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Hacker News (2020)

Effectiveness of Mask Recommendation to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 (Randomized trial)
16 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Report on a Long-Range Forecasting Study (1964) [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Boring Startup Stuff
16 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
China's Three Gorges Dam could collapse (flooding 400M)
16 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Salesforce Notifies Some Staff of Job Cuts
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Researchers Say They Caught an iPhone Zero-Day Hack in the Wild
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Go Developer Survey
16 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Aerodynamically equivalent Covid-19 1.5m social distancing for walking&running [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Oculus Quest 2
16 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Compiling Dark to SQL
16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Coal CEO Bob Murray dies after filing for black lung benefits
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?
16 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Ask HN: What is the most Pythonic spoken language?
16 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Judy Mikovits' 'Plandemic': 'Plague of Corruption' Sells Out on Amazon
16 points • comment • may 14, 2020
AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – it thrashes Surface Pro X
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Are Tests Necessary in TypeScript?
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Engineering NetBSD 9.0 [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
PHP 8.0: a new version, a new era
16 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Lua's Multi-Values
16 points • comment • may 04, 2020
New York bans use of facial recognition in schools statewide
16 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Files Discredit Accusation That Democrats Tried to Hack the Georgia Election
16 points • comment • may 30, 2020
The mathematics of how universities are underreporting Covid
16 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Show HN: Vault on AWS – A Terraform Project for Secrets Management Anywhere
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Epidemiologist warns of “contagion” of violent speech
16 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit Censorship Case vs. Twitter, Google, FB
16 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Some People Get Covid-19 and Never Feel a Thing: Why?
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
AWS deep-dive: How a news aggregator collects and serves up news articles
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Apple’s Eroding Partnership with Foxconn
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
80% of people with Covid-19 are asymptomatic, China figures indicate
16 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
I Took a Break from Ham Radio and Why I Came Back
16 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Mailgun eliminates 'Concept' plan, no longer offering 10000 free emails/mo
16 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Coronavirus declared global health emergency by WHO
16 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
'worst of the pandemic' ahead in US with no apparent strategy, experts say
16 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Ask HN: What effect will the new US anti-encryption laws going to have on FLOSS?
16 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption
16 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Show HN: Auto generate REST API from Mongoose schemas
16 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Supply chain analysis of iPhone 5c cases and the pencil marks hidden inside them
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
As Long as the King’s Arm?
16 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Literary Machines (1987) [pdf]
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
16 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Mutation Testing: A Tale of Two Suites
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Odd Job: This teen bought a bunch of vending machines. Now he makes six figures
16 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Federal officials sought 'heat ray' device before clearing Lafayette Square
16 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
A way to manipulate electrons and transmit information quantum-mechanically
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Be in Trouble (2012)
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Ask HN: I can't specialize, how to differentiate myself?
16 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
TSMC to build 2nm fab in Hsinchu
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Thailand Supermarket Ditches Plastic Packaging for Banana Leaves (2019)
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Update on our commitment to reducing spam in Hacktoberfest
16 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
An OpenAPI compliance Proxy that ensures your data matches your swagger.json
16 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Logic Gates in JavaScript
16 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Show HN: The Tree Table is a portable table that mounts on a tree's trunk.
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
It was once valued at $12.7B. Now Luckin Coffee isn’t even a unicorn
16 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Cory Doctorow on the danger of cynical science fiction
16 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
VCVRack – open-source Virtual Eurorack DAW
16 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Show HN: Kuberentes – The client source IP preservation dilemma
16 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
YouTube storing cookies before you even give them permission to do so
16 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
15 Sweet Websites for Free Artwork
16 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Asian Murder Hornets Have Arrived in North America
16 points • comment • may 02, 2020
The Haunted House – Privacy on Google Street View
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Aeropress – Why is a simple coffee maker such a hit?
16 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
16 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
ForwardCom: Proposal for forward compatible instruction set architecture (2018)
16 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
The Weston Standard Cell (2011)
16 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Draft of my perf book is ready – Easyperf
16 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Toyota president: Tesla has 'not created a real business in the real world yet'
16 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
The guy who knew Nintendo’s Switch surprise has pled guilty to hacking
16 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer
16 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study
16 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Archives of the Bell Laboratories Record (1925-1961)
16 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Bryan Cantrill: Discussion of servers, hyperscale, and Oxide Computer [video]
16 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
British Airways Entertainment System Chat App Crash (2019)
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Ask HN: Why No Smart Phone Esque IoT Device?
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Porsche Classifier – Identify Porsche models with 95% accuracy
16 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Higher Mathematics in 106 Terms
16 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Apple working on a 32-core processor for high-end Macs
16 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic
16 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Coca-Cola Using Hyperledger and Ethereum
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX
16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Ask HN: Realistic space colonization video game
16 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
T.S. Eliot letters show love for muse but poet downplays it
16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
There's a Mason Jar Shortage
16 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
An open letter to Senator Bob Casey on end-to-end encryption
16 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Facebook Has a Metric for “Violence and Incitement Trends.” It’s Rising.
16 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Tesla cars are accelerating without warning, prompting government scrutiny
16 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Personal data of ~273K buyers of hardware crypto wallets exposed in public leak
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Creating a virtual traffic jam on Google Maps with 99 phones and a wagon
16 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Show HN: Avatarz – A Library of 3D Avatars
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
How London Transport Is Preparing for Life After Lockdown
16 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
U.S. to Act on China Software Beyond TikTok, Pompeo Says
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Company, Says Client List Was Stolen
16 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Update on Covid-19 Testing - Amazon reports over 19,000 cases
16 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars
16 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster Says Disney Is Withholding Book Royalties
16 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
The Circle: Franz Boas and the Origins of American Anthropology
16 points • comment • may 09, 2020