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Hacker News (2020)

English Hedges
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Ketamine’s promise as antidepressant is being undermined by its lack of profit
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Babylon Health labels clinician a 'Twitter troll' over AI chatbot inaccuracy
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
How Moving to Work Remotely Could Affect Your Taxes
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Why open source developers are burning out: No respect (2017)
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Boy, 11, who was wrongly suspected of being a future terrorist wins legal battle
18 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Google AdSense: “we're going to optimize your ad settings for you”
18 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Best SciFi, Algorithmically Ranked
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Coding that led to lockdown was 'unreliable' and a 'buggy mess'
18 points • comment • may 16, 2020
India’s WhiteHat Jr is startup hell
18 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Facebook reveals holographic optics for thin and light VR headsets
18 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Putin says Russia and U.S. should agree not to meddle in each other's elections
18 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Setting PostgreSQL Configuration Parameters
18 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Blow for UK organised crime as 'command and control' network is hit
18 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Canada to Silicon Valley’s international talent: ‘We want you’
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Trump to Sign Executive Order Suspending Many Foreign Work Visas
18 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Proton Joins the Coalition for App Fairness
18 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
18 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
ITER Live: Start of Machine Assembly
18 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Tesla drops Model Y price by $3k
18 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
'I think phones are much more dangerous than guns' – filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Bill Gates' Twitter also hacked
18 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Amazon's Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen
18 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Berkeley council: unarmed civilians will perform traffic stops, not police
18 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
AMD Announces New “Instinct MI100” GPU, Breaks the 10 Tflops Barrier in FP64
18 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Never-ending Niches
18 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Did Joseph Smith Use Psychedelic Substances to Facilitate Visionary Experiences? [pdf]
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Federal Reserve's $3T virus rescue inflates market bubbles
18 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
All EFF’d Up: Silicon Valley’s astroturf privacy shakedown
18 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
What's the difference between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?
18 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
SpaceX to launch 60 Starlink satellites for megaconstellation tonight
18 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Face masks don’t even have to work especially well to be effective
18 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Show HN: SocialPlanner – Find, plan and post content, all in one place
18 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger
18 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Google working on biz messaging app that unifies Gmail/Hangouts Chat/Meet, more
18 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator
18 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Sony ramps up VR efforts as demand for virtual events surges
17 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Snowden: Voting machines are *known* to be insecure (2019)
17 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
US president taking unproven drug hydroxychloroquine
17 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Windows Lock screen/Bitlocker bypass/elevation of privilege in Bitlocker
17 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Podcast Addict suspended from Play Store due to podcasts mentionning Covid-19
17 points • comment • may 18, 2020
A Man Who Helped Turn 4chan into the Internet's Racist Engine
17 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Lenses: A Realistic Architecture Towards Decentralizing Twitter
17 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
US Customs doubles down on OnePlus Buds seizure, citing Apple trademark
17 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
'Beavis and Butt-Head' Revived at Comedy Central
17 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Why Mozilla's layoffs and Google deal made me rethink my browser of choice
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
How to Create a Compelling Landing Page
17 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Create a Git Diff in Markdown
17 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Show HN: Quickly search, build and share AI models
17 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
30 Years Later: Early Days of the Web
17 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Ask HN: How to know when an idea is worth pursuing?
17 points • comment • may 20, 2020
I captured an 85 megapixel photo of our moon last night
17 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
U.S. faces meat shortage while its pork exports to China soar
17 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Salaries at Facebook
17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Trump terminates US relationship with WHO
17 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Micron Confirms RTX 3090, Will Have over 1 TB/S GDDR6X Bandwidth
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Show HN: Node.js CRUD template with users, password resets and permissions
17 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Pennsylvania Election Officially Contested
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Switching off JavaScript makes me love the internet all over again
17 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Starting a SaaS business when you’ve never met your cofounder
17 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Show HN: The Importance of Logging – Introducing Logality
17 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Show HN: Simple accounting and invoicing software – INVOICY
17 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
The Conspiracy Myth
17 points • comment • may 23, 2020
I stole Hey.com's Homepage method (choose copy over image). The results were ___
17 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Best Practices for Writing Bash Scripts
17 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Google Breaks Gmail on Firefox
17 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Ask HN: How to prevent audio downsampling with AirPods?
17 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Acheiropoieta: On art not made with hands
17 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Show HN: Teddy Bear Tracker iOS App
17 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting?
17 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Tesla announces ‘tabless’ battery cells that will improve range of electric cars
17 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
What are some resources to help self-taught developers learn CS theory?
17 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Show HN: Monitor your internet speed with a Raspberry Pi
17 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
A Court Said Au Pairs Deserve Minimum Wage. Some Families Are Protesting
17 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Ask HN: Did the Bloomberg's story “The Big Hack” happen?
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Show HN: Plain Old Recipe: convert online recipes to plain-text
17 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe
17 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Nvidia Shifts GTC San Jose to Online Event Due to Coronavirus
17 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Faster Web Applications with SCGI (2007)
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
An efficient way to use Uniflow
17 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Trump's favorite tech company could win TikTok
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Secret Scientists Pushing Administration on Covid-19 Plan
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
The Results of Europe’s Lockdown Experiment Are In
17 points • comment • may 20, 2020
FBI confirms that the Zodiac Killer’s “340 Cypher” has been cracked
17 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Japan’s Coronavirus Cases Fall Sharply Without Compulsory Measures
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Life and Death of a Linux Process
17 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
17 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Deutsche Bank calls for a 5% 'privilege' tax on people working from home
17 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure
17 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Amazon employee in Seattle office tests positive for coronavirus
17 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed
17 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Build a real-time Twitter clone in 10 mins with Rails and StimulusReflex
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Mozilla shares fix for Twitter not working on Firefox
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Reviving the US CDC
17 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Psychiatrists warn of lockdown's toll on mental health
17 points • comment • nov 15, 2020