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Hacker News (2020)

Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab
118 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change
118 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Diffing Coronaviruses
118 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Logic, Before ICs
118 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates
118 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
118 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'
118 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary
118 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
An Overview of Bayesian Inference (2019)
118 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (2018)
118 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars
118 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
App lets banks lock your financed phone if you default on payment
118 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
How to get stock fundamentals data with Python
118 points • comment • may 05, 2020
NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity at a Personal Scale
118 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required
118 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Companies that help people vanish
118 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity [pdf]
118 points • comment • may 08, 2020
SteelSeries include adware in driver automatically installed by Windows Update
118 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
118 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
GPT-3 Examples
118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Bill Manning has died
118 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
118 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020
118 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Seven Sets Venn Diagram
118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Pinephone – Community Edition: UBports
118 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global information flows
118 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)
118 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app
118 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers
118 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
What “Roguelike” Meant
118 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines
118 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Is anybody still using Windows 95?
118 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all
118 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Open IP over VHF/UHF
118 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Going All in on the Mac App Store
118 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Hot-swapping Python 3 code
118 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
118 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
The Importance of India
118 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp
118 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (1985)
118 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Real Time Continuous Blood Monitoring
118 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls With ReVoLTE
118 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
118 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Why facial recognition has led to false arrests
118 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?
118 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]
118 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Show HN: A Commodore Amiga Workbench Style Smart Watch with Mod and Say Support
118 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform
118 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
118 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Apple is facing rage from developers over the commission on the App Store
118 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
118 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
118 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau
118 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
OpenMPTCProuter
118 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure
118 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
My Life Countdown (2007)
118 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Ninja: A simple way to do builds
118 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify
118 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture, part 2
118 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]
118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Portals API
118 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Skypack – A new kind of JavaScript delivery network
118 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]
118 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes
118 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
A Pipeline Made of Airbags
118 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern
117 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
How the CCP Does Job Promotions
117 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
TiddlyWiki 5.1.23
117 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Remote control truck with remote control gun, self destructed after attack
117 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Mega free-trade deal a lifeline for Australia-China relations
117 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform
117 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities
117 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Military scrambling to understand aviation crash risk from new 5G sale
117 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
117 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
10 KB Club: With links to popular HN, Reddit, Lobsters threads for each website
117 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
117 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Kubernetes 1.20
117 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing
117 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
117 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Hackers use an ordinary light bulb to spy on conversations 80 feet away
117 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Etsy was a twee culture punchline, now it’s a Wall Street darling
117 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital
117 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio]
117 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (2011)
117 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree
117 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
A man who grows fields full of tables and chairs (2015)
117 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I
117 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Treat artificial light like other forms of pollution, say scientists
117 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
My Procedurally Generated Music Is Awful
117 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
117 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light
117 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
117 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
A family with no fingerprints
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)
117 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Home Price-to-Income Ratios
117 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine
117 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Lubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
117 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Why I’m Willing to Pay a Premium for Security, Privacy, and Peace of Mind
117 points • comment • aug 28, 2020