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Hacker News (2020)

6ft Is Not Always Enough: How Saliva Droplets Spread Through the Air
21 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Having a Garden Linked to Better Health and Well-Being
21 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Tooling.Report
21 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
It's Going to Get Worse
21 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Show HN: Best-Books.dev, the best programming books, all in one place
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
PsychOS
20 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Implementing Anonymous Posts on Gurlic
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Astrid Kirchherr, Who Helped Create the Beatles’ Image, Has Died
20 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos Embrace the Rule of Awkward Silence
20 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Memories – a multipart demoscene demo in only 256 bytes
20 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Ask HN: What programming design pattern book has had the biggest impact on you?
20 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
The saddest script I ever wrote
20 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
IBM Apologizes for Firing Computer Pioneer for Being Transgender 52 Years Later
20 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Burger King’s new commercial shows the time-lapse decomposition of a Whopper
20 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
In Poznan, Poland, eight clams decide if people in the city get water or not
20 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Luhhu – Founding a Zapier agency before no-code was cool
20 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Expressive Pixels
20 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Brush up your COBOL: Why is a 60 year old language suddenly in demand?
20 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
A Different Take on Fukushima
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Ask HN: Wrong Pipe Character?
20 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
20 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Twitter Suspends Dozens of Accounts of Venezuelan Officials
20 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
SpaceX: Musk's 'Mars ship' prototype aces 150m test flight
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Wolfram.org Is Not Wolfram.com
20 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Bitcoin at 12
20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
William S. Burroughs's Paintings (2015)
20 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Kate is soon 20 years old
20 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Why Repair Techs Are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Why are we anchored often?
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Japanese Waltzing Mouse (2014)
20 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Psilocybin therapy 4 times more effective than antidepressants, study finds
20 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Newsom proposes ditching environmental review when converting hotels int housing
20 points • comment • may 29, 2020
OpenAI should be renamed ClosedAI
20 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Messenger Rooms and More Ways to Connect When You’re Apart
20 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Fact Checking on Vote Claims Going Viral on Social Media
20 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Ex-Googler Turned Whistleblower and QAnon Fan Made 'Plandemic' Go Viral
20 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Samsung Galaxy S II, released in 2011, has an unofficial port of Android 11
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Steve Wozniak and wife may have been Covid-19 Patient Zero in US
20 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Show HN: A freelance-only job board
20 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
James Lipton, longtime host of 'Inside the Actors Studio,' has died at 93
20 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
FBI agents investigating if 5G paranoia was behind Nashville bombing
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Covid-19: Exploring implications of multimorbidity on years of life lost
20 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Basecamp Bans Employee Surveillance Software
20 points • comment • may 07, 2020
What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t
20 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Compatibilism
20 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Ask HN: How do you cope with mental illness as a founder and/or employee?
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Ask HN: Learning to Build Video Codecs
20 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
One Apple Programmer Got Apps Talking to Each Other
20 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Codespaces; 50% price drop
20 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Software defined storage vs. hardware defined storage
20 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Brexit will cost the UK more than its total payments to the EU combined
20 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Builders who will thrive in the new world
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies
20 points • comment • may 08, 2020
2020 United States Postal Service Crisis
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Tracking down my strange program killer
20 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Making applications scalable with Load Balancing (2006)
20 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Seagulls prefer food previously touched by humans to untouched items
20 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Rust makes cross compilation child's play
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
SOLID design principles in C++: Open Closed Principle
20 points • comment • may 11, 2020
William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91
20 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology
20 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Learning New Things from Google
20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Readies First Astronaut Launch by Private Firm
20 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Indian Twitter attempts fake news campaign of 'civil war' in Pakistan
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
YouTube Copyright Strike Took Down Livestream Before It Even Started
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Humorous highway signs aim to steer drivers safely
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Show HN: Wisefin API – Turn messy bank transactions into beautiful data
20 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
The Graham-Blumenthal Bill: A New Path for DOJ to Finally Break Encryption
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 jailbreak/root success
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Black Mesa, a Half-Life Fan Fantasy, Finally Comes to Life
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Spotify Removes Joe Rogan Episode Featuring Alex Jones
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Stanford's free course on higher mathematical thinking is about to start soon
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Malaysian official who renamed stadium denies title is his name backwards
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
The Beautiful Machine
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Show HN: Learn How to Build, Launch and Run a Shopify App
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
What Sequoia Capital’s “Black Swan” Memo Means for Unicorn-Hotspots
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
I Got 99 Problems and a Distributed Database Ain’t One
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Sci-hub_deutsch|how to use sci hub
20 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Show HN: Rocketshipping – A Handbook for Starting a Startup
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
South by Southwest Cancelled
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Why Google Fired Me
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Updating Dictionary in Python 3.9
20 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Virtual Consensus in Delos
20 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The Linux Kernel (2003)
20 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Ask HN: I am at a startup for 7 years. What's next for me?
20 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Boston Dynamics starts selling its Spot robot – for $74,500
20 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Hardware interrupts with Ben Eater [video]
20 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Show HN:A Discussion Site for (Pilot)Hindu-Religious Groups Based on Hacker News
20 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Why can’t Facebook fix itself?
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Complete Corona lock down of Milano and greater areas in “red zone”
20 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
How tons of ammonium nitrate were stranded in Beirut port for years
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Nassim Taleb suggests Musk doesn’t understand risk in complex systems
20 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Chuck Yeager Has Died
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)
20 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Recursive Backtracking [pdf]
20 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Toshiba Touts Algorithm That’s Faster Than a Supercomputer
20 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Pikvm: Open and Cheap DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi
20 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Markup Macro Processor
20 points • comment • mar 08, 2020