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Hacker News (2020)

Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?
19 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
California Police Used Military Surveillance Tech at Grad Student Strike
19 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Forget Counterterrorism, the USA Needs a Counter-Disinformation Strategy
19 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
The Dweetabase
19 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
SiGe process pushes reconfigurable FPGA to 5 GHz (2001)
19 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Stop Building More Roads
19 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Oral Histories
19 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Charity fundraiser job fair to help quarantined students
19 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Ask HN: Why Bing (and others) is so behind Google in features?
19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Flexible react-native-parallax-view with no dependencies
19 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians [pdf]
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says Tiobe
19 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Oculus Quest user breaks neck, then Facebook deletes his account
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
The New York Times Ends Apple News Partnership and Pulls All Articles
19 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Ask HN: Why not give unpaid leaves?
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Next-gen games may cost $70. It’s overdue, but also worrisome
19 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
I Have Access to Bank Accounts That Are Not Mine (Capital One Bank)
19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL
19 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Proponent of using IQ tests to screen immigrants named to senior NIST post
19 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Economists Think Congress Could Create an Economic Disaster This Summer
19 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Copy Guard: a browser extension to prevent copy hijacking
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021
19 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Former Cisco engineer pleads guilty to causing Webex account chaos
19 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Alleged Hypocrisy and Discrimination at Glitch (Fog Creek Software)
19 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal
19 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
S&P warns 1 in 10 US firms may default on debt
19 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Describing and Inventing a New Regular Expression Quantifier
19 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
How not to be a shitty marketer during a global pandemic
19 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Ask HN: How many of you are actively making contingency plans to leave the U.S.?
19 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Living under pressure: Lessons from the cradle of life
19 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct
19 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Ask HN: What remote collaboration software is everyone using?
19 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
19 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Seattle Police Chief Admits Gaslighting the Public About Capitol Hill Protesters
19 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Show HN: ChronoFlo – Create timelines you can share on the web
19 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Developing Embodied Familiarity with Hyperphysical Phenomena (2019)
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Apple M1-powered MacBook successfully runs Windows 10
19 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Ask HN: What do you do with downtime at work?
19 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
The Case Against Microsoft and GitHub
19 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
19 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Software correctness is a lot like flossing
19 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Who Gets a Coronavirus Test? We’re Asking Every State for Its Algorithm
19 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Consider the Golden Mole (2019)
19 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
After Facebook staff walkout, Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump posts
19 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Unbound DNS Blacklist
19 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Scientists demonstrate quantum radar prototype
19 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Unimog – Cloudflare’s edge load balancer
19 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Covid-19 has led to a pandemic of plastic pollution
19 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
The danger from climate change no longer outweighs risks of nuclear accidents
19 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
SpaceX and Tesla Working on Ventilators
19 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Show HN: text.fish: Get Only Text, Read Peacefully
19 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Ask HN: Do I need to register a lot of redundant domains?
19 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
The Prodigal Techbro
19 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Show HN: Full AWS Inventory on a Single HTML Page (2018)
19 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Why Jeff Bezos Is the Richest Politician in the World
19 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Halt and Catch Fire
19 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Show HN: Plaiceholder, transform images into pure CSS blurred placeholders
19 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Coronavirus: Elon Musk 'child immunity' tweet will stay online
19 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world's strangest books
19 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Magic and Technology (2012)
19 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
MIT researchers warn that deep learning is approaching computational limits
19 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Show HN: JQL – A JSON Query Language CLI Tool Built with Rust
19 points • comment • may 26, 2020
How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Evolution selects for 'loners' in slime molds
19 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Precursor – What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
19 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?
19 points • comment • may 07, 2020
3D bioprinted heart provides new tool for surgeons
19 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Ask HN: What is the design process like at large tech companies?
19 points • comment • may 07, 2020
An Assange confidant in the sights of the CIA
19 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Stratechery - Apple, ARM, and Intel
19 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Examples of 'Anti-Homeless' Hostile Architecture
19 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Who Did What in Every Agatha Christie Murder Novel
19 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Show HN: I made a macOS app to let you turn On/Off the Touch Bar at will
19 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
What ruins can teach us about beauty and decay
19 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
1990s Festival Poster Generator
19 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
It's Got Electrolytes
19 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Ask HN: Is it possible to be objectively good at something?
19 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar
19 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
John le Carré passed away
19 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
No Bailouts, Let Losers Fail
19 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
The Console War Is Over
19 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine Update
19 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Alzheimer’s may be driven by overactivation of cerebral fructose metabolism
19 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
A sealed glass case for transporting plants reshaped more than just botany
19 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
With Oculus' mandatory Facebook policy, it's up to Congress or EFF to save VR
19 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Ask HN: Advice for staying in the job market while homeless?
19 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Idris: A Language for Type-Driven Development
19 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Brazil prosecutes Glenn Greenwald in “attack on press freedom”
19 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Smooth teleoperator: The rise of the remote controller
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Introduction to K-nearest neighbour algorithm using Sklear
19 points • comment • may 31, 2020
The aftermath of “No, 'Open Source' does not mean 'Includes Free Support'”
19 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are the things you wish you knew before having kids?
19 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Poisoned Russian politician dupes FSB agent into detailing own murder attempt
19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz Warned Corporations Could Censor the Internet
19 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Blue Peter shows off a phone with no cable (1976) [video]
19 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
A rectal surgeon says bidets are way healthier than toilet paper
19 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
‘AeroNabs’ Promise Powerful, Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Goldman Sachs forecloses on 10k homes for “consumer relief”
19 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Computability in Linear Algebra (2004)
19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
AMD's Big Navi and Xbox Series X GPU 'Arden' Source Code Stolen and Leaked
19 points • comment • mar 25, 2020