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Hacker News (2020)

Cornell offers 'person of color' exemption for flu vaccine requirement
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)
20 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Free Speech Champion Mark Zuckerberg Announces Plan to Censor His Employees
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Toshiba Touts Algorithm That’s Faster Than a Supercomputer
20 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
It's a Wonderful Life
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Markup Macro Processor
20 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Life and Breath: The human story of how ventilators came to breathe for us
20 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Coronavirus climbs up keyword block lists
20 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Uber’s delivery business is now larger than ride-hailing
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
In the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists realized
20 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground
20 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
'Barnacle' car windscreen clamp sparks student fury
20 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator's new VR mode haunts my dreams
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Eardrum Suck: The Mystery Solved
20 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Deepfake pornography, with videos of popular actresses having millions of views
20 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Zoom's (Over)Valuation?
20 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
How to Pretend That You Are Smart (Featuring PG)
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of US broadcast properties
20 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Why can’t Facebook fix itself?
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Mobile app errors could delay Iowa Caucus results
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Node.js v15.0.0 Is Here
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Far-UVC Lights Deactive Majority of Airborne Pathogens
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Builders who will thrive in the new world
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Nikon Will No Longer Authorize Anyone to Repair Its Cameras
20 points • comment • may 01, 2020
The Seamus Heaney Experience
20 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Visual Open Authoring with Next.js and TinaCMS
20 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Suspected Russian hackers also breached U.S. Department of Homeland Security
20 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Consider the Hare
20 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Ask HN: How to develop accurate self-understanding?
20 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’
20 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Show HN: I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame
20 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Show HN: Paced Email
20 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Detection of Rapidly Growing Informal Settlements
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Tell HN: Free PDFs on MIT Press Open
20 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Brain-melting Unity demo becoming reality-creating puzzle game
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Chuck Yeager Has Died
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
News Corp employee lashes climate misinformation in Australian bushfire coverage
20 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
I can do all things through Postgres: Lessons for the Elixir programmer
20 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Seattle Times: WA State bans large gatherings; Seattle closes public schools
20 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
The Good Old 6502 Microprocessor, but 7000X Bigger
20 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
No, a vaccine or antiviral therapy won’t save us from the first wave of Covid-19
20 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Global Trends 2015: Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts (2000)
20 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Disneyland to Close Due to Coronavirus
20 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Virtual Consensus in Delos
20 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries [pdf]
20 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Gitlab deletes then opens account to others without warning
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Research team has isolated the Covid-19 virus
20 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
DoorDash Is Expected to Price IPO at Around $102 a Share at $39B Valuation
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2019?
20 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Climate change denialist given top role at major U.S. science agency
20 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy
20 points • comment • may 19, 2020
An open letter to my friends with fuck you money
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Why Docker Was Written in Go
20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics
20 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
As Covid-19 response, Linden Lab discounts Second Life for schools/non-profits
20 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Tracing the NYC Trip in “The Warriors” (2006)
20 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Newsom proposes ditching environmental review when converting hotels int housing
20 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Unbundling Work from Employment
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Show HN: Machine Wisdom – Generated Inspiration from Deep Learning (GPT-2)
20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
The First American Restaurants’ Culinary Concoctions
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Apple Closes All Its Stores Outside China over Coronavirus
20 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Bill Gates Gives Brilliant 30s Answers to Common Job Interview Questions
20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Wolfram.org Is Not Wolfram.com
20 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: Cloudflare Workers Security Model
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
‘I was stupidly overconfident’: a South Korean coronavirus survivor’s tale
20 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
The Gig Economy Is White People Discovering Servants
20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
List of publicly available DNS over HTTPS servers
20 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Copyright Small Claims Has Arrived: Trump Signs Case Act into Law
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Cyclecar
20 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Brand Names
20 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
William S. Burroughs's Paintings (2015)
20 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk
20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
COBOL Still Handles 70% of Global Business Transactions
20 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Brexit will cost the UK more than its total payments to the EU combined
20 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Woodman’s Markets to deploy aisle-roving robots
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Apple will begin selling Macs with its own processors in 2021
20 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Malaysian official who renamed stadium denies title is his name backwards
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Liverpool’s Slave Trade Legacy
20 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Decentralized Computing
20 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
On Pandemic and Literature
20 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Why You Shouldn't Max Your 401(k)
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data
20 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Gmail scanned my contents and shadow banned my emails
20 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged (2002)
20 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Farewell, Python 3.5
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Kali Linux 2020.1 released: New tools, Kali NetHunter rootless, and more
20 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Minimal DIY Computer 68k Nano Is Maximally Understandable
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Ask HN: Are older devs more resistant to adopting new tech?
20 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower’
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Programming channels on YouTube that you shouldn't miss
20 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
German Military Laptop Sold on eBay Included Classified Missile Information
20 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Russian government wants to make use of HTTPS illegal
20 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Bill Gates: The Next Outbreak? We’re Not Ready (2015)
20 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist
20 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Keybase Joins Zoom
20 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Google delays mandating Play Store’s 30% cut in India to April 2022
20 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Simple Respiratory Mask (2006)
20 points • comment • mar 18, 2020