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Hacker News (2020)

Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation
46 points • comment • may 08, 2020
How Akbar came to love books despite never learning to read (2019)
46 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions (2019) [pdf]
46 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Show HN: Spaceboard – Pinterest for Markdown Notes
46 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Report on the characteristics of Covid-19 positive deceased patients in Italy [pdf]
46 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
The Power of Crossed Brain Wires: Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous
46 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Back to the Land: Wendell Berry in the Path of Modernity
46 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Withings' ScanWatch packs ECG and SpO2 sensors alongside the usual tools
46 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Erdős–Bacon number
46 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Magnetometers based on diamonds will make navigation easier
46 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on Cruise Ships
46 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Sci-Hub and Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After High Court Complaint
46 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Capability-Based Financial Instruments (2000)
46 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Thousands of fraudsters are selling via Shopify, analysis finds
46 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
We're Sleepwalking into a Surveillance State
46 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Bytecode Alliance: One year update
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Over 70% of 12- to 14-year-olds in China are short-sighted
46 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable
46 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Tesla vs Alameda County [pdf]
46 points • comment • may 09, 2020
SIGRed: A 17 Year-Old Bug in Windows DNS Servers
46 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Tree-walking algorithms: Incremental postorder walk of an N-ary tree
46 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Genode OS Framework 20.11
46 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles
46 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Houdini.how
46 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Open-source security tools for cloud and container applications
46 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream
46 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Mass Evacuation Underway in German City over WWII Bombs
46 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
46 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Wayfair growth stops; Layoffs start
46 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Atmospheric Water Harvesting
46 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
A bunch of rants about the cloud
46 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Ask HN: Dynamic memory/CPU provisioning for VMs?
46 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
CDC recommends sweeping changes to American offices
46 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Guess the Correlation
46 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry
46 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Apple confirms cloud gaming services violate App Store guidelines
46 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Ask HN: Will this be the end of Airbnb?
46 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Increase in Bitcoin Addresses as More People Join the BTC Price Surge
46 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Netflix puts free documentaries on YouTube for students and teachers
46 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
I Spent a Day Drinking Thick Water, the Worst Hydration Life Hack Ever
46 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Health-insurance premiums could rise 40% or more next year
46 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching with launch tower
46 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Ironsides DNS Server in Ada Spark
46 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Hooking Up Our Custom OS to a Standard Library
46 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
A Taxonomy of Privacy
46 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Mainvest – Invest in brick and mortar businesses
46 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Using carbon isotopes to fight the rise in fraudulent whisky
46 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Tell HN: iBooks has deleted all my downloaded books
46 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
4chan pretends to be Hacker News
46 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Google’s Project Zero discloses Windows 0day that’s been under active exploit
46 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
The Oregon DMV took in $11.5M last year by selling your information
46 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Predatory journal accepts fake story about scooters and hydroxychloroquine
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?
46 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
iPhone 6s falls out of a plane and survives, with all the action recorded
46 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
The Shoulders of Giants [pdf]
46 points • comment • may 14, 2020
At what grade level do presidential candidates debate at?
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Linux (In)Security
46 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Pytov – C-like syntax Python
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Uber CEO Says Layoff Decision to Be Announced Within Two Weeks
46 points • comment • may 05, 2020
DeepMind Lab2D
46 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Light turned into exotic Laughlin matter
46 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Microsoft patents tech to score meetings with body language, facial expressions
46 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Postmortem: DreamWorks Interactive's Trespasser (1999)
46 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Users as people and the participatory economy
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Why I'm building a new async runtime
46 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Six Tips to Ace a SQL Interview
46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
FBI arrests Michael Taylor on charges of helping former Nissan CEO escape Japan
46 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Ask HN: I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?
46 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Viral Flows: Moving from supply chains to supply networks
46 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy
46 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
‘Time has come’ for universal basic income, says Scotland’s first minister
46 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark (2018)
46 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Project Kuiper's custom-built antenna architecture
46 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Demonstration of the Xerox PARC Cedar integrated environment (2019) [video]
46 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
How Do You Decode a Hapax? Also, What’s a Hapax? (2017)
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Improving communities through documentation (2019)
46 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
46 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Welcome to DiscDAG
46 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Planka – an open-source self-hosted Trello-like app
46 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Tell HN: GitHub Pages Down
46 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
New Pulumi Open Source Projects for Kubernetes
46 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Spike mutation pipeline reveals a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2: study
46 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018)
46 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
The Impedance Mismatch Is Our Fault (2012)
46 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Tesla FSD Beta 8 tested for self-driving performance in snowy conditions
46 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Brain-melting Unity demo turns polaroid pics into slices of interactive reality
46 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
What is the PDP-11 instruction set?
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Airliner Repair, 24/7 (2008)
46 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Bitcoin has surpassed $15k for the first time since January 2018
46 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
On Emulation
46 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road
46 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Printing Presses Are Giant GPUs
46 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like
46 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
A Medieval British Anti-Counterfeiting System: Split Tally Sticks (2017)
46 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
FEATool Multiphysics – Physics Simulation Made Easy
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
An authentication and authorization system based on RBAC for restful APIs
46 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Build a Minimum Loveable Product
46 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Dutch went from shortest to tallest in Europe through sexual selection
46 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
The Challenges and Delights of Photographing the Night Sky
46 points • comment • aug 08, 2020