foster has died
257 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
The Internet Is for Porn
257 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C
257 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds
257 points • comment • may 06, 2020
A Picture of Java in 2020
257 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
257 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Better Business Bureau rejects Molekule’s air purifier claims
257 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform
257 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
257 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Adding a fiber link to my home network
256 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
256 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Infinity: open-source search engine
256 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
256 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos
256 points • comment • may 30, 2020
A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (2018)
256 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Pyston v2: Faster Python
256 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
256 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
256 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
256 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs
256 points • comment • may 26, 2020
How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
256 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Being Alone
256 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves
256 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Who wants to play the status game?
256 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
256 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models
256 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
256 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Why Privacy Matters
256 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Millions of Tiny Databases
256 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction
256 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Architecture of the Game Boy Advance
256 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams
256 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)
256 points • comment • may 02, 2020
SlateStarCodex Is Back Up
256 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Meeting everyone on a new team
256 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Analog Terminal Bell
256 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Secessio plebis
256 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Game Design Curriculum
256 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface
256 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Intercepting Zoom's encrypted data with BPF
256 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
256 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Show HN: Writing for Software Developers
255 points • comment • may 12, 2020
GTK 4.0 Released
255 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi
255 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Kube Doom, Kill Kubernetes Pods Using Id's Doom
255 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)
255 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Show HN: GradientMagic
255 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)
255 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking
255 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
255 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolution
255 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution
255 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron
255 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country
255 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
ReactOS
255 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack
255 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
255 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
255 points • comment • jul 26, 2020