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Hacker News (2020)

Zoom Endpoint-Security Considerations
109 points • comment • apr 17, 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
In north Michigan woods, feds raid an alleged upscale art forgery factory
109 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)
109 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The World of Competitive Lockpicking
109 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro
109 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space
109 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)
109 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
109 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
New Cobalt-free Li-ion battery reduces costs with similar design and performance
109 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)
109 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income
109 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Man Dressed as Delivery Driver Executes Hit on Federal Judges House
109 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home
109 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
A Pedometer in the Real World (2015)
109 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Microship.com: The Library of Technomadics
109 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Stop Abusing Semver
109 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
i8080 precise replica in Verilog, based on reverse engineering of real die
109 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Really Atari ST?
109 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)
108 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
108 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56
108 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go
108 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)
108 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints
108 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Show HN: An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors
108 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Feynman Lectures on the Strong Interactions
108 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018)
108 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector
108 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Zoom 5.0
108 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
The blissfully escapist comic novels of PG Wodehouse
108 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’?
108 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Robinhood has lured young traders, sometimes with devastating results
108 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
A 160k-year-old jaw in a Tibetan cave might explain high altitude living
108 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfuck-inspired technology
108 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019
108 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types
108 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
EU mulls five-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas
108 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006)
108 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Improved chess game compression (2018)
108 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more
108 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Microsoft's Three Browsers
108 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Icdiff: Side-by-side highlighted command line diffs
108 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Principles to help design and deploy a zero trust architecture
108 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes
108 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Dressing for the Surveillance Age
108 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
μPlot v1.1 – now with log scales support
108 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Show HN: A Simple GPU Hash Table
108 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
ACLU sues Palo Alto over ‘unconstitutional’ restrictions at residents-only park
108 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Recovering Iran’s NOUR 01 ‘Military Satellite’
108 points • comment • may 09, 2020
How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]
108 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Universa tail fund returned 3,600% in March
108 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Ask HN: Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives
108 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Charter prohibits working from home despite spread of coronavirus
108 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (1997)
108 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Cotton Candy (2010)
108 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man
108 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Eiffel programming language
108 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]
108 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
How to detect web bots?
108 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
GM scales back partnership with electric truck startup Nikola
108 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Design for Living: What’s Great about Goethe?
108 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
The Treachery of Image Files
108 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Playing Games on a 60s Computer [video]
108 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese innovation
108 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
The Geocities Gallery
108 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Why TCP over TCP is a bad idea (2001)
108 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Pouring one out for the end of O’Reilly’s in-person conferences
108 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Real World Programming in SWI-Prolog
108 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
New Zealand eliminates Covid-19
108 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
108 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Maltego – open-source intelligence and graphical link analysis tool
108 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Introducing Semgrep and r2c
108 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Belyayev's Fox Experiment
108 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%
108 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
108 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games
108 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Show HN: Tracking stock trading by US Senators
108 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Oysters That Knew What Time It Was
108 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Contact Tracing in the Real World
108 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money [pdf]
108 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
108 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
108 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io
108 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments
108 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer
108 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
How I write Elm applications
108 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch
108 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
The case for comments in code
108 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Pierre Cardin has died
108 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
108 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
A Tiny Lispy Transpiler
108 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Roll Your Own Frameworks
108 points • comment • may 20, 2020
The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1
108 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Biochemical Pathways Wall Charts
108 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Show HN: Marple – Visualising millions of datapoints for engineers
108 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service
108 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
108 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Show HN: Automated Health Dashboard
108 points • comment • sep 03, 2020