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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Free open-source Media Cloud Platform

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  2. Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies

    28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  3. Apple App Store Small Business Program for 15% rate

    28 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  4. Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly

    28 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  5. Africa in the Photobook

    28 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  6. Reddit Is Down

    28 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  7. Lambda.r Functional Programming in R

    28 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  8. Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match

    28 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  9. Futureproof is a live editor for GPU shaders, built on Zig, Neovim, and WebGPU

    28 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?

    28 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  11. An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions

    28 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  12. Ousted Black Google Researcher: 'They Wanted to Have My Presence, but Not Me'

    28 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  13. Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress

    28 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  14. The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

    28 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  15. Show HN: Show last Git push on an e-paper device

    28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  16. Obarun – Arch Linux based distro with skarnet s6/66 suite

    28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  17. Russian Covid vaccine scientist dead w stab wounds after falling from 14th floor

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  18. Data Catalogs Are Dead; Long Live Data Discovery

    28 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  19. Locked-down California runs out of reasons for surprising surge

    28 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  20. Twitter to wipe Trump followers before handover

    28 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  21. Ask HN: What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?

    28 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  22. You’re Only as Good as Your Worst Day

    28 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  23. I Am the Facebook Algorithm and I Come to You Now, Requesting a Swift Death

    28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  24. Espionage at the Edge of Empire

    28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  25. Princeton grad says Ivy League made him 'social climbing weasel'

    28 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  26. Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism

    28 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  27. Ask HN: What evidence would convince you of intelligent extra-terrestrial life?

    28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  28. Why UPS drivers don't turn left and you probably shouldn't either

    28 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  29. Semantic segmentation algorithms do not generalize to off-road datasets

    28 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  30. Enzyme: Cross-language Automatic differentiation for LLVM IR

    28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  31. Gmail Gone Again

    28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  32. Empire of Fantasy

    27 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  33. Electronic amoeba finds solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  34. 10 years ago today, Groupon turned down Google’s $6B offer

    27 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  35. DeepMind A.I. unit lost $649M last year and had a $1.5B debt waived by Alphabet

    27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  36. Ask HN: What are some recent less known innovations in UI/UX

    27 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  37. UK coronavirus variant may be more able to infect children: scientists

    27 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  38. FBI Informant Spent a Decade Committing Fraud

    27 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  39. The Fruits of the Deep

    27 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  40. Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response

    27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  41. Can dairy farming ever be sustainable?

    27 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  42. Peak Oil Is Suddenly Upon Us

    27 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  43. “your app will fit on two Heroku Standard 1x dynos and one Standard 0 database”

    27 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  44. Daniel Stenberg: Twitter lockout, again

    27 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  45. Mike Pondsmith: “‘Cyberpunk’ is a warning, not an aspiration”

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  46. FDA Fining Distillers for Making Hand Sanitizer

    27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  47. Wikipedia: Don't Be High-Maintenance

    27 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  48. Leaked Government UFO Photo: What Is Hovering Cube-Shaped Object?

    27 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  49. Drones are poised to reshape home design

    27 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  50. Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown – AIER

    27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  51. Finding Critical Open Source Projects

    27 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  52. The Unbearable Pathos of Thomas Mann (2016)

    27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  53. Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck

    27 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  54. Show HN: Badges of kindness for your website footers, repos, and more

    27 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  55. Rainer Weiss: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Nobel Prizes [audio]

    27 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  56. Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle

    27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  57. AWS Proton is Conway’s Law-as-a-Service

    27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  58. Microconfig Features

    27 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  59. Information Management in Times of Crisis [pdf]

    27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  60. Clean architecture: Domain-driven design, part 1

    27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  61. Panthers’ Russell Okung Becomes First NFL Player to Be Paid in Bitcoin

    27 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  62. Florida posted the password to a key disaster system on its website

    27 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency industry?

    27 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  64. Show HN: We created a hexagonal keyboard made for smartphones

    27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  65. Doing Python development under Mac OS

    27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  66. Tiananmen Square images that China does not want you to see

    27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  67. My Comments on “Hitting the High Notes” (2005)

    27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  68. The Skeletons at the Lake

    27 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  69. Wildfire smoke is loaded with microbes

    27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  70. Cyberpunk 2077 Removed from Playstation Store

    27 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  71. New York Times Best Seller Business Book

    26 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  72. Microsoft to Make ARM CPUs

    26 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  73. How to Choose a Microcontroller

    26 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  74. City of Paris Fined Nearly $110k for Appointing Too Many Women

    26 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  75. How Google’s AI ethics meltdown could shape policy

    26 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  76. Wistron’s Apple factory in India committed serious violations of labour laws

    26 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  77. Show HN: Live – A net/http compatible Phoenix LiveView implementation in Go

    26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  78. A Continuous Integration Mystery

    26 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  79. Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Review: This Changes Everything

    26 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  80. A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)

    26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  81. Ticketmaster Pays $10M Criminal Fine for Intrusions into Competitor’s Systems

    26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  82. Start Contributing to Open Source Software

    26 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  83. 10x Engineers: The Purple Developer

    26 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  84. Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, SSH, and UUCP

    26 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  85. Turbo: The speed of a SPA without having to write any JavaScript

    26 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  86. Gmail Is Down

    26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  87. They did everything right. But after one at-home haircut couple died of Covid-19

    26 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  88. Ask HN: I'm building a Windows video editor, what are your pain points?

    26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  89. Sectorlisp – Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector

    26 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  90. Personal Server Configuration with K3s

    26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  91. Principles of Effective Research (2004)

    26 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  92. Network effect: visualizing AI connections in the natural sciences

    26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  93. China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe

    26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  94. Tips for on Call Engineers During the Holidays

    26 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  95. New Stay-at-Home Order a 'Deathblow' to California's Small Businesses

    26 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  96. Ask HN: How do I become a shell god?

    26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  97. Intel Urged to Take 'Immediate Action' Amid Threats from Apple Silicon and AMD

    26 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  98. Can I compute the mass of a coin based on the sound of its fall?

    26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  99. Conceal malicious actions from malware detection by imitating user activity

    26 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  100. UK approves Pfizer vaccine rollout

    26 points • comment • dec 02, 2020