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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps

    320 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  2. French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave

    320 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  3. The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks

    320 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  4. Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

    320 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  5. Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?

    320 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  6. Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

    319 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  7. Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

    319 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  8. Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or clean

    319 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  9. The Fourth of July

    319 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  10. Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

    319 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  11. Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains

    319 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  12. Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip

    319 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  13. ARM Mac Impact on Intel

    319 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  14. The benefits of note-taking by hand

    319 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  15. Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China

    319 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  16. AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS

    319 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  17. Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet

    319 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  18. ISS Docking Simulation

    319 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  19. Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

    319 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  20. Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day

    319 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  21. New Racket Language Website

    319 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  22. Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

    319 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  23. On the Loss of a Cofounder

    318 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  24. Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles

    318 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  25. A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

    318 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  26. The Fight for WorldBox

    318 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  27. Google Play rejected Tor Browser update with security fixes

    318 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  28. Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal

    318 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  29. Bullfrog After Populous

    318 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  30. Turn recipe websites into plain text

    318 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  31. The TikTok War

    318 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  32. Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use

    318 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  33. Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three

    318 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  34. Stanford researchers confirm N95 masks can be sterilized in oven

    318 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  35. Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid

    318 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  36. Escaping the Dark Forest

    318 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  37. My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I

    318 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  38. Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls

    318 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  39. Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe

    318 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  40. China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

    318 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  41. Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    318 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  42. Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus

    318 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  43. Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

    318 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  44. Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court

    318 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  45. Adult site leaks data of cam models

    318 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  46. Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad

    318 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  47. DOS Subsystem for Linux

    318 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  48. To All the Jobs I Had Before

    318 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  49. The Philosophy of Computer Science (2017)

    317 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  50. Nintendo 64 Architecture – A Practical Analysis

    317 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  51. Working for someone vs. doing your own thing

    317 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  52. Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)

    317 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  53. Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps

    317 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  54. Show HN: PJDL an open alternative to 1-wire with a range of 2000m

    317 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  55. M3DB, a distributed timeseries database

    317 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  56. Google Erases Thousands of Links, Tricked by Phony Complaints

    317 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  57. Roblox S-1

    317 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  58. GCC 10.1 Released

    317 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  59. But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more

    317 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  60. Linux Command One-Liners

    317 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  61. Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations

    317 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  62. Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack

    317 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  63. ICQ New

    317 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  64. Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

    317 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  65. Swift on Windows

    317 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  66. New in PHP 8

    317 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  67. Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

    317 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  68. After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light

    317 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  69. Street-Fighting Mathematics

    317 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  70. Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'

    317 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  71. I'm not feeling the async pressure

    317 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  72. Snake in a QR Code

    317 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  73. My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn

    316 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  74. Be prolific

    316 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  75. GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

    316 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  76. Build stuff

    316 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  77. Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated

    316 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  78. Systems design explains the world: volume 1

    316 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  79. Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

    316 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  80. Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto

    316 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  81. Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion

    316 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  82. Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

    316 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  83. MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small

    316 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  84. The Sourcehut Project Hub

    316 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  85. Digital Tools I Wish Existed

    316 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  86. “A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group

    316 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  87. Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online

    316 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  88. /* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)

    316 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  89. How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer

    316 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  90. iPhone 6S getting iOS 14 is like the Galaxy S6 getting Android 11

    316 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  91. IBM will offer free COBOL training

    316 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  92. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

    316 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  93. Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)

    315 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  94. Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces

    315 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  95. Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

    315 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  96. The universe is expanding faster than expected

    315 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  97. Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus protection and pay

    315 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  98. Tour of Rust

    315 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  99. FlexBuffers

    315 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  100. Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea

    315 points • comment • oct 22, 2020