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Hacker News (2020)

I Am Not Fat
16 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
There's a fake Dark Sky app on the Play Store–and people are paying real money
16 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Google Staffer Helped Sell Family Separation Policy, Despite Company Denials
16 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
It’s Brutal: Man Who Tested Positive for Covid-19 Shares the Innocent First Symp
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Uber is testing out a new 1-800 number for people who don’t use apps
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Show HN: Luggage Storage at Convenient Locations
16 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Spyware inside Unity is trying to phone home to a website with an expired SSL
16 points • comment • may 09, 2020
All I want for Christmas is an urban warfare capability set
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Legal Systems very different from ours, because I just made them up
16 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Vote safely: How to find a trustworthy election ballot drop-off location
16 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Show HN: WAPI, a 24-hour live broadcast about dev experience
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman – Talks at Google
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Troy Price, Iowa Democratic Party Leader, Resigns over Caucas Debacle
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Yes, websites are starting to look more similar
16 points • comment • may 11, 2020
After 40 Hours, Cyberpunk 2077 Is Still Completely Overwhelming
16 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Covid-19 Will Kill a Ton of Startups (Or So It Will Seem)
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Doubting Thomas
16 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: The U.S. Needs a Data Protection Agency
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Show HN: Homelab – self-hosted website about my Homelab
16 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Richard Wright, Masaoka Shiki, and the Haiku of Confinement
16 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Jan Morris, The Art of the Essay No. 2 (1997)
16 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Clearview Says Its Software Identified a Terrorism Suspect. Cops Say Otherwise
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Dformat – A Program for Typesetting Data Formats (1988) [pdf]
16 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Archaeal Richmond Mine Acidophilic Nanoorganisms
16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Google parent company Alphabet sees its first revenue decline in history
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
“Each icon is reduced to its minimal form, without losing its significance.”
16 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Ask HN: Why most job sites hide salary?
16 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Psycho bosses are bad for business
16 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Show HN: Read the Classics While at Home
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – user data
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Comparisons of Alloy and Spin (2018)
16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Nearly Half of Young Adults Showing Signs of Depression Amid Pandemic
16 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
CDC: Coronavirus antibody tests may be wrong 50% of the time
16 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Nokia blocks Lenovo from selling any laptops, PCs or tablets in Germany
16 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Web Browsers still allow drive-by-downloads in 2020
16 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Zodiac Killer Cryptogram Solved
16 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: An introduction to Go for C# people
16 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Luca Concept Car: An Electric Vehicle Made from Plastic Waste
16 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Life Without Children
16 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
RFC 188, by Damian Conway: Objects: Private keys and methods
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Git-backed static website powered entirely by AWS
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Fly with Me
16 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Ask HN: People working remotely, how do you plan your workday?
16 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Show HN: DrugSheet – Keep up with the clinical trials on Covid-19
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Unboxing the World’s Cheapest Car
16 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Facebook Bans Anarchist “Center for a Stateless Society”
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, causing satellites to malfunction
16 points • comment • may 26, 2020
An App to Measure Your Coffee Grind Size Distribution
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Amazon Engineer Leaked Encryption Keys. Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Making the case for fewer assertions in tests
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Nuclear Radiation Is Floating Above Northern Europe and Nobody Knows Why
16 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Beman Dawes has passed away (Boost, Filesystem, WG21, and a load more stuff)
16 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Tuvalu Makes $4M a Year
16 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Exploring the virtual reality conjecture (2011) [pdf]
16 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Ask HN: Is now a good time to invest in ETFs?
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
American Technology Is Used to Censor the Web from Algeria to Uzbekistan
16 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Weekly deaths in the US down by 7-10k for the week ending March 7
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Covid: Antibodies 'fall rapidly after infection'
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Giuliani Has Twitter Account Temporarily Revoked
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
People with low well-being report positive outcomes after psychedelics
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
A new way to visualize General Relativity [video]
16 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
3.5-inch SBC offers Ryzen V1000 and up to four GbE ports
16 points • comment • may 10, 2020
Falsehoods programmers believe about time (2017)
16 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Newt DB, the amphibious database – Python objects above, PostgreSQL JSONB below
16 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Police data might predict how ‘bad apple’ officers influence colleagues (2019)
16 points • comment • may 31, 2020
What are the best arguments AGAINST Bitcoin?
16 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Instacart workers seek strike as jobs get busier, riskier
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Shots in the Dark – An American city’s struggle to police its police
16 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Ask HN: Books or resources to learn how KVM works deeply?
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
There's a metal asteroid out there worth $10k quadrillion
16 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Essential workers to get free college under new Whitmer plan
16 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Show HN: Unicorn Valley-Platform for crowdsourcing satirical/dumb startup ideas
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Pointer Compression in V8
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
This week in KDE: The user interface improvements you’ve always wanted
16 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
List of words text-to-speech engines can't say correctly
16 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
The discovery of a new taste cell
16 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
White House Erects Blockade Stopping States from Getting Coronavirus PPE
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
World’s first COVID19 reinfected patient
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
A Python class for scientific visualization of 3D objects with VTK
16 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
The Flat Tax Increases Growth
16 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Starving to Health: Fasting-Mimicking Diet
16 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
MRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher
16 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Ask HN: Do you think Dropbox is expensive?
16 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Show HN: I built a mini Social Blade on top of Google Sheets
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Disciplined People Rarely Need to Use Willpower or Self-Control
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Oracle's Hidden Hand Is Behind the Google Antitrust Lawsuits
16 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Unmasking Twitter
16 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Oregon Governor: “Call Police on Neighbors Violating Covid Rules”
16 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Skimming-as-a-Service: Anatomy of a Magecart Attack Toolkit
16 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
The British Government Takes on the British Civil Service
16 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Ask HN: How can we solve politics?
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, and Easy (2017)
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
New Method Is Proven to Accelerate Elimination of Alcohol from the Body
16 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Introducing Yarn 2
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020