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Hacker News (2020)

Announcing NetBSD 9.1
54 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs
54 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Almost Realtime Live Data Visualization in QGIS – Air Traffic Use Case
54 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Swiss Army Knives used in MacGyver episodes (2019)
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials
54 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Letters to a Young Poet (1903)
54 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Ask HN: The state of Firebase alternatives in 2020?
54 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
The Error Model (2016)
54 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Virgin Hyperloop picks West Virginia to test high-speed transport system
54 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Mayastor: Lightning Fast Storage for Kubernetes
54 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Stackoverflow: Lesser Known but Useful Datastructures
54 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
We can now edit the human genome – how far should we go? [video]
54 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Senators propose lawful access to encrypted data
54 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
54 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
54 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Separating Hype from Hydrogen: EU's 6GW Electrolyzer Plan
54 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years
54 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Ask HN: Is it a good practice to provide open-source version of your paid app?
54 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
WD SN850 delivers the best performing SSD we've tested
54 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer
54 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge
54 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
How Scrabble Blew Its Big Moment
54 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Consume less, produce more
54 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles
54 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
California's Vanishing Lakes and the Hunger of the Mines (2015)
54 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
54 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Herald – Bluetooth contact tracing protocol
54 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations
54 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Clara Immerwahr: Science’s Tragic and Surprisingly Modern Heroine
54 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
54 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Simple Bugs with Complex Exploits
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Bernie's plan to hike taxes on some startup employees
53 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
When Squirrels Were One of America’s Most Popular Pets (2017)
53 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Flutter tutorial for beginners
53 points • comment • may 01, 2020
A Comparison of Futhark and Dex
53 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Auto-cpufreq – Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Let's Make the Web Weird Again [audio]
53 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests
53 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
James Burke Interview [video]
53 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Interactive model showing effectiveness of airport screenings to catch Covid-19
53 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Standards for Gloves
53 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
53 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Inline CSS works better in a component world
53 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
In Kaua‘i, botanists rediscover an extinct plant once mistaken for another
53 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
A Tree That Owns Itself (2018)
53 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Associations between intelligence and childlessness in men (2019) [pdf]
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Rust is not a good C replacement (2019)
53 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Climate Change Did Influence Australia’s Unprecedented Bushfires
53 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
RFC 8799: Limited Domains and Internet Protocols
53 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
The Crop Software Behind Your Daily Cup of Coffee
53 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder
53 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Clifford torus
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
53 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Popular posts from leaky bug-tracking systems
53 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
53 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
List of Prolific Writers
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
We Don't Hate PHP
53 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Google's Internal AGPL Policy
53 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
An enormous theorem: the classification of finite simple groups (2006)
53 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Xenobot, a new kind of programmable organism
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
53 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Stuxnet
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
What Can Bonobos Teach Us About the Nature of Language?
53 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Mainframes Are Having a Moment
53 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Jailhouse: Linux-Based Partitioning Hypervisor
53 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference to Find More Welcoming Location
53 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Ask HN: What helps you improve your mood and keep your sanity?
53 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
WSL2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004
53 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Haynes Stops Printing Famous Workshop Manuals
53 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Pence says European travel ban will extend to U.K. and Ireland
53 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
53 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Apollo 11 guidance computer vs. USB-C chargers
53 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Yin-Yang – A tool for stress-testing SMT solvers
53 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
This week in KDE: polishing the System Tray and more
53 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Linux Distributions You Can Rely on for Your Ancient 32-Bit Computer
53 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Neurable Technology
53 points • comment • may 11, 2020
The power of HTTP headers and examples
53 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Show HN: Build your own ridesharing, gig, on-demand apps Firebase and HyperTrack
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
The Sail ISA specification language
53 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild new keyboard cover
53 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Wireheading done right: stay positive without going insane (2016)
53 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Effects of “The Work” meditation on symptoms and quality of life (2015)
53 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Plant Tweets
53 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
.NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones
53 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Protesters Shelter in DC Home Overnight After Being Attacked by Police
53 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Let's use more of Firefox, only YOU can stop Chrome from becoming the next IE
53 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
9-gigapixel image of the Milky Way contains 84M stars
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Why SMS Refuses to Die
53 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of liability protections
53 points • comment • may 28, 2020
We could see an orbital launch of SpaceX’s Starship this year
53 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
‘Buffett Indicator’ Warns Stocks Doomed for Worse Crash Than 2008
53 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
What4: A library to help build verification and program analysis tools
53 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Deno 1.0: What you need to know
53 points • comment • may 06, 2020
T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)
53 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Audio Datasets for Machine Learning
53 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
53 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Real-Time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python
53 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
53 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster
53 points • comment • jan 12, 2020