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Hacker News (2020)

Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
118 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes
118 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Ninja: A simple way to do builds
118 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all
118 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Companies that help people vanish
118 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Hot-swapping Python 3 code
118 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify
118 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?
118 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
The Importance of India
118 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (1985)
118 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Portals API
118 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
118 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
118 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Open IP over VHF/UHF
118 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]
118 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
An Overview of Bayesian Inference (2019)
118 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Diffing Coronaviruses
118 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app
118 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
OpenMPTCProuter
118 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
118 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)
118 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Reverberations: An 8-bit approach to J.S. Bach
118 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
SteelSeries include adware in driver automatically installed by Windows Update
118 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Show HN: You had a productive day, until now
118 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Finding McAfee: a case study on geoprofiling and imagery analysis
118 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic
118 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Is anybody still using Windows 95?
118 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'
118 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Postdoc Myths
118 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
118 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
GitHub's new notifications: a case of regressive design
118 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure
118 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Show HN: Create Slides with Plain Text
118 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
The Erosion of Deep Literacy
118 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview
118 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
How to get stock fundamentals data with Python
118 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls With ReVoLTE
118 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]
118 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Going All in on the Mac App Store
118 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity [pdf]
118 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Skypack – A new kind of JavaScript delivery network
118 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
What we can learn from the 1918 flu pandemic
118 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
118 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
App lets banks lock your financed phone if you default on payment
118 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Project Coldfeet
118 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks
118 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Supreme Court of the United States to Live Stream Oral Arguments
118 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak
118 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]
118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Show HN: Audino – Open-Source Audio and Speech Annotation Tool
118 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau
118 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change
118 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
118 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
118 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global information flows
118 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Doctors and Nurses Are Running on Empty
118 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)
118 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Seven Sets Venn Diagram
118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled
118 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab
118 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
118 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates
118 points • comment • may 10, 2020
PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
118 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary
118 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)
118 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Feline coronavirus drug inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-2
117 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in
117 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The formula for pi buried in a hydrogen atom
117 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving
117 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Why operators are useful (2019)
117 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Treat artificial light like other forms of pollution, say scientists
117 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Hackers use an ordinary light bulb to spy on conversations 80 feet away
117 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Lessons in Managing Haskell Memory
117 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
117 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern
117 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
How to delete all your files
117 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Docker is a dangerous gamble which we will regret (2018)
117 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Show HN: An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top
117 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password
117 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Military scrambling to understand aviation crash risk from new 5G sale
117 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Using a Piece of Paper as a Display Terminal – Ed vs. Vim
117 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Etsy was a twee culture punchline, now it’s a Wall Street darling
117 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Tribalism comes for pandemic science
117 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly
117 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
117 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Why aren’t you more serious?
117 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)
117 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)
117 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Ask HN: How are online communities established?
117 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
10 KB Club: With links to popular HN, Reddit, Lobsters threads for each website
117 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
A family with no fingerprints
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Dynetics win contracts to land astronauts on moon
117 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks
117 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Python Generated Sequence Diagrams
117 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Kubernetes 1.20
117 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512GB EUFS 3.1
117 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Lubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
117 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Show HN: Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app
117 points • comment • jul 19, 2020