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Hacker News (2020)

Personal computers: does everyone need to learn programming? (1984)
51 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Shodan Dojo – Learning Shodan through katas
51 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
The Internet is too unsafe: We need more hackers
51 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Lost and Found: Stopping Bluetooth Finders from Leaking Private Information
51 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym
51 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Samsung Critical Security Vulnerability: 0-click RCE in All Modern Phones
51 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Anteater: DevOps Security Framework
51 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Kids and Time
51 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
How we upgraded PostgreSQL
51 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Probability Models for Customer-Base Analysis (2013) [pdf]
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Printable, flexible battery offers 10 times the density of lithium-ion
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Granfalloon technique
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook?
51 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Study says Uber and Lyft generate 70% more pollution than the trips they replace
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Thinking About Decentralized Communities
51 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Novel Coronavirus situation reports
51 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed
51 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Amazon suspends all deliveries in France
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Interviews with makers of high-end mechanical keyboards
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses
51 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
When to Mock
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Librem 5 Is Calling
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Google accused of ‘double standard’ for punishing publishers for user comments
51 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Tree planting is a great idea that could become a dangerous climate distraction
51 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
A Nixon Deepfake, a 'Moon Disaster' Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk
51 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
As L.A. plays tech disruptor, Uber fights back
51 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture
51 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Blip – 1977 Mechanical Pong [video]
51 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
The Navy Says It's Not Recruiting on Twitch. This Handbook Shows It Is
51 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Coronavirus relapse cases continue to rise in S. Korea
51 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
YAYA, a new threat hunting tool from EFF Threat Lab
51 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Lisp in 2020?
51 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
DeGoogle My Life
51 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Chime, a Go Editor for macOS – v1.0 Now Available
51 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Remote First at Brex
51 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Fish in a Barrel Memory Safety Bounty Program
51 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
CISA Rumor Control
51 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Russian 'doomsday' plane's radio equipment stolen by thieves
51 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year
51 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Mobile networks banned from selling locked phones
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
PlayCanvas launches glTF 2.0 Viewer Tool
51 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
4coder, a modern text editor based loosely on Emacs
51 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Play-by-Mail Games
51 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
The Brave New World of Chemical Romance
51 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Lightmatter's Mars SoC Bends Light to Process Data
51 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
How Humanity Came to Contemplate Its Possible Extinction
51 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Japan's Brand New Bullet Train Is Earthquake-Proof
51 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Us online tuition move hits foreign visas
51 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
David Shaw vs. Seymour Papert Debate (1995) [video]
51 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs
51 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
A deeply flawed lawsuit that would do nothing to help consumers
51 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Ask HN: Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?
51 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Diageo to launch Johnnie Walker whisky in paper bottles
51 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics; visualize your data (2016)
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Origins of Venmo (2014)
51 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
A Remembrance of Forrest Fenn
51 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
What Privacy Is For (2012)
51 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20sec at 100M degrees
51 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Plato in Sicily
51 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Build your own async primitive
51 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
51 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Leaving the Grace of This World
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Ask HN: Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?
51 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Precursor, a mobile open-source electronics platform for developing secure apps
51 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
My Father André Weil (2018) [pdf]
51 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Shor's Quantum Factoring Algorithm (2017)
51 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time
51 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes
51 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Kuhn Poker
50 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Openstreetmap Foundation board election: manifestos, official questions answers
50 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]
50 points • comment • may 15, 2020
UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
50 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
50 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references
50 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ launches exclusive partnership with Spotify
50 points • comment • may 19, 2020
New lockdown: Manchester University students pull down campus fences
50 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
A Layperson's Security Framework
50 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Abstracting Abstract Machines (2010) [pdf]
50 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Espanso: Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust
50 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Unexpected electric current that could stabilize fusion reactions discovered
50 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with Covid-19, are dying from strokes
50 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52M
50 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
50 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Show HN: pbcopy/pbpaste across machines via Gitlab Snippets
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Top Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Killed on Trump’s Orders, Officials Say
50 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
50 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Google refuses to remove the state-sponsored app used to spy on Russian citizens
50 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Modularizing SQL? (2007)
50 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Salvador Dali’s Script for the Marx Brothers
50 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
50 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Autopsies offer key clues for early-stage Covid-19 patients
50 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Good idea bad implementation crosstalk
50 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Zamburak
50 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code
50 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide
50 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Researchers accuse Xiaomi browsers of collecting data, even in Incognito mode
50 points • comment • may 01, 2020