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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News

    102 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  2. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

    102 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  3. The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

    102 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  4. Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

    102 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  5. Bill Thurston's answer to “What's a mathematician to do?” (2010)

    102 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  6. Bats in Portuguese Libraries (2018)

    102 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  7. MIDI 2.0 Specifications Available for Download

    102 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  8. Software bug made Bombardier planes turn the wrong way

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  9. Show HN: A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests

    102 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  10. What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too

    102 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  11. All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen

    102 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  12. Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab

    102 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  13. Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail

    102 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  14. Show HN: Automatically Rename HEY's 'Imbox' to 'Inbox'

    102 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  15. The curious case of Romanian broadband

    102 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  16. Using a Raspberry Pi to Add MIDI to a CV Synthesizer

    102 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  17. List of software and things that use or support WireGuard

    102 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  18. The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web

    102 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  19. Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica

    102 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  20. Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils

    102 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  21. Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie

    102 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack

    102 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  23. Employers who use software to take screenshots of workers’ computers

    102 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  24. The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things

    102 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  25. Files Are Fraught with Peril (2019)

    102 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  26. The Unix Operating System (1982) [video]

    102 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  27. The algebraic structure of functions, illustrated using React components

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  28. Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  29. ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

    102 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  30. Fed aid program for corporations won't require them to preserve jobs

    102 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  31. MNT Reform: The Campaign Is Live

    102 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  32. A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything

    102 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  33. Error Handling Is Hard

    102 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  34. Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust

    102 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  35. ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse

    102 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  36. She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird

    102 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  37. A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020

    102 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  38. Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy

    102 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  39. Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  40. 9M logs of Brits' road journeys spill from number-plate camera dashboard

    102 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  41. Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

    102 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  42. Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard

    102 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  43. Show HN: Gurlic – Free and Open Communities

    102 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  44. Server-Side Only React with Next

    102 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  45. CMU Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Bots

    102 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  46. The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux

    102 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  47. The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)

    102 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  48. You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript [video]

    102 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  49. Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression [pdf]

    102 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  50. Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end

    102 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  51. OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot

    102 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  52. Exceptional failure: breaking the STM32F1 read-out protection

    102 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  53. Asciidoctor

    102 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  54. Low parental income in childhood linked to increased risk of mental disorders

    102 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  55. Ancestor of animals identified in Australian fossils

    102 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  56. Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF

    102 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  57. API-diff: a tool for side-by-side evaluations of JSON APIs

    102 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  58. U.S. Senators Advocate H-1B Freeze for 60 Days or Longer

    102 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  59. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

    102 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  60. A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price

    102 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  61. Debian 10.3

    102 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  62. Charles Lindbergh is the reason the U.S. doesn't have cameras in the courtroom

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  63. Next-Level SSD Performance – Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Review

    102 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  64. An aerospace engineer explains fireworks

    102 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  65. Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice

    102 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  66. Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac

    102 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  67. SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  68. S&P 500 drops 9%, extending losses after 15-minute trading halt

    102 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  69. Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer

    102 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  70. What adolescents think of mindfulness in schools

    102 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  71. Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

    102 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  72. How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights

    102 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  73. Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?

    102 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  74. An exploratory statistical analysis of the 2014 World Cup Final

    102 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  75. Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’

    102 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  76. The Raspberry Pi 4 has a fan now – the Case Fan

    102 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  77. Building binary deb packages: a practical guide

    102 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  78. Randomized Living

    102 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  79. Meditations on Moloch (2014)

    102 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  80. Dueling Scar

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  81. Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown

    102 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  82. Lens Aberrations Explained

    102 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  83. Redis Core Team Update

    102 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  84. The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees

    102 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  85. Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?

    102 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  86. Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank

    102 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  87. New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2

    102 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  88. Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (2013)

    102 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  89. Nikon's 300mm F/2

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  90. I Still Use Vim

    102 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  91. A website to make 3D geometry shapes out of paper

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  92. Iowa Caucus App Error

    102 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  93. Aging Canadian government computer systems at risk of 'critical failure'

    102 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  94. Show HN: Offline-First Personal Kanban

    102 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  95. The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live

    102 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  96. The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (1986)

    102 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  97. The Strength of Being Misunderstood

    102 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  98. Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish – Microsoft plays their hand

    102 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  99. Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste

    102 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  100. What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2020