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Hacker News (2020)

World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency - Jan 2020
28 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
The End of Spectrum Scarcity (2004)
28 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
How the ‘Sunset Route’ Railroad Helped Diversify California
28 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2020)
28 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Saving forums from themselves with shared hierarchical whitelists (2009)
28 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Building computers out of sliding block puzzles [pdf]
28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
A website has “stolen” my program and reselling it
28 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders?
28 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Emerging jobs and the green economy are boosting demand for analytical skills
28 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Dynein: Building an Open-Source Distributed Delayed Job Queueing System
28 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’
28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Enough with the Phoney 'Lockdown' Debate
28 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Apple Silicon implements tricky x86 behaviors in hardware for faster emulation
28 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
What does “execution dependent” mean? (2009)
28 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
The Grace of Manta Rays
28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
My guiding principles after 20 years of programming
28 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
A Hypothesis Is a Liability
28 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
28 points • comment • may 25, 2020
How to Start Using Microservices
28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Improving Compilation Time of C/C++ Projects
28 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Kaiser Stops Woman with Lupus Chloroquine Prescription, Thanks Her for Sacrifice
28 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Dylan Playground
28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Linux Sucks 2020 [video]
28 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Copper: A statically-typed, loose syntax programming language
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
A N.Y. Nurse Dies. Angry Co-Workers Blame a Lack of Protective Gear
28 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
President and First Lady Begin Quarantine Process Aide Tests Positive for Covid
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Bill Gates: Entire country must shut down for 6-10 weeks to fight coronavirus
28 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Great Courses, Great Profits – A Curriculum in Human Thought
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
28 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Show HN: Simplemvc.js – A highly opinionated web back end framework
28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Show HN: We wrote a book to help data people build scalable analytics stacks
28 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
OpenMath
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Show HN: Trackiem – Custom trackers to track anything over any period of time
28 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away
28 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Google AdSense Leak
28 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty (2017)
28 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal-Data Analyst
28 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Apple will begin selling Macs with its own processors in 2021
28 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Gmail Gone Again
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
On March 31, SETI[at]home will stop sending out new work to users
28 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Macron prepares “global security” law banning the filming of French police
28 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Up to 2B times acceleration of scientific simulations with deep neural search
28 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [video]
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Alarmed as Covid patients' blood thickened, New York doctors try new treatments
28 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Ex-Uber employees are being surprised by big tax bills
28 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Tesla leak shows Model 3 with 100 kWh battery would have over 400-mile range
28 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit
28 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Rhode Island expands car stops from only New York to all states
28 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Ask HN: Why desktop apps are moving to browser but mobile apps to native?
28 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Texas Student May Have Wuhan Coronavirus, as Dozens in U.S. Are Monitored
28 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Utah and Georgia install tech that lets roads talk
28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
In Singapore, Quarantine Comes with Sea View, Room Service
28 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Compressed Sensing (2016)
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
An (unofficial) update and AMA (by former Boosted Boards founder and CEO)
28 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Apple App Store Small Business Program for 15% rate
28 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
SpaceX – Starship Users Guide [pdf]
28 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
We've been using the same bricks for over 5,000 years. It's time for a change
28 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Nifty Fold Expression Tricks
28 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Slack Is Fumbling Developers
28 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Amazon Fires Employee Who Led Staten Island Strike
28 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Story Arcs: The Six Shapes of Stories
28 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Why Vertica Customers Adopt Apache Druid for Real-Time Analytics
28 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
28 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Startups Face a ‘Fundamental Reset,’ Says VC
28 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
IoT on QuestDB
28 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2020
28 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Saul Bass and Logo Design: Then and Now (2011)
28 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
The Real McKee: Lessons of a screenwriting guru (2003)
28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
‘A Year's Worth of Suicide Attempts in Four Weeks’: The Unintended Consequences
28 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
The implementation of epoll (2014)
28 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
I Am Switching to JavaScript
28 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Data Catalogs Are Dead; Long Live Data Discovery
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Sidekick – An Open Source, High Performance, Ultralight Load Balancer from MinIO
28 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Designing New Cryptography for Non-Standard Threat Models
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Schizophrenia Manifests as a GitHub Repo
28 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Oldschool PC fonts, release v2.0
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Uber Bookings Now Down 80%
28 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Obarun – Arch Linux based distro with skarnet s6/66 suite
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Shark and ray vision comes into focus
28 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Modern storage is plenty fast
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware
28 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
TikTok Bans MLMs and Content That Aims to Deceive People for Financial Gain
28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
4,600 Expected to Be Deported for Using Fraudulent Experience Letters
28 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
You don’t need talent for Sales
28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
A 1969 Experiment in a Locked Room Changed Art History
28 points • comment • may 25, 2020
‘Green’ billionaires behind suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Can virtual reality help get you through lockdown?
28 points • comment • may 24, 2020
U.S. judge halts Trump administration's order to remove WeChat from app stores
28 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Uber Makes Offer to Buy Postmates Delivery Service
28 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
28 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Musk: Tesla will 'immediately' leave California over coronavirus shutdowns
28 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Tell HN: the word "Niger" (the country) seems blocked in Venmo memos
28 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Systems Benchmarking Crimes (2010)
28 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’
28 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Sad state of cross platform GUI frameworks
28 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020