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Hacker News (2020)

I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf
397 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS
397 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
397 points • comment • may 26, 2020
A humble guide to database schema design
397 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
397 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
396 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Dockerfile Security Best Practices
396 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
396 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)
396 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
396 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
396 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers
396 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation
396 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)
396 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
396 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
396 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
395 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
395 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
United States vs. Google
395 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon
395 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
395 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
395 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
395 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
395 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
PWA Store
395 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
My blog is now generated by Google Docs
395 points • comment • may 10, 2020
The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
395 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
395 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean
395 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
395 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
394 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
394 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
394 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
394 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
394 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time
394 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
394 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard
394 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms
394 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Why are some things darker when wet?
394 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
394 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Modern C
393 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
393 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
393 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
393 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
393 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Ask HN: Are you depressed?
393 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
393 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
393 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths
393 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends
393 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
The most prized degree in India became the most worthless
393 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Rust 1.42
393 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32
393 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact
393 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds
393 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions
392 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online
392 points • comment • may 12, 2020
rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor
392 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street
392 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
OptaPlanner – constraint solver for optimizing planning and scheduling problems
392 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Things I Believe About Software Engineering
392 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff
392 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
392 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Diagram as Code
392 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Why Jira Sucks
392 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free
392 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
392 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Why I Procrastinate (2019)
392 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
392 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
392 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California
392 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
The new Jupyter Book
392 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website
391 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis
391 points • comment • may 29, 2020
From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit
391 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
LibraryThing Is Now Free to All
391 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
391 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
New Cambridge Analytica Leaks
391 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Post YC Depression
391 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Assange Trial Day 18
391 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
391 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
On Abandoning the X Server
391 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic
391 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Paul's Online Math Notes
391 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference
391 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Our list of free software for remote work
390 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers
390 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
390 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
390 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days
390 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
390 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)
390 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
390 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
How Do Routers Work, Really?
390 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
A Map of Mathematics
390 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
390 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work
390 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
390 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies
390 points • comment • aug 07, 2020