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Hacker News (2020)

Covid-19: The T Cell Story
136 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Papyrus, a Rust REPL
136 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?
136 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Time on Unix
136 points • comment • may 02, 2020
25th Anniversary of the Theatrical Release of "Hackers"
136 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
!!Con 2020 Livestream [video]
136 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg
136 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation
136 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You
136 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Jonathan Blow on Rust
136 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Goals and Priorities for C++
136 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols
136 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?
136 points • comment • may 20, 2020
AI thinks like a corporation (2018)
136 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Is There a Google-Free Future for Firefox?
136 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?
136 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
136 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
How coronavirus spread from patient zero in Seattle
136 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
The Early History of F# [pdf]
136 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
A Peek Into Graviton2
136 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld
136 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Options for giving math talks and lectures online
136 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
136 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for speech violation
136 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Why Karachi Floods
136 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
African grey parrots spontaneously 'lend a wing'
136 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning (2015)
136 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
A game in a pure language (part 1): introduction and problems with Idris
136 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Professional sporting events increase seasonal influenza mortality in US cities
136 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
An equation that takes Pythagoras to a new level
136 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content
136 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
“Evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language”
136 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Show HN: Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly
136 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
136 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video]
136 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Launch HN: Nextmv (YC W20) – Developer-friendly logistics algorithms
136 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
The French Army Is Building Renaissance-Style Fortresses in Africa
136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation
136 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash
136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Scientists find life in dead brain cells
136 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease
136 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Plasma 5.18
136 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
The international student bait-and-switch
136 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT
136 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
136 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Covid-19 Sanity – Covid-19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv searchable and sortable
136 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
PHP Built-In Web Server
136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Benford's Law
136 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019)
136 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD
136 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah
136 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index
136 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
136 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers everywhere
136 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year
136 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
The Object Model of Self
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Programming at the REPL (2018)
136 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
136 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Galileo's Ground Segment Problem
136 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Understanding DNS: Anatomy of a BIND zone file
136 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Rust docs team is no more
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake
136 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Stranded after driving out of cellphone range in app-powered smart car
136 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Show HN: Visualize Graph Theory
136 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
A Little Clojure
136 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
136 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]
136 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
136 points • comment • may 28, 2020
The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot
136 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested
136 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Cooperative Corporation of Dot-Org Registrants
136 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy
136 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management system
136 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Babylon.js 4.2
136 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)
136 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Good coders borrow, great coders steal
136 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work
136 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Why Is There a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee?
136 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
IMAP API – self hosted daemon to access IMAP and SMTP accounts via HTTP API
136 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Optimize Onboarding
136 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
The future of electricity is local
136 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Between two Lisps
136 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Longbets: A bioerror will lead to one million casualties by Dec 2020
136 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]
135 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Taking PHP Seriously (2016)
135 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
R number for UK below 1 for first time since August
135 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Facebook Profits as Users Are Ripped Off by Scam Ads
135 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
You might as well be a great copy editor
135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Excess mortality from March to December of 2020
135 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
What's New in Lua 5.4
135 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Bit Twiddling Hacks
135 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Picat 3.0 released (logic-based multi-paradigm programming language)
135 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve
135 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets
135 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions
135 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
How much is YouTube worth today?
135 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Show HN: Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts
135 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies
135 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression
135 points • comment • dec 23, 2020