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Hacker News (2020)

On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (1975) [pdf]
131 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs
131 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Grub2 security update renders system unbootable
131 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Bokehlicious Selfies
131 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Snabb: 100 Gbit/s pure software switching using Lua (2019)
131 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Ask HN: Why aren't there many credible online bachelors programs?
131 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing
131 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
These Lyrics Do Not Exist
131 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
What Happened to XPath?
131 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix
131 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
131 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Dell Sells RSA to Private Equity Firm for $2B
131 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked search algorithms
131 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them
131 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections
131 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Racket-on-Chez Status
131 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people remaining ill for so long?
131 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot
131 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
131 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
FFmpeg libav tutorial – from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more
131 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Optimizing 128-bit Division
131 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA
131 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Algebra Driven Design
131 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
131 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Why I am building permapeople.org
131 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building
131 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Spark joy by running fewer tests
131 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Is the world's best butter worth 50 dollars a pound? (2017)
131 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
131 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing
131 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
What Is Math?
131 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Running Lisp in Production (2015)
131 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Questions to help people decide what to learn
131 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
131 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors
131 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta
131 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982
131 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Launch HN: ElectroNeek (YC W20) – Automatically find and automate routine work
131 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
131 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
131 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017)
131 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Show HN: Pxy – A Go server that proxies websocket livestreams to RTMP servers
130 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
The Purpose of Writing
130 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview
130 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
We have no idea what happens next
130 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers
130 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos
130 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window
130 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
MySQL Sharding at Quora
130 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
The wild economy of tabletop board game funding
130 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Nebula Graph: A Linearly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database Written in C++
130 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'
130 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase
130 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
130 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches
130 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
130 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly
130 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Boeing proposal to avoid 737-MAX wiring shift does not win U.S. support
130 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Show HN: Assembled – Scale great customer support
130 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
With a simple piece of paper, engineers create self-powered, wireless keyboard
130 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric
130 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Understanding OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
130 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy
130 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Is Spotify Killing the Top 40?
130 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
British Society for Immunology open letter to Government on SARS-CoV-2 response
130 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997)
130 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
130 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (2015)
130 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows
130 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones
130 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Substantial undocumented infection facilitates rapid dissemination of SARS-CoV2
130 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
On Old Age
130 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
The Hunt for the Fastest Zero
130 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Who is the greatest knife steel metallurgist of all time?
130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster
130 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply
130 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Stocks Halt; Oil and Bonds Drop in Sync
130 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media
130 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
R7RS versus R6RS (2018)
130 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust
130 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
LICEcap: Simple Animated Screen Captures
130 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Typography in 8 bits: System fonts
130 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
130 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Twitter hack has profound national security implications
130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
AWS EC2 General Price Cut
130 points • comment • may 10, 2020
CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
130 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Dumping MiniDisc Media
130 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory
130 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?
130 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Formal Systems in Biology
130 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Show HN: Covid-19 Treatment Dashboard
130 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
EA Is Releasing Command and Conquer and Red Alert’s Source Code
130 points • comment • may 21, 2020
What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?
130 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
/.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile
130 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
How to make a simple all-sky camera
130 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week
130 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says
130 points • comment • jan 14, 2020