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Hacker News (2020)

Police Caught Using Clearview AI, Potentially Violating Surveillance Ordinance
45 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Researchers in Germany are giving out scholarships in “idleness”
45 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
China is the greatest enemy to freedom – US intelligence chief
45 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Undefined behavior is often a thing for C programmers (2011)
45 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Deprecating scp
45 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Using 'this' incorrectly in C#
45 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
GKE’s new dataplane uses the eBPF-based Cilium project
45 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Our Problem Is Gullibility, Not Disinformation
45 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Even as India urbanises, caste discrimination remains rife
45 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
“modern phone encryption sort of sucks”
45 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Ask HN: Best programmable robot for a child with SDK?
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
How you sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer's disease begins
45 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
PTM – Page Table Manipulation from Usermode
45 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Show HN: Watchmespendmoney
45 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Considerations Before Graduating as an Engineer
45 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Ubuntu VM on macOS with libvirt+QEMU
45 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Pytest-austin: performance regression testing with no instrumentation
45 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 doses of vaccine
45 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas
45 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
The Aloha point-of-sale system
44 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Libriscv: RISC-V Binary Translation
44 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
A happy ending for Seattle’s Bop Street Records: a nonprofit buys the collection
44 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Five Biggest Stocks Are 23% of S&P 500 Market Cap
44 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch
44 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Developing a reactivity system with Lamport clocks and incremental computation
44 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Ise-ji: Walk With Me
44 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Covid pushes Asia to embrace big government
44 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Apple Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Xnor.ai
44 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
The New 95 (2017)
44 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Tech companies are helping bosses monitor everything you do at work
44 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Vitamin D at least 30 ng/mL reduced risk for Covid-19 adverse outcomes
44 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
German minister backs creating legal right to work from home
44 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Founder Paydays at Exit (IPO)
44 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Indian farmers to get direct cash benefits
44 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Generic Mitigations
44 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Spain approves national minimum income scheme
44 points • comment • may 29, 2020
When Is Dead Dead? (2019)
44 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Which epidemiologist do you believe?
44 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars
44 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Port of Los Angeles sees coronavirus impact sharply reducing imports
44 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Differences between open science and reproducability
44 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Show HN: Minibatch – Python stream processing
44 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Tell HN: HN now displays the GitHub or Twitter username in the truncated URL
44 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Ask HN: How can I tell if a site is being rate limited?
44 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
For first time, House will vote on bill to legalize marijuana on federal level
44 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg
44 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next?
44 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Why filming police violence has done nothing to stop it, so far
44 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Show HN: SessionForward – Simple user session replays and heatmaps
44 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
10% of Covid patients in intensive care unit
44 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
An Evangelist for Remote Work Sees the Rest of the World Catch On
44 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Show HN: Paint Color Matching App (Sherwin, Behr, PPG)
44 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Get free backup service for your database and storage
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
EMM386 and VDS: Not Quite Working
44 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Why Bitcoin Could Be Banned or Criminalized in the Coming Years
44 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
OpenSMTPD advisory dissected
44 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
44 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
The Rise of Coffee
44 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
We surveyed 331 remote workers and here's what they say
44 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
44 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Next.js 9.2
44 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (2017)
44 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Is an Arbiter of Truth–Whether He Likes It or Not
44 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
The Adjacent User Theory
44 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Building a self-contained game in C# under 8 kilobytes
44 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Facebook acquires Mapillary
44 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Data Submitted by the Italian Civil Defense on COVID19 in Italy, Updated Daily
44 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping
44 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Programming Idioms
44 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
File Transfer with SSH, Tee, and Base64
44 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Plans to Advance Diversity
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
44 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII
44 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
AWS IAM is having issues again
44 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Show HN: Bosconian (1981), in 3-D
44 points • comment • may 24, 2020
How do you decaffeinate coffee?
44 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The Plight of the Platypus
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
My thoughts about editors in 2020
44 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
85+ Places to Post Your Startup
44 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
The impact on middleware of expanding APIs with Go's interface smuggling
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Common Sense Comes to Computers
44 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Visualize Starlink's current coverage with active TLEs
44 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Coronavirus: Santa Clara County has had 50 to 85x more cases than we knew about
44 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Altucher: NYC Is Dead Forever
44 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Elements of Programmnig
44 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
No City Hates Its Landlords Like Berlin Does
44 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
The Death of Zappos Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
44 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)
44 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Why basic security practices matter for everyone
44 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem
44 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Product Discovery Methods
44 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Apple's secrecy doesn't work for Apple TV+
44 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Universal flu vaccine finishes Phase 3 trial, results expected before December
44 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Approval for Hotel Covered in Plants
44 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
High-tech tracking reveals ‘secret world of birds’
44 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
How do you make the world’s most powerful neutrino beam?
44 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Atlantropa
44 points • comment • dec 28, 2020