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Hacker News (2020)

Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)
75 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
MasterCard data analytics opt-out page: where did it go?
75 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style
75 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Sea water district cooling feasibility analysis for Hawaii [pdf] (2002)
75 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions
75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
50k-year-old three-ply cord fragment found at Neanderthal site
75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.
75 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Tesla employees who don’t return to work could lose unemployment benefits
75 points • comment • may 14, 2020
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
75 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
SecureDNS will shutdown on 30th of April 2020
75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Recompile – a 3D Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure game
75 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Estimating Covid-19's Rt in Real-Time
75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
75 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Show HN: Silk, a simple systems programming language
75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward
75 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients
75 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
PepsiCo cuts out grocery stores and sells directly to consumers
75 points • comment • may 30, 2020
New Zealand relied on science and empathy
75 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
In-Database Machine Learning [pdf]
75 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
'Fear Factor' Is Running High as Currency Markets Resume Trading
75 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
China Launches a 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft'
75 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps
75 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Zin Boats reinvents the electric boat in a bid to become the Tesla of the sea
75 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
A town that floods with raw sewage every time it rains
75 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
A new company promises a 5G keyboarded BlackBerry in 2021
75 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
A Wave Function Collapse Overlapping Model Guide
75 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland
75 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Collision Detection, Part 1: Overview (2015)
75 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles
75 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Show HN: Rssfs – An RSS reader written as a file system
75 points • comment • may 10, 2020
IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering
75 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Seattle CEO who pays workers at least $70K US says it's paying off
75 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Save Internet Freedom: Support the Open Technology Fund
75 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Chronologic Versioning: No more arbitrary version updates and regressions
75 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vision API
75 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
USB, Java take center stage at Comdex (1996)
75 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Algorithm-Visualizer
75 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers
75 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
NeurIPS 2020 Optimization Competition
75 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Zoom fatigue is real
75 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Cuckoo++ – High-Performance Hash Tables for Networking Applications (2017)
75 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Ask HN: How many of you are rolling your own auth?
75 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Life as Thermodynamic Evidence of Algorithmic Structure in Nature (2012)
75 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Amazon has 150M Prime members
75 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
75 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
What we get wrong about Machiavelli
75 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey
75 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Flatten the Coronavirus Curve
75 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
The truth about ferrites
75 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
New quasi-particle discovered: Introducing the Pi-ton
75 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Brexit fuels brain drain as skilled Britons head to the EU
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Show HN: I Am Pickle Rick
75 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
If high street shopping was like online shopping
75 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Embedding Objective-Smalltalk
75 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Metaplane – A metadata catalog for modern data teams
75 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Leading Projects – As a Software Engineer
75 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Tesla Shares Fall as It Fails to Make It into S&P 500 Index
75 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
MIT developed a $100 ventilator in 2010
75 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Staring into the COM Abyss
75 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
“Out of an abundance of caution” – An overused phrase (2015)
75 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf]
75 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2005)
75 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Three Ways of DevOps
75 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Shadowserver, the web’s bot containment unit, needs help
75 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Introduction to Google Cloud Functions
75 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
SoftBank Owned Patent Troll Sues to Block Covid Testing, Using Theranos Patents
75 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
75 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Gig: A new method for explaining complex ensemble ML models
75 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Alexander Grothendieck: Memories of a Great Mathematician (2014)
75 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Why poor people make poor decisions
75 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Finding SARS-CoV-2 carriers by optimizing pooled testing at low prevalence [pdf]
75 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Jianruiying, the Special Forces of the Qing Dynasty
75 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Racket: Parsing propositional logic in 33 lines
75 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
A List of Free Networking courses that offer free certification
75 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Bezos: No guarantee Amazon didn't exploit third-party seller data
75 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Animals killed since opening this page
75 points • comment • may 05, 2020
How e-commerce platform Elliot fell back down to Earth
75 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System [pdf]
75 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Mozilla VPN exits beta, launches on Android and Windows for $5 a month
75 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate and glycine Impairs Coronavirus Replication (2016) [pdf]
75 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 blasts through Kickstarter goal
75 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Show HN: Magicdocs – Turn Documents into Websites
75 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Show HN: A Product Idea Prompt Generator
75 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
The side effects of an unfinished internet
75 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Ruby lib/irb/easter-egg.rb
75 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Container-Native Multi-Cluster Global Load Balancing with Cloud Armor on GCP
75 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app
75 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Show HN: Nodebook – Multi-Lang Web REPL on Docker
75 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Tesla is fighting a Right-to-Repair initiative in Massachusetts
75 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
The Curious Case of WebCrypto Diffie-Hellman on Firefox
75 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Most common mistakes during interviews
75 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks (2014)
75 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Let's Build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell
75 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Ask HN: What is the real difference between Terraform and Ansible?
75 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid
75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Electricity as Power (1880) [pdf]
75 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
California Will Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars
75 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel
75 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms
75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020