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Hacker News (2020)

“They would have said faster horses” – An example of asking wrong questions
27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Don’t Be Fooled by America’s Flattening Curve
27 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Altair 8800 Clone
27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Judge rules Apple cannot take action against Epic Games dev accounts
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Scent dog identification of samples from Covid-19 patients – a pilot study
27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
What if we could live for a million years
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
The Plow that broke the plains (1936) [video]
27 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Inviting employees back to the office – if you dare
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Digital Sight Management, and the Mystery of the Missing Amazon Receipts
27 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
K3d v3.0.0 released: run Kubernetes in your local machine just using Docker
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
The code I shared was so bad, someone got kicked out of the country
27 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
2020 is on course to be the warmest year on record
27 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 devs reportedly chose to work 6-day weeks over delaying the game
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Apple says it never asked Telegram to delete Belarusian channels for doxing cop
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Show HN: Apio – Simple Application Monitoring for Node or Django
27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020
27 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
The Selectric Typewriter
27 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Pointers are Easy, Optimization is Complicated
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
'Moonshot' hype illustrates the UK government's obsession with tech hyperbole
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Iowa reporter who exposed racist tweets fired for own tweets
27 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
The Anti-Social Novelist
27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Interpretable Machine Learning
27 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
A True Story (150 AD)
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Why Look at Flying Saucers?
27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture
27 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Embrace Beginner's Mind; Avoid the Wrong Way to Be an Expert
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
M1 MacBook Air vs. Intel MacBook Air
27 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
A Python Substitute? I Tried the Best Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Scott Belsky’s Elephant List
27 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
EM Information Theory of Consciousness
27 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack
27 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Juul to lay off over half its workforce
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Good vibrations: acoustic technologies in cars
27 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
The Unbearable Pathos of Thomas Mann (2016)
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Keep Science Irrational
27 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Where Did America Go Wrong?
27 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Viewable with Any Browser Campaign (2011)
27 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Proving that 1 and 1 = 2 in Rust
27 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Mike Pondsmith: “‘Cyberpunk’ is a warning, not an aspiration”
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
AWS Proton is Conway’s Law-as-a-Service
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Homeland Security details new tools for extracting device data at US borders
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Ask HN: What do you use Google Sheets for?
26 points • comment • may 20, 2020
UCDavis researcher, suspected spying, hiding in consulate now in custody
26 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
OSDev Wiki
26 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Ultra Secure Password Storage with NitroPepper
26 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Hijacking the Verified Knowledge Panel
26 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Johns Hopkins: Heart Disease Deaths Dropped in 2020 [pdf]
26 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
2020 World Press Freedom Index
26 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
The Making of Quake Soundtrack; Carmack, McGee, Nine Inch Nails
26 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Bill Gates: Responding to Covid-19 – A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?
26 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Deplacy: CUI-Based Tree Visualizer for Universal Dependencies
26 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
The Theory of American Decline
26 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
The World’s First Medical Records
26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Ask HN: What is the best way to target restaurants and small businesses?
26 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Show HN: Fw – faster workspace (workspace productivity booster)
26 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
An Ode to Driving in America
26 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
The Story of Tailwind
26 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Streams – A Real-Life Approach
26 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Array-Oriented Programming with NumPy-1
26 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Coronavirus: Germany's states make face masks compulsory
26 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
UK approves Pfizer vaccine rollout
26 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
My Mistress Melancholy: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
26 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Facing meat shortages, some Americans turn to hunting during pandemic
26 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Tesla Tire Costs 10× Battery Cost, & My Plan to Deflate Tire Costs 90%
26 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Golden Gate Bridge wind resistance barriers creates eerie sound
26 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
The EU is launching a market for personal data
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Why is the dropout rate so high for Computer Science?
26 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Mandykoh/convolver: Extended parallel image convolution library for Go
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug?
26 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
26 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
The UK’s public health response to Covid-19
26 points • comment • may 19, 2020
The Gruen Effect
26 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
26 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
SpaceX crushes rocket engine world record during Raptor test
26 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Show HN: A sound-effect chatroom for meeting engagement
26 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Evaluating Schwarz–Christoffel Maps in Pie Slices
26 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Notice of Data Security Incident
26 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Show HN: Glowbom – Using voice to make software
26 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components
26 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows
26 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation
26 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Show HN: Backtest Trading Strategies: A Quantopian Alternative
26 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Show HN: An open souce graph database written in Prolog and Rust
26 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Consider the Giraffe
26 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Sounds of the Bodleian
26 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Student loan forgiveness would be a bailout for elites
26 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Released an eBook: $20K sales in the first 3 days
26 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What
26 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
MinIO Event Notification with Apache Nifi
26 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Sparsity Enables 50x Performance Acceleration in Deep Learning Networks [pdf]
26 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
How Tiffany moved 114k gems without getting robbed
26 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Burning Fossil Fuels Helped Drive Earth’s Most Massive Extinction
26 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Paper that claimed the Sun caused global warming gets retracted
26 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Moon's Mark Down (2016)
26 points • comment • jul 03, 2020