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Hacker News (2020)

Clearview Says Its Software Identified a Terrorism Suspect. Cops Say Otherwise
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Beware “Amazon's Choice”
16 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Archaeal Richmond Mine Acidophilic Nanoorganisms
16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Facebook Has a Metric for “Violence and Incitement Trends.” It’s Rising.
16 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Should an emoji come before or after a full-stop?
16 points • comment • may 08, 2020
How to Use Bash Parameter Substitution Like a Pro
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Starving to Health: Fasting-Mimicking Diet
16 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Substack Became Milquetoast
16 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
The British Government Takes on the British Civil Service
16 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Why is PayPal so successful yet they treat merchants like crap? (2019)
16 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Updating our approach to misleading information
16 points • comment • may 11, 2020
F.lux is no longer available here (2015)
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Show HN: Read the Classics While at Home
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Interactive Visualizations of Why Eigenvectors Matter
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Show HN: Android OCR-Keyboard
16 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Personal data of ~273K buyers of hardware crypto wallets exposed in public leak
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
At the Type Archive
16 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Facebook lowers priority for moderating hate speech against some groups
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Walmart is quietly working on an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+
16 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still on the Loose, but We Can Reopen Jurassic Park
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Beyond jsonb: a generalized, unstructured data type for Postgres
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Git-backed static website powered entirely by AWS
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists
16 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Ask HN: People working remotely, how do you plan your workday?
16 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
Moments of Attention
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Browse the Web with Your Voice
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Amazon Engineer Leaked Encryption Keys. Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Show HN: Who Pays Technical Writers (Beta)
16 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Mutation Testing: A Tale of Two Suites
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change
16 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Apple threatens to boot Epic–including Unreal Engine–off Mac and iOS
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX
16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5M?
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Doom Eternal can hit 1k FPS courtesy of the id Tech 7 engine
16 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports to feds
16 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Porsche Classifier – Identify Porsche models with 95% accuracy
16 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Ask HN: Is now a good time to invest in ETFs?
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Encouraging News About Coronavirus Immunity
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Google’s former CEO hosts an exclusive retreat in Yellowstone each July
16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Channel Attention and Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SENet)
16 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Weekly deaths in the US down by 7-10k for the week ending March 7
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Microsoft earnings: Revenue up 12% YoY. Net Income up 30% YoY
16 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Giuliani Has Twitter Account Temporarily Revoked
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Thailand Supermarket Ditches Plastic Packaging for Banana Leaves (2019)
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
New York Times ordered 59M publishing assets on a laptop using Go
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
People with low well-being report positive outcomes after psychedelics
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
WildDuck – No spof scalable and API driven email server
16 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Incumbents, Not Startups, Are Regulatory Arbitrageurs
16 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Super Mario 64 ported to MS-DOS
16 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Instacart workers seek strike as jobs get busier, riskier
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Lua's Multi-Values
16 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Apple's New iPhone 12 Ceramic Shield Explained
16 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Pointer Compression in V8
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Starship Launch: Nope
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Ask HN: Do you think Dropbox is expensive?
16 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Audio Sampler for MacBook Touch Bar
16 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Disciplined People Rarely Need to Use Willpower or Self-Control
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
World’s first COVID19 reinfected patient
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Unmasking Twitter
16 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman – Talks at Google
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Second Coronavirus Strain May Be More Infectious, Some Scientists Are Skeptical
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
N.Y. Schools Can Reopen, Cuomo Says, in Contrast with Much of U.S.
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.
16 points • comment • may 13, 2020
San Francisco passes work-from-home mandate to fight climate change
16 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Skimming-as-a-Service: Anatomy of a Magecart Attack Toolkit
16 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Berlin reports rise in fatalities as new bike lanes fail to keep cyclists safe
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Unboxing the World’s Cheapest Car
16 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
New York bans use of facial recognition in schools statewide
16 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
One of the less horrible of the many dystopian futures visited by Time Traveller
16 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Show HN: Etch functional visual programming in the browser
16 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, and Easy (2017)
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Nvidia just replaced video codecs with a neural network
16 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Tech companies are fighting antitrust efforts with front groups
16 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Google Staffer Helped Sell Family Separation Policy, Despite Company Denials
16 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Introducing Yarn 2
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Nearly Half of Young Adults Showing Signs of Depression Amid Pandemic
16 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
The Big China Short
16 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Trump says he is suspending immigration over coronavirus, need to protect jobs
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Ask HN: How can we solve politics?
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Apple repeatedly rejects Facebook Gaming app from App Store
16 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
An App to Measure Your Coffee Grind Size Distribution
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Ask HN: What are the Online Investing Courses you like?
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Making the case for fewer assertions in tests
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Is Cloudflare Safe Yet?
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Coal CEO Bob Murray dies after filing for black lung benefits
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Centralisation and Mastodon
16 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
16 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Arctic sea ice decline stalls out at second lowest minimum
16 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Ask HN: What effect will the new US anti-encryption laws going to have on FLOSS?
16 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Ryzen processor overclocking under Linux
16 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
Marine Corps Bans Public Display of Confederate Flag
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing Off Trump Supporters
16 points • comment • dec 18, 2020