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Archives for 20 Oct 2020
  1. Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy
    (217 points | Comments)

  2. Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
    (151 points | Comments)

  3. Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
    (154 points | Comments)

  4. Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default
    (221 points | Comments)

  5. NYC’s new digital subway map
    (132 points | Comments)

  6. Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?
    (166 points | Comments)

  7. Julia GPU
    (131 points | Comments)

  8. Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
    (457 points | Comments)

  9. My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
    (180 points | Comments)

  10. AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
    (192 points | Comments)

  11. My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
    (380 points | Comments)

  12. The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
    (316 points | Comments)

  13. Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
    (250 points | Comments)

  14. Fast UTF-8 validation
    (266 points | Comments)

  15. Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
    (1183 points | Comments)

  16. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
    (238 points | Comments)

  17. Just Write the Parser
    (276 points | Comments)

  18. A brief introduction to BEAM
    (224 points | Comments)

  19. Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
    (441 points | Comments)

  20. Firefox 82
    (348 points | Comments)

  21. When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube
    (210 points | Comments)

  22. Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
    (245 points | Comments)

  23. Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
    (120 points | Comments)

  24. Differential Dataflow
    (120 points | Comments)

  25. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors
    (222 points | Comments)

  26. The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
    (182 points | Comments)

  27. Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
    (242 points | Comments)

  28. Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
    (355 points | Comments)

  29. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
    (1572 points | Comments)

  30. America's True Unemployment Rate
    (419 points | Comments)

  31. The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)
    (190 points | Comments)

  32. Early Work
    (577 points | Comments)

  33. Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
    (140 points | Comments)

  34. Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
    (343 points | Comments)

  35. Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
    (356 points | Comments)

  36. Letter from Raspberry Pi Foundation over trademark use
    (142 points | Comments)

  37. Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds
    (199 points | Comments)

  38. Galileo's Ground Segment Problem
    (141 points | Comments)

  39. Discipline Doesn’t Scale
    (320 points | Comments)

  40. Report on Investigation of Twitter’s July 15, 2020 Cybersecurity Incident
    (102 points | Comments)

  41. The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (2015)
    (123 points | Comments)

  42. Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim
    (324 points | Comments)

  43. My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too
    (174 points | Comments)

  44. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
    (339 points | Comments)

  45. I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
    (426 points | Comments)

  46. FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles
    (122 points | Comments)

  47. HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you
    (113 points | Comments)

  48. Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
    (126 points | Comments)

  49. Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors
    (148 points | Comments)

  50. Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain
    (486 points | Comments)

  51. Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU
    (328 points | Comments)