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Hacker News (2020)

The Eviction Tracking System: Monitor the number of U.S. eviction cases
115 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
State of Common Lisp Survey 2020
114 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
UK centralised contact-tracing app probably won't work well, may be illegal
114 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market
114 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties
114 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
A False Economy Powered by Ads and Lies
114 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons
114 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project
114 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Ludic Fallacy
114 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)
114 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outbreak
114 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Tesla X parts that had to be replaced after 400k miles
114 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Transit Costs Project
114 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Miniature 1959 IBM 1401 Console handmade polystyrene scratch build
114 points • comment • may 07, 2020
A Texas nonprofit experiments with land trusts, for affordable housing
114 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Entire Google search result pages are now ads
114 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Static Analysis
114 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots
114 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Blu-ray player keeps cycling on/off whenever plugged in
114 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Domain Logic and SQL (2003)
114 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Generative Teaching Networks: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search
114 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
A repository of beautiful photos and images
114 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia
114 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Hundreds riot at iPhone factory in India over exploitation claims
114 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Jira forcing users to give write access to GitHub and drive
114 points • comment • may 16, 2020
A single character code change
114 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Contributing Without Code
114 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants
114 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU
114 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Repairability
114 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Move, simply
114 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
TypeScript to C++
114 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
FAA faces dilemma over 737 Max wiring flaw that Boeing missed
114 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Personal income in the US shot up a record 10.5% in April
114 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video]
114 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Grassmann.jl A\b 3x faster than Julia's StaticArrays.jl
114 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Why it is important that software projects fail (2008)
114 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Nobody Cares (2011)
114 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Apple Silicon Games - 400+ Game Performance Reports for Apple Silicon Macs
114 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
New Fonts on macOS Catalina
114 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Collection of awesome projects, blog posts, books, and talks on quantifying risk
114 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
A Year with the Surface Go
114 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Two members of videogame piracy group “Team Xecuter” in custody
114 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
The first appearance of a real computer in a comic book
114 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell
114 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
In slime molds, evolution selects 'loners' who refrain from collective behavior
114 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
How I Make Yogurt (2019)
114 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
114 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Man Becomes Overnight Millionaire After Meteorite Crashes Through His Roof
114 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Problems, not solutions (2018)
114 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Sustainable Transport Planning with R
114 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs
114 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The Rise and Fall of BowieNet
114 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Rome: An Entire JavaScript Toolchain with Zero Third Party Dependencies
114 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
An instant classic about learning ancient Greek
114 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
114 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Play with Go
114 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
114 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Apple WWDC20
114 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Eulerian Video Magnification
114 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze
114 points • comment • may 23, 2020
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)
114 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Hotel in Tokyo installs flight simulator in room (2019)
114 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
MetricsDB: TimeSeries Database for storing metrics at Twitter
114 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
114 points • comment • may 18, 2020
I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)
114 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Real VT102 Emulation with MAME
114 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store
114 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics
114 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
ActivityPub Could Be the Future
114 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end
114 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
A forgotten twentieth-century photographer’s wild portraits of women in nature
114 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Mark Cuban says bailed out companies should never be allowed to buy back stocks
114 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago
114 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Syntax changes from C++11 to C++20
114 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
114 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Tabletop Simulator
114 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction
114 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Show HN: Little Ball of Fur – A Python library for graph subsampling
114 points • comment • may 18, 2020
How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel
114 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
114 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
The 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube
114 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (1991)
114 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt enemies they can't see
114 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology
114 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations
114 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Denmark: We can slash CO2 by 70% in a decade and still have welfare
114 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch in time to oversee the election
114 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended
114 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public
114 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
The FAQ of comp.lang.prolog is maintained as a Prolog source file
114 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Ray Tracer Sandbox in Vulkan
114 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Apple Removes Epic Games Account from App Store
114 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3
114 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Zoom In: Speculative claims about neural circuits
114 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
How to put machine learning models into production
114 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower (2018)
114 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice? (2013)
114 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Orbit – open-source design system
114 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn`
114 points • comment • jan 05, 2020