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Hacker News (2020)

Milton Friedman: Is Capitalism Humane? (1977)
28 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Dismemberment Killing of Tech CEO ‘Looks Like Professional Job’
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Cloud Computing Without Containers
28 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism
28 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Deciphering Single-Byte XOR Ciphertexts
28 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats
28 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing (2018)
28 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Don’t shoot the dogs: The growing epidemic of cops shooting family dogs
28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
How we sort of automate updating system packages across our Ubuntu machines
28 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Manifesto of the Silent Minority
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Automation and Make
28 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
FAQs regarding Scots Wikipedia controversy
28 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Twitter removes Trump campaign tribute to Floyd claiming copyright complaint
28 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
William Gates Senior dies at 94
28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Show HN: Gltfjsx, a tool that turns 3D GLTF files into React components
28 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Covid-19 Treatment with Zinc Plus Low Dose Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin
28 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Google discloses YouTube ad revenues of $15.15B
28 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (2009)
28 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Research on the cerebellum yields rewards
28 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Google Demands Its 30% Cut from App Developers in Play Store
28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
A controlled trial for reproducibility
28 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Canva – How SEO, Outreach and Content Led to a $6B Valuation
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Harvard to Make All Classes Online March 23, President Says
28 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Espionage at the Edge of Empire
28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
MonoLisa is a monospaced typeface specifically designed for coders
28 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Learning to be Free
28 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Building a Design Systems Library with Figma and Scripter
28 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
How the IRS was gutted (2018)
28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
The Promise System (1992)
28 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Make the best of bad reviews by leveraging consumer empathy
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
WeWork locations are essentially unusable now. They’re still charging rent
28 points • comment • may 14, 2020
The Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule Has a Scale Length of 24m
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts?
28 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Apple sues GEEP for not shredding reusable iPhones
28 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Technology where one robot helps another robot
28 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Every Public Engineering Career Ladder
28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Scraping and indexing 1.2B emails for under $200
28 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Show HN: Tableau-like Data Visualization library (free), powered by WebAssembly
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
MIT: Carbon nanotube transistors make the leap from lab to factory floor
28 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
ASCII – Origins
28 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
The Digital Maginot Line (2018)
28 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
We throw away our power as engineers working for other people
28 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Sound Decision: The world of audio branding (2015)
28 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress
28 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
A Tale of Two Plagiarists (2019)
28 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Standard ML
28 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Optus ordered to hand over information about author of negative Google review
28 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Disney to layoff 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams its theme park business
28 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
28 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Show HN: Show last Git push on an e-paper device
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Nuclear power plants are coming to the battlefield
28 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
House prices rise as Covid sparks rural relocation
28 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
28 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Poor Countries Are Running Out of Time to Get Rich
28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
The 17th Century Guide to Sleep (2018)
28 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
A joke about the difference between mathematicians and physicists
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Discovering the hypocrisy gap in reliability the hard way
28 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Ask HN: If you could start your career all over again, what would you change?
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Software Engineering Metrics Every IT Project Manager Should Consider
28 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
I tracked and analyzed 13,159 Hacker News posts. Here's what I learned
28 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
State of Cybersecurity at Airports
28 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Kingdom – The little known story of how Sikkim was annexed
28 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
The most popular last name in every country in the world, and what they mean
28 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Google CTF 2020
28 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Apple Could Look to Acquire Disney Amid Stock Drop
28 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
28 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Show HN: Devplayground – Code Together
28 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Humans evolved to be cooperative breeders
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Being wealthy adds nine more healthy years of life, says study
28 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Covid Is Accelerating a Global Censorship Crisis
28 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Looking for founders for three startup ideas
28 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
The Messy Mediterranean
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Ask HN: What tools/apps/etc. are out there in support of antiracism?
28 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Waiting for Gödel (2016)
28 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Postmortem: GitBook domains blocked by registrar (Google Domains)
28 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Africa in the Photobook
28 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
FuryBSD: A FreeBSD Desktop
28 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Saudi Arabia to Cut Oil Prices as Demand Fears Grow
28 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Telegram tries to appease the SEC – no Gram tokens in Messenger
28 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
How People Learn – The Brain Basics
28 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Rust – Reducing support for 32-bit Apple targets
28 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
What Would Happen If Trump Used Facebook to Dispute Election Results
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
A plan to turn the atmosphere into an enormous sensor
28 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued
28 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
When to use dictionary compression (2018)
28 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Free open-source Media Cloud Platform
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Recommend Books for building trading algorithms
28 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Ousted Black Google Researcher: 'They Wanted to Have My Presence, but Not Me'
28 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Show HN: IRIX – color scheme editor and color tools
28 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed Across Its Divisions
28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming
28 points • comment • may 22, 2020
NPM package 'isarray' is downloaded 40M times a week
28 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Visualization of working from home effect on daytime Internet use
28 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world
28 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Covid19 DIY Face-Mask
28 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Tech firms begin to abandon Hong Kong because of security law
28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Chloroquine on Google Trends
28 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
On Native Apps
28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020