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Hacker News (2020)

How Gödel’s Proof Works
45 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
The governor of NJ went live on TV to request COBOL programmers
45 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin's latest bubble?
45 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Mathematics Pioneer Ingrid Daubechies Has More Barriers to Break
45 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With
45 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Lessons learned the hard way in grad school (so far)
45 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Concert Roulette
45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
KDE’s Plasma Mobile Is Shaping Up Nicely on the PinePhone
45 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Why I’m Losing Hope in India
45 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Experiment finds that gravity still works down to 50 micrometers
45 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Police Caught Using Clearview AI, Potentially Violating Surveillance Ordinance
45 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
The Nitty Gritty of “Hello World” on macOS (2014)
45 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Newton, the Man (1946)
45 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Is Firebase Down?
45 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Uber's chief of scooters, bikes to depart
45 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Global nitrogen dioxide levels dropped since COVID: NASA video
45 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
How airlines plan to make billions from rewards cards
45 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 6k bitcoin, sale impossible without access codes
45 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Metformin inhibits mitochondrial adaptations to aerobic exercise training
45 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number? (1960) [pdf]
45 points • comment • may 09, 2020
The Stolen Ring found in 1785
45 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Can an Economy Feel Joy?
45 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Pinecil: Portable USB-C RISC-V soldering iron
45 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
The Billion-Dollar Battle over .Org
45 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Using Babel transforms to inject analytics code at build time
45 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Zoom Call with Israelis Lands a Gaza Peace Activist in Jail
45 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Show HN: Squzy – open-source monitoring, incident and alert system
45 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 unless the clock app is just so
45 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
FDA issues emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman (2007)
45 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation
45 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Frozen airline food to feed those in need
45 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Mars is not a legal vacuum
45 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Zipcall.io – Free browser-based video calling
45 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe
45 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
DoD Wants Help with “Predictive Health” (Scroll Down)
45 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Appreciating accessibility with a broken collar bone
45 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Homoiconicity Revisited
45 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 1 available for testing
45 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes
45 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease
45 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
What the bees know and what they do not know (1964) [pdf]
45 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
NumPy another Iverson Ghost (2018)
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Walnut Creek PD threatens to kill protesters
45 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Linux Kernel NTFS read-write driver by Paragon Software
45 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after finding tweets incited violence
45 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983)
45 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Ask HN: Do posts by authors with more karma rank higher?
45 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Open letter to founders: entrepreneurship is not physics
45 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
React Core team joining Facebook walkout in solidarity with the Black community
45 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Ask HN: Instead of picking a party, why can’t we vote on issues
45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Parks and Houses for the People
45 points • comment • may 15, 2020
AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics
45 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Covid-19 – a new regime of surveillance? [audio]
45 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
A principled approach to GraphQL query cost analysis
45 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Using fish to study depression
45 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Incentivized Guardianship
45 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
A free tool to plan deliveries during the Covid-19 pandemic
45 points • comment • may 02, 2020
A company whose name was an XSS injection attack
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Letting tools make choices
45 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Former YouTube content moderator describes horrors of the job in lawsuit
45 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Show HN: Errorship, use datadog as an error tracker
45 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
What Is Amazon? (2019)
45 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
What Is Scuttlebutt?
45 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
A layman's guide to understanding the Cloud
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults
45 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
German Radio Turns 100
45 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
How India, the World's Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet
45 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Tehran skyscraper combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park
45 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffrey Epstein case missing
45 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
MacBookAir Apple Silicon’s early benchmarks
45 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
George Stinney: youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed
45 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Applying tech frameworks to biotech: key differences
45 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Our Problem Is Gullibility, Not Disinformation
45 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Polygon Crest – open-source 3D polygonal editor
45 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Germany raided 83 homes in coordinated raids against online hate speech
45 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
“modern phone encryption sort of sucks”
45 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
A new model-F keyboard
45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Artifacts alter timeline for Native Americans in California (2019)
45 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Covid-19 in schoolchildren – A comparison between Finland and Sweden [pdf]
45 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Opinion: On Google’s ReCAPTCHA Privacy Nightmare
45 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Deprecating scp
45 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Covid-19 is killing my people – And no one seems to care
45 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Show HN: Blunders.io, a tool to profile JVMs in production
45 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Show HN: Routine Ops – Schedule recurring tasks by role
45 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Turkey reconverts Istanbul's Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
45 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts
45 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Show HN: Watchmespendmoney
45 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Informational privacy: a precondition for democratic participation?
45 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Ask HN: How and when did you decide and start your startup?
45 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Students figured out their tests were graded by AI and the easy way to cheat
45 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Science as a Vocation, by Max Weber (1918)
45 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Sony Unveils 'Spatial Reality Display' with Eye-Tracking for Glasses-Free 3D
45 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Google search gets personal (2005)
45 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
How to build a handwriting reader from scratch with deep learning
45 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
My Life in Cars
45 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Wagnerism
45 points • comment • dec 07, 2020