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Hacker News (2020)

I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
470 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
470 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
470 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster
470 points • comment • may 30, 2020
‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
470 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data
469 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
This Video Has X Views
469 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%
469 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
469 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter
469 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Emacs is special regarding UIs
469 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders
468 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (2012) [pdf]
468 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes
468 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it
468 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
468 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
468 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position
467 points • comment • may 19, 2020
New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity
467 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests
467 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Anxiety in product development
467 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021
467 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming
467 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements
467 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Async Python is not faster
467 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Stop Using Encrypted Email
467 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
467 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Hard deadlines are not user-first
466 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Tired of note-taking apps
466 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
466 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
466 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN
465 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
465 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
465 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
The global fertility rate is falling
465 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting
465 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics
465 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
465 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life
464 points • comment • may 07, 2020
I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform
464 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
464 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
100k Stars
464 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes
464 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
464 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
464 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
463 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
463 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet
463 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
463 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants
463 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
463 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads
462 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers
462 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
462 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
462 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)
462 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
462 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
462 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
461 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
461 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
461 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
461 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Linux on iPad
460 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
460 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
460 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour
460 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
CSS Zen Garden
460 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
460 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
460 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
459 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
459 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Bye
459 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Use long flags when scripting (2013)
459 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”
459 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Jukebox
459 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
459 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Activists create a 12.5M block library in Minecraft to bypass censorship
459 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
458 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
458 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Encouraging a culture of written communication
458 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Video Games Are the Future of Education
458 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
458 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?
458 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
458 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story
457 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
457 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Pricing Your Product
457 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020
457 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
457 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
457 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
457 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
457 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Hiring Without Whiteboards
457 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Flutter for Linux
456 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
456 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
456 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox
456 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python
456 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
456 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal
455 points • comment • dec 06, 2020