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Hacker News (2020)

GitHub isn't fun anymore
642 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
642 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
642 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
641 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
641 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Reverse engineering course
640 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
640 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
640 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
640 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
640 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
WeWork sells Meetup
640 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
640 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
640 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
639 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
639 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
638 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Technical debt as a lack of understanding
638 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Bootstrap 5 alpha
638 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
637 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
DigitalOcean App Platform
637 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
637 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
636 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Gmail having issues
636 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis
636 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
635 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Who Americans spend their time with, by age
635 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
635 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
634 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
634 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
634 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
634 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Comic Mono
634 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass
634 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
634 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
textfiles.com
634 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Float Toy
634 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19
633 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
633 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer
633 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper
633 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
633 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
633 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
633 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
633 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Introducing the next generation of Mac
633 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
632 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
632 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
632 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Writing a book: is it worth it?
632 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
631 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Six Figures in 6 days
631 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
631 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
EU countries team up for semiconductor push
630 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Chuck Yeager has died
630 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
How to sell a B2B product
630 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
630 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
629 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
629 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)
629 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”
628 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Scaling to 100k Users
628 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
628 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Dev Fonts
628 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
628 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Laying the foundation for Rust’s future
627 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
627 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
627 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution
627 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
626 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Suspicious Discontinuities
626 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
626 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
625 points • comment • may 11, 2020
AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
625 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Jitsi Meet features update
625 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss
624 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Employee Scheduling
624 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
624 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next
624 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
623 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
John Conway
623 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
uMatrix has been archived
622 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
622 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)
622 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
622 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
622 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Game Programming Patterns (2014)
622 points • comment • may 16, 2020
“Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”
622 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
622 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Windows93
621 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
621 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Sean Connery has died
621 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
621 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Microsoft Fast Design
620 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
620 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Rust/WinRT Public Preview
620 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Ethereum 2.0 launches
619 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Modeling a Wealth Tax
619 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
619 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
619 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
618 points • comment • dec 29, 2020