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Hacker News (2020)

  1. GPT-3: A Disappointing Paper?

    135 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  2. An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program

    135 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  3. Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)

    135 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  4. Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp

    135 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  5. Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts

    135 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  6. Basics of Pneumatic Logic

    135 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  7. Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record

    135 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  8. San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

    135 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  9. Console for Mobile Browsers

    135 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  10. Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups

    135 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  11. Halide Mark II

    135 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  12. What's New in Lua 5.4

    135 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  13. AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them

    135 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  14. You might as well be a great copy editor

    135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  15. Apple Safari to Block Google Analytics from Collecting Data

    135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  16. Pinebook Pro, First Impressions

    135 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  17. As Their Numbers Grow, Covid-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts

    135 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  18. PlayCanvas, the Web-first game engine

    135 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  19. How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS

    135 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  20. U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

    135 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  21. Landmark math proof clears hurdle in top Erdős conjecture

    135 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  22. Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with domestically built plane

    135 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  23. Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve

    135 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  24. Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression

    135 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  25. Doing a math assignment with the Lean theorem prover

    135 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  26. Cellular Automata: Rule 30 fed as input to Conway’s Game of Life (2019) [video]

    135 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  27. Language Design: Use 'ident: Type' not 'Type ident'

    135 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  28. Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors

    135 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  29. Distinct on: a confusing, unique and useful feature in Postgres

    135 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  30. Excess mortality from March to December of 2020

    135 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  31. Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions

    135 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  32. Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf]

    135 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  33. BOLT: Binary Optimization and Layout Tool

    135 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  34. How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)

    135 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  35. Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile

    135 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  36. Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components

    135 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  37. What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)

    135 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  38. When will web browsers be complete?

    135 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  39. R number for UK below 1 for first time since August

    135 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  40. Backstage: an open platform for building developer portals

    135 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  41. Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions

    135 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  42. The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads

    135 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  43. Evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism (2013)

    135 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  44. Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls

    135 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  45. Show HN: Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts

    135 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  46. Bit Twiddling Hacks

    135 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  47. Planet is 'way off track' in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says

    135 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  48. YaCy: Decentralized Web Search

    135 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  49. LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)

    135 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  50. Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [pdf]

    135 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  51. Taking PHP Seriously (2016)

    135 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  52. A device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for clinical trials

    135 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  53. Having 170 competitors in not an obstacle

    135 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  54. Boiling the machines when they needed to just chill

    135 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  55. GitHub’s new offer closely matches that from GitLab

    135 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  56. How much is YouTube worth today?

    135 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  57. The social side of science seen in the research on programming language quality

    135 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  58. South Korea is composting its way to sustainability

    135 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  59. Werner Herzog: ‘Film-making is always some sort of risk-taking’

    135 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  60. New in Thunderbird 78

    135 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  61. List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools

    135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  62. UEFI-rs: Write UEFI applications in Rust

    135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  63. A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest–while staying in formation

    135 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  64. Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies

    135 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  65. The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session

    135 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  66. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

    135 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  67. State of SaaS Product Onboarding

    135 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  68. To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets

    135 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  69. Building the Mathematical Library of the Future

    135 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  70. Facebook Profits as Users Are Ripped Off by Scam Ads

    135 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  71. What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]

    135 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  72. Show HN: Flatend – Quickly build microservices using P2P networking in Node/Go

    135 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  73. Launch HN: Mighty Health (YC S19) – Health coaching for people over 50

    134 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  74. Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

    134 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  75. When we lose weight, where does it go?

    134 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  76. A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change

    134 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  77. The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library

    134 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  78. The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)

    134 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  79. U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes

    134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  80. A gentle intro to assembly with Rust

    134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  81. PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax

    134 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  82. Two Months with Powershell on a Unix

    134 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  83. New online bookshop unites indies

    134 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  84. Even if you’re asymptomatic, the coronavirus can do damage

    134 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  85. Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++

    134 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  86. Better Box Shadows (CSS)

    134 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  87. Apple M1 – a seriously fast x86 competitor

    134 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  88. How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses

    134 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  89. Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer

    134 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  90. DeepMath Conference 2020 – Conference on the Mathematical Theory of DNN's

    134 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  91. PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms

    134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  92. Ask HN: How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?

    134 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  93. Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life

    134 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  94. Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust

    134 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  95. The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low

    134 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  96. Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks

    134 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  97. 2020 Developer Survey Results

    134 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  98. U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored

    134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  99. A beginner-friendly introduction to Prometheus

    134 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  100. Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes

    134 points • comment • feb 12, 2020