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January 2020 discussion archive

Browse 156 retained Hacker News discussion records from January 2020, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall31 Jan 2020 · 589 points · 131 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment31 Jan 2020 · 611 points · 156 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]31 Jan 2020 · 287 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it31 Jan 2020 · 613 points · 234 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. My Second Year as a Solo Developer31 Jan 2020 · 1,066 points · 374 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)31 Jan 2020 · 627 points · 326 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. SpiderFoot: OSINT collection and reconnaissance tool31 Jan 2020 · 272 points · 26 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate30 Jan 2020 · 289 points · 439 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States30 Jan 2020 · 582 points · 462 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Not everyone has an internal monologue30 Jan 2020 · 1,225 points · 876 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Monoliths Are the Future30 Jan 2020 · 1,065 points · 552 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit29 Jan 2020 · 277 points · 100 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging29 Jan 2020 · 270 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server29 Jan 2020 · 575 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native29 Jan 2020 · 666 points · 571 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. iOS 13's Music App Sucks29 Jan 2020 · 284 points · 256 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. A Tour of Standard ML29 Jan 2020 · 279 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)29 Jan 2020 · 1,057 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Being a Noob29 Jan 2020 · 602 points · 220 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Off-Facebook activity29 Jan 2020 · 710 points · 379 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization29 Jan 2020 · 275 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. WireGuard is now in Linus' tree29 Jan 2020 · 982 points · 278 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results28 Jan 2020 · 286 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Ted versus The Media Lab [video]28 Jan 2020 · 278 points · 150 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Anatomy of a Scam28 Jan 2020 · 271 points · 116 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. The iPad Awkwardly Turns 1028 Jan 2020 · 624 points · 602 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers28 Jan 2020 · 595 points · 299 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. KnightOS was an interesting operating system27 Jan 2020 · 292 points · 60 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Show HN: Binarysearch.io – Learn Algorithms Together27 Jan 2020 · 279 points · 38 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions27 Jan 2020 · 607 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google27 Jan 2020 · 1,012 points · 271 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code27 Jan 2020 · 661 points · 157 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript27 Jan 2020 · 286 points · 97 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data27 Jan 2020 · 759 points · 192 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)27 Jan 2020 · 577 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years26 Jan 2020 · 662 points · 258 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Responsive Pixel Art26 Jan 2020 · 624 points · 50 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon26 Jan 2020 · 281 points · 184 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. The Infinite Loop That Wasn't26 Jan 2020 · 275 points · 35 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Google backtracks on search results design25 Jan 2020 · 605 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. List of Twitter mute words for your timeline24 Jan 2020 · 748 points · 209 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Clayton Christensen has died24 Jan 2020 · 608 points · 119 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Layoffs hit Quora24 Jan 2020 · 282 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)24 Jan 2020 · 732 points · 199 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours24 Jan 2020 · 271 points · 75 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Who wants to play the status game?24 Jan 2020 · 273 points · 204 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English23 Jan 2020 · 284 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 2423 Jan 2020 · 275 points · 29 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”23 Jan 2020 · 810 points · 378 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time23 Jan 2020 · 1,375 points · 361 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once22 Jan 2020 · 668 points · 143 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages22 Jan 2020 · 628 points · 167 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Terry Jones has died22 Jan 2020 · 650 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. DuckDuckGo Traffic22 Jan 2020 · 727 points · 242 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Float Toy22 Jan 2020 · 649 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'21 Jan 2020 · 834 points · 293 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. PHP in 202021 Jan 2020 · 286 points · 268 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study21 Jan 2020 · 568 points · 188 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Every Google result now looks like an ad21 Jan 2020 · 3,592 points · 972 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained21 Jan 2020 · 2,272 points · 696 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?21 Jan 2020 · 279 points · 268 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it21 Jan 2020 · 1,636 points · 368 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It21 Jan 2020 · 288 points · 169 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'20 Jan 2020 · 625 points · 154 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Life Is Driven by Network Effects20 Jan 2020 · 269 points · 53 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month20 Jan 2020 · 800 points · 187 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. A watershed moment for protein structure prediction20 Jan 2020 · 272 points · 80 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Bruce Schneier: Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough20 Jan 2020 · 283 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers20 Jan 2020 · 275 points · 203 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. My FOSS Story20 Jan 2020 · 833 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?19 Jan 2020 · 613 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration19 Jan 2020 · 721 points · 328 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo19 Jan 2020 · 282 points · 46 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink18 Jan 2020 · 289 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. HTTP static server one-liners18 Jan 2020 · 286 points · 66 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee17 Jan 2020 · 273 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM17 Jan 2020 · 629 points · 700 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. DigitalOcean is laying off staff17 Jan 2020 · 816 points · 399 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. A Sad Day for Rust17 Jan 2020 · 1,243 points · 991 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines17 Jan 2020 · 275 points · 100 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces17 Jan 2020 · 591 points · 201 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next16 Jan 2020 · 627 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. Unofficial Apple Archive16 Jan 2020 · 699 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)16 Jan 2020 · 288 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Reverse engineering course16 Jan 2020 · 656 points · 55 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds15 Jan 2020 · 287 points · 496 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Mozilla lays off 7015 Jan 2020 · 929 points · 904 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. MIT 6.004: Computation Structures15 Jan 2020 · 275 points · 19 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property15 Jan 2020 · 288 points · 273 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware15 Jan 2020 · 595 points · 50 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Thank HN: You helped me get a new job15 Jan 2020 · 2,425 points · 193 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. Hipmunk Says Goodbye14 Jan 2020 · 608 points · 335 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]14 Jan 2020 · 714 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete14 Jan 2020 · 287 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law14 Jan 2020 · 289 points · 63 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry13 Jan 2020 · 781 points · 451 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)13 Jan 2020 · 281 points · 251 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years13 Jan 2020 · 283 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Why I Keep a Research Blog13 Jan 2020 · 607 points · 72 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers13 Jan 2020 · 695 points · 234 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. A list of places to post about your startup/launch13 Jan 2020 · 288 points · 26 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU12 Jan 2020 · 586 points · 223 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Bug #915: Please help12 Jan 2020 · 591 points · 95 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run12 Jan 2020 · 722 points · 380 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay12 Jan 2020 · 646 points · 653 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Goodbye, Clean Code11 Jan 2020 · 1,678 points · 575 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’11 Jan 2020 · 281 points · 286 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?11 Jan 2020 · 698 points · 727 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. SMS is not 2FA-secure10 Jan 2020 · 867 points · 371 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left10 Jan 2020 · 272 points · 181 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now10 Jan 2020 · 870 points · 223 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs10 Jan 2020 · 273 points · 139 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)10 Jan 2020 · 646 points · 239 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. Linus: Don't Use ZFS09 Jan 2020 · 572 points · 555 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass09 Jan 2020 · 285 points · 71 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function09 Jan 2020 · 288 points · 104 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X09 Jan 2020 · 672 points · 415 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says09 Jan 2020 · 278 points · 296 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees09 Jan 2020 · 1,448 points · 287 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. 13.3" full color ePaper display08 Jan 2020 · 591 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)08 Jan 2020 · 281 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue08 Jan 2020 · 287 points · 121 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?08 Jan 2020 · 287 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. How to Exit Vim08 Jan 2020 · 1,111 points · 395 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Loudness war07 Jan 2020 · 272 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?07 Jan 2020 · 699 points · 671 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Firefox 72.007 Jan 2020 · 758 points · 525 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-107 Jan 2020 · 928 points · 352 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube06 Jan 2020 · 277 points · 357 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. A harassment campaign on Goodreads06 Jan 2020 · 270 points · 175 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity06 Jan 2020 · 701 points · 494 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Products I Wish Existed06 Jan 2020 · 798 points · 419 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets06 Jan 2020 · 274 points · 124 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level06 Jan 2020 · 792 points · 589 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?05 Jan 2020 · 292 points · 123 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?05 Jan 2020 · 1,337 points · 970 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age05 Jan 2020 · 289 points · 142 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression05 Jan 2020 · 271 points · 153 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go04 Jan 2020 · 692 points · 90 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software04 Jan 2020 · 595 points · 211 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?03 Jan 2020 · 803 points · 116 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. When good ideas make bad business03 Jan 2020 · 735 points · 341 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V03 Jan 2020 · 814 points · 484 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code03 Jan 2020 · 720 points · 116 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Which Emoji Scissors Close?03 Jan 2020 · 1,545 points · 126 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?02 Jan 2020 · 815 points · 1,096 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. How strong is your knot?02 Jan 2020 · 286 points · 132 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Recover HD Using a Magnet02 Jan 2020 · 270 points · 85 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. The Polygons of Another World02 Jan 2020 · 704 points · 125 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system02 Jan 2020 · 587 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)02 Jan 2020 · 908 points · 437 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations02 Jan 2020 · 815 points · 297 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 201902 Jan 2020 · 864 points · 505 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. Software Disenchantment (2018)01 Jan 2020 · 934 points · 488 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Happy New Year HN!01 Jan 2020 · 277 points · 67 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit01 Jan 2020 · 590 points · 54 commentsPartial reading withheld