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Hacker News (2020)

Oriented electric fields as future smart reagents in chemistry [pdf]
33 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Bastions on demand in an AWS VPC
33 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi with just a tap
33 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
New monkey species found hiding in plain sight
33 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Producing a Music Video in the Browser
33 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
WhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results
33 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
America’s Nuclear Weapons Agency Has Been Hacked
33 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Creating a Robust, Reusable Link-Checker
33 points • comment • may 03, 2020
A History of Punctuation
33 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Universal Virus Detection Platform to Expedite Viral Diagnosis
33 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
The U.S. Military Is Monitoring Protests in Seven States
33 points • comment • may 31, 2020
U.S. Senators demand small business loan data from SBA and Treasury [pdf]
33 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
The Mountains of Pi (1992)
33 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Please Pay for Your News
33 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Summary: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
32 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
32 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
California short on firefighting crews after Covid-19 lockdown at prison camps
32 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Upbound Cloud Community Preview
32 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service
32 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Serverless CI/CD on the AWS Cloud
32 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea
32 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
To make a perfect mirror, physicists confront the mystery of glass
32 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
'Street Crisis' team to replace San Francisco police on mental health calls
32 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Deciphering the genetic diversity of leaf shapes
32 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Three quarters of people in the UK now do at least some online grocery shopping
32 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Branching Time Iteration
32 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Control a website by raising your hand – JavaScript library for hand detection
32 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Google Data Search – 25M free datasets
32 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
New York Times word usage frequency, 1970-2018
32 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
EUA Authorized Serology Test Performance
32 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
MikroOrm v4 /w GraphQL example project that I created over the weekend
32 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Toucan teaches you new skills while you browse the web
32 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Carrosses à Cinq Sols
32 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Seattle Flu Study finds COVID19 likely spreading in Seattle for past 6 weeks
32 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Chrome/Chromium on Wayland: The Waylandification Project
32 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions
32 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking
32 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Show HN: JavaScript web component for online spreadsheets
32 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
32 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Understanding medical tests: sensitivity, specificity, predictive value (2018)
32 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
YouTube kicks out Dilbert creator Scott Adams
32 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
U.S. ‘doomsday plane’ takeoff for exercise
32 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler
32 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
What Does Space Smell Like? (2011)
32 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Faker.js Has a New Godaddy
32 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Using Nginx and Lua and Redis to Build an Edge Computing Platform
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Hitler e Stalin cantano Video killed the radio star (deep fake)
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
“The Great ISAs” reading list
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Applied Category Theory 2020 is coming up soon
32 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Torvalds' Comments on Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”
32 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
The Birth of Wheelchair Basketball
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
AMD Reports first Quarter 2020 Financial Results – Revenue grows 40% YoY
32 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
A Number Theorist Who Solves the Hardest Easy Problems
32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
The Official Coronavirus Numbers Are Wrong, and Everyone Knows It
32 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Lyft and Uber suspending California rides at midnight
32 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Fans of George Eliot are celebrating her bicentenary
32 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Chobani Yogurt CEO Hamdi Ulukaya Is a Pro-Employee Billionaire in Expansion Mode
32 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Creating a Slack Writing Etiquette Guide for Your Workplace
32 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Why’s Beijing So Worried About Western Values Infecting China’s Youth? (2017)
32 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Biodiversity May Thrive Through Games of Rock-Paper-Scissors
32 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'
32 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Twitter pro users should enjoy more features and pay monthly fee
32 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Pilot draws syringe in the sky to celebrate Covid-19 vaccine
32 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Preventing Chaos with Legal Tech – How Bryter Helped Refugees in Lesvos
32 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur
32 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Show HN: Binary delta encoding tools based on bsdiff and HDiffPatch
32 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill switch
32 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
The God Box (2004)
32 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism
32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
What happens if I don't fill out my census form? (2019)
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate
32 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Telegram Founder on WhatsApp Hacks: Backdoors Are Camouflaged as Security Flaws
32 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Symbolic Plane Geometry Calculator
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Glitch lays off roughly half of their staff
32 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
I made millions out of the last debt crisis. Now the wealthy stand to win again
32 points • comment • may 07, 2020
U.S. government has media restrictions at hospitals, to reduce pandemic images
32 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
32 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Linux Hardware Database
32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Phone Cloning
32 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Show HN: Betafeedback – Tools for Feedback Loops and Sprint Reviews
32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Google suspended our app, threatened to delete our Google accounts
32 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Ten billionaires reap $400B boost to wealth during pandemic
32 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
All UCSD courses will be delivered remotely for the Spring Quarter
32 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Formula 1 issues copyright takedown to video on their own YouTube channel
32 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
A sneaky attempt to end encryption is worming its way through Congress
32 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Did they even hang bears?
32 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
White House Knew Coronavirus Would Be a 'Major Threat' – But Response Fell Short
32 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
The Collatz Conjecture: the simple math problem we still can’t solve
32 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week
32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
New Microsoft Edge
32 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees
32 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
The real class war is within the rich
32 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Freeman Dyson Dies at 96; Wrestled with Questions of Physics and Morality
32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
NYU professor Scott Galloway predicts hundreds of universities will shutter
32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Fun with Decorators, Protobuf and Apache Beam
32 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Solar proton activity may trigger high magnitude earthquakes
32 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
How to design a good toaster with lessons from the 1940s [video]
32 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Kodak surges 1,900% in 2 days after securing a $765M loan to make drugs
32 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Awesome Modern C++
32 points • comment • jan 30, 2020