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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)

    143 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  2. School districts are sending WiFi-equipped buses to poor and rural neighborhoods

    143 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  3. Assange Hearing Day 3

    143 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  4. Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language

    143 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML

    143 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  6. The Unix Command Language (1976)

    143 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  7. Researchers Who Exposed VW Gain Little Reward from Success

    143 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  8. Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems

    143 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  9. DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

    143 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  10. Google Sheets was down

    143 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  11. Hacker Public Radio

    143 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  12. New technology for aluminum production promises zero CO2 emission

    143 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  13. Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming

    143 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  14. Claude Shannon Documentatry, “Bit Player”, Released Today

    143 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  15. What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

    143 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  16. A $500M call option on home gyms

    143 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  17. Ray Tracing in Nim

    143 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  18. Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009)

    143 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  19. Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer

    143 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  20. Mars rover is frozen in place following software error

    143 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  21. NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

    143 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  22. Show HN: An API to store balances and transactions

    143 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  23. The Xonsh Python Shell

    143 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  24. US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amendment Rights

    143 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  25. Learning@home hivemind – train large neural networks across the internet

    143 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  26. The Rust Performance Book

    143 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  27. Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland

    143 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  28. Amazon struggles to find its coronavirus footing

    143 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  29. Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

    143 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  30. Snap! 6 is here, and it's all about scale

    143 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  31. Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner

    143 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  32. Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon

    143 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  33. Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it

    143 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  34. The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

    143 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  35. Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers

    143 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  36. Xubuntu 20.04

    143 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  37. HN Readers

    143 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  38. Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phishing scam

    143 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  39. Show HN: The Book of Minecraft Modding

    143 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  40. “I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”

    143 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  41. Ask HN: Starting over after business failure

    143 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  42. USA tried to pay Germans so coronavirus cure vaccine would be exclusive to USA

    143 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  43. Unker Non-Linear Writing System

    143 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  44. SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility

    143 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  45. A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018)

    143 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  46. Coronavirus could force ISPs to abandon data caps forever

    143 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  47. AlphaGo – The Movie [video]

    143 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  48. Show HN: Compile Ruby to C

    143 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  49. NixCon Live

    143 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  50. Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app

    143 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  51. The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life

    143 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  52. Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (2014)

    143 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  53. Operation Dark Winter

    143 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  54. Keybase: Public, Signed Files

    143 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  55. How We Got the Favicon (2017)

    143 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  56. Launch HN: Narrator (YC S19) – a data modeling platform built on a single table

    143 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  57. Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

    143 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  58. Dat: A P2P hypermedia protocol with public-key-addressed file archives

    143 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  59. The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low

    143 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  60. Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insights for open-source packages

    143 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  61. I turned my entrepreneur journey into a game

    143 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  62. Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff

    143 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  63. Skybolt: A C++ planetary environment rendering engine with Python bindings

    143 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  64. Google, Facebook make statements to staff about working from home for 2020

    143 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  65. A man who posted himself to Australia (2015)

    143 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  66. Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to move to Tulsa

    143 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  67. Realm of Racket

    143 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  68. KeePassXC 2.5.2

    143 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  69. Rethinking OpenBSD Security

    143 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  70. Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac

    142 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  71. Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

    142 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  72. Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company's climate failures

    142 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  73. Social Media Analysis Toolkit: Open-Source Tool for Tracking Disinformation

    142 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  74. The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity

    142 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  75. CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history

    142 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  76. Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity

    142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  77. Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard

    142 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  78. YC Companies Responding to Covid-19

    142 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  79. Unix Wars (2000)

    142 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  80. Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting

    142 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  81. Is Cyberpunk Dead? A Conversation with Bruce Bethke

    142 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  82. Gauss’s “Remarkable Theorem” and the best way to hold a pizza slice (2014)

    142 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  83. Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

    142 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  84. Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018)

    142 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  85. The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated

    142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  86. Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml

    142 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  87. DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes

    142 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  88. Ask HN: I lost my job

    142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  89. Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI

    142 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  90. In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky

    142 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  91. Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”

    142 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  92. The frustration of trying to invest in my hometown

    142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  93. Cloudflare’s privacy crusade continues with a challenge to Google Analytics

    142 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  94. What's Coming in Go 1.15

    142 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  95. SELECT wat FROM sql

    142 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  96. Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development?

    142 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  97. Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information

    142 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  98. Solar Storm of 1859

    142 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  99. City of Amsterdam’s Algorithm Register

    142 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  100. How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)

    142 points • comment • feb 11, 2020