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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Software quality/delay problems are coming from one source: constant changes

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  2. Employers now allowed to take tips from waiters, split them with other workers

    10 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  3. America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster

    10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  4. Ask HN: If you could time travel, where would you go?

    10 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  5. Online WebCam Eye-Tracking API

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  6. Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle

    9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  7. Social Networking 2.0

    9 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  8. Show HN: TinyBaker, a library for defining composable file-to-file transforms

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  9. Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker

    9 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  10. Coverage of “wooden satellites” misses the point

    9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  11. Alibaba's Software Can Find Uighur Faces, It Told China Clients

    9 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  12. Tesla UI refresh (Model 3) is bad

    9 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  13. CDC's Redfield says 'the most difficult' months in health history loom

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  14. Hollywood studio MGM puts itself up for sale at $5bn

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  15. Nashville explosives attack on AT&T impacts regional communications

    9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  16. Support the Free Software Foundation

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  17. A Poet Who Wrote the Way Abstract Expressionists Painted

    9 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  18. From Coils to Curves – A Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

    9 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  19. Ask HN: Any good resources out there on putting together consulting packages?

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  20. Phosphorus equivalent of graphene makes reconfigurable transistors

    9 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  21. Learning to program at 57 years young

    9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  22. Enigma: Archaeologists find legendary Nazi cipher machine in the Baltic Sea

    9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  23. Congress (Once Again) Sells Out to Hollywood

    9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  24. Nashville Bomber's Reported Paranoia: Between 5G Reality and Marketing

    9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  25. JetBrains CLion for Apple Silicon is now available

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  26. Covid-19 vaccine: Allergy warning

    9 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  27. Netscape Communicator 4 and SHA-1 are part of Brexit agreement

    9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  28. Ben Bova Passes Away at 88

    9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  29. A side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines

    9 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  30. The Wuhan Files

    9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  31. Ask HN: What are some interesting APIs (free or paid) available to anyone

    9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  32. World now has 500 unicorns, 70% of which in US and China

    9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  33. The Mystery of the Gatwick Drone

    9 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  34. Why the Office Isn’t Going Away

    9 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  35. Ghost-Gun Company Raided by Federal Agents

    9 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  36. Show HN: Cyberpunk city, Urban fantasy art, Rainy city

    9 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  37. Cloudflare Pages

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  38. Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  39. The Year in Math and Computer Science

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  40. All 300 computer science students at ANU penalised due to widespread cheating

    9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  41. Show HN: NotAn.app

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  42. How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits

    9 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  43. How bots are buying PS5s and inflating prices

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  44. Yes! High level languages should be used to write systems software (1975)

    9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  45. Show HN: I created a platform to track retail traders' most popular moves

    9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  46. Show HN: ParttimeCareers – Yet Another Part-Time Jobs Website

    9 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  47. IN 2020, Disinformation Broke the US

    9 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  48. Salesforce prevents employee from sitting on external board

    9 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  49. Wikipedia rejected entry for Nobel Prize winner because she wasn’t famous enough

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  50. Fungus zombifies plants and forces them to grow pseudoflowers covered in spores

    9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  51. Weather Underground Organization

    9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  52. What Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Wrong About the Genre

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  53. mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  54. Pinterest Settles Gender Discrimination Suit for $22.5M

    9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  55. I cannot convince Twitter that I am human

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  56. A Chain Just Cut Through a Capsized Cargo Ship and the Process Is Fascinating

    9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  57. SEC Sues Ripple over XRP Cryptocurrency

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  58. MacKenzie Scott gives away $4.2bn in four months

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  59. Where to Start with Design Tokens

    9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  60. Cryptographers Unveil Breakthrough in Achieving Indistinguishability Obfuscation

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  61. Remote Workers Fleeing High-Cost Cities, Not All Cities

    9 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  62. Judge Declares H-1B Visa Rules Unlawful

    9 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. Redesigning Search would harm American consumers and businesses

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  64. Password Cracking with Deep Learning

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  65. Deep-learning robot Shimon writes and rhymes in real time

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  66. Kiwi adults know more te reo Māori than they realize, study reveals

    9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  67. Photos That Bear Witness to Modern Slavery

    9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  68. Chicken Hypnotism

    9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  69. Why won’t New York’s leaders share the data on restaurants and Covid-19?

    9 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  70. Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

    9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  71. Catalina: Instead of fix, package contained chime

    9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  72. MeshCentral: Self-hosted web-based management of remote computers

    9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  73. Ask HN: What websites do you use when searching for a programming job?

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  74. Golang First Impressions

    9 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  75. The Market Curve

    9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  76. I Hate Cilantro

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  77. Advanced TypeScript Type Tricks

    9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  78. Ditch Nuclear and Save $860M with Grid Flexibility, U.K. Told

    9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  79. William Barr to Step Down as Attorney General Before Christmas

    9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  80. The 512KB Club

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  81. Fusion energy device sets a record by running for 20 seconds

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  82. Building x86_64 Docker containers on Apple Silicon

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  83. Investigation identifies Russian specialists who trailed Putin's nemesis

    9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  84. Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  85. The Author's Curse (2006)

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  86. 'They can take me away': Bay Area salon refuses to close

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  87. Making an HTAP Database a Reality: What I Learned from PingCAP's VLDB Paper

    9 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  88. Pfizer’s CEO hasn’t gotten Covid vaccine, saying he doesn’t want to cut in line

    9 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  89. Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes

    9 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  90. Zoom may launch email service and calendar app to compete with Google, Microsoft

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  91. The Fan Game – Ghostbusters and the Secret of Monkey Island

    9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  92. Elie Metchnikoff, the Man and the Myth (2016)

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  93. Justice minister announces online freedom of speech bill

    9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  94. Show HN: TQL – Codegen-free and typesafe GraphQL operations in TypeScript

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  95. Hackers accessed Microsoft cloud customers' information through third party

    9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  96. Rimac Tests Its Hypercar So It Won’t Brick Stoplights with EM Radiation

    9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  97. Facebook Accused of Squeezing Rival Startups in Virtual Reality

    9 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  98. Ask HN: Do you have a coach? What are your recommendations getting one?

    9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  99. MFK Fisher's Sensual Realm (1988)

    9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  100. The web did not turn 30 years old four days ago

    9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020