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Hacker News (2020)

Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies
390 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)
390 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails
389 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds
389 points • comment • may 04, 2020
A graphical analysis of women's tops sold on Goodwill's website
389 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy
389 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
389 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V
389 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
389 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
389 points • comment • may 28, 2020
A Message to Our Users
389 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Mozilla’s Uncertain Future
389 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
389 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
389 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
389 points • comment • may 25, 2020
AWS services to avoid
389 points • comment • may 10, 2020
The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
389 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
389 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation
389 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
389 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
389 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
388 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
388 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?
388 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt
388 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Double Entry Accounting for Developers
388 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Fire your bad customers
388 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
388 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?
388 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake
388 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded
388 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod
388 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT
388 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
OTP 23
388 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Rendering photo-realistic glass in the browser
388 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
388 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces
388 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
388 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
388 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
388 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
388 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
388 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100
388 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy
387 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Boids
387 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says
387 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Rails 6.1
387 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
387 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F
387 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
GitHub Codescanning
387 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication
387 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
387 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Lesser-known Web APIs
387 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
386 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Celebrate Woz's 70th
386 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature
386 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database
386 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Static Analysis in GCC 10
386 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so
386 points • comment • may 26, 2020
YC’s new guide to raising a Series A
386 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole
386 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures
386 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Show HN: Zfs.rent
386 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
386 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too
386 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks
386 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker
385 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
385 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
1.1.1.1 for Families
385 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
385 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Krita 4.4.0
385 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Take care editing bash scripts (2019)
385 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor
385 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer
385 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home
385 points • comment • may 25, 2020
A Short Story for Engineers
385 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Laid Off, Now What?
384 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy
384 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
A Note about Spotify Transfers
384 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada
384 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Patriot Act ammendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
384 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Body Camera Once Again Catches an NYPD Officer Planting Drugs in Someone's Car
384 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
384 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
On the shoulders of the giants
384 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
384 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’
384 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
384 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
384 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
384 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Chaos Ink
384 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Funding for Covid-19 Projects
384 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
384 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Lambda School’s Misleading Promises
384 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan
383 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal
383 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
383 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Firefox 78
383 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
How Distortion Works in Music
383 points • comment • may 19, 2020
An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
383 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
EmacsConf 2020 Talks
383 points • comment • dec 06, 2020