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Hacker News (2020)

How The Boring Company is increasing tunneling speed
28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Story Arcs: The Six Shapes of Stories
28 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco
28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Show HN: Show last Git push on an e-paper device
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Starfucker – A GitHub API exploration
28 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
I Am the Facebook Algorithm and I Come to You Now, Requesting a Swift Death
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed Across Its Divisions
28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Lambda.r Functional Programming in R
28 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Feds Vowed to Quell Unrest in Portland. Local Leaders Are Telling Them to Leave
28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company into Literal Garbage
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk (2016)
28 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
How the IRS was gutted (2018)
28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
The implementation of epoll (2014)
28 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Tech firms begin to abandon Hong Kong because of security law
28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Manifesto of the Silent Minority
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Conversation and Ideas
28 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
The Messy Mediterranean
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
The End of Spectrum Scarcity (2004)
28 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Rebooting Justice
28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Programming Language Fragility
28 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Why UPS drivers don't turn left and you probably shouldn't either
28 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
The Knowledge Economy: The Rise of Community-Curated Knowledge Networks
28 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Bitcoin Tops $24K, Setting New All-Time High
28 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
28 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Show HN: MP3 to Text
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world
28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Kingdom – The little known story of how Sikkim was annexed
28 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Espionage at the Edge of Empire
28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Why desaturating in Photoshop is useless (for painters)
27 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
27 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
The C++ preprocessor doesn’t understand anything about C++, including templates
27 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Coup-Proofing the Startup
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
XCode May Come to iPhone and iPad in iOS 14
27 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency industry?
27 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
“Seems like the type of job where you’re only noticed when you make a mistake”
27 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Juicesync: Parallelized Rsync for Cloud Storage
27 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
VS Code Real-Time Debugging
27 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Ask HN: What are some recent less known innovations in UI/UX
27 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
$699 Apple Pro Wheels
27 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Tiananmen Square images that China does not want you to see
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain?
27 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Ask HN: Is D3 still king for JavaScript visualisation?
27 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Chinese medical staff request international medical assistance against COVID-19
27 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
NASA SpaceX Crew enters iPad pin in plain view of camera
27 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Insanity vs Intelligence: Pinky and the Brain Conspiracy Theory
27 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Doing the Impossible
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Joe Lycett: Comedian changes his name to Hugo Boss
27 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Show HN: A Simple Search Engine
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Voyager 1 and 2 Live Mission Status
27 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Netflix cancels 'Altered Carbon' after just two seasons
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
The precision of locomotor odometry in humans (2008) [pdf]
27 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Path Tracing with Babylon, Background and Implementation
27 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Investigating whether and how devs understand open-source software licensing
27 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Microsoft now lets you run Android apps in Windows 10
27 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Show HN: SaaS landing page examples for design inspiration
27 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown – AIER
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Coronavirus: Care home deaths 'far higher' than official figures
27 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Show HN: We created a hexagonal keyboard made for smartphones
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Show HN: Self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting alternative to Google search
27 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
27 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Show HN: Jaypad.io – Planning stuff Slack style
27 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
DoD and NSA Launch New Cybersecurity Initiative with HBCUs
27 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
The New Coronavirus Growth Debate
27 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
To the proud owner of a Golang script scraping the hell out of PyPI
27 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Optical Baking: CO2 Laser Browning of Dough [pdf]
27 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Someone from the product team at Gitlab needs to look at issue 35054
27 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Juggling Dynamics
27 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
How we test Wi-Fi gear
27 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
An issue with DuckDuckGo Search may prevent you from getting results
27 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
StoneCutter: A Very High Level Instruction Set Design Language
27 points • comment • may 29, 2020
The economics of fun – The secret economics of a VIP party
27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
How to SSH into a self-driving truck
27 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Programmers need to think like hackers
27 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
My life as a quiz obsessive
27 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Vue 3: mid 2020 status update
27 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Tips for Building Voice User Interfaces
27 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Using GPT-3 for Accounting
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Rust, WebAssembly, and the Future of Serverless by Steve Klabnik
27 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Why it’s better to be the anti-status quo
27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Dropbox has launched a new password manager in private beta
27 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Peak Oil Is Suddenly Upon Us
27 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
New research links soybean oil to metabolic and neurological changes in mice
27 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Tom Stoppard: A Life
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Fossils of rangeomorphs, which dominated the oceans more than 500M years ago
27 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Electronic amoeba finds solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Lessons from the Narcotic Farm, Part One (2012)
27 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Ask HN: Is any ultrasonic aortic valve decalcification available to the public?
27 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Show HN: Completion daemon for {bash,zsh} that detects `–help` usage
27 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
A14X Bionic Performance Stats Leak Out – Easily Outperforms Core I9 MacBook Pro
27 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
In Great Silence there is Great Hope (2007) [pdf]
27 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Local TV set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory
27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
My Artist Residency Experience at Villa Kujoyama
27 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Ask HN: Black bar added to top of page?
27 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Change.org solicits donations under George Floyd petition, keeps money
27 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
UK coronavirus variant may be more able to infect children: scientists
27 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Twitter Says CEO Dorsey Informed in Advance of Decision to Tag Trump Tweet
27 points • comment • may 29, 2020