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Hacker News (2020)

Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance
83 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
99% of those who died from virus had other illness, Italy says
83 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
The Myth of Code Coverage
83 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
83 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
CodiMD, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown notes
83 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM
83 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
CZ-4C R/B passed over LeoLabs Kiwi Space Radar – with no signs of debris
83 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
On Facts and Thinking
83 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Apache Spark Release 3.0.0
83 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
How UI-driven state increases accidental complexity
83 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings
83 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks
83 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
83 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Fixing the Desktop Linux Security Model
83 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Rust for Clojurists (2015)
83 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Radical Solutions
83 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]
83 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
What's Intel SGX Good For?
83 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist
83 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public
83 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
How do unschoolers turn out? (2014)
83 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
83 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015)
83 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Announcing Bluetooth LE Audio
83 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Why Europe Wins
83 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
83 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US and UK next week
83 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs
83 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage
83 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Comparing Covid-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is Like Comparing Apples to Oranges
83 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Embedded Programming Without the IDE
83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
No. 10 Downing Street hiring data scientists, physicists, weirdos
83 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Sugar – a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat
83 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code
83 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
‘CSS X’
83 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Cary Grant's LSD Therapy in the 1950s
83 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
The path toward mastery: How to become an expert in a field
83 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System
83 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Facebook Campus
83 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Cellular Automata in the Browser
83 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux
83 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Monitor your web page's total memory usage with `performance.measureMemory()`
83 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Palantir Moves Headquarters to Denver from Silicon Valley
83 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
“Theire Soe Admirable Herbe”: How the English Found Cannabis
83 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)
83 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
The wear patterns of jeans aren’t good forensic evidence
83 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Post PC
83 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Work from home is dead, long live work from anywhere
83 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates
83 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Tesla cuts car prices by up to $5k
83 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Google makes breaking change to publishing Sheets as data
83 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
83 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs (2016) [pdf]
83 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries
83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
What Is the Small Web?
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Supercapacitors from Standard Bricks
83 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Viral effects are not network effects
83 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (2017)
83 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women
83 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Why build another website builder?
83 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11
83 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
83 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US
83 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
How the ARM32 Kernel Starts
83 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Iran state hackers caught in intercepted videos
83 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
YouTube Takes Down Chess Podcast for Being Harmful or Dangerous
83 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
The Spite Software License
83 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
GAlculator – Geometric Algebra Pocket Calculator
83 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
83 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years
83 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Zig 0.7.0 tagged
83 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
A tiny smartphone company just brought a new Android version to a 2015 device
83 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Validating Kubernetes YAML for best practice and policies
83 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Aboriginal Languages
83 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
An Almond-Based Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Depression in Diabetics
83 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Solr 8.6.1
83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
The Die Is Cast: Hardware Security Is Not Assured
83 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Show HN: Cimbar – File transfer via color barcodes and the Android camera
83 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco
83 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
82 points • comment • may 13, 2020
CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat”
82 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels
82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB
82 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates
82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System
82 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Intelligence Without Reason (1991) [pdf]
82 points • comment • may 24, 2020
ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?
82 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing
82 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Reckoning with Our Mistakes
82 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Why Marketing Flywheels Work
82 points • comment • may 26, 2020
What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)
82 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64 (2018)
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
A flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872 by infecting horses
82 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Session: An open-source private messenger that doesn’t need your phone number
82 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Europe's recession will be even deeper than expected
82 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
New Intel Microcodes for Windows 10 Released to Fix CPU Bugs
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
RF Shielding Tips and Tricks
82 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
The transformation of the porn industry under coronavirus
82 points • comment • may 23, 2020