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Hacker News (2020)

Reckoning with Our Mistakes
82 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
82 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics
82 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
28-Key Mechanical Keyboard
82 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boycott
82 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates
82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Behaviors resembling ADHD may be linked to increased entrepreneurial behavior
82 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Playboy magazine will stop producing a print version
82 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Why Marketing Flywheels Work
82 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Technical debt and tacking into the wind (2013)
82 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is
82 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers
82 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Strange public IPv4 address assigned behind NAT (2019)
82 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Pigweed: A Collection of Embedded Libraries
82 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
RF Shielding Tips and Tricks
82 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation
82 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
The Great Pause Was an Economic Revolution
82 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Substantial undocumented infection facilitates rapid dissemination of SARS-CoV2
82 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
A modular, extensible DIY NAS
82 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only with Harsh Steps, Experts Say
82 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
The Ising model: a cartoon picture of magnets that became ubiquitous in science
82 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Emma Willard's Maps of Time
82 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots
82 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?
82 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19
82 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Rediscovering the lost power of reading aloud
82 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Facebook Q3 2020
82 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
An Integration Loop
82 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Advanced Join Patterns for the Actor Model Based on CEP Techniques
82 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
The story behind a photo of a snow monkey using an iPhone (2019)
82 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Software bug causes YAM cryptocurrency to implode two days after launch
82 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Nuclear waste recycled into diamond batteries
82 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
82 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A
82 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Qt 6.0 Beta 4 Released
82 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Proton pump inhibitors (heartburn meds) linked with increased risk of dementia
82 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Old Laptops as Secondary Monitors
82 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Most-recommended programming books
82 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Databricks acquires Redash
82 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines
82 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)
82 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Show HN: Vuln Cost – immersive VS Code extension to surface vulnerabilities
82 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Sandboxie-Plus – a fork of Sandboxie with improved functionality
82 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt sues Atari for failure to pay for VCS console design
82 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor
82 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
82 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System
82 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Show HN: Get a Hand LA
82 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
82 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates attention?
82 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
FBI chief says China threatens families to coerce overseas critics to return
82 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
82 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (1969)
82 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Sonos’ frantic flailing illustrates the stupidity of smart tech
82 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Octojam 7: The CHIP-8 game jam
82 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
82 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Curry Before Columbus
82 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
The Print Book Trade, and Money
82 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Show HN: A library to add a command promp (and telnet) to your programs
82 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’
82 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (2017)
82 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S
82 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Reproducible Machine Learning in production
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Meaningful Availability
82 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Malloc as a Service
82 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro
82 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (2016)
82 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
82 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?
82 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Galileo was right, but so were his critics (2015)
82 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Show HN: Boook.link – Share a book with links to all stores
82 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat”
82 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP
82 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Apple Took Three Years to Cut Ties with Supplier That Used Underage Labor
82 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Roger Penrose: Beauty above all
82 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
CubicDOOM a ray-casting game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)
82 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Open Satellite Project: The Open Source Satellite Project
82 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Progress Over Perfection
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
W64devkit – Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 Windows
82 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?
82 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals thanks to Autobidder
82 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year
82 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
When is no-code useful?
82 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
TLDW – Search inside of videos from YC, VCs and established founders
82 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi
82 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon
82 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Free Email Templates for Developers
82 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems
82 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
First beta release of Alire, the package manager for Ada/SPARK
82 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
The transformation of the porn industry under coronavirus
82 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review
82 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Bayes Theorem: A Framework for Critical Thinking
82 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?
82 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash
82 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
All forms of signing email are generally solving the wrong problem
82 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence
82 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Read-Only Mode for Better Rails Downtime
82 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Wikimedia FontCDN – an anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts
82 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)
82 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB
82 points • comment • dec 05, 2020