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Hacker News (2020)

The Life-Saving Car Technology No One Wants
14 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Rectangle After Rectangle (2018)
14 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium
14 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Git for Node.js and the browser using libgit2 compiled to WebAssembly
14 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
What Drives Writers to Drink?
14 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Other Structures in Other Words
14 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
AI Predicts Cancer Killing Drug Combos
14 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Ask HN: Which Linux filesystem “produce” less wear and tear on SSD NAND?
14 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Cerebras' wafer-size chip is 10k times faster than a GPU
14 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Old TB vaccine gets new look in tests for coronavirus protection
14 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Oregon Votes to Decriminalize All Drugs
14 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Sonos sues Google for allegedly stealing smart speaker tech
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Bay Area AT&T Fiber Customers suffering bit flipping for two weeks
14 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Devin Nunes Can’t Sue Twitter over Cow and Mom Parodies, Judge Says
14 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
“foone” asks HN to stop linking to his tweets
14 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
The pandemic is forcing America to confront its epidemic low-wage problem
14 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Protecting land and animals will mitigate future pandemics, report says
14 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Driver stranded after connected rental car can’t call home
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Reddit Is Down
14 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Google Sharing Location Information with Governments
14 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Anti-Censorship VPN Service Agrees to Block Major Pirate Sites
14 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
FDIC announces first bank failure of coronavirus crisis
14 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders at All
14 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages [pdf]
14 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Ask HN: Why There Is No Ask Me Anything on Hacker News?
14 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Code bootcamp preys on minorities and tricks them into indentured servitude
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
EU greenhouse gas emissions down 24% since 1990
14 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
What Atlanta Can Teach Tech About Cultivating Black Talent
14 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Yahoo Groups shutting down December 15, 2020
14 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Majority of women who have an abortion don’t regret it five years on
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard
14 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Free food and $100 prizes: Alaskans rally to get challenged classics to students
14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of Covid-19
14 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
A list of coding bootcamp scams
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks
14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Open Sourcing Uber Manifold, a Visual Debugging Tool for Machine Learning
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Resume
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
The Money Laundry: Tracking Criminality of the Banking Industry
14 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms
14 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
'More scary than coronavirus': South Korea's health alerts expose private lives
14 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Community Transmission of Covid-19 in Santa Clara County
14 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies
14 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
China forcing birth control on Uighurs
14 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references
14 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Show HN: Add a mark as watched button to TED videos
14 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
OWASP Open Security
14 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Ask HN: What two applications do you most wish were integrated?
14 points • comment • may 12, 2020
The Spacing Effect (1988) [pdf]
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Defcon 28 Is Really Canceled
14 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Achaemenid Shields Are a Puzzle
14 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Ask HN: What payment processor can a private individual use to offer a service?
14 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Improving Robustness of Deep-Learning-Based Image Reconstruction
14 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Show HN: A HTTP2 web server with auto SSL certificate, Zero-Configuration
14 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf
14 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Show HN: bcal – Storage & general-purpose CLI calculator for programmers
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
A $300 projector can fool Tesla’s Autopilot
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Ask HN: Why does Google use server side rendering for search results?
14 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Coyote: Making it easier for developers to build reliable asynchronous software
14 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Rust is a $6B problem for the Navy, cruise ships and more
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
The accent of BBC radio presenters (2018)
14 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
After failing training, an Army PFC stole helo and landed it at the White House
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Waxeye: Language-Agnostic Parser Generator
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
The Price of Protecting Rhinos
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Has physicist's gravity theory solved 'impossible' dark energy riddle?
14 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Common origin of Fermi bubbles and galactic center X-ray outflows shown
14 points • comment • may 16, 2020
How does Git know what a Python class is?
14 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Reddit co-founder resigns to fight racial injustice
14 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Does Time Flow? New Clues Come from a Century-Old Approach to Math
14 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Coronavirus – UK scientists were slow to sound the alarm
14 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Teen created the largest Covid-19 tracker, rejects $8M to place ads
14 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts
14 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
What can we do to fight corrupt governments?
14 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Show HN: Portable Serverless without the complexity of Kubernetes
14 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Shipping Web Components in 2020
14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Google Authenticator gets its first update in years
14 points • comment • may 06, 2020
A parser for sqlite create table statements
14 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Praying Mantises: More Deadly Than We Knew
14 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Why is the offical Java website so outdated?
14 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Kushner’s team seeks national US coronavirus surveillance system
14 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
What is O(log n)? Learn Big O Logarithmic Time Complexity
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
The Mainer Saving the World's Rarest Heirloom Seeds
14 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Godaddy is basically robbing customers
14 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
The UK’s points-based immigration system will scare off tech founders
14 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
WHO raises Covid-19 alert to highest level after cases found in 50 countries
14 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Show HN: Epictopus, a Collaborative Writing Platform
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
What was programming like before the internet?
14 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Stack Overflow is leaking user emails (unsafe use of MD5 hashes)
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
French Revolution: remains discovered in walls of Paris monument
14 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Cron.weekly issue #137: Kernel 5.7, TrueNAS, LibreSSL, Drupal and more
14 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
KASLR: Break It, Fix It, Repeat (2020) [pdf]
14 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
I Fooled Millions into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss (2015)
14 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Kakistocracy
14 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Ask HN: Share your profitable side project?
14 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
High performance at low cost – choose the best JVM [and GC] for your needs
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
“Patient with symptoms tells you they have been skiing in northern Italy.”
14 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Chris Cox, Zuckerberg lieutenant, to return to Facebook
14 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Postmortem of a Scaleway related not-too-critical downtime
14 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Walt Whitman’s Gift
14 points • comment • apr 11, 2020