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Hacker News (2020)

The Birth of New Spain
54 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
54 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Letters to a Young Poet (1903)
54 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next
54 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
54 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Restoring the first recording of computer music (2016)
54 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
California's Vanishing Lakes and the Hunger of the Mines (2015)
54 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Parsing RISC-V assembly
54 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Why can't I sign in with Facebook anymore?
54 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Men can be fired for taking paternity leave
54 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Google Meet Security and Privacy for users
54 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
How Scrabble Blew Its Big Moment
54 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Covid-19 down in 24 counties with mask mandates, up in 81 counties without
54 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Nsibidi
54 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
A New Theory of Western Civilization
54 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Swiss Army Knives used in MacGyver episodes (2019)
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold Available for Preorder: Hold onto Your Wallet
54 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Mighty Buildings (YC W18) can 3D-print houses, even the roof
54 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Visualizing TSNE Maps with Three.js
54 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
54 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Herald – Bluetooth contact tracing protocol
54 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Dupes and Duplicity
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack
54 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Vanishing zeroes for geometric algebra in Rust
54 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Microsoft will remove user names from ‘Productivity Score’ after backlash
54 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Exxon to Slash 14,000 Jobs Worldwide as Oil Demand Drops
54 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Oculus admits they will NOT help with Oculus Paperweight
54 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
The Treehouse Is De-Plaformed
54 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
macOS Icons
54 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Kautilya Arthashastra and its relevance to Urban Planning Studies [pdf]
54 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882)
54 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
A Comparison of Futhark and Dex
53 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Sleepy America: 60% of adults say they’re more tired than ever before
53 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Reverse Engineering my Christmas Tree
53 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
HBO Max cranks up the Widevine DRM, leaves Linux users in the cold
53 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Writing my first Gameboy Emulator
53 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Let's Make the Web Weird Again [audio]
53 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
53 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Linux Distributions You Can Rely on for Your Ancient 32-Bit Computer
53 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
A Scary Amount of Nutrition Science Has Deep Ties to the Food Industry, Study
53 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Using React, Redux and SSR to acommodate users without JavaScript
53 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Nobel Prize speech from the inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis (1993)
53 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
The power of HTTP headers and examples
53 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Bernie's plan to hike taxes on some startup employees
53 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Roche CEO's says some Covid-19 antibody tests are a disaster
53 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Ask HN: Negotiating My Hourly Rate
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Auto-cpufreq – Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Risk BowTie Method
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests
53 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
British Airways fined £20m over data breach
53 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Interactive model showing effectiveness of airport screenings to catch Covid-19
53 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
The Senate’s new anti-encryption bill is even worse than EARN IT
53 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
In Kaua‘i, botanists rediscover an extinct plant once mistaken for another
53 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – it is six years old
53 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Flutter tutorial for beginners
53 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Ex-Enron CEO Skilling launching new digital marketplace for oil investors
53 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Climate Change Did Influence Australia’s Unprecedented Bushfires
53 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
NSQ A realtime distributed messaging platform
53 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
The Crop Software Behind Your Daily Cup of Coffee
53 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Cracks in the Great Stagnation?
53 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Clifford torus
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
There is no more Perl at JP Morgan
53 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Popular posts from leaky bug-tracking systems
53 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Digital banking, now halal
53 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
GitHub Protips- Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Sarah Vessels
53 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Nothingness (2017)
53 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
List of Prolific Writers
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Rampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F
53 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Google's Internal AGPL Policy
53 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Exploring the abandoned birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64 [video]
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Xenobot, a new kind of programmable organism
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Using JAX to Accelerate Research
53 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Stuxnet
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Free internet for all not such a bad idea
53 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference to Find More Welcoming Location
53 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Agrivoltaics: Save solar plant land costs with sheep and agriculture
53 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
WSL2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004
53 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Perhaps Mozilla Should Unfck Itself Before “Unfcking the Internet”
53 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Pence says European travel ban will extend to U.K. and Ireland
53 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Smaug, the brand new OVHcloud backbone network infrastructure
53 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Apollo 11 guidance computer vs. USB-C chargers
53 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
A Tree That Owns Itself (2018)
53 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
This week in KDE: polishing the System Tray and more
53 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
PSA: Stripe emails to your customers include an unremovable advertisement
53 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Marvin – Customizable Task Manager and Daily Planner
53 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Probing a Cloud of the Fifth State of Matter (Bose-Einstein Condensate) on ISS
53 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Show HN: Build your own ridesharing, gig, on-demand apps Firebase and HyperTrack
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Why SMS Refuses to Die
53 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild new keyboard cover
53 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Inline CSS works better in a component world
53 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Effects of “The Work” meditation on symptoms and quality of life (2015)
53 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Ask HN: Lawyers of HN, are works created in Lego copyrightable?
53 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
.NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
The Holy Men of India
53 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
UNIX Text Formatting Using the -ms Macros (1984)
53 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Reading Manpages Like a Pro (2018)
53 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
9-gigapixel image of the Milky Way contains 84M stars
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Show HN: Single JavaScript API Client for sheet2api.com
53 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
‘Buffett Indicator’ Warns Stocks Doomed for Worse Crash Than 2008
53 points • comment • jan 06, 2020