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Hacker News (2020)

Google confirms microformats are still a supported metadata format for content
101 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
101 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)
101 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
SpiderKeeper: Admin UI for scrapy/open source scrapinghub
101 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business
101 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (2018)
101 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Tiny bubbles under a ship may help reduce fuel consumption
101 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
A visual comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur
101 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale)
101 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
GNUnet 0.14.0
101 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)
101 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes – and they bragged about it
101 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
OpenSSL Security Advisory – EDIPARTYNAME null pointer de-reference
101 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics
101 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Ishikawa diagram
101 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)
101 points • comment • may 28, 2020
N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection
101 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life (2016)
101 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
I quit contracting 6 months ago
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
MiniFB: Small cross platform library to create framebuffer to draw pixels in
100 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
How Iceland got teens to say no to drugs (2017)
100 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
How to Make a Memex
100 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Principles for Better Design
100 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself
100 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
100 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments
100 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn
100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984)
100 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?
100 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
What Color Is Your Function? (2015)
100 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly
100 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Database Version Control with Liquibase
100 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Thracian Ritual Pits Discovered in Bulgaria
100 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems
100 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
How a $175 covid-19 test led to $2,479 in charges
100 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX
100 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview
100 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Show HN: Computer Music with Python
100 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Borg: The Next Generation [pdf]
100 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?
100 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
A Brief Explanation of Greg Egan’s Dust Theory
100 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Samsung accidentally sends 'Find My Mobile' notifications to Galaxy phones
100 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Roundup plaintiffs' attorneys plead guilty in $200M extortion scheme
100 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (2008)
100 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
The Wolfram Physics Project
100 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS
100 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
In Defense of Bad Ideas
100 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam
100 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation
100 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning
100 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
100 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Health Insurance Shouldn't Be Tied to Employers
100 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
The world of cheap produce and its consequences
100 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM
100 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Variolation
100 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Show HN: Bolt: A research language with finer-grained concurrency than Rust
100 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Pi-hole Remote Code Execution
100 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Which McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are Broken?
100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
A billionaire retailer whose shops had no stock
100 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Parallel Tracks
100 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
A Human's Guide to Words (2010)
100 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early: study
100 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
100 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web
100 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Toronto is gathering cellphone location data to find people congregating
100 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
100 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Frama-C: Modular Analysis of C Programs
100 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Incomplete Beginner’s Guide to Smalltalk
100 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
100 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45
100 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
BGP and RPKI
100 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Telega.el: GNU Emacs Telegram client (unofficial)
100 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Wikipedia's in Trouble (2019)
100 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII
100 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Spanish)
100 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months
100 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design
100 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection
100 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (2017)
100 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
100 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Emergency Directive 20-03 – Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows DNS
100 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving
100 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
The Giant Ghibli Clock (2019)
100 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Show HN: Tweek – Fast to-do weekly calendar app
100 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything
100 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool
100 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Show HN: AvionDB: A Decentralised Database with MongoDB-like Developer Interface
100 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Tree felling work uncovers WW2 underground bunker near Moffat
100 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
100 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine
100 points • comment • may 03, 2020
“Out of the Crisis” Podcast
100 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Grant Imahara, host of MythBusters, dies at 49
100 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Show HN: Fursona Editor
100 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud
100 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)
100 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices
100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
A QUIC look at HTTP/3
100 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Inside the Coronavirus
100 points • comment • jul 17, 2020