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Hacker News (2020)

Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says
142 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada
142 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Three typefaces for mathematics (2007) [pdf]
142 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab
142 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)
142 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity
142 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
YC Companies Responding to Covid-19
142 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Laziness Impatience Hubris
142 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
142 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
How to catch a spy that is using a numbers station – The KGB Experience
142 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Gauss’s “Remarkable Theorem” and the best way to hold a pizza slice (2014)
142 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Frontpage: The Good, Bad and Ugly
142 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Macy’s to Furlough 100k Employees
142 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
MicroProse Returns with the Mighty Eighth, a 10-Player WWII B-17 Simulator
142 points • comment • may 29, 2020
St. Louis Fed estimates 32% unemployment, 52M out of work
142 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information
142 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes
142 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
The frustration of trying to invest in my hometown
142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Ask HN: I lost my job
142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
142 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity
142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
In Bangladesh, the majority of e-commerce now happens on Facebook
142 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
142 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Unix Wars (2000)
142 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018)
142 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI
142 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company's climate failures
142 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated
142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Solar Storm of 1859
142 points • comment • may 04, 2020
BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up
142 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight
142 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
142 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks
142 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”
142 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript
142 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Regexes vs. Combinatorial Parsing (2019)
142 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
142 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Social Media Analysis Toolkit: Open-Source Tool for Tracking Disinformation
142 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc
142 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
142 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Farewell, Periscope
142 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development?
142 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Handshake – A Namespace for the Decentralized Web
142 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting
142 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml
142 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”
142 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Json-Base – Database built as JSON files
142 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
The Untimely Demise of Workstations
142 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
How NAT Traversal Works
142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac
142 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
The Dec 21, 2020 Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
141 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Today is LibreOffice 10th Anniversary
141 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI
141 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
The Problem with Git Flow
141 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)
141 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
141 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)
141 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Show HN: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book
141 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
An End to High Memory?
141 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
You Can Pay Credit Suisse Not to Work There
141 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data
141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
The V Programming Language
141 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC
141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX
141 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
141 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros
141 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust
141 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Our World in Data: Suicide
141 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
When to Overcommunicate
141 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Yahoo Groups is closing down
141 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold
141 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Show HN: React Native scrollable bottom sheet native animations gestures 60FPS
141 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents
141 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]
141 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
“Google Drive” would like to receive keystrokes from any application
141 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
141 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 flu pandemic
141 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
141 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury
141 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
141 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Crema Coffee in San Jose Closes Due to ADA Lawsuit
141 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
141 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Neumorphism in User Interfaces
141 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Spamtoberfest
141 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
SeL4 Design Principles
141 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine
141 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships
141 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Nikon Issues Small Recall for a 16-Year-Old Film Camera
141 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads
141 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Deprecating SHA1
141 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
One Word Broke C
141 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
A web of trust for NPM
141 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Actix Web – Project Future
141 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)
141 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartphone sold in the US
141 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)
141 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Swiss journalist re-implements ClearViewAI in two weeks with OS software
141 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things
141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Ply: A Visual Web Inspector (2018) [slides]
141 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020