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Hacker News (2020)

Online Virtual Oscilloscope
50 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
50 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook
50 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Intellectual Humility
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds
50 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Memory Management Reference (2018)
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Inexcusable insecurity in Windows
50 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Wealth is what you don't spend
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Cracking the knuckles is probably harmless
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
New Safe Memory Reclamation Feature in UMA
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
New type of taste cell discovered in taste buds
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Show HN: Public APIs Collection
50 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Mozilla RegretsReporter
50 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Gitlab.com Is Moving to 13.0
50 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Stannard Rock Light
50 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
On COBOL
50 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Think you want to die at home? You might want to think twice about that
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
New York Times developers squabble over decision to doxx Scott Alexander
50 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
SRE for single-tiered software applications
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Show HN: Essays curated for you with machine learning
50 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora (2014)
50 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
How to Type 3x Faster
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Researchers at McAfee tricked two Teslas into autonomously speeding up by 50 MPH
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
The Supreme Court Hears Oracle vs. Google Tomorrow
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Ask HN: Is YouTube Working Properly?
50 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Bathroom Reading
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
50 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
US adults who mostly rely on social media for news are less informed
50 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Show HN: html-vault – create self-contained HTML for password protected content
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1
50 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Disprove quantum immortality without risking your life (2019)
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Modelling explains why blues and greens are nature's brightest colors
50 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Gitlab 12.8 Released with Log Explorer, NuGet, and Compliance
50 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Time Zone Bugs I Ran Into
50 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
South Korea reports recovered Covid-19 patients testing positive again
50 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
People on SO have been working together on a single polyglot program for 4 years
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Pentagon officially releases UFO videos
50 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Gesture Recognition with Line Integrals
50 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Show HN: Simple-blogger – blog generated from GitHub project READMEs
50 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Why is my Nest Thermostat talking to Facebook?
50 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Help fight trafficking by uploading photos of your hotel room
50 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Get Started with Infection Monkey, Open Source Security Tool
50 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Ask HN: I feel like I should be working all the time and its killing me
50 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom
50 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Do Not Trust Google
50 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Inventing Game of Life (2014) [video]
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Before you ship a “security mitigation”
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Show HN: Cycell2d.com – A Cellular Morphogenesis Sandbox
50 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Researchers discover the microbiome's role in attacking cancerous tumors
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Paper Notes (2019)
50 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
US government accuses TikTok of being a mouthpiece for the Communist Party
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
ShellHub enables teams to easily access any Linux device behind firewall and NAT
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Using Google Analytics without GDPR consent
50 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Individual Investors Get Burned by Collapse of Complex Securities
50 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
In memory Key/Value store in go using gRPC
50 points • comment • may 20, 2020
How to Start A Niche Content Site
50 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Sonos: Working with big tech sucks
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
FedEx teams up with Reliable Robotics on autonomous cargo planes
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Buridan's Principle (1984) [pdf]
50 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle over “Citizen Kane”
50 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Nushell – A New Type of Shell
50 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Biden will be 46th president
50 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Show HN: SpectX launches the free edition of its raw log file / blob analyzer
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Final Exam
50 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
WTF? I cannot cancel my NYTimes subscription online?
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Spectrum Analyzer Software for OpenRAMAN
50 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Facial Hairstyles and Filtering Facepiece Respirators [pdf]
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
BMI 30 increases risk of severe Covid and death
50 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Show HN: Bach.sh is a real unit testing framework for Bash
50 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and
50 points • comment • may 04, 2020
An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says
50 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Strange Things LINK Knows about 80x86 Processors (1997)
50 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture
50 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Senator Is Seemingly Obsessed with Threatening the Internet Archive
50 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully. – The Stanford Daily
50 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
50 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Can Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure?
50 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
A Gopher View of Gemini
50 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Wrist Routine – 8 Exercises to Fix Hand and Wrist Pain
50 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
A new Live Fourier Transform demonstration (2014) [video]
50 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
NHS data: Can Sir Tim Berners-Lee fix it?
50 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup, can't turn them off
50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, CHAZ
50 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Zuckerberg: this election is not going to be business as usual
50 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
How to Navigate Being the Only Woman on Your Team
50 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Gaia-X: Technical Architecture [pdf]
50 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and the public
50 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Growing the .NET Ecosystem
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming
50 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
The World’s Richest Families 2020
50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Music: A Mathematical Offering (2008)
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2020