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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Do These A.I.-Created Fake People Look Real to You?

    14 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  2. Coronavirus Stimulus Bill in Congress Proposes U.S. Digital Dollar

    14 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  3. Ask HN: Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?

    14 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  4. Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the Covid-19 Crisis

    14 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  5. Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads over ad-tracking

    14 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  6. Ask HN: How to learn small electronics and HW interfacing?

    14 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  7. The Election That Could Break America

    14 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  8. Comparing Urban Footprints (2014)

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  9. Quantum entanglement and the non-orientability of spacetime

    14 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  10. Proposed Fifth Fundamental Force

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  11. Urban Explorers Reveal a Treasure Trove of Soviet Computing Power

    14 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  12. Racial Diversity In Tech By The Numbers

    14 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  13. Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

    14 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  14. America’s First Direct Mail Campaign

    14 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  15. Apple issues new rules for App Store that impact streaming game services

    14 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  16. Microsoft Exec Peggy Johnson Joins Magic Leap as CEO

    14 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  17. Google destroys yet more smart-glasses

    14 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  18. Gnome Shell UX Plans

    14 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  19. Nepalese journalist who reported on Chinese encroachment in Nepal found dead

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  20. Boeing posts zero new airplane orders in January

    14 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  21. Pataphysical Software: Ridiculous Solutions for Imaginary Problems [pdf]

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  22. Dynamic Programming for Beginners

    14 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  23. Taiwan Is Now Arrakis

    14 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  24. Coronavirus Crisis Shows Marijuana Is ‘Essential’ and Mainstream

    14 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  25. The Middle Child – 90s Kids and Why We Aren’t Millennials

    14 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  26. Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30k potheads' privacy go up in smoke

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  27. Microsoft: Disposable emails now available in Exchange Online

    14 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  28. Covid-19 and Human Irrationality

    14 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  29. MI6 kept quiet about 'criminality' of agent with ‘licence to kill’

    14 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  30. Bao: A verified streaming tool based on BLAKE3

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  31. Trump Considering Ban on Alibaba

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  32. Show HN: Bobolink – a small tool to help search your bookmarks

    14 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  33. Monkeytype – A Minimalistic Typing Test

    14 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  34. Why Seed Funds Have Scaled

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  35. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  36. Gamebridge: Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes Since 2020

    14 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  37. John McAffee Arrested in Spain

    14 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  38. Rapid improvement in Alzheimer’s disease after fecal microbiota transplant

    14 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  39. Ring made a security drone that flies around inside your home

    14 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  40. The MDN Web Docs Front-end developer learning pathway

    14 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  41. Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools

    14 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  42. Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger

    14 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  43. Cloudflare Shared Details of Hundreds of Customers in Response to DMCA Subpoenas

    14 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  44. Coronavirus: Is it too much to ask for an actual plan?

    14 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  45. US is running out of aluminum cans

    14 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  46. Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in US veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 [pdf]

    14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  47. After Years of Claiming It Doesn't Use Facial Recognition, LAPD Admits It Has

    14 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  48. Minnesota authorities are using contact tracing apps to arrest protestors

    14 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  49. Interview with Glenn Greenwald [video]

    14 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  50. Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract to Peter Thiel's Palantir

    14 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  51. October Suprise

    14 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  52. YouTube Demonetises Naomi Wu a.k.a. SexyCyborg

    14 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  53. US Department of Energy backs five advanced nuclear reactor concepts

    14 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  54. Google deleting mentions of Wumao within seconds

    14 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  55. TypeScript is weakening the JavaScript ecosystem

    14 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  56. Cocktails in a Collector’s Museum: Lisbon’s Most Curious Bar (2014)

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  57. Density’s Open Area radar tracks people in a space, precisely but anonymously

    14 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  58. GraphQL Mesh – Access services using different API spec with GraphQL queries

    14 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  59. The Linux Foundation in 2020 Helps Serial GPL Violators Get Away with It

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  60. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  61. Ships in Bottles – A Bit of the History and Lore (2016)

    14 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  62. Proji v0.18.1: The project scaffolding tool now supports GitHub and Gitlab

    14 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  63. The Pros and Cons of Software Crowdtesting

    14 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  64. Setting Up Docker for Windows and WSL to Work Flawlessly

    14 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  65. Working Open Source

    14 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  66. Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse

    14 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  67. Luminar to go public in $3.4B merger

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  68. FCC designates Huawei, ZTE as risks to national security

    14 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  69. Beam Manifesto – A Tool for Thoughts

    14 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  70. Digital sleuths unravelled the mystery of Iran's plane crash

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  71. Toronto mall owner found guilty of hiding facial recognition cameras in kiosks

    14 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  72. SF confirms it's giving drugs to homeless in hotels in 'limited quantities'

    14 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  73. When the Long Tail Wags the Dog (2006)

    14 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  74. New Abbott Coronavirus test takes 13 minutes; 50k tests/day capacity next week

    14 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  75. Stop Emailing Like a Rube

    14 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  76. Goop’s Netflix trailer: Paltrow sinks into a vagina, spews pseudoscience

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  77. An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites

    14 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  78. From punch cutters to number crunchers (2017)

    14 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  79. Whatever Happened to CryEngine?

    14 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  80. Corona: Free Cross-Platform 2D Game Engine

    14 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  81. Ask HN: Did you become millionaire after working in tech?

    14 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  82. Graham Greene’s ‘Entertainments’ and the Problem of Writing from Life

    14 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  83. Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

    14 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  84. Show HN: Wasp – a DSL for building full-stack web apps

    14 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  85. “Ship It” the Game of Product Management

    14 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  86. Why “I don’t have time” is a lie

    14 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Got promoted with a near zero increase. Time to leave?

    14 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  88. The Evolution of a Coronavirus

    14 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  89. Google likely ‘thoroughly infiltrated’ by Chinese govt., expert warns

    14 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  90. Tiny area of the brain may enable consciousness

    14 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  91. Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal

    14 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  92. The psychology behind the placebo effect just got stranger

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  93. Nikola founder bought truck designs from third party

    14 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  94. Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

    14 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  95. The Year in Volcanic Activity

    14 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  96. This rare AMD chip is the cheapest 16 core CPU

    14 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  97. Ask HN: What is the purpose of mobile applications?

    14 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  98. After a Century of the Fed, It's Time to Return to Constitutional Money (2014)

    14 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  99. Make Your Back End Layer as Thin as Possible

    14 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  100. The surprising similarities between the Spanish flu and the coronavirus pandemic

    14 points • comment • mar 29, 2020