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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

    1362 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  2. Africa declared free of wild polio

    1359 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  3. Mozilla VPN

    1357 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  4. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

    1353 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  5. Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

    1353 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  6. Larry Tesler Has Died

    1343 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  7. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

    1343 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  8. Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

    1341 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?

    1333 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  10. Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

    1328 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  11. Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

    1319 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  12. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

    1315 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  13. Bongo Cat

    1308 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  14. Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

    1306 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  15. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

    1302 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  16. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

    1301 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  17. Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams

    1295 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  18. Thank You MDN

    1270 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  19. Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

    1269 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  20. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

    1266 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  21. What Happened to Lee

    1265 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  22. On the Use of a Life

    1265 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  23. Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

    1263 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  24. Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

    1256 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  25. I no longer build software

    1252 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  26. Most-favorited Hacker News posts

    1249 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  27. Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

    1247 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  28. Tips for a Better Life

    1242 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  29. Just Wanted to Say Thanks

    1238 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  30. Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

    1238 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  31. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

    1236 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  32. New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

    1233 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  33. Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

    1232 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  34. Freeman Dyson Has Died

    1228 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  35. Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

    1227 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  36. BitTorrent v2

    1224 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  37. Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

    1220 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  38. Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

    1216 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  39. SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

    1211 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  40. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

    1208 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  41. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

    1208 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  42. Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage

    1207 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  43. Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

    1206 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  44. Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back

    1206 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  45. A warning about Glassdoor

    1205 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  46. Beirut Port Explosion

    1200 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  47. Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

    1196 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  48. What's SAP?

    1196 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  49. Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

    1195 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  50. A Sad Day for Rust

    1195 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  51. Medium-hard SQL interview questions

    1195 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  52. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

    1182 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  53. How We Saved Dot Org

    1182 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  54. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

    1178 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  55. Do You Love Me? [video]

    1177 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  56. Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B

    1176 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  57. If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

    1175 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  58. On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation

    1173 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  59. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

    1167 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  60. I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

    1166 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  61. Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

    1165 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  62. CRDTs are the future

    1164 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  63. Apple Faceshield

    1163 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  64. Can't you just right click?

    1159 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  65. Teach Yourself Computer Science

    1154 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  66. Not everyone has an internal monologue

    1153 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  67. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

    1150 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  68. Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down

    1135 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  69. We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology

    1132 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  70. How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

    1130 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  71. Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

    1127 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  72. Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points

    1127 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  73. I Violated a Code of Conduct

    1125 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  74. We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode

    1118 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  75. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

    1118 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  76. Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

    1115 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  77. The missing semester of CS education

    1113 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  78. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

    1108 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  79. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

    1104 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  80. No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

    1104 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  81. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

    1104 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  82. How to Exit Vim

    1101 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  83. MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations

    1100 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  84. Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

    1097 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  85. Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

    1094 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  86. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

    1093 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  87. Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

    1089 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  88. Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

    1088 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  89. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

    1087 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  90. Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

    1085 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  91. Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

    1082 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  92. How to Think for Yourself

    1077 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  93. Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement

    1076 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  94. Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

    1074 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  95. I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

    1073 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  96. A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

    1071 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  97. Zero-day in Sign in with Apple

    1070 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  98. Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

    1068 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  99. Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

    1066 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  100. Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple

    1066 points • comment • jun 29, 2020