woid

top stories

Hacker News (2020)

The Oculus Go wasn’t designed for black hair
27 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
WiFinger: Leveraging commodity WiFi for finger gesture recognition (2016) [pdf]
27 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Microconfig Features
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
The Leader of the Free World Gives a Speech, and She Nails It
27 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Mike Pondsmith: “‘Cyberpunk’ is a warning, not an aspiration”
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Research into the reasons for trepanation (2016)
27 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Poetry in Allen Ginsberg's Photography (2010)
27 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Oscar Winner Taika Waititi Criticizes Mac Keyboards
27 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Sbang lets you run scripts with long shebang lines
27 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
The locksmith, the surgeon, and the mechanical hand (2019)
27 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell
27 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Isobuild – Interactive isometric design tool
27 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Ask HN: Black bar added to top of page?
27 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Meaningful Availability [pdf]
27 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Wait until you get to picture #30 1875 Howard County Sheriff's House and Jail
27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures
27 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
2020 is on course to be the warmest year on record
27 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
The Master of Unknowing
27 points • comment • may 06, 2020
How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
The Great Plague of Marseille
27 points • comment • may 24, 2020
How to solve hard (technical) problems
27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Glossary of censored words from a 1919 treatise on love
27 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Homeland Security details new tools for extracting device data at US borders
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs: 7nm, 8-core on both 15W and 45W, Coming Q1
27 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Why the French Love to Complain
27 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Lessons from the Cuckoo's Egg
27 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (2019)
27 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Ford plans to build 1k respirators per month and 100k face shields per week
27 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown – AIER
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Maths Around the Clock (2018)
27 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Programmers need to think like hackers
27 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
The Zambian “Afronaut” who wanted to join the space race (2017)
27 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Mozilla Foundation Independent Auditors' Report [pdf] (2019)
27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Ask HN: How did you catch Covid-19?
27 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Good vibrations: acoustic technologies in cars
27 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
In Great Silence there is Great Hope (2007) [pdf]
27 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers (2015)
27 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Voyager – Kubernetes Ingress Controller Releases v12.0.0-RC.2
27 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?
27 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
$699 Apple Pro Wheels
27 points • comment • may 11, 2020
iSH now available on the App Store
27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Keto diet works best in small doses, mouse study finds
27 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
The code I shared was so bad, someone got kicked out of the country
27 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
CDC guide to reopening was trashed by the Trump admin. It just leaked
27 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Solutions to Mathematics Textbooks
27 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
January 2020 Was Earth’s Hottest January on Record
27 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Tom Stoppard: A Life
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
The next 45 days are the ‘most critical period in U.S. financial history’
27 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
10 years ago today, Groupon turned down Google’s $6B offer
27 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
'The new evidence is deeply troubling': did Arkansas kill an innocent man?
27 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Path Tracing with Babylon, Background and Implementation
27 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
The workers who supply the world’s food are starting to get sick
27 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots
27 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Beauty determines whether men romantically desire or dismiss high status women
27 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Hacker releases PII on Las Vegas-area students after officials don’t pay ransom
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Facebook’s New Remote Salary Policy Is “Barbaric”
27 points • comment • may 31, 2020
The Wrath of the Killdozer (2009)
27 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Rocket League Will Drop Support for Mac, Linux Versions in March
27 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Why Rust is not a mature programming language
27 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout (2018)
27 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Wikipedia: Don't Be High-Maintenance
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
New York State Covid-19 Technology Swat Team
27 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Florida posted the password to a key disaster system on its website
27 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Uber and Lyft drivers are employees, California regulatory agency finds
27 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Avoiding Burnout as an Ambitious Developer
27 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Nano-diamond battery that "lasts for 28k years" closer to commercialization
27 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
New York on track to ban cashless stores and restaurants
27 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Ask HN: Please upvote the “Who wants to be hired” thread too
27 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Show HN: Remote Companies Around the World
27 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Show HN: A tiny portable MIDI looper
27 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
General Electric workers launch protest, demand to make ventilators
27 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Navigating the landscape of multiplayer games
27 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Letters of Last Resort
27 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
An inland hurricane tore through Iowa. You probably didn’t hear about it
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Crossflashing the Fujitsu D2607 (2016)
27 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Tearing into a $1.3M Oscilloscope
27 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
JWT tokens authenticate the client, not the user
27 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
John Lewis Was an American Founder
27 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Ask HN: Bad user experience angers and depresses me – what can I do about it?
27 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Coup-Proofing the Startup
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Cashless retail businesses are now banned in NYC
27 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
DoorDash doesn't allow a tip of $10 because “The amount is higher than expected”
27 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Surprising: Causes of Poverty
27 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Local TV set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory
27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Tesla has already started making cars again at its California factory
27 points • comment • may 11, 2020
EM Information Theory of Consciousness
27 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Coronavirus will change airlines and the way we fly
27 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
What if we could live for a million years
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Release cycle about SMTP stack
27 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
K3d v3.0.0 released: run Kubernetes in your local machine just using Docker
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
27 points • comment • may 14, 2020
DeepMind A.I. unit lost $649M last year and had a $1.5B debt waived by Alphabet
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Map of Pangea with modern-day borders
27 points • comment • may 03, 2020
SoftBank Nearing Deal to Sell Arm Holdings to Nvidia for More Than $40B
27 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
WeWork founder misses out on $1B as SoftBank cancels share buyout
27 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Named to Amazon Board of Directors
27 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Ray Dalio – The Changing World Order: Where we are and where we are going
27 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Welcome to America’s Cultural Revolution
27 points • comment • jun 17, 2020