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Hacker News (2020)

Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt)
107 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
107 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Google Earth finally available in browsers other than Chrome
107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
107 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Keybase Joins Zoom
107 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's type system
107 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Extra Ideas for Computing
107 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
107 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
HashiCorp forbids its software being used in China
107 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Kissat SAT Solver
107 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov
107 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
GitHub Certifications (Beta)
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (2016)
107 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
107 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Is there a known recent Linux locking bug that affects the OCaml runtime?
107 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Urkel – authenticated key-value store written in C
107 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks
107 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
The Cliqz Story Is Over
106 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Software Design for Flexibility
106 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Show HN: Desed – Debugger for Sed
106 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling
106 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Show HN: Host your own minimal file sharing site (now with expiring files)
106 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Interview like an asset, not a beggar
106 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'
106 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Is carbon capture a viable solution?
106 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Ask HN: Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?
106 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
106 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Coronavirus: an email to my family
106 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Rust for JavaScript Developers – Pattern Matching and Enums
106 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Ask HN: STEM toy for a 3 years old?
106 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Electromagnetism using geometric algebra versus components
106 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
The Junk Mail Men: Selling Your Data for over a Century (2019)
106 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs
106 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
History of Logo
106 points • comment • may 02, 2020
US schools lay off hundreds of thousands
106 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
AWS’s Elastic Load Balancer is a Strangler
106 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano
106 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Questions I would ask God about the game of Go
106 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas
106 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Show HN: Animating randomized L-Systems in real time
106 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review
106 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Show HN: Generate guitar tablature using a constraint solver
106 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024
106 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)
106 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Show HN: Kardius – find people like you, near you – made with Rust and Rocket
106 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Nothing Changes Until You Do
106 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world
106 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
T1: A Modern Programming Language for Constrained Environments
106 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Bill English has died
106 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Most Amazon-Owned Private Label Brands Have No Warranties
106 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment
106 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
5D chess game where pieces time travel
106 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers
106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
PineBook Pro (open source ARM laptop)
106 points • comment • may 24, 2020
US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
106 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
What is Electricity? (1996)
106 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
OxyGEN: Open-Source AMBU Respirator
106 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]
106 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
106 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
What Shell Am I Using?
106 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies
106 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
106 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Decrypting Blind's Encrypted API
106 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Self Host a Wiki or Knowledge Base for Your Team
106 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS
106 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Some Math Problems Seem Impossible. That Can Be a Good Thing
106 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Wayback Machine is down
106 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?
106 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants
106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)
106 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out
106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)
106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Ask HN: What tools do you use for data munging and merging?
106 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Realtime California Air Quality
106 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Did the early internet activists blow it?
106 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Scann: Scalable Nearest Neighbors
106 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Yes Silver Bullet (2019)
106 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
How to Hire Great Engineers
106 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Software Project
106 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant
106 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
106 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice
106 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
CO2meter: A Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices
106 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’
106 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
5/3nm Wars Begin
106 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
I don’t have time for coding challenges
106 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The Shifting State of Remote Work
106 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox
106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
106 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
DEF Con 28: Safe Mode
106 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients
106 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Decision Table Patterns
106 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Magicpak: Build minimal Docker images without static linking
106 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV
106 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
How failures led to a SaaS [audio]
106 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Planning for My Kidnapping
106 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company
106 points • comment • feb 26, 2020