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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

    563 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  2. No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981

    563 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  3. Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs

    563 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  4. Don't set the language of your website based on user location

    562 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  5. Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

    562 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  6. Rotary Cellphone

    562 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  7. Standing on our own two feet

    562 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  8. The Social Dilemma

    561 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  9. Graphics for JVM

    561 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  10. Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%

    560 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  11. Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data

    560 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  12. Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy

    560 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  13. How to SSH Properly

    559 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  14. Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

    559 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  15. SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

    559 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  16. Early Work

    559 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  17. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

    559 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  18. Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders

    558 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  19. UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs

    558 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  20. Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]

    558 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  21. Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

    558 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  22. Amazon Review Scam

    558 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  23. I built a lay-down desk

    557 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  24. I Miss Working from the Office

    557 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  25. GitHub Classroom

    557 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  26. How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes

    557 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  27. I’ve Consed Every Pair

    556 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  28. CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs

    556 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  29. I have seen things

    556 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  30. Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs

    556 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  31. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

    555 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  32. Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

    555 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  33. Tell HN: Call Mom

    555 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  34. Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

    555 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  35. Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

    555 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  36. Pi-hole 5.0

    554 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  37. Technical Writing Courses

    554 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  38. Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life

    553 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  39. FFmpeg 4.3

    553 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  40. Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays

    553 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  41. Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

    552 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  42. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

    552 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  43. Thomas Sowell interview

    552 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  44. The Miracle Sudoku [video]

    552 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  45. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

    551 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  46. Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers

    551 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  47. The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers

    551 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  48. Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data

    551 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  49. PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database

    550 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  50. Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

    550 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  51. The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

    550 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  52. Firefox 84.0

    550 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  53. Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health

    550 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  54. Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

    550 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  55. An app can be a home-cooked meal

    549 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  56. Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud

    549 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  57. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study

    549 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  58. The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

    549 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  59. Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms

    548 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  60. The state of the restaurant industry

    548 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  61. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

    548 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  62. Why Google Did Android

    548 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  63. Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers

    548 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  64. Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

    547 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  65. Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order

    547 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  66. Origins of the youtube-dl project

    547 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  67. Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script

    547 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  68. 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App

    546 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  69. PG and Jessica

    546 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  70. I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system

    546 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  71. HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”

    545 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  72. 3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits

    545 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  73. TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

    545 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  74. What would you do if you lost your Google account?

    545 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  75. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983

    544 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  76. New Stuff

    543 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  77. I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]

    543 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  78. Distributed Systems Reading List

    543 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  79. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

    543 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  80. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

    543 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  81. The Simpsons in CSS

    543 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  82. Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'

    543 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  83. PostgreSQL 13

    543 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  84. On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years

    542 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  85. Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

    542 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  86. The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

    542 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  87. Where are all the animated SVGs?

    542 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  88. Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

    542 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  89. Just Too Efficient

    541 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  90. NAT Slipstreaming

    541 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  91. Boston bans use of facial recognition technology

    541 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  92. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

    541 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  93. The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

    541 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  94. I now have an Oculus paperweight

    541 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  95. CSS in GitHub Readmes

    541 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  96. You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

    540 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  97. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

    540 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  98. Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

    540 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  99. Florian Schneider has died

    540 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  100. Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

    540 points • comment • aug 19, 2020