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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments

    107 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  2. Surge of virus misinformation stumps Facebook and Twitter

    107 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  3. Extra Ideas for Computing

    107 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  4. The Persian Art of Etiquette (2016)

    107 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  5. Cloudflare: Is anyone else seeing DNS outages?

    107 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  6. The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist

    107 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  7. Touch Typing on a Gamepad

    107 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  8. First photo of HS2 tunnel boring machines

    107 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  9. Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server

    107 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  10. Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings [pdf]

    107 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  11. Is Go Duck-Typed?

    107 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  12. Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker

    107 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  13. Largest multi-city traffic dataset available

    107 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  14. Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt)

    107 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  15. Storytelling Tips for Technical Interviews

    107 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  16. Apple's auto layout and visual format language for JavaScript (2016)

    107 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  17. Hummingbird – AirVPN's free and open source OpenVPN 3 client

    107 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  18. Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers

    107 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  19. Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (2006)

    107 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  20. Show HN: Kardius – find people like you, near you – made with Rust and Rocket

    106 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  21. PineBook Pro (open source ARM laptop)

    106 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  22. NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’

    106 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  23. Bill English has died

    106 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  24. Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company

    106 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  25. Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?

    106 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  26. AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns

    106 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  27. Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs

    106 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  28. Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

    106 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  29. Patent on displaying SQL data in HTML, granted to IBM in 1998

    106 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  30. A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant

    106 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  31. Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’

    106 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  32. Show HN: Voyager – write a web crawler/scraper as a state machine in Rust

    106 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  33. We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us

    106 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  34. How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world

    106 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  35. Juul is reportedly laying off 800 to 950 employees

    106 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  36. Interview like an asset, not a beggar

    106 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  37. I don’t have time for coding challenges

    106 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  38. Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

    106 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  39. The Shifting State of Remote Work

    106 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  40. 5/3nm Wars Begin

    106 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  41. Some Math Problems Seem Impossible. That Can Be a Good Thing

    106 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  42. California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE

    106 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  43. CO2meter: A Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices

    106 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  44. 'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'

    106 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  45. Software Design for Flexibility

    106 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  46. McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses

    106 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  47. Self Host a Wiki or Knowledge Base for Your Team

    106 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  48. SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch

    106 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  49. Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments?

    106 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  50. Is carbon capture a viable solution?

    106 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  51. How to Hire Great Engineers

    106 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  52. Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Software Project

    106 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  53. Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters

    106 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  54. Yes Silver Bullet (2019)

    106 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  55. Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy

    106 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  56. Did the early internet activists blow it?

    106 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  57. Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning

    106 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  58. Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?

    106 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  59. Ask HN: What tools do you use for data munging and merging?

    106 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  60. Planning for My Kidnapping

    106 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  61. Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M

    106 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  62. SS7 cellular network flaw being exploited to drain bank accounts

    106 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  63. Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out

    106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  64. Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants

    106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  65. A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox

    106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  66. The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling

    106 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  67. Spectre.console – Pretty console apps in .NET

    106 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  68. Magicpak: Build minimal Docker images without static linking

    106 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  69. PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano

    106 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  70. Wayback Machine is down

    106 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  71. Study: Focus will shape the future of distributed work

    106 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  72. Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS

    106 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  73. Gray Wolves to Be Removed from Endangered Species List

    106 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  74. Decrypting Blind's Encrypted API

    106 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  75. US schools lay off hundreds of thousands

    106 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  76. Show HN: Host your own minimal file sharing site (now with expiring files)

    106 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  77. A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

    106 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  78. Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment

    106 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  79. Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)

    106 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  80. SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019

    106 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  81. 5D chess game where pieces time travel

    106 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  82. History of Logo

    106 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  83. Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas

    106 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  84. OxyGEN: Open-Source AMBU Respirator

    106 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  85. US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware

    106 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  86. Rust for JavaScript Developers – Pattern Matching and Enums

    106 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  87. New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review

    106 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  88. “It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)

    106 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  89. Electromagnetism using geometric algebra versus components

    106 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  90. Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  91. Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  92. Most Amazon-Owned Private Label Brands Have No Warranties

    106 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  93. Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice

    106 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  94. A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer (Differentiable Renderer)

    106 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  95. Show HN: Hacker News Dark Mode

    106 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  96. When Math Gets Impossibly Hard

    106 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  97. Scann: Scalable Nearest Neighbors

    106 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  98. Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients

    106 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  99. T1: A Modern Programming Language for Constrained Environments

    106 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  100. A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)

    106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020