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Hacker News (2020)

Adding Composite Video to a Famicom
30 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Torvalds Blasts “Beyond Stupid” Flushing L1d on Context Switches
30 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
ContractPatch
30 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes
30 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Tesla Starts Full Self-Driving Beta Rollout
30 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
A team exploited the coronavirus pandemic to set a new cannonball record
30 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Alaska that never was: Seward's Success (2011)
30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Open Letter on “confidential” dealings in Facebook [GDPR] case
30 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Disney is SEOing baby names as leadgen for Disney+
30 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Californian biopharmaceutical company claims finding cure for SARS-CoV-2
30 points • comment • may 17, 2020
A Fraternity of Dreamers
30 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Human Misjudgment Revisited (2017) [pdf]
30 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Clean Code – Notes
30 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Ask HN: Cognitive behaviour therapy, tried and tested resources
30 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
How can Wall Street be so healthy when Main Street isn’t?
30 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
30 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
30 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Publishing the Unpublishable
30 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, Azure Cloud
30 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Coronavirus deaths of Wikidata notable people
30 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Ask HN: How do you regain motivation after achieving financial success?
30 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Show HN: Scrawl-canvas – build responsive, accessible HTML5 canvases
30 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
U.S. tech giants face hard choices under Hong Kong's new security law
30 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Back End Software Architecture Checklist: How to Build a Product from Scratch
30 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Phylogenetic analyses uncover ancient roots of Indo-European folktales (2016)
30 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error
30 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Secure Phone Series: Device Security
30 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
US Supreme Court upholds state power to enforce compulsory vaccination (1905)
30 points • comment • may 18, 2020
A12 – Advancing Network Transparency on the Desktop
30 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go too far?
30 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Show HN: Git-Retext
30 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Sex drive-in
30 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
30 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Netflix Worth More Than Disney After Streamer’s Stock Hits All-Time High
30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
My favorite product management templates
30 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Google to Significantly Slow Hiring in 2020: Full CEO Memo
30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Show HN: Zesture – Control Mac/Windows Apps Using Hand Gestures
30 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Azure Storage Static Website and Azure Front Door
30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Do Masks on Plane Flights Really Cut Your Risk of Catching Covid-19?
30 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts
30 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Gitako – Octotree Alternative
30 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
The U.S. is currently under a major DDoS attack
30 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
It's kinda like phrenology but worse
30 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Converting GW-BASIC to the Z80
30 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Uber and Lyft push back on Seattle mayor’s plan to pay drivers more money
30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned
30 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
FBI: GRU Hackers on Most Wanted list for international cyber attacks
30 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
The Running Novelist: Learning how to go the distance (2008)
30 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
The First Roman Fonts (2016)
30 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
The Tragedy of the New Coronavirus Spikes
30 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’
30 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner
30 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in Nirsoft tools
30 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
A history of the codpiece, the personal protection for Renaissance equipment
30 points • comment • may 27, 2020
The Fearless Invention of One of L.A.’S Greatest Poets
30 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
IoT Emergency Alert Button with RPi and Notify17 (who launched on HN last year)
30 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage)
29 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Revisiting stable-kernel regressions
29 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Jetons: Their Use and History (1986)
29 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Event-reduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times
29 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Covid forces Davos forum to move to Singapore
29 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Show HN: Pomodoro Calendar: custom printable planners for Pomodoro technique
29 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Harvesting Hydrogen from Nanogardens
29 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
29 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios
29 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Building Your First SaaS: The Ultimate Crash Course
29 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Bitcoin wallet Ledger’s database hacked for 1M emails
29 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
SpaceX Starship SN1 experiences an anomaly and explodes
29 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Clickhouse DB Migration Framework
29 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
“I'm the nurse who switches off the ventilator”
29 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
An efficient way to create nanographene for power and display devices
29 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Three Russian Doctors Treating Coronavirus Have Fallen Out Of Windows in a Week
29 points • comment • may 04, 2020
I'm an Unemployed Waitress. Don't Dine Out at All
29 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
29 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle
29 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism
29 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Building an Event Storage
29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Coronavirus may have spread undetected in US for weeks
29 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Prime Numbers for the Win (2009)
29 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
The Naked Truth About Writing a Programming Language (2014)
29 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Why don't aid agencies like to hire local talent?
29 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Camera Lucida
29 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Leary–Lettvin Debate
29 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Avoid sexually charged hexadecimal constants
29 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people'
29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
U.S. mulls paying companies, tax breaks to pull supply chains from China
29 points • comment • may 20, 2020
$13 ZeroPi is a tiny headless computer with Gigabit Ethernet (2019)
29 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Jailed Huawei Workers Raised a Forbidden Subject: Iran
29 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck you (2012)
29 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003)
29 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Reopening Bars Is Easy. Schools Are Difficult
29 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
PyCon 2020 Update on Covid-19
29 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem
29 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Dart: Sound Null Safety
29 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
‘It's like an open prison’: the catastrophe of converting office blocks to homes
29 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
10-year Treasury yield falls below 1% for the first time after Fed slashes rates
29 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Whistleblower: Staggering Number of Hysterectomies Happening at ICE Facility
29 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
The Long, Sordid History of New York’s Penn Station
29 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
MIOS: IBM 5150 BIOS Replacement Project
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020