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Hacker News (2020)

Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines
95 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock
95 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US
95 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander
95 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Show HN: Pisa – Full Text Search Engine Written in C++
95 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
How to better ventilate your home
95 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force Washington state road closure
95 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods
95 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
What Is Color Management?
95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature
95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Recoil – A state management library for React
95 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Designing the perfect TypeScript schema validation library
95 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19
95 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
95 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year
95 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer
95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Security researcher hacks Tesla via Bluetooth LE keyless entry vulnerability
95 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill
95 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Launch HN: DeepSource (YC W20) – Find and fix issues during code reviews
95 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
The self-driving car is a red herring
95 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
A Case Study of Complex Table Design
95 points • comment • may 07, 2020
How early American inventors funded their ventures
95 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Corsair Gaming S-1
95 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Lithium ranked the highest performance web application platform
95 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard
95 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
A young Venus had water for 2B years, habitable for longer than Mars
95 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock
95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Throw away code
95 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change
95 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
The Most Counterintuitive Recession Ever
95 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Show HN: A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C
95 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018)
95 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]
95 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
NASA Funded Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Propellantless Propulsion
95 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Markets, Rent and WFH
95 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (2018)
95 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk
95 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation
95 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Simple WireGuard Docker network setup
95 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Running DOS Apps on Windows
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Data-Oriented Programming in Python
95 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
ELF Statifier, self-contained dynamically linked executables
94 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Differential privacy tools from MS Research and Harvard
94 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks
94 points • comment • may 16, 2020
San Francisco declares state of emergency to prepare for coronavirus
94 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
94 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Python 2 Is Dead
94 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
IMF Says Great Lockdown Recession Likely Worst Since Depression
94 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
94 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Show HN: Find info about the developers who post projects on Show HN
94 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US
94 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money
94 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported
94 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Run LLVM Assembly in the Browser
94 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Mainline Linux on the MikroTik RB3011
94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
U.S. Google antitrust case set to expand with GOP states joining
94 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
When feature flags do and don’t make sense (2019)
94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Introduction to Cybernetics (1957)
94 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station (2015)
94 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
The Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was
94 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Fleets: A new way to join the conversation
94 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
State of Independent SaaS
94 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
High school student leads archaeologists to lost Inca settlement
94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Returning the “killed” RSS of Reuters from the dead
94 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Promising Covid-19 treatment using convalescent serum therapy fast-tracked
94 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters
94 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: KarateClub a Python library for unsupervised machine learning on graphs
94 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Implementing a System Call for OpenBSD
94 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
What you need to know about the Covid-19 vaccine
94 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook
94 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
94 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Show HN: I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture
94 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
College as an incubator of Girardian terror
94 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
YouTube-DL Is Dying?
94 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Principle of Least Astonishment
94 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Mobile Home Skyscrapers: The Elusive Dream of Vertical Urban Trailer Parks
94 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Cassette tape-based navigation system from 1971
94 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery
94 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones
94 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes
94 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Getting Started with Ansible
94 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
A Closer Look at the Super NES Doom Source Code Release [video]
94 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Masks4All: Wear a mask to stop the spread of Coronavirus (Jeremy Howard)
94 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Vacietis, a C compiler targeting Common Lisp
94 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
What are the best powers to play in Diplomacy?
94 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase
94 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Choir practice turns fatal. Airborne coronavirus strongly suspected
94 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Circle Packing
94 points • comment • may 30, 2020
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
SpaceX’s first crewed spacecraft launch cleared to proceed for May 27 target
94 points • comment • may 22, 2020
A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and Tmux
94 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump
94 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Life without line numbers for 6% smaller Go binaries
94 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Can you kill coronavirus with UV light?
94 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
GitHub was down again
94 points • comment • apr 23, 2020