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Hacker News (2020)

KFC restaurant that drives autonomously
20 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television
20 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Decentralized Computing
20 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Microsoft Open Sources the Biggest Language Model in Human History
20 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Krakatoa skies: when the Sun turned blue (2017)
20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Show HN: Grow an ASCII Bonsai Tree
20 points • comment • may 12, 2020
What should go into an allocator benchmark?
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Show HN: Sapling - a planning tool for remote and distributed teams
20 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
Citigroup clerical error of $900M; a beneficiary refuses to hand back $175M
20 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
In the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists realized
20 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
A Guaranteed Monthly Check Changed His Life. Now He Sends Out 650
20 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
AMD's 5nm CPUs could be monsters
20 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Fired Googler says she was told heavy Baltimore accent a “disability”
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Feds charge Venezuelan President Maduro, others with narco-terrorism
20 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Why stockpiling is not the crazy, selfish behaviour that it seems
20 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Suspected Russian hackers also breached U.S. Department of Homeland Security
20 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Game studios would be banned from selling loot boxes to minors under new bill
20 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Why You Shouldn't Max Your 401(k)
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Sony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S
20 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan, Epicenter of Gaming
20 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
The U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
20 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences
20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Wink Subscription
20 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm
20 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
OpenJDK project considering move to Git and GitHub
20 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
How Tencent PCG Uses Apache Kafka to Handle 10T+ Messages per Day
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
WHO's advisor pretended to have bad connection when asked about Taiwan
20 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Quaternions: The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra
20 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Some call Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts receiving unemployment checks a ‘bailout’
20 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Who do I trust and why? Digital Ocean, Google Chrome and Motion Sensors
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
$60953 self-sufficient loft-style tiny home on wheels can be towed anywhere
20 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents
20 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Four Ballads of USS Thresher (2013)
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
YouTube's deep learning AI boosted two news channels in US
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Zoom's (Over)Valuation?
20 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Masks Do More Than Protect Others: Reducing the Inoculum to Protect Wearers
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Monkeys wake from anaesthetic when region linked to consciousness is stimulated
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
Making Navigation Work (2017)
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The Curve Is Not Flat Enough
20 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower’
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
The rise of EduTube: how social media influencers are shaping universities
20 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
An open letter to my friends with fuck you money
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?
20 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Patient Infected with Two Strains of Covid-19 in Iceland
20 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Internal Documents Reveal Covid-19 Data Government Keeps Hidden
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Meetup Spins Off from WeWork
20 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Tracing the NYC Trip in “The Warriors” (2006)
20 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
ReDoomEd: Mac/Linux/BSD port of id Software’s 1993 Doom map editor for NeXTSTEP
20 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Exponential Discounting
20 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Chrome Has a Document Design Mode
20 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Farewell, Python 3.5
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Synthia – A two-player light and sound instrument (2014)
20 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy?
20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Elizabeth Holmes Phones in Her Defense After Civil Lawyers Quit
20 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
White House tells 18M unemployed workers to ‘Find Something New’
20 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Launch HN: PillarPlus (YC W20) – Automatically create construction blueprints
20 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Notepad++ banned in China after “Stand with Hong Kong” update
20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead
20 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Single-family housing in the Bay Area linked to more racially segregated cities
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Jack Tar
20 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Twitter is now restricting posts that contain cryptocurrency addresses
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Does Microsoft Have a Boeing 737 Max Style Crash Every Week? – Big Matt Stoller
20 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Brand Names
20 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Fun with Lambda Calculus
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Exploring Rulial Space: The Case of Turing Machines
20 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Polyphemus silk spinning – from cocoon to yarn
20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Facebook's fail is going to be epic (2008)
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
DocWriter: Typewriter that sends its keystrokes to a Google Doc (2017)
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Apple doubles down on controversial decision to reject email app Hey
20 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist
20 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
What is Chrome’s SameSite cookie update?
20 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
New Chinese Space Plane Landed at Mysterious Air Base, Evidence Suggests
20 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
How to watch job listings from indeed.com using Scraper.AI
20 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Google delays mandating Play Store’s 30% cut in India to April 2022
20 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Fasting, Longevity and Metabolism
20 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Gmail scanned my contents and shadow banned my emails
20 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
MIT Covid-19 virtual hackathon
20 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Why do Covid fatalities remain low when infection numbers are rising?
20 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic
20 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever
20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
An Interconnected Interview with Intel’s Ramune Nagisetty: A Future with Foveros
20 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Cosmic Latte
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Show HN: OmSave – Safari Extension for OmniFocus on macOS
20 points • comment • may 31, 2020
MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2B in Four Months
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Health care professionals are being punished for protecting themselves, and us
20 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Threat modelling case study: bicycles
20 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
HBO makes some top shows, movies and documentaries free to stream
20 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Russian government wants to make use of HTTPS illegal
20 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
The Body Shop will start hiring the first person who applies for any retail job
20 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4B SPAC merger
20 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Money Horror
20 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Russia's SolarWinds Attack
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Y Combinator Startup News (2007)
20 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
All of South Australia's power comes from solar panels
20 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Blue Origin pressures employees to travel to rural TX to test launch New Shepard
20 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
DoorDash Is Expected to Price IPO at Around $102 a Share at $39B Valuation
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
20 points • comment • may 23, 2020