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Hacker News (2020)

How the CIA read the communications of allies and adversaries for decades
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
How the Truth Was Murdered
15 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
MetaMate – A common, centralized API for every service
15 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Building a Great Business: Advice You Won't Take (and Will Regret Not Taking)
15 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Top JavaScript Frameworks and Topics to Learn in 2020 and the New Decade
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. This grad student solved it in days
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
U.S. military is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined (2019)
15 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
New York Issues First-in-Nation Moratorium on Facial Recognition in Schools
15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Newspaper does a piece on abusive commenters
15 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices
15 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Hackers hide credit card stealing script in favicon metadata
15 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Stop Panicking about the Post Office
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Show HN: Dropbase – Turn your CSV files into live databases in seconds
15 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
MLB Already Has a Coronavirus Outbreak. What Happens Now?
15 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Redox OS
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Quantitatively estimate the Covid risk to you from ordinary daily activities
15 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Machine Learning/AI on macOS Catalina with Metal GPU Support
15 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote for Biden
15 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Zoom’s encryption update is like skipping two generations smartphone upgrade
15 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Amazon sales soar as pandemic fuels online shopping
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Rick Astley: How We Made Never Gonna Give You Up
15 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Color E-ink Screen, 199 Euros
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump
15 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
O'Reilly closes its events business
15 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Alphabet rises as Cloud, other revenues soften Q2 ad decline
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Now Is the Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition
15 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Trump demands cut of TikTok sale fee
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
Viva Las Vegas?
15 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Ask HN: Do you have a SaaS tool or small online business for sale?
15 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Which Search Engine Has the Best Results
15 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Microsoft confirms compact, $299 Xbox Series S
15 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Teach Yourself Logic 2020:A Study Guide [pdf]
15 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Change to support WireGuard in-kernel has been merged into FreeBSD-CURRENT
15 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Writing a simple Python script to send a WhatsApp message
15 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
They risk their lives cleaning hospitals. Now, they are getting vaccinated
15 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Unable to unlock gunman’s iPhones, the FBI (once again) asks for Apple’s help
15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It's in the Covid-19 relief bill
15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
A Tech Star Blackmailed
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Google Podcasts
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
You are being coerced into giving up your personal data
15 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Ask HN: Freelancers, are you lowering your rates?
15 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
The Bleak Resonance of ‘Native Son’
15 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Archaeology is revealing new clues about Shakespeare's life and death
15 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Early Data Show Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective
15 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux–Paragon software’s not happy about it
15 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
The Family with No Fingerprints
15 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Convince Managers to Address Tech Debt with Enclosure Diagrams
15 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
How to Plan a Space Mission
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
The most important feature of Sublime Text is that it doesn’t change
15 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
iPhone is swimming in the Indian Ocean waiting to be rescued
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities in the US
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
15 points • comment • may 14, 2020
When hiring in secondary markets, seek out great teachers and avid learners
15 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
How to Learn Python: Top Sites and Courses, from Beginner to Pro
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
New Features in CMake 3.19
15 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Cybersecurity is a government game
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
The likelihood principle in model check and model evaluation
15 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Tesla on Autopilot collides with police vehicle in Arizona
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Abortion Is Wrong: Steelmanning a Position I Do Not Hold
15 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Stroke drug may help Covid-19 patients avoid ventilators
15 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
15 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out
15 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
YC W21 Remote Batch
15 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Blog: Gradient descent in spiking neural networks for low-power inference
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Google hit by antitrust lawsuit from almost 40 states over search dominance
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
I Simplified My Smartphone to Regain Control of My Life
15 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The Map of Mathematics
15 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Plasma on TV: Presenting Plasma Bigscreen
15 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Yes, Psychedelics Is the Next Cannabis
15 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Show HN: Notebag – A keyboard-focused note taking app
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
The Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech
15 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Show HN: All Dashboards in One Loop
15 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases
15 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Longtime Silicon Valley CEO says coronavirus could kill the open office
15 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Brand new Tesla roof flies off
15 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
California Auditor's Damning Report About Automated License Plate Readers
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
CIA-owned encryption company jeopardised Swiss neutrality: report
15 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Evidence Suggests Those With Severe Covid-19 Have Same Pre-existing Ponditions
15 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Show HN: Toy Haskell blockchain with variable hash functions for ASIC resistance
15 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Microsoft Teams Adding Virtual Green Screens to Teams
15 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Rust programming language exploit mitigations
15 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Ask HN: What's the greatest lie of open source?
15 points • comment • may 09, 2020
FCA bans sales of crypto-derivatives to retail consumers
15 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Show HN: Business Structure Calculator
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Thank You, Tony
15 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Parkinson's disease may start before birth
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Mozilla extends Firefox search deal with Google
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Autodidacticism
15 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Show HN: I built an online bookmark and note manager for podcasts
15 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Mean Squared Terror – GridSearch Is Not Enough
15 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Bill Gates advocates for stopping end-to-end encryption
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Scandinavia Got Great by Educating the “Whole Person”
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Finnish company makes food appear from thin air
15 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Japanese teachers expel school intruder with the Sasumata
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
“Hell of a laptop”’s M1 MacBook Air review
15 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
The Space Problem of Time Travel
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Coronavirus contact tracing apps promised big and didn’t deliver
15 points • comment • dec 11, 2020