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Hacker News (2020)

Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook (2014)
55 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Rare Edition of Shakespeare’s Last Play Found in Spanish Library
55 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Obese politicians signal corruption, study finds
55 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Symbolic execution with SymCC: Don't interpret, compile
55 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
What does code readability mean? (2018)
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship
55 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Americans Are Getting More Money from Unemployment Than They Were from Their Job
55 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch
55 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Apple to terminate developer account of Epic Games on August 28th
55 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
A world that's designed to make you sad and angry
55 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
MacBook Air M1 Geekbench
55 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Shmig: Database migration tool written in bash
55 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Option Hacking the Tektronix TDS 420A
55 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Deno vs. Node (cold-start on AWS lambda)
55 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation Survivors
55 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
55 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
California Middle-Schooler Threatened with Jail for Missing 3 Zoom Classes
55 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Over $1 Billion in Silk Road Bitcoin Is Target of U.S. Suit
55 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School (2013)
55 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
The body as mediator: The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
55 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Beatrice the Sixteenth
55 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Overriding C++ virtual functions at run time
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Use Netlify Functions and the Twitter API v2 as a CMS for Your Gatsby Blog
55 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
App stores, trust and anti-trust
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
1.7M premature deaths annually from air pollution in India
55 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Two Hundred Different Misspellings of Schwarzenegger
55 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the Playstation Store with full refunds
55 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Twitch bans words “simp” and “virgin”
55 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Paving the Way for Electronic Organs-on-a-Chip
55 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Ask HN: What is your favorite low-end setup you've ever done?
55 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Why did Europe become less religious over time and the US didn't?
55 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
DEA seized father’s life savings at airport without alleging any crime occurred
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
How to Build a State
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it?
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
The Keynesian Revolution: A new biography of John Maynard Keynes
54 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Boost VC closes $40M fund as revamped ‘sci-fi’ accelerator
54 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Paul Graham Essay Notes
54 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Three Colors: Blue
54 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Two Features of JavaScript that you might not know
54 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Ask HN: Does anyone have celiac disease and how do you deal with that?
54 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Stackoverflow: Lesser Known but Useful Datastructures
54 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
How an English Energy Crisis Helped Create Champagne
54 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
The first first-person shooter (2015)
54 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
“Just Like at Madrid, Comrades”
54 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Senators propose lawful access to encrypted data
54 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Amazon scientists author popular deep-learning book
54 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Show HN: A minimal stack based VM in C
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
That 1970s Feeling
54 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
The Most Likely Way You’ll Get Infected with Covid-19
54 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Algorithmically-created medicine to be used on humans for first time
54 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Wellbeing levels fell with the pandemic but improved under lockdown, data shows
54 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
54 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
The Seccomp Notifier – New Frontiers in Unprivileged Container Development
54 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
The Covid-19 Economy: We won't recover until 2022
54 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Simple Bugs with Complex Exploits
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Rural Cities Overtake NYC in per Capita Covid-19 Cases
54 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Kinetic Artwork Attempts to Get a ‘Little Piece of Privacy’
54 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Ask HN: What features for an offline Hacker News reader?
54 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
The Sac State 8008: The First Full-Fledged Microcomputer (2008)
54 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook
54 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Clara Immerwahr: Science’s Tragic and Surprisingly Modern Heroine
54 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide protection against Covid-19
54 points • comment • may 02, 2020
I No Longer Tell My Friends about Anki/SuperMemo
54 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Lunch with Freeman Dyson
54 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Examining the dominance of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple
54 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It
54 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Stali is a static Linux distribution
54 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Tinygo is now officially a Google sponsored project
54 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles
54 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Marey’s Trains
54 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge
54 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
JavaScript Promise.all vs. Promise.allSettled
54 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Edx bans Iranians while MOOCs are specifically exepmted from sanctions
54 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnerability
54 points • comment • may 03, 2020
The Covid-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony
54 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing?
54 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Using machine learning to detect deficient coverage in colonoscopy screenings
54 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Lessons for a Young Scientist
54 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election
54 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Occam programming language
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Mayastor: Lightning Fast Storage for Kubernetes
54 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Warren Abstract Machine
54 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Teleport 4.3: Modern Replacement for OpenSSH
54 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
PostgreSQL for Those Who Can’t Even
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
The Error Model (2016)
54 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (1975) [pdf]
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm
54 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Git filter-repo: much easier/faster alternative to filter-branch
54 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
F-Droid at 36c3
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
New Particle Collision Math May Offer Quantum Clues
54 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Notification of Enforcement Discretion for telehealth remote communications
54 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Oxford University vaccine shows 70% protection
54 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Uber sells food delivery business in India to Zomato
54 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
54 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
54 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again
54 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Design: the key to writing and advising a one-draft thesis (2002) [pdf]
54 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Unsplash’s dataset is now open source
54 points • comment • sep 21, 2020