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Hacker News (2020)

  1. An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose

    383 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  2. How Distortion Works in Music

    383 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  3. Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics

    383 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  4. U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests

    383 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  5. Firefox 78

    383 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  6. Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive

    383 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  7. Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction

    382 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  8. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

    382 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  9. Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler

    382 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

    382 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  11. Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero

    382 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)

    382 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  13. California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order

    382 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  14. Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen

    382 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  15. Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn

    382 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  16. Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras

    382 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  17. Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First

    382 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  18. Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

    382 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  19. Google Is Not God of the Web

    382 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  20. TensorFlow, Keras and deep learning, without a PhD

    381 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  21. Haiku R1/beta2 has been released

    381 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  22. How I survived being a $220k/year intern

    381 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  23. How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life

    381 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  24. Eastern European Movies

    381 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  25. Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches

    381 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  26. Asana S-1

    381 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  27. How Normal Am I?

    381 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  28. DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens

    381 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  29. Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere

    381 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  30. Tips for the depressed

    381 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  31. Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in

    381 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  32. Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

    381 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  33. I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts

    381 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  34. 40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away

    381 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  35. What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips

    381 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  36. Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics

    381 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  37. Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)

    381 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  38. Why do I care the open web is dying?

    381 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  39. After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media

    380 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  40. MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons

    380 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  41. Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

    380 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  42. Mac keyboard shortcuts

    380 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  43. Non-Posix File Systems

    380 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  44. "This community is available in the app"

    380 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  45. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)

    380 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  46. Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

    380 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  47. Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript

    380 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  48. Rust 1.46

    380 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  49. NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

    380 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  50. FreeBSD is an amazing operating system

    380 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  51. $200k in sales from a $6k advertisement

    380 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  52. Why is AI so useless for business?

    380 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  53. Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?

    380 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  54. TV Backlight Compensation

    380 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  55. Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws

    380 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  56. Simplifier

    380 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  57. Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)

    380 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  58. Expanding Fuchsia's open source model

    380 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  59. Not being an asshole will make you more money

    379 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  60. Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

    379 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  61. Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

    379 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  62. Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure

    379 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself

    379 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  64. Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts

    379 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  65. Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

    379 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  66. More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts

    379 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  67. San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

    379 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  68. WebAssembly Studio

    379 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  69. EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants

    379 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  70. The SaaS website content you need to close sales

    379 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  71. Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing

    379 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  72. Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores

    379 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  73. Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass

    379 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  74. System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution

    379 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  75. A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi

    379 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  76. Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution

    378 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  77. Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database

    378 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  78. The Global Dollar Short Squeeze

    378 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  79. Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string

    378 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  80. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    378 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  81. Weirdos in the depression

    378 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  82. Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

    378 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  83. 23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline

    378 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  84. Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment

    378 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  85. Let's build a full-text search engine

    378 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  86. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

    378 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  87. Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961

    378 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  88. Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after

    377 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  89. Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven

    377 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  90. Ron Graham has died

    377 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  91. Gitlab features that are moving to open source

    377 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  92. Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions

    377 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  93. Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

    377 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  94. Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

    377 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  95. Google’s top search result is Google

    377 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  96. Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China

    377 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  97. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

    377 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  98. 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

    377 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  99. Elixir 1.11

    377 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  100. Why I left my tenured academic job

    377 points • comment • oct 04, 2020