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Hacker News (2020)

Datsville – a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using the LDraw CAD
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
GoldBack – Currency With Actual Gold In Bills That Can Be Used Anywhere
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels
44 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85 (1984)
44 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Ask HN: How to Disagree with the Rest of Management?
44 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C
44 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
My Famicase Exhibition 2020
44 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Show HN: A convenient graphical image annotation tool
44 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Movies you should own: The Andromeda Strain
44 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Show HN: ExGAN-Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples
44 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert
44 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks
44 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
I Spoke Out Against Sexual Harassment at Uber
44 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
How Much YouTube Paid Me in 2020 (with a million subscribers)
44 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today
44 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Amazon can smell the blood in Ads. And it’s going for it
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
How much space would it take to store every word ever said?
44 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Amazon Q3 2020
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's
44 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?
44 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Show HN: ScribbleX – Create some art with friends
44 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
As many as 6B Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
44 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
IKEA switches from Verdana to Noto (Google, Monotype) for 2020 catalogue
44 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Bitcoin breaks above $20k for the first time ever
44 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Parachute use to prevent death jumping from aircraft: random controlled trial (2018)
44 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Divorce rates in America soar 34% during Covid; surge not unexpected
44 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Ballerinas defy the corporeal in a quest for the ethereal (2019)
44 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Email Lessons from Napoleon
44 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Silicon Valley Live Hospital Bed Data
44 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
How Shazam Works (2015)
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
VC firms can be liable if startups wrongly claim stimulus funds
44 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Love Hurts
44 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Ask HN: How do you share passwords simply and securely?
44 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
What were these Roman objects used for?
44 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
44 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Ask HW: Qubes OS alternative on LXD containers
44 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Dehydrating Eggs at Home (2015)
44 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Pylo: Python front-end for several Prolog engines
44 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
The worlds worst IoT idea is almost fully funded
44 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Remelting 3D printed thermoplastics – The salt method [video]
44 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Evidence that blood type plays a role in COVID-19
44 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Custom Bullets with CSS:Marker
44 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought'
44 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Xkcd: Election Impact Score Sheet
44 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome
44 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Aspects of Reasonableness
44 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Covid may be far more widespread than we thought
44 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Microsoft probed by US government over aim to double black staff numbers
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Why are there so many humans?
44 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Former Apple engineer says US govt turned an iPod into secret geiger counter
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Show HN: Funderbuddy – Apply for multiple grants with 1 application
44 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Productivity vs. Privacy
44 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Agency Guy Built an A.I. Clone to Attend Zoom Meetings for Him
44 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Throne of Games
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Interior Views of the Central Social Institution in Prague, 1937
44 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Federal Agents Say They Thwarted a Miltia Plot to Kidnap Michigan
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
China to impose sweeping security law in Hong Kong, ends city’s autonomy
44 points • comment • may 22, 2020
ARM Macs and Virtualization: It's going to be great
44 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age
44 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Life of a Vitess Cluster
44 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Health care veteran tries to upend the system and bring drug prices down
44 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Structured Concurrency
44 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
NYU: Obesity the biggest 'chronic' factor in New York’s Covid hospitalizations
44 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Show HN: Reimagine the File System
44 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Hyundai Motor to invest $87 bn in future mobility tech by 2025
44 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds
44 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Can we ever go back?
44 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
London Pneumatic Despatch Company
44 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
How the U.S. military thinks about AI [audio]
44 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Micro frontends with Stacker
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
A disk scheduling algorithm based on ant colony optimization (2009) [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Show HN: WebAssembly System Interface for Deno has been merged into Deno
44 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Did the Italians Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?
44 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Twingate: New Linux Client & Designing Remote Access for Developers
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Real Wealth Is Owning Your Time: Why I Walked Away from Half a Million
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
If you've been laid off, please avoid this mistake in interviews
44 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Tesla is close to becoming the most valuable car company
44 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’
44 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Build yourself a private self-hosted full stack personal cloud system
44 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online
44 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Introducing Money in Excel, an easier way to manage your finances
44 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Solving Sudoku with Graph Theory
44 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Covid vaccine passes phase 1 human trial
44 points • comment • may 23, 2020
FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (2015)
44 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Inductor resonance and self-resonance experiments (2016)
44 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (2018)
44 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Enumerating Core Undefined Behavior
44 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Regarding Semantic Versioning
44 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real
43 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Learning State Abstractions for Long-Horizon Planning
43 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can
43 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
With Poetry, packaging in Python is a solved problem
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System
43 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
DOJ – International Statement: End-to-End Encryption and Public Safety
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
GNU Shepherd 0.8 Released as an Alternative to Systemd
43 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Grounded Language Learning Fast and Slow
43 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Chinese ‘students’ keep getting arrested at Key West Navy base
43 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Snow on The Atlantic: How Cocaine Came to Europe
43 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Gravity in Computer Space (2019)
43 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Node.js Overload
43 points • comment • jun 19, 2020