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Hacker News (2020)

Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
166 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges
166 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Best aspects of C
166 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
It used to be simpler to teach Unix
166 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Sonos is getting rid of its controversial “recycle mode”
166 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers
166 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
“Unprecedented” locust invasion threatens crops in East Africa
166 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
SiFive to Debut RISC-V PC for Developers Based on Freedom U740 Next-Gen SoC
166 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
166 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality
166 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Lattice Confinement Fusion
166 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
166 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
When to Copy Ideas, When to Steal Ideas
166 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters
166 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Designing a Physics Engine
166 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Why not “Why not WireGuard?”
166 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser
166 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
165 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time”
165 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Army wants smaller brigades, stronger divisions and lots of robots
165 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
GitHub Actions: Organization secrets
165 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Build Personal Moats
165 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
What Peak Hello World Looks Like
165 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Launch HN: Quell (YC S20) – Immersive gaming and combat workout
165 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on board
165 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates
165 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Launch HN: Aquarium (YC S20) – Improve Your ML Dataset Quality
165 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
All the jobs I failed to get
165 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
165 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
165 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS
165 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future
165 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Writing a Memory Allocator (2019)
165 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
The deepest ever sighting of an octopus, by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor
165 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
165 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol
165 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Lockless Algorithms for Mere Mortals
165 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
How to write the perfect pull request (2015)
165 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it
165 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases
165 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
165 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Re-Thinking the Desktop OS
165 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux
165 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Mental models for designers (2019)
165 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Computers Can Be Understood
165 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Crimson Contagion
165 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
What It’s Like to Report on Facebook
165 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Event Sourcing (2017)
165 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots
165 points • comment • may 30, 2020
“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our employees.”
165 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
The Great Asshole Fallacy
165 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus
165 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
165 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
165 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Haskell (2019)
165 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns
165 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema
165 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
165 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy
165 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D
165 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup
165 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution
165 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses
165 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
165 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
165 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Show HN: interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels
165 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
The best things and stuff of 2020
165 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Medo: A modern UHD 4K open source Media editor for Haiku OS in less than 1.44 Mb
165 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
A case for using punctuation in Slack
165 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Jetson AGX Xavier
165 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Brain-Gut Circuit Lets Microbiota Directly Affect the Sympathetic Nervous System
165 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19
165 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]
165 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Does storing bread in the fridge make it last longer? (2019)
165 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Show HN: I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing
165 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux
165 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal
165 points • comment • may 24, 2020
The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
165 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
165 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
165 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
165 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Specification for the D Programming Language
165 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Yelp to stop auto-creating fundraisers after outrage from business owners
164 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web
164 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data'
164 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
What kind of data is my new car collecting?
164 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5
164 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
164 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
The Nikon Small World Competition
164 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Secure Rust Guidelines
164 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool
164 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Growing a Language (1998) [video]
164 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
164 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Mitmproxy 5.3
164 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
164 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS
164 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop
164 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker (2018)
164 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Nannou – A Creative Coding Framework for Rust
164 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report
164 points • comment • dec 19, 2020