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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Space Tethers: Stringing Up the Solar System

    138 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  2. Ken Allen

    138 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  3. Hermann Hauser: ‘It’s in Nvidia’s Interests to Destroy Arm’

    138 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  4. Cirque Du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection

    137 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  5. Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking

    137 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  6. Java Concurrency – Understanding the Basics of Threads

    137 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  7. Post-Covid heart damage in some children: study

    137 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  8. Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector

    137 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  9. Dictionary union (PEP 584) is merged

    137 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  10. Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

    137 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  11. Ansible-Defined Homelab

    137 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  12. Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings

    137 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  13. Dune Official Trailer

    137 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  14. Show HN: Panther v1.0 – Open Source, Cloud-Native SIEM

    137 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  15. F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core (2018)

    137 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  16. Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars

    137 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  17. Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in the brain

    137 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  18. Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)

    137 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  19. Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults

    137 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  20. Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser

    137 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  21. Brothels of Ancient Pompeii

    137 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  22. Fork Bomb

    137 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  23. Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

    137 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  24. Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London

    137 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  25. Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today”

    137 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  26. Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes

    137 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  27. Proton 5.13: A Massive Update

    137 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  28. Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan

    137 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  29. JITs are un-ergonomic

    137 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  30. How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers

    137 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  31. Ask HN: What Happened to Larry Page?

    137 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  32. Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

    137 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  33. NYC Subway Turnstile Data

    137 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  34. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis

    137 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  35. Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control

    137 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  36. Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (2014) [pdf]

    137 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  37. USB armory: an open-source hardware design, flash-drive sized computer

    137 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  38. Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler

    137 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  39. In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles

    137 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  40. Ignition an Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants [pdf]

    137 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  41. Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them

    137 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  42. The Faces of Microsoft (2017)

    137 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  43. Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality

    137 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  44. Wisp: A light Lisp written in C++

    137 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  45. 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)

    137 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  46. SaaSy Math: A Resource of SaaS Metrics for Your Startup

    137 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  47. Show HN: I built a comprehensive Ark ETF tracker

    137 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  48. TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  49. Shasqi (YC W15) aims to make chemotherapy more powerful and less toxic

    137 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  50. Show HN: Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer

    137 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  51. Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report

    137 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  52. Surprisingly Turing-Complete

    137 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  53. Rewriting the heart of our sync engine

    137 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  54. Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of employees work from home

    137 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  55. Emacs Survey 2020 Results

    137 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  56. Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount

    137 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  57. Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M

    137 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  58. Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits

    137 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  59. We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to

    137 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  60. Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

    137 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  61. Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates

    137 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  62. AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.”

    137 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  63. Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters

    137 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  64. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

    137 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  65. Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market

    137 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  66. Iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust

    137 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  67. Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)

    137 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  68. Show HN: Sales for Founders

    137 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  69. My 2020 desk setup

    137 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  70. Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)

    137 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  71. Precursor’s Custom PCBs

    137 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  72. Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit

    137 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  73. Why Zoom Chose Oracle

    137 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  74. ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

    137 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  75. Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?

    137 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  76. Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations

    137 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  77. Göbekli Tepe

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  78. Assange Hearing Day 8

    137 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  79. Deep Chernoff Faces

    137 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  80. The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled

    137 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  81. How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built

    137 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  82. IBM to face trial for lowering sales commissions after deals are closed

    137 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  83. I Feel Like I Have No Real Interests; My Only Interest Is Making Money

    137 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  84. Levandowski agrees to plea deal over Google secrets

    137 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  85. Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

    137 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  86. A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  87. What is emergence?

    137 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  88. Wirecard Scandal Puts Spotlight on Auditor Ernst and Young

    137 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  89. Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3

    137 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  90. Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark”

    137 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  91. Handling 350k Requests for $3 using Lambda

    137 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  92. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  93. Covid-19 Sanity – Covid-19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv searchable and sortable

    136 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  94. The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers everywhere

    136 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  95. Scientists find life in dead brain cells

    136 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  96. !!Con 2020 Livestream [video]

    136 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  97. Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld

    136 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  98. The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot

    136 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  99. Professional sporting events increase seasonal influenza mortality in US cities

    136 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  100. Algebraic Effects for React Developers

    136 points • comment • nov 01, 2020