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Hacker News (2020)

Münchhausen Trilemma
134 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
REPL Driven Design
134 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Containers Are Not the Future
134 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Don't trust default timeouts
134 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects
134 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library
134 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Book Review: Hoover
134 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Why Military History?
134 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Bubble talk (2015)
134 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Launch HN: Mighty Health (YC S19) – Health coaching for people over 50
134 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes
134 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
When we lose weight, where does it go?
134 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature (2010)
134 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols
134 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
What is the engineering hiring bar?
134 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
A gentle intro to assembly with Rust
134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax
134 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
134 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video]
134 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Ask HN: How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?
134 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored
134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes
134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms
134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
New online bookshop unites indies
134 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
134 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui
134 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
A beginner-friendly introduction to Prometheus
134 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Why Every City Feels the Same Now
134 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts
134 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Show HN: The Least Dangerous To-Do List
134 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?
134 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Shelly – a programming language to draw in the browser
134 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Inciteful: Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature
134 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Pseudonymity as a Trivial Concession to Genius
134 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon
134 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Bypass kernel lockdown/UEFI secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 with ACPI SSDT injection
134 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Ham radio and astronauts
134 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)
134 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders
134 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
IBAHRI condemned UK treatment of Julian Assange in US extradition trial
134 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud gaming apps
134 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Tin Can Phone Modem
134 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
134 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
macOS 11 boot volume layout
134 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
A New Take on RSS
134 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)
134 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
IPv6 WireGuard Peering
134 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline
134 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks
134 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust
134 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
DeepMath Conference 2020 – Conference on the Mathematical Theory of DNN's
134 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
134 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Even if you’re asymptomatic, the coronavirus can do damage
134 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Dems pitch $100B broadband plan
134 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life
134 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members
134 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Why online voting is harder than online banking
134 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
134 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city
134 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12 Linux SBC's
134 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
When Should You Not Use Rails?
134 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low
134 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Working Group Last Call: QUIC protocol drafts
134 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
134 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++
134 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at home
134 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Casio Graphing Scientific Calculator Fx-9860GIII Comes with MicroPython
133 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
For Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything has been ‘sort of liberating’
133 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System
133 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic
133 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]
133 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Healthy Self-Doubt
133 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
133 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Ask HN: Your must-read HN post?
133 points • comment • may 18, 2020
On the Graying of Gnome
133 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors warn
133 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room
133 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
133 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class
133 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018)
133 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
133 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The Unreasonable Syntactic Expressivity of RNNs
133 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99
133 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
133 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
133 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
133 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI
133 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
433% Keyboard
133 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out
133 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right
133 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python
133 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
The Art of Prolog (1994)
133 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API
133 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?
133 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Why I often implement things from scratch (2006)
133 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
133 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Fancy honey might not actually be honey
133 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback
133 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Pentagon awards contracts to design mobile nuclear reactor
133 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Commander X16 8 bit computer now has its own website
133 points • comment • jul 11, 2020