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Hacker News (2020)

Artificial intelligence is quietly disrupting the fragrance development process
92 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
The Black Vault: A FOIA obsessive’s UFO-filled empire
92 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps
92 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Ask HN: Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?
92 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Why we do machine learning engineering with YAML, not notebooks
92 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
40th Anniversary of the Ethernet
92 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
The Wuhan Virus
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen
92 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis
92 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Show HN: NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework
92 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Facebook rejects calls to share advertising revenue with Australian media
92 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
92 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?
92 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
We are not mostly empty space
92 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action
92 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behind recent cyberattacks
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
U.S. Financial Regulator and Banks Urge Action on Climate
92 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
The Difficulty of Disclosure, Surebet247 and the Streisand Effect
92 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Show HN: Ward – Minimalistic Server Dashboard
92 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Metaphors in Man Pages
92 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector
92 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Launch HN: Zynq (YC W20) – Book meetings instantly with your team
92 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Slingbox Discontinued Announcement and FAQ
92 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Show HN: I trained GPT-2 to write like Goop
92 points • comment • may 05, 2020
The Millennium Falcon (2016)
92 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Show HN: Sound visualisation, better than FFT (iOS)
92 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Spatial computing could be the next big thing
92 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a Poem
92 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Show HN: Findka – Personalized recommendations for any type of content
92 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off rivals
92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine
92 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language
92 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?
92 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Why Content Is King
92 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Google Poly is shutting down
92 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Unraveling the role of the microbiome in major depressive disorder
92 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Where $521B in U.S. Small-Business Aid Went
92 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Static Calls in Linux 5.10
92 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images
92 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories
92 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (1945)
92 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
TerraPi modular case system for Raspberry Pi supports multiple SSD's, DIN rail
92 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Guide to Visual Storytelling
92 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
92 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem
92 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
How neutering dogs became the norm
92 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014)
92 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Code Browser
92 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates
92 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
One red paperclip
92 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance Economy
92 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019)
92 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%
92 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
You have turned Google Chrome into IE
92 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation
92 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant
92 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data
92 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine
92 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project
92 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Open source security tools list
92 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Filecoin: Proof of Storage Systems
92 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Squad Wealth
92 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Show HN: Single neuron neural network written in COBOL
92 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Home Server Room Power Upgrade and Multi-Room UPS
92 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Slack stores browser cookies without user consent
92 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Extremist Programming (2012)
91 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Ask HN: You cannot delete comments posts or your account on HN. Concerned?
91 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)
91 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996)
91 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Raster CRT Typography (According to Dec)
91 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Futures explained in 200 lines of Rust
91 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA
91 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
“Less than one”-shot learning
91 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
The Erlang Rationale (2008) [pdf]
91 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Demo of OpenAI's GPT-3 generating tweets given a word
91 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Autofocus for the 16mm Telephoto Lens Mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
91 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (1922)
91 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Facebook/CMU Covid-19 U.S. county-by-county symptom map
91 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The Art of Automation
91 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
91 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Upsert anti-pattern in SQL Server
91 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Lies vs. Statistics: VPN Virtual Server Locations
91 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Covid-19, duration of viral shedding, and infectiousness: meta-analysis
91 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Introduction to Epidemiology
91 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
How to use math input in GIMP
91 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites
91 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Unofficial ballot drop boxes worry California elections officials
91 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Avast caught selling user data
91 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone
91 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is
91 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Learnings from a Year of Being Indie
91 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Extremely Large Telescope
91 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
U.S. prosecutors seek 27 months imprisonment for former Uber self-driving head
91 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
The Persian Desert (2015)
91 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration
91 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Microsoft launches Surface Book 3 with new Nvidia GPU options
91 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Half of All False Convictions in US Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct
91 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Taking Someone Aside (2018)
91 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Masayoshi Son had help pulling SoftBank from the brink
91 points • comment • nov 11, 2020