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Hacker News (2020)

Elon Musk launches into expletive-laden rant calling quarantine measures fascist
22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
The Conscientious Congressman's Guide to the Electoral Count Act (2004) [pdf]
22 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Amazon CEO Bezos Called to Testify Before Congress
22 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Thoughts of Linus Torvalds on M1 Macs
22 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
We Have Become a Police State, and None of Us Should Be Okay with That
22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Shakespeare’s Son Died at 11. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art
22 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Why some nations are rich and others poor (2016)
22 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Zoom buys two new IPv4 /16 blocks in a week
22 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Iran has discovered an oil field with an estimated 53B barrels of crude
22 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / software?
22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Millennials are getting stung by back-to-back economic crises
22 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit
22 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
A repertoire of math books from general math, college math to pure/applied math
22 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Digital Design in Architecture: research landscape map 1975-2019
22 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Fighter jet crash averted by defect in civil ejection incident
22 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Modern Google-level speech-to-text models released
22 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Private WhatsApp groups visible in Google searches
22 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Debunking an election fraud claim using open data and Dolt
22 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
How to spot police surveillance tools
22 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Ask HN: How do you practice social soft skills in real life?
22 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
A musician plays the violin during brain surgery
22 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Amazon workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere
22 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
What’s new in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update
22 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Show HN: List of 5k poorly executed but popular apps
22 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments
22 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)
22 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Control-F and Building Resilient Information Networks
22 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
GitHub Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
22 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Complexity in Operating Systems
22 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Why do you need a LinkedIn account?
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Europe wants to prohibits unjustified geographical restriction
22 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit
22 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
The trouble with designing a book when its author is in jail (2018)
22 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Shining a Flashlight on Digital Holography
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Nemo: Data Discovery at Facebook
22 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Sweden’s Relaxed Approach to Covid-19 Isn’t Working
22 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Colibri: A Browser Without Tabs
22 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
The Six Levels of Reusability
22 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Update on extension support in the new Firefox for Android
22 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
In the coronavirus era, the force is still with Jack Dorsey
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Ask HN: Can I fork my open-source project I created under an employer?
22 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Treasury to acquire 30% of company for $700M. Company is worth $120M
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Ask HN: What is your favorite ergonomic chair/desk
22 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before
22 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Common mistakes inexperienced interviewers make
22 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
I Brainwashed Myself with the Internet
22 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Disney Stiffs SF Writer Alan Dean Foster
22 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Every Application Fails in Unique but Predictable Ways: A Study in Zoom
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92
22 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Ask HN: How will the world change post pandemic?
22 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Solving the Sequence Alignment Problem in Python
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Cassowary – Modern cross-platform HTTP load-testing tool written in Go
22 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Aiming for Correctness with Types
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson
22 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Zimbabwe deteriorated under Robert Mugabe
22 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Breakdown of technical issues related to the crash of Kobe Bryant's helicopter
22 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Whole Foods Founder: ‘The Whole World Is Getting Fat’
22 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Brave browser is coming with default Binance affiliate url
22 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Why Silicon Valley could become tomorrow's Detroit
22 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Show HN: Open-source online speech recognition
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The sweet danger of sugar (2017)
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Study finds there is “no safe level” of pm2.5 air pollution
22 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?
22 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
How cameras helped and sometimes harmed black people
22 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Governments must beware the lure of free money
22 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Ask HN: Where do HN readers spend their online downtime?
22 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Twilight of the Imperial Chef
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Notes on Epic Games
22 points • comment • may 25, 2020
The Fall of the CDC
22 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
The Inevitable Return of COBOL
22 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Effects of Cinnamon, Curcumin/Turmeric on Glucose, Lipid, Cognitive Measures
22 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Money Is Losing Its Meaning
22 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Show HN: Splitgraph DDN – Public PostgreSQL proxy to 40k+ datasets
22 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Enhance your TensorFlow Lite deployment with Firebase
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Alice in Wonderland and the theft of the public domain
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
UBC quietly changes references to Taiwan amid sensitive political climate
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The Lessons of Shell Shock
22 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
A coronavirus antibody test that is more than 99% accurate is now cleared in US
22 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz exclusive interview
22 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Testers vs. TDD
22 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Physics Is Cool
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Supreme Court says generic domains like booking.com can be trademarked
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Has Intel lost its mojo?
22 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
If Apple cares so much about privacy, why does it approve clipboard snoopers?
22 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Thoughts on user growth and product
22 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Center for Computational Biology
22 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Delta has banned 460 anti-maskers
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Technology Panic
22 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore
22 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Watch AMD Threadripper 3990X Use 128 Threads to Render a Video in Task Manager
22 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowards Who Let It Happen
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Sender of False DMCA Takedown Notices Ordered to Pay $370K in Damages
22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
A new email startup says Apple’s shaking it down for a cut of its subscriptions
22 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Forget Dragon, the Falcon 9 rocket is the secret sauce of SpaceX’s success
22 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Wirecard says $2.1B cash is missing
22 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Elon Musk to Workers: Violate California's Stay-at-Home Order or Don't Get Paid
22 points • comment • may 14, 2020
The spread of true and false news online: Lies spread faster than the truth
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2020