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Hacker News (2020)

J Notation as a Tool of Thought
153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
In Pursuit of PPE
153 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
153 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
How I recovered a lost email from my email client’s memory
153 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Haskell Foundation
153 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims
153 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel
153 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Redefining what sustainable fishing means
153 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number
153 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Reversing the technical interview (2017)
153 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Most-streamed track of the day by country
153 points • comment • may 28, 2020
People slept on grass beds 200k years ago
153 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Who Says Tcl Rules?
152 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world
152 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (2016)
152 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Collision
152 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
152 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
152 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket's computer
152 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots”
152 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Windows 10 has “python” command that redirects to the Windows Store
152 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Knuth versus Email (1999)
152 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’
152 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
152 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card
152 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
On GraphQL-to-SQL
152 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Warner music claimed my video for defending their copyright [video]
152 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings
152 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning
152 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Show HN: Sed to C translator written in sed
152 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
PlayStation 5: the specs and the tech
152 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
How to form a California LLC without a lawyer
152 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989
152 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
152 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Quibble – Custom Windows Bootloader
152 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory
152 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
152 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Cloud Traffic
152 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
StarCharter – CLI tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky
152 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard
152 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings
152 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Why Credit Card Fraud Is Still a Thing
152 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Annual Letter to Berkshire Shareholders (2019) [pdf]
152 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure
152 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator
152 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316 days)
152 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades
152 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
152 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Building a ternary computer at home: a software emulator
152 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
C++ the Good Parts (2014)
152 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Thank HN: All of you, this place, gives me hope
152 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Ibis – A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF
152 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Emails show Navy's 'UFO' patents went through significant internal review
152 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Hosting Provider Leaked 63M Records Including Magento and WordPress Credentials
152 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry
152 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk
152 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand
152 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app
152 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
OSv – Linux binary compatible unikernel for virtualized environments
152 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
152 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Interactive C++ for Data Science
152 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
The End of the American Internet
152 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
152 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Ask HN: Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?
152 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
152 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Creating a Home IPv6 Network
152 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect
152 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
152 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
152 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.4 Tree
152 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Forth implemented in Rust trait system
152 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?
152 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
152 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (1967)
152 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k
152 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Neil Armstrong's reply to a Moon landing skeptic
152 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Concorde ‘B’ (2014)
152 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Time spent programming is often time well spent
152 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time
152 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Multicore OCaml: September 2020
152 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Akira Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards
152 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers
152 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed
152 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver
152 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Observable and Creative Coding
151 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)
151 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
The future of 32-bit Linux
151 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
What Comes After Zoom?
151 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)
151 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
How x86_64 Addresses Memory
151 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming
151 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?
151 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Lisp Koans
151 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Iosevka, Version 3.0.0
151 points • comment • may 19, 2020
The Quantum Ad-List contains domains used by ads, trackers, malware
151 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family
151 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category
151 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn
151 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
I've walked away from software development
151 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Subinterpreters for Python
151 points • comment • may 13, 2020