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October 2020 Archive
1411.
I Hate My MacBook (tbray.org)
93 points by mrzool on Oct 4, 2020 | 180 comments
1412.
Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years (thedrive.com)
93 points by clouddrover on Oct 10, 2020 | 170 comments
1413.
Cockney Rhyming Slang History (romanroadlondon.com)
93 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 13, 2020 | 74 comments
1414.
Show HN: A site to help you validate ideas in bulk
93 points by jamesskarzynski on Oct 5, 2020 | 44 comments
1415.
40th Anniversary of the Ethernet (infoq.com)
93 points by alblue on Oct 3, 2020 | 25 comments
1416.
Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project (retrohax.net)
93 points by retrohax on Oct 27, 2020 | 24 comments
1417.
Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Labelled procedure calls (bernsteinbear.com)
93 points by tekknolagi on Oct 29, 2020 | 13 comments
1418.
Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] (nber.org)
92 points by elsewhen on Oct 22, 2020 | 155 comments
1419.
Is wind power’s future in deep water? (bbc.com)
92 points by pseudolus on Oct 14, 2020 | 151 comments
1420.
Where Are All the Successful Rationalists? (applieddivinitystudies.com)
92 points by jeffreyrogers on Oct 16, 2020 | 135 comments
1421.
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’ (carbonbrief.org)
92 points by hunglee2 on Oct 18, 2020 | 130 comments
1422.
We Were Builders Once, and Strong (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
92 points by barry-cotter on Oct 22, 2020 | 81 comments
1423.
Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff (cbsnews.com)
92 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 | 72 comments
1424.
Presidential Plinko (presidential-plinko.com)
92 points by UncleOxidant on Oct 6, 2020 | 71 comments
1425.
A ritual for your product increases satisfaction and spending (ariyh.substack.com)
92 points by tdmckinlay on Oct 5, 2020 | 70 comments
1426.
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science (newyorker.com)
92 points by pseudolus on Oct 3, 2020 | 66 comments
1427.
Overloading by Return Type in C++ (artificial-mind.net)
92 points by fanf2 on Oct 12, 2020 | 51 comments
1428.
Show HN: Hexagonal Minesweeper with multiplayer, geographic maps, zoom and pan (multisweeper.com)
92 points by _fp5w on Oct 14, 2020 | 51 comments
1429.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25 (raspberrypi.org)
92 points by geerlingguy on Oct 19, 2020 | 41 comments
1430.
Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (openreview.net)
92 points by lukeplato on Oct 6, 2020 | 12 comments
1431.
How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus (bwlampson.site)
92 points by luu on Oct 10, 2020 | 7 comments
1432.
Uber: “Yes on Prop 22” popups shown to drivers (twitter.com)
91 points by ignoramous on Oct 19, 2020 | 167 comments
1433.
On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox (ruzkuku.com)
91 points by zdw on Oct 23, 2020 | 121 comments
1434.
The companies that bring us knife steel (knifesteelnerds.com)
91 points by severine on Oct 7, 2020 | 102 comments
1435.
How HN crushed David Walsh's blog (davidwalsh.name)
91 points by headalgorithm on Oct 28, 2020 | 99 comments
1436.
Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
91 points by lend000 on Oct 6, 2020 | 94 comments
1437.
The Corporatization of Nursing Homes (prospect.org)
91 points by neonate on Oct 29, 2020 | 79 comments
1438.
Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?
91 points by dhruvkar on Oct 13, 2020 | 78 comments
1439.
Charisma: Now You’ve Got It, Now You Don’t (lareviewofbooks.org)
91 points by benbreen on Oct 14, 2020 | 68 comments
1440.
US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter (bbc.com)
91 points by jonbaer on Oct 1, 2020 | 48 comments