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Hacker News (2020)

Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
484 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
PS5 Teardown [video]
484 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
484 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
What happened to Mint?
484 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
484 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
484 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
484 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
484 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Quora goes permanently remote-first
484 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Reviving Sandstorm
484 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
483 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends
483 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Speeding up Linux disk encryption
483 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business
483 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
483 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques
483 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Do whatever you can't stop thinking about
482 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Things You're Allowed to Do
482 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
482 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
482 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Minimal safe Bash script template
482 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error
482 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster
482 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
482 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
482 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Windows XP source code has leaked
481 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
A Theory of Software Architecture
481 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
481 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast
481 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
SQLite Is Serverless
481 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet
481 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Guide to Equity Compensation
481 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
481 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
481 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Chrome Is Bad
480 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers
480 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated
480 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
480 points • comment • may 29, 2020
The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft
480 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?
479 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
479 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
479 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics
479 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
479 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
479 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Linux 5.6
479 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform
479 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
479 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015)
479 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable
478 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Linear – A fast issue tracker
478 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
478 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
478 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
478 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers
478 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
478 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)
478 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019
477 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Why do printers still suck?
477 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Apple Edge Cache
477 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees
477 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
The Coming Chip Wars
477 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Unity Software Inc S-1
477 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Work on What Matters
475 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
475 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Universal Split Screen
475 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
475 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
475 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
475 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Unit Testing Is Overrated
474 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
A crash course in compilers (2018)
474 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
474 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
474 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
474 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
474 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well
473 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Searchable PPP Loan Data
473 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Quibi Is Shutting Down
473 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
How I write back ends
473 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
473 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data
473 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?
473 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
AWS Snowcone
473 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective
472 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Show HN: Skynet Simulator
472 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
472 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
472 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
C Compiler from Scratch
472 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
471 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
471 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
471 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly
471 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Speed.cloudflare.com
470 points • comment • may 26, 2020
FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
470 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
470 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
470 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
470 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online
470 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
How SEO Ruined the Internet
470 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster
470 points • comment • may 30, 2020