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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]

    344 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  2. Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

    344 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  3. Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative

    344 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  4. The Clean Network – United States Department of State

    344 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  5. Architecture of the Nintendo DS

    344 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  6. Briar Project

    344 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  7. Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year

    344 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  8. Bug #915: Solved

    343 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  9. YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

    343 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  10. Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference

    343 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  11. The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’

    343 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  12. Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)

    343 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  13. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

    343 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  14. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

    343 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  15. AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball

    343 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  16. Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing

    343 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  17. Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case

    343 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  18. My First Year as a Freelance AI Engineer

    343 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  19. Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance

    343 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  20. It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine

    343 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  21. Everything I Know About SSDs

    342 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  22. Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality

    342 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  23. Ask HN: Books giving practical advice on starting a solo SaaS business?

    342 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  24. Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19

    342 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  25. UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface

    342 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  26. Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

    342 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  27. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

    342 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  28. How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less

    342 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  29. The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]

    342 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  30. Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

    342 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  31. Linux 5.10

    342 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  32. What's in a Linux Executable?

    342 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  33. The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis

    342 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  34. Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (2017)

    342 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  35. Fast or Slow

    342 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  36. John le Carré has died

    342 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  37. A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32

    342 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  38. Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions

    342 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  39. How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite

    342 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  40. One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

    342 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  41. 'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle

    341 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  42. Setting up Git identities

    341 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  43. Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic

    341 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  44. ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go

    341 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  45. This is Real, That's Not

    341 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  46. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

    341 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  47. Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

    341 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  48. Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight

    341 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  49. Hacking Portable Air Conditioners

    341 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  50. Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

    341 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  51. Why Does DARPA Work?

    341 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  52. Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

    341 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  53. A-Shell: Terminal for iOS

    341 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  54. Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

    341 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  55. Let's Destroy C

    341 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  56. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications

    341 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  57. Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t

    341 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  58. Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores

    341 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  59. FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test

    341 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  60. Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)

    341 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  61. Routed Gothic Font

    340 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  62. ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations

    340 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  63. Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

    340 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  64. A new funding model for open source software

    340 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  65. Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)

    340 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  66. Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

    340 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  67. Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

    340 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  68. Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement

    340 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  69. New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta

    340 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  70. Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation

    340 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  71. The personal info of what could be Instacart customers is being sold online

    340 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  72. Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

    340 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  73. Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than pot, alcohol, says study

    340 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?

    340 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  75. Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

    340 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  76. Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs

    340 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  77. Domains for the Rest of Us

    340 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  78. Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

    340 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  79. If Not SPAs, What?

    340 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  80. Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password

    340 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  81. GitHub Container Registry

    339 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  82. Blender 2.91

    339 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  83. Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon

    339 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  84. The saddest “Just Ship It” story

    339 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  85. The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity

    339 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  86. With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage

    339 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  87. A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects

    339 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  88. Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B

    339 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  89. A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song

    339 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  90. NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service

    339 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  91. Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job

    339 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  92. The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)

    339 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  93. Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

    339 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  94. Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

    339 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  95. Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS

    339 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  96. “Really successful people say no to almost everything”

    339 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  97. Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

    339 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  98. Dark’s new backend will be in F#

    338 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  99. Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)

    338 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  100. OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

    338 points • comment • aug 06, 2020