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Hacker News (2020)

The Unbearable Pathos of Thomas Mann (2016)
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Email Is Not Broken
27 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
The Selectric Typewriter
27 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Reddit bans 2000 subreddits including the_donald and chapotraphouse
27 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
After Going All-In on Amazon, a Merchant Says He Lost Everything
27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Dell to Begin Shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Their Latest XPS Developer Edition
27 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Doing the Impossible
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Ask HN: Can there be an open source homeschooling curriculum?
27 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Inviting employees back to the office – if you dare
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Commodore Nowhere Near the Edge or Commodore Before Commodore (2007)
27 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Collaborative Circuit Design & Simulation in the Browser
27 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
The Rich Are ‘Defunding’ Our Democracy
27 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Netflix cancels 'Altered Carbon' after just two seasons
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Optical Baking: CO2 Laser Browning of Dough [pdf]
27 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Who Was the Falling Man from 9/11? (2016)
27 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Embrace Beginner's Mind; Avoid the Wrong Way to Be an Expert
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artef
27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Ask HN: Getting depressed about money. How do I make a meaningful amount “fast”?
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Show HN: Pooductivity – An extension to replace productivity with the poo emoji
27 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Fairphone 3 review: ethical smartphone gets camera upgrades
27 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance
27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
The Woeful Inadequacy of School Reopening Plans
27 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
In wake of Apple acquisition, Dark Sky ends Android support
27 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Fed. system to track hosp. beds and Covid-19 patients provides questionable data
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
27 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
“Zuck off”: Doctors, nurses, scientists rail against Zuckerberg
27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Where Did America Go Wrong?
27 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Drones are poised to reshape home design
27 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Judge rules Apple cannot take action against Epic Games dev accounts
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
27 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
A True Story (150 AD)
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Apple says it never asked Telegram to delete Belarusian channels for doxing cop
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Masks could save 130k American lives from COVID19 by March
27 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 devs reportedly chose to work 6-day weeks over delaying the game
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Scott Belsky’s Elephant List
27 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Meal timings affect your waistline
27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
A power-hungry CEO drained the light out of General Electric
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck
27 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Juul to lay off over half its workforce
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Juicesync: Parallelized Rsync for Cloud Storage
27 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Can dairy farming ever be sustainable?
27 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Dojo3D – a simple JavaScript library for 3D interactive stories
27 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Free VPNs are a privacy nightmare. You shouldn’t download them
27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
A first look at records and tuples in JavaScript
26 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Sparsity Enables 50x Performance Acceleration in Deep Learning Networks [pdf]
26 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Build your own WebAssembly Compiler
26 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Can I compute the mass of a coin based on the sound of its fall?
26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Facing meat shortages, some Americans turn to hunting during pandemic
26 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Tips for on Call Engineers During the Holidays
26 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
OSDev Wiki
26 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Google, you are bad at UX
26 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
LAPD Got Tech Demos from Israeli Phone Hacking Firm NSO Group
26 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Start Contributing to Open Source Software
26 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
2020 World Press Freedom Index
26 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Ask HN: I'm building a Windows video editor, what are your pain points?
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Bill Gates: Responding to Covid-19 – A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?
26 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Platform Adjacency Theory
26 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Anonymous hackers re-emerge amid US unrest
26 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
26 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Naming Law
26 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Coronavirus: Germany's states make face masks compulsory
26 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Show HN: Live – A net/http compatible Phoenix LiveView implementation in Go
26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
26 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Fun with Interactive Unix 3.0 (2010)
26 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Hilary Putnam: Minds, brains, machines
26 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What
26 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Too many academics are now censoring themselves (2016)
26 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
26 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
How One discovers the API for a COM-exporting application (2007)
26 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires
26 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation
26 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
26 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Why is the dropout rate so high for Computer Science?
26 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Are Covid Patients Gasping “It's Not Real” as They Die?
26 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug?
26 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Johns Hopkins: Heart Disease Deaths Dropped in 2020 [pdf]
26 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Post Covid-19, Coinbase will be a remote-first company
26 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Proximal Policy Optimization for Playing Super Mario Bros
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
The Shortest Signatures Ever (2016) [pdf]
26 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Head of Postal Workers Union Says Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months
26 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Bringing Tensor Cores to Standard Fortran
26 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Censorship by Google
26 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Show HN: We made a meeting companion app on macOS to improve remote meetings
26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Show HN: A sound-effect chatroom for meeting engagement
26 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track
26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Wuhan-Hu-1, complete genome
26 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
The David Peters Problem
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Log Structured Merge Trees (2015)
26 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
The Story of Tailwind
26 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components
26 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Impossible Word: Toward a Poetics of Aphasia
26 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Show HN: An open souce graph database written in Prolog and Rust
26 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Ask HN: What device do you use for reading scientific or technical papers?
26 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
The Team Edits Your Images: Aurora Borealis
26 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Hi-vis clothing for cyclists does not reduce number of crashes
26 points • comment • oct 12, 2020