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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Resignation Letter

    593 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  2. A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP

    592 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  3. Airbnb S-1

    592 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  4. Google Open Source Code Search

    592 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  5. Why I Keep a Research Blog

    591 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  6. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

    591 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  7. Htop 3.0

    591 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  8. AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

    590 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

    590 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  10. I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers

    590 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  11. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

    590 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  12. From McDonald's to Google

    590 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  13. Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

    590 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  14. Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware

    590 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  15. Rust After the Honeymoon

    589 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  16. Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization

    589 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  17. Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library

    589 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  18. California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M

    589 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  19. Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert

    589 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  20. 13.3" full color ePaper display

    589 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  21. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM

    588 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  22. MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

    588 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  23. Introduction to D3

    588 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  24. Firefox 81.0

    588 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  25. Google gave our business listing to a competitor

    588 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  26. Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space

    588 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  27. Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You

    588 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  28. The Case of the Extra 40ms

    588 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  29. Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

    587 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  30. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

    587 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  31. Bug #915: Please help

    587 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  32. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

    587 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  33. Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed

    587 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  34. What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka

    586 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  35. Being a Noob

    586 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  36. James Randi Has Died

    586 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  37. DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

    585 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  38. Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

    585 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  39. Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

    584 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  40. Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

    584 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  41. AMD to Acquire Xilinx

    583 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  42. Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

    583 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  43. Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

    583 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  44. The Four Quadrants of Conformism

    582 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  45. EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against publishers

    582 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  46. Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

    582 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  47. ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems

    582 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  48. Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]

    582 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  49. OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

    579 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  50. E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall

    579 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  51. CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

    579 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  52. Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system

    579 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  53. An introduction to RabbitMQ

    579 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  54. Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

    578 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  55. Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids

    578 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  56. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    578 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  57. Orthodox Privilege

    577 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  58. Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

    577 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  59. Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

    576 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  60. Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus

    576 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  61. Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

    576 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  62. Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions

    576 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  63. Software Engineering Within SpaceX

    576 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  64. Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

    576 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  65. Wireless Is a Trap

    575 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  66. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

    575 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  67. Time is the only real currency we have

    575 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  68. EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces

    575 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  69. Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys

    575 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  70. Make LLVM Fast Again

    574 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  71. Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

    574 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  72. Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

    574 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  73. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

    572 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

    572 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  75. USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess

    572 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  76. Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

    571 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  77. The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents

    571 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  78. A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

    571 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  79. IKEA Frekvens LED box hack

    570 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  80. Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server

    569 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  81. Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees

    569 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  82. Chess tactics explained

    569 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  83. This Website Will Self Destruct

    568 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  84. What's the future of Servo?

    568 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  85. HashiCorp Boundary

    568 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  86. In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed

    568 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  87. NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975

    567 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  88. Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

    567 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  89. Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

    567 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  90. Tmux for Mere Mortals

    566 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  91. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

    566 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  92. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

    566 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  93. DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU

    566 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  94. The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off

    566 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  95. Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear

    565 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  96. Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

    565 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  97. US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat

    564 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  98. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

    563 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  99. De-escalating social media conflict

    563 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  100. No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981

    563 points • comment • oct 19, 2020