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Hacker News (2020)

NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’
42 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Stack operations on a guitar loop pedal
42 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
42 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Pornhub Releases Statements About Credit Cards, New York Times Allegations
42 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
A Lightning-Fast Introduction to Deep Learning and TensorFlow 2.0
42 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Google announces new Career Certificates and 100k scholarships
42 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine
42 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over
42 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Python script to download all Springer books released for free during Covid
42 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Making an iPad case for blind to “See” with touch
42 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps?
42 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Memory Pool System by Ravenbrook
42 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Ask HN: Which product/design blogs do you follow?
42 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Bonhomme Richard, fate uncertain, would be one of largest ships Navy has lost
42 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Microservices and Biological Systems
42 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights
42 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Microsoft finally gives AppGet developer the credit he deserves
42 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding?
42 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
I started $10K MRR business – Print My City story
42 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
The testing pyramid should look more like a crab
42 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
When Not to Use Lock Files with Node.js
42 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML
42 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The Sensitive Plant
42 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
CXX – safe interop between Rust and C++
42 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Italian cave makes sense of the change in Earth’s ice age rhythm
42 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Facebook engineer Ashok Chandwaney quits with scathing letter
42 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Elon Musk Downplays Covid-19 Danger in Email to Space-X Employees
42 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
The Worst API Ever Made (2014)
42 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
The gene drive dilemma: we can alter entire species, but should we?
42 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry
42 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
SVG, Canvas, WebGL? Visualization Options for the Web
42 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Containers Are Linux (2017)
42 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
A16Z struggles to earn passing grade in crypto fund II investor letter
42 points • comment • may 01, 2020
An overview of the science on function length
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
The Modern Mind May Be 100k Years Old (2016)
42 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
42 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Lands' End Sued by More Delta Air Lines Employees over Uniforms
42 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Special filters in glasses can help the color blind see colors better
42 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries
42 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Newton’s Daunting Masterpiece Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find
42 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Ask HN: Help. Covid case at work; remote work is being denied. EU region.
42 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Chopper Commando Revisited
42 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Rust is not a good C replacement
42 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself
42 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Ancient-Classroom-Approved Pig Latin: The Testamentum Porcelli
42 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Working with Unikernel Volumes in Nanos
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Being a programmer will make me a better doctor
42 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
China's Hopeless Twitter Influence Operations
42 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Chelsea Manning Responds After Top UN Official Labels Her Imprisonment 'Torture'
42 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Decoding the Language of Genomes
42 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: SheetHub – Your notes and gists all in one place
42 points • comment • may 15, 2020
“Irregardless” is part of a penumbra of unorthodox English words
42 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
How can we create a workforce full of lifelong learners?
42 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
F.lux automatically adjusts your computer lighting to match your environment
42 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Software Engineering (1968) [pdf]
42 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Apple devices are leaking sensitive data over BLE
42 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Show HN: Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
42 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Mac Keeps a Log of All Your Downloads
42 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Bill Kentstravaganza
42 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
The Asian flu epidemic of 1957 was a turning point for antibiotics (2007)
42 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Show HN: Fast database for React Native with multiple data-type support
42 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Ernő Rubik on why his famous cube is a “metaphor” for the human condition
42 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions
42 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
A 12.48 Inch (1304x984) Three-Color E-Paper Display by Waveshare
42 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
US states set to reopen as coronavirus could push jobless rate to 16%
42 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Biologists Home in on Turing Patterns (2013)
42 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Man vs. Horse – Racing Ultradistances (2018)
42 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85
42 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Trivers–Willard Hypothesis
42 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Metatrends shaping the next decade
42 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Pointers and references practice (2019)
42 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Ask HN: How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs?
42 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
The Invention of Telecommuting (2015)
42 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
An FBI investigation shows Ohio’s abysmal energy law was fueled by corruption
42 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race
42 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point
42 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Perlwm – a window manager written entirely in Perl
42 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (2017)
42 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Show HN: Harness the power of hyperscan on the CLI with this fork of ripgrep
42 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
The Case for Causal AI
42 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on MWC barcelona 2020)
42 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Ask HN: What underestimated technologies will dominate within 5 years?
42 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Ask HN: I found out the hacker's phone number. Now what?
42 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Principal Component Analysis
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Quantifying Independently Reproducible Machine Learning
42 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Implementing cosine in C from scratch
42 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
The Zeek Agent
42 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Show HN: My fiction podcast about GPT-3 incorporating HN discussions
42 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Email may have tainted Stanford coronavirus antibody study
42 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python
42 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities [pdf]
42 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Outrun lets you execute a local command using the power of another Linux machine
42 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Developers don't need ping-pong tables
42 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Officials seize 27k artifacts looted by a single French treasure hunter
42 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
IBM confirms layoffs are happening, but won’t provide details
42 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager
42 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
How Do Insurance Companies Make Money
42 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Spinach-based catalysts could power fuel cells
42 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Farmworkers key to keeping US fed are wary of virus spread
42 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Apple Fitness+
42 points • comment • dec 14, 2020