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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping

    499 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  2. Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use

    498 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  3. Inkscape 1.0

    497 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  4. The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)

    497 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  5. Am I Unique?

    497 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  6. Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

    497 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  7. Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently

    497 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  8. Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19

    497 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  9. Fun with IP address parsing

    496 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  10. America is giving up on the pandemic?

    496 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  11. 1k True Fans? Try 100

    496 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  12. Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

    496 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  13. Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases

    495 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  14. Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

    495 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  15. Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android

    494 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  16. ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

    494 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  17. Simple, solar-powered water desalination

    494 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  18. The internet should be a public utility

    494 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  19. Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat

    494 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  20. The Internet of Beefs

    494 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  21. U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas

    494 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  22. Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking

    494 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  23. Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

    494 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  24. Moving from Macbook to Linux

    494 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  25. Does memory leak? (1995)

    493 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  26. GNU Recutils

    493 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  27. Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

    493 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  28. Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)

    493 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  29. Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown

    493 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  30. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

    493 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  31. Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction

    492 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  32. Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews

    492 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  33. “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”

    492 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  34. Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?

    492 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  35. GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code

    492 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  36. Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

    492 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  37. The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

    492 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  38. Over 275 days since Equifax’s data breach settlement and no one has been paid

    492 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  39. Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?

    492 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  40. Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution

    492 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  41. The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”

    491 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  42. Ask HN: Are books worth it?

    491 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  43. Ruby on Rails in a week

    491 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  44. Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants

    491 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  45. Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)

    491 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  46. Unity Learn platform free for three months

    491 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  47. Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says

    491 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  48. Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]

    491 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  49. It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to

    491 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  50. OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

    491 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  51. Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

    491 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  52. Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

    491 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  53. Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”

    491 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  54. The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers

    490 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  55. There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)

    490 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  56. Elon Musk moves to Texas

    490 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  57. Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)

    490 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  58. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

    490 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  59. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

    490 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  60. Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)

    490 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  61. Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

    490 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  62. Swift System Is Now Open Source

    490 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  63. Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)

    489 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  64. We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make

    489 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  65. South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius

    489 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  66. Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies

    489 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  67. MSPaint in JavaScript

    489 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  68. Is BGP Safe Yet?

    489 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  69. Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google

    489 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  70. MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

    489 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  71. Draft of the Fast.ai Book

    489 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  72. 1937 film explains how a car differential works

    488 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  73. New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

    488 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  74. Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

    488 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  75. Guide to Python Debugging

    487 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  76. Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition

    487 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  77. Whale fall

    487 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  78. Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year

    487 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  79. Rust 1.45

    487 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  80. Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

    487 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  81. Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing

    487 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  82. Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly

    487 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  83. macOS in QEMU in Docker

    486 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  84. Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

    486 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  85. Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?

    486 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  86. EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app

    486 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  87. AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag

    486 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  88. Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

    486 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  89. Christopher Tolkien has died

    486 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  90. A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

    485 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  91. Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China

    485 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  92. Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns

    485 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  93. Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

    485 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  94. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

    485 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  95. Brown: color is weird [video]

    485 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  96. Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

    485 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  97. Your Phone Is Your Castle

    485 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  98. Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain

    485 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  99. Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

    485 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  100. Foundations of Software Engineering

    485 points • comment • oct 31, 2020