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Hacker News (2020)

NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch
618 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
The Airbnbs
618 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
A History of Clojure [pdf]
618 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions
617 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Firefox 73
617 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice
616 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
616 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
How to brainstorm great business ideas
616 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
615 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
614 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
614 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
614 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages
614 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
613 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
613 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
613 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
613 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack
613 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
613 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
613 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Learn D3
612 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
How Discord Won
612 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
No More Google
612 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
612 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
612 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
The Era of Visual Studio Code
612 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS
612 points • comment • may 03, 2020
SVG Path Editor
611 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
610 points • comment • may 31, 2020
FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
610 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign
610 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
610 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
610 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Responsive Pixel Art
610 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Nubank acquires Cognitect
609 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Donald Knuth was framed
609 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
609 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Ultimate Electronics
609 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Interview advice that got me offers
608 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years
608 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
608 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
608 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
608 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Software will eat software in a remote-first world
606 points • comment • may 25, 2020
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
605 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
605 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
605 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves
605 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
605 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
604 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
604 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
604 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
604 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design
603 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
603 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
602 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
602 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions
602 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
602 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
602 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Eddie Van Halen has died
602 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly
602 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
602 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
601 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
1Password for Linux development preview
601 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
601 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Free and liberated e-books, carefully produced for the true book lover
600 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
600 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Clayton Christensen has died
600 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Hipmunk Says Goodbye
600 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
598 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
598 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Gimp is 25 years old today
598 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
598 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
598 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Show HN: This website is valid JSON
597 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
597 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
597 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
597 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
597 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
597 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React
597 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Self-host your fonts for better performance
596 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Apple Lightning
596 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
I've collected over 600 pitch decks
596 points • comment • may 25, 2020
A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
596 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
596 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet
595 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
595 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
595 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
595 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
594 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Google backtracks on search results design
594 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
594 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
594 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
593 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
What Is Nix?
593 points • comment • may 20, 2020
U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
593 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Google recommends all North America employees work from home
593 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Resignation Letter
593 points • comment • jul 14, 2020