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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Clearview Says Its Software Identified a Terrorism Suspect. Cops Say Otherwise

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  2. Beware “Amazon's Choice”

    16 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  3. Archaeal Richmond Mine Acidophilic Nanoorganisms

    16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  4. Facebook Has a Metric for “Violence and Incitement Trends.” It’s Rising.

    16 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  5. Should an emoji come before or after a full-stop?

    16 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  6. How to Use Bash Parameter Substitution Like a Pro

    16 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  7. Starving to Health: Fasting-Mimicking Diet

    16 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  8. Substack Became Milquetoast

    16 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  9. The British Government Takes on the British Civil Service

    16 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  10. Why is PayPal so successful yet they treat merchants like crap? (2019)

    16 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  11. Updating our approach to misleading information

    16 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  12. F.lux is no longer available here (2015)

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  13. Show HN: Read the Classics While at Home

    16 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  14. Interactive Visualizations of Why Eigenvectors Matter

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  15. Show HN: Android OCR-Keyboard

    16 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  16. Personal data of ~273K buyers of hardware crypto wallets exposed in public leak

    16 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  17. At the Type Archive

    16 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  18. Facebook lowers priority for moderating hate speech against some groups

    16 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  19. Walmart is quietly working on an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+

    16 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  20. Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  21. Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still on the Loose, but We Can Reopen Jurassic Park

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  22. Beyond jsonb: a generalized, unstructured data type for Postgres

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  23. Git-backed static website powered entirely by AWS

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  24. Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists

    16 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  25. Ask HN: People working remotely, how do you plan your workday?

    16 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  26. Moments of Attention

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  27. Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom

    16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  28. Browse the Web with Your Voice

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  29. Amazon Engineer Leaked Encryption Keys. Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  30. Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  31. Show HN: Who Pays Technical Writers (Beta)

    16 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  32. Mutation Testing: A Tale of Two Suites

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  33. Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change

    16 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  34. Apple threatens to boot Epic–including Unreal Engine–off Mac and iOS

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  35. How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  36. Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5M?

    16 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  37. Doom Eternal can hit 1k FPS courtesy of the id Tech 7 engine

    16 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  38. Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  39. Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports to feds

    16 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  40. Porsche Classifier – Identify Porsche models with 95% accuracy

    16 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  41. Ask HN: Is now a good time to invest in ETFs?

    16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  42. Encouraging News About Coronavirus Immunity

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  43. Google’s former CEO hosts an exclusive retreat in Yellowstone each July

    16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  44. Channel Attention and Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SENet)

    16 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  45. Weekly deaths in the US down by 7-10k for the week ending March 7

    16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  46. Microsoft earnings: Revenue up 12% YoY. Net Income up 30% YoY

    16 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  47. Giuliani Has Twitter Account Temporarily Revoked

    16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  48. Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study

    16 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  49. Thailand Supermarket Ditches Plastic Packaging for Banana Leaves (2019)

    16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  50. New York Times ordered 59M publishing assets on a laptop using Go

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  51. People with low well-being report positive outcomes after psychedelics

    16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  52. WildDuck – No spof scalable and API driven email server

    16 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  53. Incumbents, Not Startups, Are Regulatory Arbitrageurs

    16 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  54. Super Mario 64 ported to MS-DOS

    16 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  55. Instacart workers seek strike as jobs get busier, riskier

    16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  56. Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  57. Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Lua's Multi-Values

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  58. Apple's New iPhone 12 Ceramic Shield Explained

    16 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  59. Pointer Compression in V8

    16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  60. Starship Launch: Nope

    16 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  61. Ask HN: Do you think Dropbox is expensive?

    16 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  62. Audio Sampler for MacBook Touch Bar

    16 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  63. Disciplined People Rarely Need to Use Willpower or Self-Control

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  64. World’s first COVID19 reinfected patient

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  65. Unmasking Twitter

    16 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  66. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman – Talks at Google

    16 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  67. Second Coronavirus Strain May Be More Infectious, Some Scientists Are Skeptical

    16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  68. N.Y. Schools Can Reopen, Cuomo Says, in Contrast with Much of U.S.

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  69. In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.

    16 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  70. San Francisco passes work-from-home mandate to fight climate change

    16 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  71. Skimming-as-a-Service: Anatomy of a Magecart Attack Toolkit

    16 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  72. Berlin reports rise in fatalities as new bike lanes fail to keep cyclists safe

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  73. Unboxing the World’s Cheapest Car

    16 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  74. New York bans use of facial recognition in schools statewide

    16 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  75. One of the less horrible of the many dystopian futures visited by Time Traveller

    16 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  76. Show HN: Etch functional visual programming in the browser

    16 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  77. Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, and Easy (2017)

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  78. Nvidia just replaced video codecs with a neural network

    16 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  79. Tech companies are fighting antitrust efforts with front groups

    16 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  80. Google Staffer Helped Sell Family Separation Policy, Despite Company Denials

    16 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  81. Introducing Yarn 2

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  82. Nearly Half of Young Adults Showing Signs of Depression Amid Pandemic

    16 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  83. The Big China Short

    16 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  84. Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  85. Trump says he is suspending immigration over coronavirus, need to protect jobs

    16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  86. Ask HN: How can we solve politics?

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  87. Apple repeatedly rejects Facebook Gaming app from App Store

    16 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  88. An App to Measure Your Coffee Grind Size Distribution

    16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  89. Ask HN: What are the Online Investing Courses you like?

    16 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  90. Making the case for fewer assertions in tests

    16 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  91. Is Cloudflare Safe Yet?

    16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  92. Coal CEO Bob Murray dies after filing for black lung benefits

    16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  93. Centralisation and Mastodon

    16 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  94. Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents

    16 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  95. BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design

    16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  96. Arctic sea ice decline stalls out at second lowest minimum

    16 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  97. Ask HN: What effect will the new US anti-encryption laws going to have on FLOSS?

    16 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  98. Ryzen processor overclocking under Linux

    16 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  99. Marine Corps Bans Public Display of Confederate Flag

    16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  100. How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing Off Trump Supporters

    16 points • comment • dec 18, 2020