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December 2020 Archive
1381.
We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India (adinocap.com)
99 points by aramachandran7 on Dec 27, 2020 | 35 comments
1382.
Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess (slack.engineering)
99 points by talonx on Dec 6, 2020 | 34 comments
1383.
Dialup: Serendipitous Voice Chat (dialup.com)
99 points by hliyan on Dec 28, 2020 | 23 comments
1384.
Florida Agents Raid Home of Rebekah Jones, Former State Data Scientist (npr.org)
99 points by tspike on Dec 8, 2020 | 20 comments
1385.
FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification (theverge.com)
99 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 18, 2020 | 18 comments
1386.
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO (miguelcarranza.es)
99 points by kwindla on Dec 8, 2020 | 16 comments
1387.
Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network (pnas.org)
99 points by Anon84 on Dec 6, 2020 | 5 comments
1388.
Canada's 350-year-old department store Hudson's Bay locked out by landlords (timescolonist.com)
98 points by walrus01 on Dec 10, 2020 | 128 comments
1389.
Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?
98 points by peterlk on Dec 29, 2020 | 80 comments
1390.
When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers' (cbc.ca)
98 points by avery42 on Dec 31, 2020 | 57 comments
1391.
Oso – open-source policy engine for authorization in Rust (github.com)
98 points by dragonsh on Dec 16, 2020 | 35 comments
1392.
An open source portable terminal for every dev (clockworkpi.com)
98 points by jerodsanto on Dec 1, 2020 | 28 comments
1393.
Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries (arxiv.org)
98 points by matt_d on Dec 2, 2020 | 22 comments
1394.
Static Calls in Linux 5.10 (blog.yossarian.net)
98 points by ingve on Dec 17, 2020 | 20 comments
1395.
Foundations of Probabilistic Programming (cambridge.org)
98 points by blopeur on Dec 1, 2020 | 8 comments
1396.
How neutering dogs became the norm (moosenuggets.substack.com)
97 points by evilsimon on Dec 22, 2020 | 222 comments
1397.
Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online (thinkpol.ca)
97 points by 63labs on Dec 2, 2020 | 127 comments
1398.
How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit? (getmeflyingcars.medium.com)
97 points by watfly on Dec 18, 2020 | 107 comments
1399.
Best online communities for software developers (thehiveindex.com)
97 points by thefedoration on Dec 14, 2020 | 81 comments
1400.
Free software needs free documentation (gnu.org)
97 points by crazypython on Dec 15, 2020 | 46 comments
1401.
Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
97 points by incanus77 on Dec 17, 2020 | 33 comments
1402.
Tell HN: Merry Christmas!
97 points by garritfra on Dec 24, 2020 | 32 comments
1403.
Vacietis, a C compiler targeting Common Lisp (github.com)
97 points by reikonomusha on Dec 24, 2020 | 27 comments
1404.
Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] (lse.ac.uk)
96 points by SQL2219 on Dec 29, 2020 | 204 comments
1405.
Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets? (blog.shrimpy.io)
96 points by mkmccarty3 on Dec 3, 2020 | 119 comments
1406.
US deaths in 2020 top 3M, by far most ever counted (apnews.com)
96 points by tempsy on Dec 23, 2020 | 116 comments
1407.
Gamers allege EA uses dynamic difficulty adjustment so players spend more money (slate.com)
96 points by tekdude on Dec 12, 2020 | 97 comments
1408.
A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA (dpreview.com)
96 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 27, 2020 | 97 comments
1409.
Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS (zdnet.com)
96 points by praveenscience on Dec 10, 2020 | 78 comments
1410.
Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug (eclecticlight.co)
96 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 26, 2020 | 62 comments