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Hacker News (2020)

30-Year Mortgage Rate Reaches Lowest Level Ever: 2.98%
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
I’m the President of MIT America Needs Foreign Students
16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Portland police declare riot as anti-cop protesters torch union headquarters
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Array Functions and the Rule of Least Power
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Request for Technically Risky Projects
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America
16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
On periodisation: or, what’s the best way to chop history into bits? (2016)
16 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Pine64’s $199.99 14 inch Pine Pro laptop now available for pre-order
16 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts
16 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Mylar: Experimental platform for web apps with end-to-end encryption (2014)
16 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Arm Is Said to Attract Nvidia Interest
16 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany
16 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Gas stoves may routinely generate unsafe levels of indoor air pollution
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
With Kubernetes, the U.S. DoD Is Enabling DevSecOps on F-16s and Battleships
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Beneath a Steel Sky
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
“Each icon is reduced to its minimal form, without losing its significance.”
16 points • comment • may 31, 2020
ICE has access to use facial recognition on Maryland driver’s license records
16 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Turn ur photos to sketch DL Model
15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Languages That Compile to Lua
15 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]
15 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Clinical use of lithium salts: guide for users and prescribers
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Are we Wayland yet? (tldr: mostly)
15 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Kenyan locust swarm estimated to be 930 square miles
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Ask HN: Why YouTube suggestions are better when I am logged off?
15 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
15 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Penguin’s Moonlit Maze – The Dawn of Nation-State Digital Espionage (2017) [pdf]
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Oil prices dip below zero as producers forced to pay to dispose of excess
15 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Show HN: Pitchwall – Pitch your startup in 30 seconds, or view other pitches
15 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Bankrupt Hertz Wants to Sell Up to $1B in New Shares
15 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Meet the Kawasaki K-Racer unmanned compound helicopter
15 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Linux Sucks
15 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Privatized prisons lead to more inmates, longer sentences, study finds
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Fortran in the Browser
15 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
The Sounds of Pi (2019)
15 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
The WoW rule: A formula for growth for SaaS Startups
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Stanford's John Ioannidis Tried to Warn Trump Against Lockdowns in March
15 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
The Epidemiology of Misinformation
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Goldman Sachs is saying the economy is nearly recession-proof
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Victoria to fine drivers blocking EV chargers
15 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Goodbye Webpack: Building Vue.js Applications Without Webpack
15 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Use the index, Luke A guide to database performance for developers
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
ELKS – Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
15 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields
15 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Xiaomi is stealing your search history
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Python 3.9 removes backwards compatibility layers for Python 2.7
15 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
The Sextortion Scams: The Numbers Show We Have A Failure of Education
15 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Git cake: when is my readme’s birthday?
15 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
How Police Censorship Shaped Hollywood
15 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
The Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who cant speak Scots
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
The Trouble with Comparisons
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
New mystery metal monolith appears on a California mountaintop
15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Someone Tried to Hack My Phone. Technology Researchers Accused Saudi Arabia
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Show HN: Port2 – Expose local port to the internet, macOS App
15 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
WHO raises global coronavirus alert as US faceplants
15 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Sweeping new study shows 50 years of 'trickle-down economics' was a 'sham'
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Elon Musk going to sell all physical possessions
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Interactive C++ with Cling
15 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Coronavirus death rate falling in hospitals
15 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Contested Legacy of the Conquistadors
15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
The Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning
15 points • comment • may 14, 2020
4M Docker Images Shows Half Have Critical Vulnerabilities
15 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
15 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
How fear and disgust drive consumer behavior
15 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
The nightmare that is selling on eBay
15 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Creating 3000 new Pokemon with AI ( the wrong way) featuring GPT-2
15 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Want to improve? You've got to read
15 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
We Failed with ProductHunt Launch
15 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster
15 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Uncensored Debian Community News
15 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
DiCE Molecules
15 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract Covid-19
15 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Broadcom orders software employees to return to work a week before Colorado
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Show HN: The Slice| A Curated Email of SaaS Nuggets and Resources
15 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The White House Is Trying to Shut Down NASA’s Last Mars Rover
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Big Sur: Read this before upgrading
15 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Show HN: Little Ball of Fur – A NetworkX extension library for graph sampling
15 points • comment • may 12, 2020
The Art of Oatmeal
15 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Generalists vs. specialists – which one should you strive for as a developer?
15 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Show HN: I made an fake resume generator. (10 different ML models)
15 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
'Plague, Inc.’ developer never expected reality to look like its video game
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Lex Fridman Podcast – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
15 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Samsung Announces New 50MP Dual-Pixel and Quad-Bayer Isocell Sensor
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Taiwan’s unlikely path to public trust provides lessons for the US
15 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Comparing Model-Based Testing with Traditional Testing: Empirical Study (2014)
15 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
When Your Boss Is Just Not That into You
15 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
React Spectrum by Adobe
15 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Early-career funding for individuals interested in improving long-term future
15 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
PDF Tools API one of the richest and most comprehensive API
15 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
A New Hypothesis Challenges Dark Matter
15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
The Outrage Epidemic
15 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Open Application Model – An open standard for defining cloud native apps
15 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Deepfakes Are Going to Wreak Havoc on Society. We Are Not Prepared
15 points • comment • may 28, 2020
The CDC Eviction Moratorium: An Epic Case Study in Bad Policy
15 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
One Day Sooner – Covid-19 Human Challenge Trials
15 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Zen Radio – Relaxation and Meditation Music
15 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Facebook closes down 6%, wiping out more than $30B in market value
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
MandalaGaba – a free tool for creating Zen Geometry
15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020