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Hacker News (2020)

Google’s top search result is Google
377 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Gitlab features that are moving to open source
377 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven
377 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
376 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
I Want to Fix Goodreads
376 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
376 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Mmhmm
376 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
376 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf
376 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
376 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says
376 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Pulumi – Modern Infrastructure as Code
376 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy
376 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected
376 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
WordPerfect for DOS Updated
376 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok
376 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Firefox 75.0
376 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Stripe Climate
375 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games
375 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
375 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive
375 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
375 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
375 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
We made our SaaS home page cookie-free
375 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
SSH Agent Explained
375 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
375 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates
375 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
We abused Slack's TURN servers to gain access to internal services
375 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood
375 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Why Figma Wins
375 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
375 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip
375 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
375 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
375 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Monobloc chair
374 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
374 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
374 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
374 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
374 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
OBS Studio 26.0
374 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering
374 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]
374 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
374 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Sampler for Mac Touchbars
374 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Atlas of Surveillance
374 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
The Power of Prolog
374 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland
374 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions
374 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
373 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software
373 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
373 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech
373 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
A photo is crashing some Android phones
373 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
373 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science
373 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data
373 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?
373 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
A 3D sculpting web application
373 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)
373 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
373 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater
373 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
373 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
The Right to Read (1997)
373 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy
372 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close
372 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it
372 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
372 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
372 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
What happens to a mail-order mattress after you return it
372 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services
372 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust
372 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
372 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Books I recommend to my software engineering students
371 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
371 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread
371 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering
371 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]
371 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier
371 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
371 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
371 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
371 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
371 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)
371 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home
371 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets
371 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
My least favorite Rust type
371 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
371 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
OpenDiablo2
370 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
370 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system
370 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Hands-on Scala Programming
370 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Firefox 79
370 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Games people play with cash flow
370 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Please Fund More Science
370 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
ZSH Aliases
370 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
370 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
370 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away
370 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
370 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Wiki.js
370 points • comment • jul 21, 2020