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Hacker News (2020)

Tesla Autopilot Accidents: 1 out of 4,5M Miles; US Average: 1 out of 479,000
33 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
What a Googol-to-One Gear Ratio Looks Like
33 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
DigitalOcean App Platform
33 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
HTTP 418: I'm a Teapot
33 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
GPT-3 Has Learned to Code, Blog and Argue
33 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Why Online Education Works (2012)
33 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the liability system (2012) [pdf]
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Widespread mask-wearing could prevent Covid-19 second waves, study shows
33 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Review: We do not recommend the $299 Oculus Quest 2 as your next VR system
33 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
ESR banned from OSI over this email
33 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Apple Helps FBI Track Down Floyd Protester Accused of Firebombing Cop Cars
33 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
1/4 Covid Deaths Are in Nursing Homes
33 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
You don’t need SMS-2FA
33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers
33 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
33 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Why Can't America Handle the Coronavirus Crisis?
33 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
33 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete
33 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
The visa woes that shattered scientists’ American dreams
33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Intellectual Alchemists
33 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Portland sees peaceful night of protests following withdrawal of federal agents
33 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Ask HN: Do you miss Steve Jobs in 2020?
33 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Epic Games Is an Unreliable Narrator
33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
The flying taxi market may be ready for takeoff: study
33 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
We're Joining Robinhood
33 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election
33 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Notion's Onboarding Experience: A Case of Simplicity and Delightfulness
33 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Novel Anti-Inflammatory High-CBD Cannabis Modulate ACE2 Expression in Covid-19
33 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Pure and Applied Chess
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
The Clitoris, Uncovered: An Intimate History
33 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Ask HN: Do You Despise Marketing?
33 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Ask HN: Is there anywhere as intellectually curious as kuro5hin used to be?
33 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
A Catalogue of Optimizing Transformations (1971) [pdf]
33 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory
33 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Darkest Days for Indian Democracy
33 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Artificial Mountains
33 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Utubster downloads YTB playlists, MP4 videos and MP3s from almost any website
33 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
San Francisco’s Beefeater doorman retires after 43 years
33 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
“AI bookkeeper” startup that raised $100M and failed used humans instead of AI
33 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Why did this particle mysteriously disintegrate?
33 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
One Man’s View of Computer Science (1968) [pdf]
33 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Ask HN: What Happened to Digital Ocean?
33 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
I built a deep learning-powered emoji Slackbot
33 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Adventures in RISC-V
33 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Show HN: GUI for Configuring Pins on a Microcontroller
33 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Ask HN: What interests you to work at a FAANG
33 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Delta IV Heavy rocket delayed again, raising concerns of aging infrastructure
33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
It’s the Boot for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
33 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Arecibo Fully Collapsed Now
33 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
'Did I miss anything?': A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat
33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities
33 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
GitHub CodeQL
33 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Show HN: App to create object detection projects without coding
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Former Interstate 480 – San Francisco
33 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
The Last Days of Mankind
33 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Japan ‘to build 20GW of coal-fired capacity over next decade’ (2019)
33 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Ask HN: How can I help my son with Autism?
33 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Ask HN: Economy after coronavirus – what can we do?
33 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Recursion Revisited
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Amazon Sumerian: create and run browser-based 3D, AR, and VR applications
33 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
The Age of Scurvy (2017)
33 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Scientists Find Record Warm Water in Antartica
33 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Nostalgia Reimagined
33 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
2 Out of 3 tech workers would leave SF permanently if they could work remotely
33 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Show HN: podcast-dl – CLI for downloading podcasts easily
33 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Seniority in Software Engineering
33 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
A Free Hyperlegible Typeface from the Braille Institute
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Enough is Enough–Let it Expire
33 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Collaborative Thinking
33 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
We found the world's oldest modern bird skull
33 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Value Investing in Life Sciences
33 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
What it's like to fly in the US right now
33 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Hardware-as-a-Service
33 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Ask HN: One-man teams that got into YC, etc., without much self-capital?
33 points • comment • may 02, 2020
PIUMA: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture
33 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Copper destroys viruses and bacteria; why isn't it everywhere?
33 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Micro Magic RISC-V Core Claims to Beat Apple M1 and Arm Cortex-A9
33 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
JavaScript TV – Tech Talks on JavaScript, CSS, React etc.
33 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
'I never saw stars': Gene therapy brings back 8-year-old Canadian boy's sight
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
NanoHack, an open-source 3D printed mask against Covid-19
33 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
“Rich People Can’t Stop”: The Luxe Quarantine Lives of Silicon Valley’s Elite
33 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Is the room open?
33 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Amazon to face U.S. union push in year ahead
33 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Jonathan Dowling (1955-2020)
33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857
33 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Vanished into Music
33 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Back That ‘S’ Up: Moving to RISC-V’s Supervisor Mode
33 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
The FDA tells Purell to stop claiming it can prevent Ebola
33 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Fonio: A collaborative scholarly text editor for building static websites
33 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller
33 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Show HN: ZenML, extensible open-source MLOps framework for reproducible ML
33 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Agile as Trauma
33 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
EFF Joins Coalition Urging Senators to Reject the Earn IT Act
33 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
PyPy 7.3.0 Released
33 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake'
33 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
N95 Respirators vs. Medical Masks: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2019)
33 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Ask HN: How can we get people to read submissions before commenting on them?
33 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Rage boils over at Amazon sites over coronavirus risks
33 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
The Julia Language – A fresh approach to technical computing
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
12-year old paper from Wuhan lab shows how they created a virus like Covid-19
33 points • comment • mar 23, 2020