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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Far-right protesters disrupt Oregon Legislature special session

    10 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  2. The Great Covid Class War

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  3. Deep Analysis about SaaS companies

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  4. Ask HN: Does truly private DNS hosting exist?

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  5. James 'Scotty' Doohan's ashes may have been smuggled aboard the ISS

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  6. Google shutting down Poly 3D content platform

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  7. Google Discontinues the Google Home Max

    10 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  8. John Le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Is Dead at 89

    10 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  9. Using Types to Guarantee Domain Invariants

    10 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  10. Benefits Lapse for Millions as Trump Fails to Approve Bill

    10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  11. Tesseract: 4th Dimension Made Easy (1980) [video]

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  12. Nashville explosion disrupts flights and causes AT&T outage

    10 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  13. Three million users installed 28 malicious Chrome or Edge extensions

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  14. Decrypting the Signal App

    10 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  15. Telegram Down (Europe and the Middle East)

    10 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  16. Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects' alibis

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  17. Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

    10 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  18. Broomstick Weddings

    10 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  19. How to Clickbait a Developer: Catchy Title Trends

    10 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  20. GitHub Sponsors expansion

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  21. Today: Tell Congress Not to Bankrupt Internet Users

    10 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  22. Google breaks SMS on many Android phones, is rolling back changes now

    10 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  23. Discovery suggests new promise for nonsilicon computer transistors

    10 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  24. Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and declares martial law

    10 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  25. Amazon: Trump corruption the only explanation for Microsoft winning $10B deal

    10 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  26. Rethinking Connection Security Indicators (2016) [pdf]

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  27. Digital Twins, a Requirement for Industrial AI

    10 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  28. A tale of Template Haskell and cross compilation

    10 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  29. iFixit Teardown Reveals Few Differences Between iPhone 12, 12 Pro

    10 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  30. How to Do Interesting Work

    10 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  31. The Manager's Handbook

    10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  32. Faulty planes reportedly poison passengers on hundreds of flights

    10 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  33. Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot

    10 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  34. Microsoft breached in suspected Russian hack using SolarWinds

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  35. A new WoW signal from aliens?

    10 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  36. An Event, Perhaps by Peter Salmon Review – A Timely Biography of Jacques Derrida

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  37. The Rendering Equation [pdf]

    10 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  38. 70 Years of Glitchy Computer History Turned into Music (2015)

    10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  39. Midiblocks – Programming with Face Gestures

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  40. COVID origin: if we walk away from this, it will pave the way for future covids

    10 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  41. Cory Doctorow on TrickBot and UEFI

    10 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  42. SpaceX Starship high-altitude test flight

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  43. Sony Pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from Playstation Store

    10 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  44. Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon and Other Conspiracy Theories

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  45. Why the last Pringles Chip doesn't crack while shipping

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  46. Fictional Companies Wiki

    10 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  47. Ask HN: Where do you see yourself at the end of 2021?

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  48. Erlang: The Programming Language That Quietly Powers WhatsApp and WeChat

    10 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  49. Binance US Says It Will Delist XRP on Jan. 13

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  50. Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

    10 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  51. Physicists Nail Down the “Magic Number” That Shapes the Universe

    10 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  52. Germany tops the list of the most desired destinations for tech workers

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  53. 500k graphics cards found in an abandoned container

    10 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  54. Castlevania III Password Algorithm

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  55. Survival of the Luckiest

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  56. Biotech conference led to 245,000 Covid-19 cases across US

    10 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  57. Brian Kernighan Interviews Ken Thompson

    10 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  58. Docker and Python

    10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Does anyone do Scientific Coding?

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. We’re Never Going to Mine the Asteroid Belt

    10 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  61. Stanford hospital erupts in protest after vaccine plan leaves out residents

    10 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  62. Coinbase Files for IPO

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  63. Sam Altman: “to have the biggest possible impact in tech move to the Bay Area”

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  64. FTC investigating 9 social media and video streaming services

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  65. The valuation warning signs for stock markets

    10 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  66. Make passive income using Ethereum 2.0

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  67. Ask HN: If you write a book bout failure,& it doesn't sell,is it called success?

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  68. Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence

    10 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  69. More than 30 states file suit demanding breakup of Google (2nd antitrust suit)

    10 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  70. SGDT/SIDT Fiction and Reality (2017)

    10 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  71. The engineer’s engineer: Dave Cutler (2016)

    10 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  72. California’s Expanded Covid Unemployment System Corrupted by $2B in Fraud

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  73. House passes bill to decriminalize marijuana and wipe out convictions

    10 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  74. How (Doom-style) 3D projection works in 2 and a half minutes

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  75. Bit Manipulation with C++20

    10 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  76. Neural nets emulate sorting algorithms from images of their execution traces

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  77. The Buzzword.engineering Tech Stack

    10 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  78. Demand Side Sales 101

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  79. BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse

    10 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  80. Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online

    10 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  81. ASN.1 DER Decoder Using PostgreSQL Recursive CTEs

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  82. The Chinese government fakes nearly 450M social media comments a year

    10 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  83. When will the Covid-19 pandemic end?

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  84. LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

    10 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  85. FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny

    10 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  86. Westerners Grow Wary of China Travel over Threat of Detention

    10 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  87. China vs. Democracy: A Handbook for Democracies

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  88. Knowing amount of viral load could help doctors predict the course of disease

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  89. UI and Design Inspiration for Developers

    10 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  90. Twitter, the Politburo

    10 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  91. Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians [Axios Exclusive]

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  92. SpaceX Starship high altitude test live stream

    10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  93. Apple's Mac Mini is killing my Hackintosh

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  94. Postgres 13 Benchmark: Memory Speed vs. TPS

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  95. After 6 months: Zoom dumps Oracle cloud services in favor of AWS

    10 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  96. Using an Air Purifier May Be the Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Health

    10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  97. Ask HN: Google Play Music Alternative?

    10 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  98. Full repeal of Section 230 to push for $2k stimulus checks

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  99. A Vagus Nerve Survival Guide to Combat Fight-or-Flight Urges (2017)

    10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  100. Tesla Will Hit 500k Deliveries for 2020, say 2 Analysts

    10 points • comment • dec 30, 2020