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Hacker News (2020)

SaaS We Happily Pay For
432 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
What If You Could Do It All Over?
432 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
432 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Swift Playgrounds for macOS
432 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Google Earth Timelapse
432 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
432 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world
432 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic
432 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Stages of denial in encountering K
432 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
432 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Open Problems in Robotics
432 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
432 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data
432 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation
432 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory
432 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19
432 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic
432 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
431 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
431 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers
431 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
431 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board
431 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
A small but complete JavaScript engine
431 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
431 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018)
431 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
431 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint
431 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
430 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model
430 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Good sleep, good learning, good life
430 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Finishing a side project
430 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Earnestness
430 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot
430 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Captcha.nsa.gov
430 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
430 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
429 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
429 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
People expect technology to suck because it sucks
429 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
429 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
429 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
429 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea
429 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Mondragon Corporation
429 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
428 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
428 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression
428 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
428 points • comment • may 05, 2020
MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust
428 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
428 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
The Silence Is Deafening
428 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
How We reduced our Google Maps API cost
428 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Oatly: The New Coke?
428 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
428 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack
427 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
427 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020
427 points • comment • may 08, 2020
AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs
427 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test
427 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability
427 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Lamest Edit Wars
427 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Introducing Facebook Shops
427 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
427 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
427 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days
427 points • comment • may 02, 2020
ACLU sues Homeland Security over airport face recognition program secrecy
426 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
426 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
How to Take Smart Notes
426 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
We deleted the production database by accident
426 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
426 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key
426 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers
426 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers
425 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Lessons from six years as a solo consultant
425 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
425 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth
425 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
424 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future
424 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable
424 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review
424 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
An update to the Timescale license
424 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
424 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
424 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
424 points • comment • may 29, 2020
The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
424 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention
424 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved
424 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People
424 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Image Scaling Attacks
424 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Org Mode's new site
424 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt
424 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
423 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job
423 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
423 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Never Hertz to Ask
423 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy
423 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Ask HN: How to self-study physics?
423 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant
423 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)
423 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding
423 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
422 points • comment • dec 20, 2020