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Hacker News (2020)

Lawyer Explains How Meat and Dairy Industries Cost U.S. Taxpayer $414B a Year
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Show HN: Emauth.io – Free service for Slack-style passwordless login links
29 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Richard Feynman's Perspective of Life
29 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
US ICE Contract with GitHub Sparks Developer Protests
29 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Segmented Addressing Solves the Virtual Cache Synonym Problem (1997) [pdf]
29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Why Boredom Is an Entrepreneur's Superpower
29 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Ask HN: Does anyone else notice increased incompetence?
29 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003)
29 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage)
29 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
A list of FOSS apps for Android
29 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Tesla (TSLA) is open to merging with other automakers
29 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
The Art World’s Mini-Madoff and Me
29 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Ask HN: How do you build up your first career close to age 40?
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Why street food is making a comeback in Japan
29 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
What are the legal issues around web scraping?
29 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
George Gershwin, Then and Now
29 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long-Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach
29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
29 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Ask HN: Best general-audience science books
29 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Facebook limits spread of 'Boogaloo' groups amid protests
29 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Daniel Kahneman: “A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking”
29 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was'
29 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
How to explain the events of 2019/2020 to the next generation – a handy guide
29 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
US Covid relief bill smaller than either parties pre-election promises
29 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
China Orders Local Staff Out of U.S. News Outlets in Beijing
29 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Work from Home: Tech Companies Cut Pay of Workers Moving Out of Big Cities
29 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
U.S. airstrike kills top Iran general Qassim Suleimani
29 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Eliminating nicotine from tobacco products could help millions of smokers quit
29 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Google to shut down non-profit platform One Today
29 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
History of Russian Spacecrafts
29 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
gh – GitHub's new CLI
29 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Wikimedia Foundation: Universal Code of Conduct/Draft Review
29 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
29 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Monetizing the Final Frontier
29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Ask HN: If you are fully/partially remote, would you hire devs in India?
29 points • comment • may 25, 2020
The role of an Engineering Manager and management philosophies
29 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Bill Gates says the US missed chance to avoid shutdown and should stay closed
29 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
The Database Is on Fire
29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Allegations: Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs
29 points • comment • may 13, 2020
MIOS: IBM 5150 BIOS Replacement Project
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Introducing MAUI, the .NET Multi-Platform App UI
29 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Interdimensional Cable Box
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Powers of Two (2017)
29 points • comment • may 30, 2020
I'm an Unemployed Waitress. Don't Dine Out at All
29 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
No Music, No Parties, No TV: A Tourist Paradise Gets Dull to Keep Crowds Away
29 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Optimizations as a Company of One
29 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Doom Eternal does not have a main or render thread
29 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) [pdf]
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Show HN: My dad designed and built a ventilator prototype with a bicycle pump
29 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
People Expect Technology to Suck
29 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Show HN: ScraperAI – Extract data from any website, detect changes
29 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Show HN: Entropy Based Password Validation
29 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
CDC: Zombie Preparedness
29 points • comment • may 03, 2020
The Basic Internet Fanzine (1995)
29 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Why Aren't More Highly Intelligent People Rich?
29 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Oklo (YC S14), maker of 'micro' nuclear reactor, aims to prove doubters wrong
29 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
The First Modern Pandemic
29 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Qcdoc: Quantum Chromodynamics on a Chip (2015)
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Endling
29 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
State of AI Report 2020
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
A new approach to making airplane parts, minus the infrastructure
29 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
The Denialist Playbook
29 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The Web Is Becoming Unusable
29 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Preserving arcade games (2014) [video]
29 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
The Moral Hazard of Dealing with China
29 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Apple Approved Malware: malicious code now notarized?
29 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
In search of the original Fortran compiler (2017)
29 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Wikipedia Is Now Banned in China in All Languages
29 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Anti-Piracy Coalition Wants Operators of Pirate Bay, YTS, 1337x, EZTV Uncovered
29 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
29 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Ask HN: Essential life skills to function as a human being?
29 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”–but doesn’t seem to understand it
29 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
New York incubator requires participants to grant IP rights
29 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan: The Anxious Emperor
29 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
The Mythical DevOps Engineer
29 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's Hypervisor
29 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
On Exactitude in Technical Debt
29 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Is This Site Secure?
29 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios
29 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
The Gospel According to Peter Thiel
29 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Bubbles and Megaprojects Parallelize Innovation
29 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Vintage electronics for verified dismantlement of nuclear weapons (2019)
29 points • comment • may 07, 2020
The EU's Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption
29 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications
29 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Coronavirus crisis has made Brazil an ideal vaccine laboratory
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
The origin of the colors in the first color photographs
29 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
FBI worried doorbell cameras could tip owners off to police searches
29 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Organic SaaS Growth: The Curiosity Framework
29 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Scientific consensus on the Covid-19 pandemic: we need to act now
29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Plan for 5 Years of Lockdown
29 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Exploring how different framings of the same learning task affect performance
29 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Dart: Sound Null Safety
29 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Coronavirus antibody prevalence falling in England, REACT study shows
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
My First Homemade Pedalboard
29 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit
29 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Learn how to design large-scale systems
29 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Greek court rules far-right Golden Dawn leaders ran a crime group
29 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Barr Asks Apple to Unlock iPhones of Pensacola Gunman
29 points • comment • jan 13, 2020