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Hacker News (2020)

Brazil's full DB of Covid tests and patient PII leaked
76 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Using the Specification Pattern to Build a Data-Driven Rules Engine
76 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Searx instances
76 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
The technical report suggesting Saudi Arabia's prince hacked Bezos' phone
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
A discretization attack [pdf]
76 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
76 points • comment • may 22, 2020
The Hard Problem of Breakfast
76 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Shiohara – Open-Source CMS
76 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Microsoft Surface Duo – Dual-screen Android phone
76 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020)
76 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit
76 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Exploring the Web Speech API
76 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]
76 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Show HN: Business Name Generator Powered by AI
76 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Judge Blocks US Attempts to Ban WeChat
76 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Chromatron Wi-Fi Pixel Controller
76 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low-Altitude Show of Force
76 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Type-Safe Pointers in ATS
76 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores
76 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
There's a mathematician in your compiler
76 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Governors take heat for violating their own coronavirus restrictions
76 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Native Applications with Racket
76 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
The sparrow with four sexes (2016)
76 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Lighting controlled by a OralB Bluetooth toothbrush
76 points • comment • may 03, 2020
On Hacking MicroSD Cards (2013)
76 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure (Paper)
76 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)
76 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
SAR Imagery Reveals Presence of Concealed Sub at North Korea’s Sinpo Naval Base
76 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Anarch: Super small public domain no-dependency from-scratch suckless Doom clone
76 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
List of Epidemics
76 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky
76 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
70-90% of all existing coral reefs expected to disappear in the next 20 years
76 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Bash code generator for command-line arguments
76 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Taiwan’s government bars its agencies from using Zoom over security concerns
76 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
They Write the Right Stuff (1996)
76 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of China to auto-delete
76 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Why should I do production support?
76 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Performance First
76 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Special.fish
76 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Juul Is Moving Base From San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
76 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Most homebuyers and renters not warned about flood or wildfire risk
76 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
76 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
People loved Nikola but not its warrants
76 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team
76 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Show HN: Splitgraph - Build and share data with Postgres, inspired by Docker/Git
76 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
The cost of virtualizing CS conferences
76 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Quest for the Whistler Button
76 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Tesla's batteries aim to rework the math for electric cars and the grid
76 points • comment • may 14, 2020
C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
76 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Mathematicians try to understand how CS proof solves Connes embedding conjecture
76 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Fox Two: The Story of the Aim-9 Sidewinder (2014)
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Chernobyl wildfires and radiation risk
76 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
The Economics of Skyscraper Height
76 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Saudi stocks slump as minister warns of ‘painful’ measures ahead
76 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (1996)
76 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by WebRTC and Golang
76 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Visualizing Gzip Compression with Python
76 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Show HN: Glass Dome — an Alfred workflow to fight link rot in markdown notes
76 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
SatNOGS: Open-Source Ground Station Network
76 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Reverse-engineering the audio chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color
76 points • comment • may 03, 2020
TiDB 4.0 GA Release
76 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea
76 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years
76 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Getting Started in BBC Basic
76 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
New York City thinks up to half of restaurants will close permanently [pdf]
76 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory
76 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Epic Games is also suing Google over Fortnites removal from the Play Store
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
A new material helps transistors become vanishingly small
76 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
US universities under pressure to cut fees because of remote learning
76 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Show HN: I built a site to compare Presidential Candidates speeches side-by-side
76 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Pine retail stores vs. community stores
76 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021
76 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
A more detailed, colorful map
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library
76 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Benign data races considered harmful
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
A recall earned Lexus a top reputation (2006)
76 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
The YouTube-DL Takedown
76 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Shakuntala Devi – The Human Computer (2016)
76 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas (2019)
76 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Apple’s New Era Has Begun
76 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Redux Overview and Concepts – Reimagined Redux Tutorial
76 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3
76 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Apple: Developer ID Certificate Revocation (OCSP)
76 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
76 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Research Based on the .NET Runtime (2019)
76 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008)
76 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?
76 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
250M people participate in nationwide strike in India
76 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
LibreOffice Online API
76 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Evolving Container Security with Linux User Namespaces
76 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Show HN: Argos Translate – Open-source offline translation app written in Python
76 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Facebook’s campaign against Apple is against users and small businesses
76 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Show HN: DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains
76 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
On Design Patterns in C++
76 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Chinese Demography
75 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics
75 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
MasterCard data analytics opt-out page: where did it go?
75 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Osint Amateur Hour
75 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Sea water district cooling feasibility analysis for Hawaii [pdf] (2002)
75 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neanderthals
75 points • comment • nov 26, 2020