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Hacker News (2020)

What’s Flying Above Us?
539 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Medium is not the home for your ideas
539 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
539 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
539 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission
539 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Linus: Don't Use ZFS
539 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
538 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
How to deal with extreme physical pain
538 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Riot is now Element
538 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
538 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
538 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
We can do better than DuckDuckGo
538 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online
538 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers
538 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
538 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S.
537 points • comment • may 15, 2020
A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume
537 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
537 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
On Coding, Ego and Attention
537 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
537 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes
536 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
536 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Common mistakes using Kubernetes
536 points • comment • may 17, 2020
I've been writing TILs for 5 years
536 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices
536 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
The Wolfram Physics Project
536 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
535 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Making Emacs Popular Again
535 points • comment • may 07, 2020
How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection
535 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists
534 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
App Review process updates
534 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
534 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
534 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings
534 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)
533 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
533 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
One hour of slow breathing changed my life
533 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
533 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
533 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
532 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
532 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
532 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
532 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
532 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Visa Buys Plaid
531 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
531 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
531 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
530 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
530 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
California Attorney General delays .org sale
530 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Leaving Mozilla
530 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Git is too hard
529 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
An update on our security incident
529 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
529 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
529 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
528 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
528 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
How I remember what I learn
528 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors
528 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
527 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
527 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised
527 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]
527 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys
527 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Secret iPad
526 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Xi-Editor Retrospective
526 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
526 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
526 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
525 points • comment • may 19, 2020
How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub
525 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
525 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
525 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Python 3.9
525 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
The most surprising Unix programs
524 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement
524 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
A possible new back end for Rust
524 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
How to Become a Hacker
524 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
524 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
523 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott
523 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
523 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
522 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
522 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
522 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Firefox 74
522 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
522 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers
522 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds
522 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Debt is coming to the tech industry
522 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Bitcoin Halving Just Occured
521 points • comment • may 11, 2020
The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
521 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
521 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
521 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
521 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
521 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Johnny.Decimal
521 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
521 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
521 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
521 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
520 points • comment • jul 08, 2020