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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

    520 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  2. Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard

    520 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  3. The boss who put everyone on 70K

    520 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  4. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

    520 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  5. Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers

    520 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  6. The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org

    519 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  7. The Art of Not Thinking

    519 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  8. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

    519 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  9. Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

    519 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  10. Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

    518 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  11. Flow browser passes the Acid tests

    517 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  12. Hum to Search Song

    517 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  13. SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019

    517 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  14. Pimp My Microwave

    517 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  15. Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill

    517 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  16. Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG

    517 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  17. After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform

    517 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  18. Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020

    517 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  19. SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative

    516 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  20. Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

    516 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  21. Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

    516 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  22. N26 will be leaving the UK

    516 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  23. AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs

    516 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  24. 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

    516 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  25. VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment

    516 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  26. Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

    515 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  27. 50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic

    515 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  28. ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes

    515 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  29. Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

    515 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  30. Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

    515 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  31. Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

    514 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  32. CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

    514 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  33. Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

    514 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  34. Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”

    514 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  35. Bouncing DVD Logo

    514 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  36. About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean

    514 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  37. Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology

    514 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  38. Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources

    514 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  39. The software industry's greatest sin: hiring

    514 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  40. How to Speak (2018) [video]

    513 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  41. The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

    513 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  42. Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

    512 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  43. Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

    512 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  44. What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?

    512 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  45. Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

    511 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  46. Idea Generation

    511 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  47. Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight

    511 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  48. Crew Dragon Docks with ISS

    510 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  49. Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

    510 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  50. Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu

    510 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  51. Symbian Won

    510 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  52. We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%

    510 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  53. OpenAI API

    510 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  54. California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035

    509 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  55. Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

    509 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?

    509 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  57. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

    508 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  58. The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains

    508 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  59. Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress

    507 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  60. Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground

    507 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  61. Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects

    507 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  62. No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback

    507 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  63. Notes on My Colon Cancer

    506 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  64. LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison

    506 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  65. My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

    506 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  66. Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

    505 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  67. Become Shell Literate

    505 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  68. Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming

    505 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  69. Billionaires Build

    505 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  70. Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects

    505 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  71. Open-Source Virtual Background

    505 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  72. Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

    504 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  73. Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps

    504 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  74. BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory

    504 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  75. Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

    504 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  76. Show HN: Visual SQL

    503 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  77. The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

    503 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  78. Back to the '70s with Serverless

    503 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  79. Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets

    503 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  80. Pressing YubiKeys

    503 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  81. Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad

    502 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  82. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

    502 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  83. New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat

    502 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  84. DIY Video Hosting

    502 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  85. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

    502 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  86. Dive into Deep Learning

    502 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  87. Pandas 1.0

    502 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  88. 7GUIs

    502 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  89. Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

    502 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  90. There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs

    502 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  91. Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

    501 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  92. Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government

    501 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  93. RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

    501 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  94. Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi

    501 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  95. Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document

    501 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  96. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

    500 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  97. Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows

    500 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  98. Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect

    500 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  99. PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database

    500 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  100. Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform

    499 points • comment • dec 07, 2020