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Hacker News (2020)

Air conditioning's original purpose was to enable factory processes
110 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)
110 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample
110 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
L-System
110 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Paul Klee's personal notebooks on his Bauhaus teachings (2016)
110 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process, CPUs Could Be TSMC 3nm
110 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
The mythical “fast” web page
110 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
How the CPython compiler works
110 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
How Taiwan’s Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down
110 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident
110 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Arch Conf 2020
110 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Trump Halts U.S. Funding of World Health Organization
110 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Show HN: Chatistics – Turn Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger Chatlogs to DataFrames
110 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Xen on Raspberry Pi 4
110 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling
110 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks
110 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins
110 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves
110 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
The economics of the Tour de France
110 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Re: Flex Dance: open-source dance pad
110 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies
110 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
C++20 Reference Card
110 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
The Age of M-Pesa
110 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
110 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
The HP-35
109 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
3D Electron Orbitals of Hydrogen
109 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Show HN: An online collaborative UML editor using PlantUML
109 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Single-Celled Organism Appears to Make Decisions (2019)
109 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Man Dressed as Delivery Driver Executes Hit on Federal Judges House
109 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again (2018)
109 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Not Just Nuclear: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn
109 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
109 points • comment • may 21, 2020
How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home
109 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
We Still Need Howard Zinn
109 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Building Containers Without Docker
109 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space
109 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
France, Italy, Belgium stop hydroxychloroquine use for Covid-19 on safety fears
109 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
109 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Video chats short-circuit a brain function essential for trust?
109 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Immutable Databases
109 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Preact: Fast 3kb React Alternative with the Same API, Components and Virtual DOM
109 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust
109 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
This Community is Available in the App
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware
109 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Two Workers Are Quadratically Better Than One
109 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Lamphone: Real-Time Passive Sound Recovery from Light Bulb Vibrations
109 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984)
109 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Stop Abusing Semver
109 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Tools I use: argparse builder
109 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
109 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Seen everywhere in last U.S. crisis, moral hazard is nowhere in this one
109 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)
109 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Don’t Think, Just Defunctionalize
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Interval Tree Clocks
109 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro
109 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)
109 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
109 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Deleting data distributed throughout a microservice architecture
109 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Zoom Endpoint-Security Considerations
109 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Unfck the Internet
109 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
109 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
The Business Case for Formal Methods
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Fourier Filtering
109 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
New Cobalt-free Li-ion battery reduces costs with similar design and performance
109 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model
109 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
109 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
New Explainable AI Algorithms
109 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)
109 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
We Are Built to Forget
109 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Welcome to the Virosphere
109 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
How toilet paper is made (2014) [video]
109 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
The Changing World Order
109 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Really Atari ST?
109 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
109 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
The World of Competitive Lockpicking
109 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Debian 10.7 Released
109 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Learn Istio: A Service Mesh and Istio Resource List
109 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Clang vs. other open-source compilers
109 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Microship.com: The Library of Technomadics
109 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (2011)
109 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
WireGuard as VPN Server on Kubernetes with AdBlocking
109 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Have Aliens Found Us? (2019)
109 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
The vocal ranges of the greatest artists of all time
109 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
109 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
109 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Guilemacs – Emacs with Guile Scheme
109 points • comment • may 25, 2020
AWS Boilerplate
109 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
109 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
A Statistical Analysis of Coughing Patterns on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’
109 points • comment • may 04, 2020
A Pedometer in the Real World (2015)
109 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income
109 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Teletext Bad Apple
109 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
GCC 9.3
109 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Design like it’s 1999
109 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Space Engine – The Universe Simulator
109 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
In north Michigan woods, feds raid an alleged upscale art forgery factory
109 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Launch HN: Cotter (YC W20) – Secure One-Click Phone Number Login
109 points • comment • mar 10, 2020