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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam

    332 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  2. Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis

    332 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  3. C Internals

    332 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  4. S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week

    332 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  5. Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

    332 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  6. Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

    332 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  7. Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift

    332 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  8. Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs

    332 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  9. 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser

    332 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  10. A small DIY air purifier

    332 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  11. Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

    332 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  12. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

    331 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  13. Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

    331 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  14. CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]

    331 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  15. NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy

    331 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  16. California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

    331 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  17. Programming Language Checklist

    331 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  18. Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing

    331 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  19. Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?

    331 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  20. Lego ISS

    331 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  21. New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity

    331 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  22. QEMU for iOS

    331 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  23. Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

    331 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  24. 27-inch iMac gets a major update

    331 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  25. Visual and interactive way to learn Git

    331 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  26. ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD

    331 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  27. Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks

    331 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  28. MicroPython

    331 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  29. Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2019)

    331 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  30. Firefox 82

    331 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  31. Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2

    331 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  32. Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)

    331 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  33. The Octo-Bouncer

    331 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  34. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

    331 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  35. On responses to “Bye, Amazon”

    331 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  36. Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends

    330 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  37. Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective

    330 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  38. Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis

    330 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  39. Controllable Video Sprites That Appear Like Professional Tennis Players

    330 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  40. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

    330 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  41. How to write a toy JVM

    330 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  42. What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017)

    330 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  43. Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

    330 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  44. The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd

    330 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  45. Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)

    330 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  46. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)

    329 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  47. Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes

    329 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  48. The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C

    329 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  49. The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers

    329 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  50. GitHub blocked me and all my libraries

    329 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  51. Rust Starter Kit 2020

    329 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  52. Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

    329 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  53. Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation

    329 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  54. U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

    329 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  55. Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software

    329 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  56. Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays

    329 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  57. AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

    329 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  58. uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview

    329 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  59. Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board, doc editing and more

    329 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  60. Pwn.college

    328 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  61. Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)

    328 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  62. Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games

    328 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  63. Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers

    328 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  64. Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents

    328 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  65. A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old

    328 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  66. YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program

    328 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  67. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

    328 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  68. A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago

    328 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  69. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

    328 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  70. Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound

    328 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  71. NextDNS Is Out of Beta

    328 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  72. T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer

    328 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  73. Death of an open-source business model

    328 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  74. Django 3.1

    328 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  75. Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video]

    328 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  76. A Saudi prince's attempt to silence critics on Twitter

    328 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  77. Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly

    327 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  78. Witeboard

    327 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  79. Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers

    327 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  80. Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

    327 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  81. Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)

    327 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  82. Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU

    327 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  83. Please make your products work with URLs

    327 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  84. YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”

    327 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  85. Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

    327 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  86. BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

    327 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  87. From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch

    327 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  88. Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

    327 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  89. Our Chrome Extension Is Safe

    327 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  90. Cracking down on research fraud

    327 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  91. U.S. Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

    327 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  92. Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Course

    327 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  93. Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock

    327 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  94. macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated

    327 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  95. Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks

    326 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  96. Xfce 4.16

    326 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  97. Double Blind Passwords a.k.a. Horcruxing

    326 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  98. 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

    326 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  99. What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (2015)

    326 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  100. After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories

    326 points • comment • sep 23, 2020