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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

    386 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  2. How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy

    384 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  3. Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’

    384 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  4. Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker

    383 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

    382 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  6. Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler

    382 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  7. What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips

    381 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  8. FreeBSD is an amazing operating system

    380 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  9. 23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline

    378 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  10. Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string

    378 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  11. How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

    375 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  12. Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

    374 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  13. Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

    372 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  14. I2C in a Nutshell

    369 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  15. “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“

    366 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  16. The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make

    366 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  17. How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File

    365 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  18. Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)

    365 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  19. What’s wrong with computational notebooks?

    365 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  20. Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust

    365 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  21. Linode launches free DDoS protection

    365 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  22. Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy

    365 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  23. Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?

    363 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  24. Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters

    362 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  25. People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige

    362 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  26. Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open

    362 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  27. Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used

    362 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  28. A Graph of Related Subreddits

    362 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  29. Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?

    362 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  30. Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks

    361 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  31. Wine 5.0

    359 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  32. Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment

    356 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  33. Godot 3.2

    356 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  34. Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’

    356 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  35. Elixir v1.10

    355 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  36. The “No Code” Delusion

    354 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  37. Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms

    354 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  38. Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)

    353 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  39. Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig

    353 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  40. Guide to speaking at tech conferences

    353 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  41. 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones

    353 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  42. Russia blocks ProtonMail

    352 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  43. BMW Connected Apps Protocol

    352 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  44. Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

    352 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  45. My story as a self-taught AI researcher

    352 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  46. Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement

    351 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  47. DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel

    351 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  48. Banning facial recognition is missing the point

    350 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  49. Images Created from Prime Numbers

    350 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  50. Disk Prices on Amazon

    349 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  51. Why I Quit Using Google

    349 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  52. Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data

    349 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  53. HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience

    349 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  54. Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?

    347 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  55. Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?

    347 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Do you ever contact people who have had a positive impact on you?

    347 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  57. Facebook's PR feels broken

    345 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  58. A billion medical images are exposed online

    344 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  59. Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

    344 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  60. Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]

    344 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  61. Bug #915: Solved

    343 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  62. Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)

    343 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  63. One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

    342 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  64. Everything I Know About SSDs

    342 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  65. Let's Destroy C

    341 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  66. ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations

    340 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  67. A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song

    339 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  68. Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

    338 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  69. Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

    338 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  70. Just Build the Product

    337 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  71. Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

    336 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  72. Startup Ideas 2020

    336 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  73. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (2015)

    336 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  74. Managing my personal knowledge base

    335 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  75. How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]

    334 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  76. Starlink Is a Big Deal

    333 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  77. Sun's surface seen in new detail

    333 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  78. Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs

    332 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  79. A small DIY air purifier

    332 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  80. Lego ISS

    331 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  81. Programming Language Checklist

    331 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  82. Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

    330 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  83. Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers

    328 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  84. Please make your products work with URLs

    327 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  85. BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

    327 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  86. Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

    327 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  87. War Is a Racket (1933)

    326 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  88. Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

    325 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  89. How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)

    325 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  90. I Was Tortured for Days at Guantanamo Bay

    321 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  91. My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

    320 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  92. My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec

    320 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  93. Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China

    319 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  94. Adult site leaks data of cam models

    318 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  95. Working for someone vs. doing your own thing

    317 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  96. I'm not feeling the async pressure

    317 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  97. The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development

    315 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  98. Actix project postmortem

    315 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  99. The Cruise Origin

    314 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  100. U.S. surveillance laws have proven ineffective at countering terrorism

    314 points • comment • jan 22, 2020