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Hacker News (2020)

Tesla media units are full of owner's private data even after a factory reset
78 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Facebook Continues Its Bullshit with Oculus Accounts
78 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Parallel-Stream
78 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
First-ever footage of a ram's horn squid in its natural habitat 800m deep
78 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Cyborgs and Space (1960) [pdf]
78 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Testing for Divisibility by 19
78 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Debugging C++ Coroutines [pdf]
78 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Google Pixel 4a
78 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Two women quietly reading books in an SF bar started an introvert revolution
78 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a
78 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Green card applicant banned from ever coming to USA because of a checkmark
78 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace
78 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
A lecture on differential equations using GNU TeXmacs [video]
78 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Intel Progress on Their “MOS” Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels
78 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Coal Is Now the World's Most Expensive Fossil Fuel
78 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS
78 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s
78 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Show HN: A simple FOSS and self-hosted budgeting app
78 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Billionaires who made their fortunes by trying to stop climate change
78 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter Kit and eBook
78 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high
78 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Favorite CLI Tools
78 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world
78 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011)
78 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?
78 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)
78 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Yahoo Groups Archiving Progress
78 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
On a caravan, with one of the Sahara's last European explorers
78 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Posiopaths: Positive only attitude can be toxic
78 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Snorkel AI: Putting Data First in ML Development
78 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
The Economics of AI Today
78 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language
78 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Lead pollution in ancient ice cores may track rise and fall of medieval kings
78 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’
78 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec
78 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25
78 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Replace GRUB2 with systemd-boot on Ubuntu 18.04 (2018)
78 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Early electric fans
78 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
How to Talk to Your Customers
78 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
78 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
April Is Canceled
78 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Technical phone screen superforecasters
78 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Web Programming in SWI Prolog (2019)
78 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Dash: Scalable Hashing on Persistent Memory [pdf]
78 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Even Faster Math Functions
78 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Automated Work Recordings with OBS Studio and TaskWarrior and TimeWarrior
78 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Some landlords say only 25% of retail tenants paid April rent
78 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms [pdf]
78 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (2011)
78 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires
78 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
5G Virus Conspiracy Theory Fueled by Coordinated Effort
78 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
78 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Pitch Detection with Convolutional Networks
78 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts
78 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
The Newton Application Architecture (1994) [pdf]
78 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Yo WASM – The Easy Way to WebAssembly
78 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014)
78 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Butano: Modern C++ high level GameBoy Advance engine
78 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
The good, the bad and the ugly standup
78 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Reverse engineering the Nest home/away API
78 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Life at the End of American Empire
78 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene
78 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)
78 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Show HN: Twelve Days of Shell
78 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Reddit Posters Pick the Stocks Now
78 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
78 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Distributed SQL vs. NewSQL
78 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
For Camus, It Was Always Personal
78 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
U.S. Should Open America’s Doors to Hong Kong’s Citizens
78 points • comment • may 28, 2020
QAnon website shuts down after Citigroup security analyst identified as operator
78 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Catching It Early: New Ways of Detecting Coronavirus
78 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Issue Grooming
78 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump’s false voting claims
78 points • comment • may 26, 2020
American businesses have the power to change China’s behavior
78 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review
78 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)
78 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
The Parity of Zero
78 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
NSA spying exposed by Snowden didn't stop a single terrorist attack, judge finds
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Telegram's getting ads
78 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Bacteria and Colon Cancer
78 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Forking HTML into a static language doesn't make sense
78 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Software supply chain security
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to
78 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Mallards ferry fish eggs between waterbodies
78 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Ask HN: How do you learn to build substantial, real world apps?
78 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs
78 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
How LSD Almost Became the 13th Step (2019)
78 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Nim – version 1.2.6 and 1.0.8 released
78 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Semantic Clojure Formatting
78 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
78 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
A creature that eats its own brain
78 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
When tipping was considered un-American (2015)
78 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development
78 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online
78 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Super Wood (2018)
78 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Changes to Code Search Indexing
78 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic
77 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
77 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
RC3 talk: How to survive in spacecraft [video]
77 points • comment • dec 31, 2020