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October 2020 Archive
151.
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like (kalzumeus.com)
439 points by yarapavan on Oct 8, 2020 | 262 comments
152.
A small but complete JavaScript engine (bellard.org)
438 points by marcobambini on Oct 23, 2020 | 146 comments
153.
That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
436 points by marinintim on Oct 28, 2020 | 155 comments
154.
Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows (ajc.com)
433 points by hownottowrite on Oct 12, 2020 | 315 comments
155.
Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good (gamespot.com)
433 points by AdmiralAsshat on Oct 24, 2020 | 242 comments
156.
Privacy is the most important concept of our time (inre.me)
433 points by umilegenio on Oct 2, 2020 | 212 comments
157.
Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time (scientificamerican.com)
432 points by pseudolus on Oct 31, 2020 | 270 comments
158.
Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure (a16z.com)
431 points by soumyadeb on Oct 18, 2020 | 105 comments
159.
Image Scaling Attacks (embracethered.com)
431 points by wendythehacker on Oct 29, 2020 | 73 comments
160.
Org Mode's new site (orgmode.org)
430 points by cjauvin on Oct 27, 2020 | 198 comments
161.
Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid (team-bhp.com)
430 points by boruto on Oct 10, 2020 | 193 comments
162.
AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out (reddit.com)
430 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 12, 2020 | 122 comments
163.
The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? (phoronix.com)
429 points by caution on Oct 25, 2020 | 692 comments
164.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
426 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2020 | 809 comments
165.
When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home (twitter.com)
426 points by compsciphd on Oct 12, 2020 | 230 comments
166.
I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) (hanselman.com)
426 points by IA21 on Oct 20, 2020 | 192 comments
167.
New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars (newatlas.com)
425 points by bookofjoe on Oct 25, 2020 | 252 comments
168.
Microsoft Tilecode (microsoft.github.io)
425 points by Impossible on Oct 24, 2020 | 60 comments
169.
14,000x Speedup (2015) (james.hiebert.name)
424 points by signa11 on Oct 13, 2020 | 228 comments
170.
Welcome to the Old Internet Again (theoldnet.com)
424 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 | 192 comments
171.
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show (cnet.com)
421 points by 0xmohit on Oct 8, 2020 | 193 comments
172.
Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland (swisscom.ch)
420 points by richx on Oct 21, 2020 | 349 comments
173.
America's True Unemployment Rate (axios.com)
419 points by jbegley on Oct 20, 2020 | 349 comments
174.
Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready (bill.harding.blog)
419 points by wbharding on Oct 6, 2020 | 136 comments
175.
Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course (lowlvl.org)
419 points by nbaksalyar on Oct 13, 2020 | 37 comments
176.
Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people (foreigner.fi)
417 points by aaron695 on Oct 25, 2020 | 365 comments
177.
Y Combinator Failed Startups (failory.com)
415 points by nicocerdeira on Oct 9, 2020 | 184 comments
178.
San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. (bloomberg.com)
414 points by pondsider on Oct 13, 2020 | 620 comments
179.
Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder (reddit.com)
414 points by DeusExMachina on Oct 4, 2020 | 291 comments
180.
The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3 (engineering.fb.com)
414 points by mostdefinite1 on Oct 21, 2020 | 139 comments