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Hacker News (2020)

Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
1066 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
1065 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
1064 points • comment • may 27, 2020
YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
1063 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
1061 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
1058 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
1057 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
1051 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Tools for Better Thinking
1051 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
1050 points • comment • may 29, 2020
20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
1047 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
1046 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
1046 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Email a Dumpster Fire
1045 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
1043 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Nova by Panic
1042 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Google users locked out after 15 years' use
1042 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Show HN: SHA-256 Animation
1041 points • comment • may 13, 2020
My Second Year as a Solo Developer
1039 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
1037 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
1037 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
1035 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
1035 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
1030 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
1029 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Laws of UX
1027 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
1023 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Notion for everyone
1022 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
1022 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
1020 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Servo’s new home
1019 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
1015 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
1009 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Monoliths Are the Future
1009 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
1-on-1 meeting questions
1007 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
1006 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
1006 points • comment • may 06, 2020
GitHub Source Code Leak
1005 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Old CSS, New CSS
1004 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
1004 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor
1001 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Building Your Color Palette
999 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
AirPods Max
994 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
993 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
986 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
What Gödel Discovered
986 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Things I wished more developers knew about databases
984 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
983 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
The Decline of Usability
982 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
981 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
980 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
980 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
WireGuard is now in Linus' tree
978 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Booting from a vinyl record
976 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Firefox Was Always Enough
976 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Websites that look like desktop GUIs
967 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
966 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Happy New Year HN
966 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Tailwind UI
966 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
965 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
964 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
How bad is your Spotify?
963 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
959 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Career advice for people with bad luck
958 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
956 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
956 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
955 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
955 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
954 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
953 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
953 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
952 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
1MB Club
952 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
949 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
949 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
948 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
946 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
945 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
944 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
943 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Someone has stolen my Instagram account
942 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
942 points • comment • may 22, 2020
PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
942 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
You download the app and it doesn’t work
941 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
941 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
939 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
936 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
936 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Do not Draw a Penis
930 points • comment • may 14, 2020
With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
930 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
929 points • comment • may 13, 2020
FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]
925 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
924 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
924 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
923 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
More bosses give four-day workweek a try
922 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
921 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
921 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
920 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Security by obscurity is underrated
916 points • comment • sep 11, 2020