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Hacker News (2020)

uBlock Origin Suggested Settings
36 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project
35 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The Canadian Mental Health Association has endorsed basic income
35 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Some artists are disappearing from society to let their work speak for itself
35 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Apple Users Got Owned
35 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
I have the coronavirus – So far, it isn't that bad
35 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
How Americans Came to Distrust Science
35 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
LendingClub is laying off 460 people, 30% of staff
35 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Ask HN: Are you friends with your manager?
35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications
35 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
What Programmers Can Learn from Modular Synthesis and Unix
35 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Did a Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Vietnam War?
35 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Reyes Rendering on the GPU [pdf]
35 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Advancing electrolysis: Splitting water to store energy as hydrogen
35 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Imec Demonstrates FinFET Devices with Integrated Tungsten Buried Power Rails
35 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a PhD (2014)
35 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Self-erecting pneumatic structures (2000) [pdf]
35 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
What explains the unintuitive numbering of chip pins?
35 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Taman Festival – Bali’s Abandoned Theme Park
35 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Bringing Back IRIS by Lowe’s – Arcus Smart Home
35 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Nokia Composer in 512 bytes of JavaScript
35 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Jack Welch has died
35 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Blech Programming Language
35 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
The first 15″ laptop designed to protect your digital life
35 points • comment • may 24, 2020
M1 Mac Mini Scores Higher Than My RTX 2080Ti in TensorFlow Speed Test
35 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries amid coronavirus risk
35 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
How effective communication can be achieved in a digital work environment
35 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
American Air’s $1 Price Target at Evercore Implies 92% Collapse
35 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Conventional Commits
35 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
How to Be Tudor (2016)
35 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Codeweavers Has 13 Full Time Developers Working on Proton/SteamPlay
35 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
The OpenSSD Project: Open-Source Solid State Drive for Research and Education
35 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Show HN: Funny, Human-Memorable SHA-256 Fingerprints
35 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Yglu: YAML augmented with an expression language
35 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Self Organising WS2811 LEDs
35 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The Robot Operating System (ROS) has moved out of academics
35 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
To Build a Better Ballot (2016)
35 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Crypton – Secure Anonymous SMS in the Cloud
35 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Show HN: Snap Circuits Telepresence Robot
35 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?
35 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
We hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issue
35 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Bumblebees may prefer nectar that has less sugar but is easier to regurgitate
35 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists
35 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Georgia election server showed signs of tampering
35 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Show HN: Hacktoberfix, Fix your October already
35 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
The Case Against Marriage – What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
35 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Trump to pardon Assange
35 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Machine Learning Guide for Beginners
35 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload
35 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Consistency: How to defeat the purpose of IEEE floating point (2008)
35 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it doesn't hurt you
35 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Flying: It’s Worse Than You Think
35 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Il Miglior Fabbro
35 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Ian Bogost on games, doorknobs, and general readers
35 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Twitter Stopped Letting New Users Pick Their Usernames During Sign-Up Years Ago
35 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Lockheed Bribery Scandals
35 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Thinking about a New Type System for Perl/Cor
35 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
AMD, HP Unveil 2-Exaflop Supercomputer with Epyc, Radeon Instinct
35 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Endangered Firefox, the State of Mozilla
35 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Grassmann.jl – Differential Geometric Algebra
35 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Mysterious Inheritance: A new biography of J.B.S. Haldane
35 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Show HN: Jumpfiles – get more done with fewer keystrokes
35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
AMD laptops have a hidden 10-second performance delay
35 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Facebook’s Platform Opportunity
35 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Security scorecards for open source projects
35 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
35 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
BBC finds Facebook failed to remove child abuse (2017)
35 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Electric cars grab 44% market share in Norway in January
35 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Show HN: A novel approach to detect image manipulation
35 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The User Interface Design Process
35 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Bucket Brigade Singing
35 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends 16-Year Mission
35 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Vibration overcomes gravity on a levitating fluid
35 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Boeing Employees Mocked FAA in Internal Messages
35 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Show HN: SecureAppy – A modern vault for families
35 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Show HN: I built an issue tracker where every issue is a 2-way sync slack thread
35 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
The IRS Is Outgunned
35 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
How A Pandemic Might Play Out Under Trump (2016)
35 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Journalists cheered Assange's abuse. Now they've paved his path to a US gulag
35 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Tell HN: Your old Yahoo Mail emails are probably gone
35 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Failure by WHO team to visit Wuhan sparks concerns over virus probe
35 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Jack Ma to donate 500k test kits and 1M masks to the U.S.
35 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Femtosecond laser writing of glass, including borosilicate, sulfide, and lead
35 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Tell Don't Ask (1997)
35 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Biofluorescence in the Platypus
35 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
A viewer/navigation tool for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++)
35 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (2017) [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
High-stakes security setups are making remote work impossible
35 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
LA Mayor Shuts Off Power at Hollywood Hills House That Hosted Large Parties
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Austria Urges Homecoming as Rest of the World Deemed Unsafe
35 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
CISA: Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Targeting U.S. Think Tanks
35 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories
35 points • comment • may 27, 2020
A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
35 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
How to Evangelize a Programming Language
35 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Ticketmaster employees accessed a competitor's computers using stolen passwords
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Access directly your SQL databases via HTTP. In full security
35 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
CDC director: Keeping schools closed greater health threat to children reopening
35 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Should I Use Threads?
35 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Mass arrests after BlackBerry cracked five years after seizure
35 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Druid – A data-first Rust-native UI toolkit
35 points • comment • mar 17, 2020