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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. The Biggest Video Game Surprise Hits of 2020

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  2. SuperSym is a toy for doodling with symmetry

    11 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  3. China to Outlaw Binge-Eating ‘Mukbang’ Videos

    11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  4. Google discontinues Home Max speaker, tells you to buy two Nest Audios instead

    11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  5. Floyd-Steinberg Dithering Algorithm

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  6. Apple to ban X-Mode tracking, developers given two weeks to comply

    11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  7. The Detente Escapement Explained

    11 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  8. Ask HN: How to learn by observation from co-workers in a remote-first company?

    11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Hackers locked my dad out of WhatsApp – need advice

    11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  10. Biohacker's Handbook

    11 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  11. TSLAQ

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  12. Speaker Snitch tells you when your smart speaker is listening in on you

    11 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  13. Xkcd: Statistics Tip

    11 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  14. South Korea allows K-Pop stars to defer military service until they turn 30

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  15. Acute mortality of NW Pacific salmon due to tire rubber residues

    11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  16. Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow

    11 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  17. Quick Reference for all modern/useful HTML5 link and meta tags

    11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  18. Top Paying Tech Companies and Cities in 2020

    11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  19. Intel Debuts 'Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  20. Instagram Lite is a 2MB app that removes Reels, Shopping, and IGTV

    11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  21. Run is a platform to build apps and tokens on Bitcoin

    11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  22. What MrBeast Burger used to launch 300 virtual restaurants

    11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  23. Ask HN: What are the best charting / graphing JavaScript tools

    11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  24. Default password in GE radiology devices leaves health networks exposed

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  25. Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  26. Major Bay Area retail theft gang arrested

    11 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  27. Tell HN: Merry Christmas

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  28. Catching the ‘Green Wave’ – Audi Introduces Smart Traffic Lights in Düsseldorf

    11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  29. Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs

    11 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  30. What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus

    11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  31. Show HN: I built a flashcard platform that supports latex and code highlighting

    11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  32. Trump signs order on principles for U.S. government AI use

    11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  33. Show HN: Generate static sites in Node with plain JavaScript and HTML

    11 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  34. OldLinux – A site dedicated to historical Linux preservation

    11 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  35. Google, Facebook reportedly agreed to work together to fight antitrust probes

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  36. “Ask Culture” vs. “Guess Culture” (2007)

    11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  37. Writing on Mathematics of 2020

    11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  38. Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge?

    11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  39. Senate invites fringe, unscientific medical group to testify about Covid

    11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  40. A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  41. Nearly a third of workers don’t want to ever return to the office

    11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  42. New Material Can Store Energy from the Sun for Months or Even Years

    11 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  43. China’s Drive to Make Semiconductor Chips Is Failing

    11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  44. California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer vaccine

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  45. Xkcd 1110: Click and Drag

    11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  46. Girl Is Born from Embryo Frozen for 27 Years

    11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  47. DIY Covid-19 Vaccine

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  48. The biggest problem with capitalism? Not enough capitalists

    11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  49. Fusion Is a Terrible Way to Make Electricity

    11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  50. Congratulations, the US got you cryptocurrency regulation for Christmas

    11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  51. AirPods Max Teardown

    11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  52. Ask HN: What is the state of the non-tech part of the advertising industry

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  53. RISC-V is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  54. Ask HN: I have 1 BTC, what can I do with it?

    11 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  55. The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean

    11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  56. Edmund Clark, the 2007 Turing Award winner, has died

    11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  57. Sweden's King Says His Country 'Has Failed' Handling Covid

    11 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  58. What are the characteristics of an innovative person?

    11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  59. A 3x IT Efficiency Boost: Use a Scale-Out Database for Near Real-Time Analytics

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  60. Reggie Fowler owes lawyers $600k

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  61. PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  62. Jean-Luc Brunel, modeling agent with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arrested

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Best Slow News Sources?

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  64. Multicore OCaml – what is coming in 2021

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  65. Airflow 2.0 has been released

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  66. Ask HN: Why do AWS, Azure, and GCP charge so much for outbound data transfer?

    11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  67. Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees

    11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  68. NextMind ships its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit

    11 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  69. We stopped posting videos (hijacked YouTube account)

    11 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  70. While Congress Squabbles over $2k, They Packed the Stimulus Bill with Pork

    11 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  71. Nvidia Ampere vs. AMD RDNA 2: Battle of the Architectures

    11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  72. Jupiter and Saturn Head for Closest Visible Alignment in 800 Years

    11 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  73. Python Financial Stock Analysis [YouTube]

    11 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  74. Ars Technica’s 2021 Deathwatch–2020 was just the beginning

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  75. T-Mobile data breach exposed phone numbers, call records

    11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  76. Facebook’s Campaign Against Apple Is Against Users and Small Businesses

    11 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  77. Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama allowed to vote on unionization

    11 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  78. Middle America is still racking up a ton of new coronavirus cases

    11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  79. UK chipmaker Graphcore valued at $2.8bn after it raises $222m

    11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  80. The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin

    11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  81. Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest

    11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  82. Pentagon Imposed Emergency Shutdown of Secret Internet Protocol Router Network

    11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  83. As Tony Hsieh is memorialized in Vegas, fingers point at the 'Park City Crew'

    11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  84. Older Sad Man Syndrome

    11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  85. 45 Fantastic Online Communities for Entrepreneurs

    11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  86. Small Towns and Covid-19

    11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  87. IBM Dictionary of Computing Technology [pdf]

    11 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  88. Self-Driving A.I. In Action

    11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  89. Using JAX to Accelerate Research

    11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  90. Vintage Basic – Games

    11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  91. Beethoven and Freedom

    11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  92. Elites on the Edge

    11 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  93. Scientists studying why gamers invert their controls

    11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  94. A package for presenting person names

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  95. MediaTek Becomes Biggest Smartphone Chipset Vendor for First Time in Q3 2020

    11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  96. Bootstrap 5 Beta 1 is here

    11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  97. East Bay Democrat Compromised by Chinese Spy

    11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  98. Amazon Is Building Its Own Quantum Computer

    11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  99. Rebekah Jones: Florida police raid home of former state Covid-19 data scientist

    11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  100. Coffee Crisp candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2020