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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. YouTube's deep learning AI boosted two news channels in US

    20 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Why does HN hate humor?

    20 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  3. FBI agents investigating if 5G paranoia was behind Nashville bombing

    20 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  4. Fired Googler says she was told heavy Baltimore accent a “disability”

    20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  5. Cellebrite claims it can break Signal

    20 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  6. DocWriter: Typewriter that sends its keystrokes to a Google Doc (2017)

    20 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  7. Samsung Galaxy S II, released in 2011, has an unofficial port of Android 11

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  8. Software Development Team Structure: Important Roles and Responsibilities

    20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  9. Ask HN: How to develop accurate self-understanding?

    20 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  10. Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time

    20 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  11. Stratechery Year in Review

    20 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  12. Google AI Researchers Lay Out Demands, Escalating Internal Fight

    20 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  13. The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love

    20 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  14. Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians

    20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  15. DoorDash Is Expected to Price IPO at Around $102 a Share at $39B Valuation

    20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  16. Oregon’s computers sending erroneous letters to jobless; they can't stop them

    20 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  17. Cosmic Latte

    20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  18. The Gig Economy Is White People Discovering Servants

    20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  19. Rally – A Community of Rejected YC Founders

    20 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  20. Trump downplays Russian-linked cyberattack on U.S.

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  21. Malaysian official who renamed stadium denies title is his name backwards

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  22. MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2B in Four Months

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  23. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and others file amicus brief in support of NSO lawsuit

    20 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  24. Implementing Anonymous Posts on Gurlic

    20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  25. Microsoft Flight Simulator's new VR mode haunts my dreams

    20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  26. Webtor – free cloud BitTorrent-client

    20 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  27. Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower’

    20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  28. Russia's SolarWinds Attack

    20 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  29. Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change?

    20 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  30. Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics

    20 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  31. Learning New Things from Google

    20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  32. Do you need to show your face to sell courses online?

    20 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  33. Show HN: I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame

    20 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  34. Farmer Given 3-Day Facebook Ban over Literal Sheep

    20 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  35. ‘Longest known exposure’ recovered from makeshift camera forgotten on telescope

    20 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  36. Ask HN: How do you decide what books to read?

    20 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  37. Show HN: Rocketshipping – A Handbook for Starting a Startup

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  38. It's a Wonderful Life

    20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  39. Chuck Yeager Has Died

    20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  40. FTC Sues Facebook, Alleging Anticompetitive Behavior [pdf]

    19 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  41. I Have Access to Bank Accounts That Are Not Mine (Capital One Bank)

    19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  42. Ask HN: 1Password vs. LastPass vs. Bitwarden for teams ?

    19 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  43. Investors in SolarWinds traded $280M in stock before hack was revealed

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  44. The aftermath of “No, 'Open Source' does not mean 'Includes Free Support'”

    19 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  45. YouTube Shuts Down Scott Adams

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  46. Unrepentant Baguette Merchant

    19 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  47. Consider the Golden Mole (2019)

    19 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  48. How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  49. AWS Lambda now supports container images as a packaging format

    19 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  50. Show HN: Passerine – an extensible programming language – v0.8.0 released

    19 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  51. 12-year-old boy genius accepted at Georgia Tech, has dreams of going to Mars

    19 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  52. CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollar a year into CentOS clone

    19 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  53. Hackers can take full control of online compilers through a RCE exploit (2018)

    19 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  54. Ask HN: If agelessness was genetically possible, wouldn't it have evolved?

    19 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  55. John le Carré passed away

    19 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  56. Diet may help reduce cognitive decline

    19 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  57. Intel Is Finished

    19 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  58. Show HN: Make your own help center (Intercom UI) with Airtable

    19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  59. PHP8, from a Security Point of View

    19 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  60. I Paid $250 to Drive for Lyft Last Year

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  61. Ask HN: Why Bing (and others) is so behind Google in features?

    19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  62. A call to revolutionize the workplace – by working less

    19 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  63. Apple closes all California stores as Covid cases rise

    19 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  64. The FTC Can Do More Than Sue Tech Companies. It Can Regulate Them

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  65. Apps Are Helping to Gut the Restaurant Industry

    19 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  66. Collabora presents a Wayland driver for Wine

    19 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  67. Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  68. Analyzing Minard's Visualization of Napoleon's 1812 March (2014)

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  69. NASA: Lessons Learned for Project Managers

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  70. In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security with the “Earn IT” Act

    19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  71. I think GPT-3's private beta distribution strategy widens economic inequality

    19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  72. A dying man, a therapist and the ransom raid that shook the world

    19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  73. Error 418 – I'm a Teapot

    19 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  74. Poisoned Russian politician dupes FSB agent into detailing own murder attempt

    19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  75. Hardware security mechanisms protecting physical memory on mobile devices

    19 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  76. New terrorism guide shows FBI still classifying Black 'extremists' as threat

    19 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  77. Show HN: text.fish: Get Only Text, Read Peacefully

    19 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  78. Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems

    19 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  79. Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues

    19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  80. Ask HN: Most interesting things you've learned/discovered in 2020?

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  81. EU criticises 'hasty' UK approval of Covid-19 vaccine

    19 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  82. Former Israeli space security chief says ETs exist, and Trump knows about it

    19 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  83. Precursor – What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?

    19 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  84. Cryptocurrency Startup Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows

    19 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  85. Apple’s 8GB M1 Silicon Isn’t Magic, but It Is Magical

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  86. An Assange confidant in the sights of the CIA

    19 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  87. Node.example.com Is an IP Address

    19 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  88. Twitter fined ~$550k over a data breach in Ireland’s first major GDPR decision

    19 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  89. Copy Guard: a browser extension to prevent copy hijacking

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  90. Instacart Is a Parasite and a Sham

    19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  91. Blob Opera

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  92. The 1950s plan for a Washington Square Highway (2014)

    19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  93. Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid

    19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  94. Tesla Model 3 = 31% of UK Electric Vehicle Sales

    19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  95. Microsoft president sounds alarm on ‘ongoing’ SolarWinds hack

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  96. Mobile data shows which European countries took lockdown seriously

    19 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  97. National Weather Service weather radar website disaster as Flash retires

    19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  98. House passes bill decriminalizing marijuana at federal level

    19 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  99. Oculus Quest user breaks neck, then Facebook deletes his account

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  100. Amnesia: IoT flaws dangerous and patches unlikely, say experts

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2020