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Hacker News (2020)

John Hopkins Covid Data Errors
13 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Microsoft Pluton processor– The security chip designed for the future of Windows
13 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Show HN: Jooseph – Playlists for Learning
13 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
We interview engineers at CircleCI: what we've learned, what we've changed
13 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Self-taught bloke cracks crypto conundrum supposed uncrackable until 2034 (2019)
13 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Four operating systems: One device. Chromebooks will be the universal laptop
13 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox
13 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Ask HN: I have 3 weeks off, what should I build?
13 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Hackers are targeting hospitals crippled by coronavirus
13 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Gore-Tex: Inventor of waterproof fabric Robert Gore dies aged 83
13 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Rand Paul Has Coronavirus
13 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
The new generation of puzzle-makers bringing mystery to your door
13 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
FBI Arrests San Francisco Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru
13 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Did Xi Just Save the World?
13 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Citi Bike and Revel Scooters Shut Down During Curfew
13 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Why People Betray Their Countries, According to an Israeli Expert
13 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Stopping Computer Crimes (1989) [pdf]
13 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Initial Assessment of the AMD MI50 GPGPUs for Scientific and ML Applications
13 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Bogus stories of wild animals flourishing in quarantined cities gives false hope
13 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Thorium-Based Nuclear Power
13 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
How to Develop Alone (Without Making an Enormous Mess)
13 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Cantor – KDE Front End to Mathematical Applications
13 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Warren Buffett Has Started the Biggest Energy Revolution
13 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Signal: Cellebrite claimed to have cracked chat app's encryption
13 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Unito raises $10.5M to unify disparate enterprise apps and services
13 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Trump deliberately played down virus, Woodward book says
13 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Ask HN: Secure Zoom Alternative
13 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Physical distancing, mask-wearing could be in place for 2-3 years with vaccine
13 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Diversity and Inclusion in Plaid Engineering
13 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Apple threatens to cutoff all Epic iOS and Mac developer accounts [pdf]
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Lens (The Kubernetes IDE) v3.5.0-RC.1
13 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Train PyTorch models with differential privacy
13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The Skeptical Pilgrim: Melville’s Clarel
13 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Trump-linked consultant tied to FB pages warning election will cause civil war
13 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Personal data of all 6.5M Israeli voters exposed by security flaw in app
13 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
The Distribution of Variable-Length Phatic Interjectives on the Web (2001)
13 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Microsoft reveals unpatched Windows bug
13 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Apple A14 Benchmarks and Apple Silicon Macs
13 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
The price of a .com domain is set to rise, and some sellers aren't happy
13 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
HOPL: An online historical encyclopaedia of programming languages
13 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Webamp – Winamp 2 in the browser, plays MP3s from local storage
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Anonymous Downloading and Streaming Specifications
13 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
How to “Minimum Viable” Things You Always Want to Start, but Didn't?
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Photoshop blocks image because it thinks I'm trying to make counterfeit bills
13 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Gilead Covid-19 Treatment Granted “Rare Disease” Status, Limiting Affordability
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
'Everybody’s entitled to their opinion – but not their own facts'
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Solved: Why Poor States Are Red and Rich States Are Blue
13 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Reclaiming Becket: London’s great saint needs a reboot
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Show HN: Getscreen.me – Remote Access to Any Desktop from a Browser
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
“Political stress” statistic predicts growing US political violence
13 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Implementing PyLucid
13 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
The N95 shortage America can’t seem to fix
13 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Trump is desperate to punish Big Tech but has no good way to do it
13 points • comment • may 29, 2020
World suicide prevention day: 'Could I have stopped my dad killing himself?'
13 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
India to go into full lockdown for Coronavirus Spread Prevention
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Large-Scale Geo-Replicated Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types [pdf]
13 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
The limits of color awareness during active, real-world vision
13 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Dataform (YC W18) is joining Google Cloud
13 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Paradox of Tolerance
13 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
OnlyFans Creators and Sex Workers Are Getting ‘Purged’ from TikTok
13 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Dow rebounds more than 11% in best day since 1933 as Congress nears deal
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Show HN: Guestboard 2.0 – Our Alternative to FB Events – Now with Video Chat
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Japan’s winning its quiet fight against Covid-19
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Cancel
13 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Telegram ICO: SEC prevails, Telegram restrained from issuing Grams
13 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Italian teenage computer whiz beatified by Catholic Church
13 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Tiny XSS Payloads
13 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
I did some tests with React's renderer to analyze its rendering behavior
13 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The poo panacea: inside the strange, surprising world of faecal transplants
13 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Apple quietly launched a one-on-one college mentorship program
13 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out
13 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Just One of Many Options (2008)
13 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
“Funes the Memorious” and Other Cases of Extraordinary Memory (2019)
13 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Chowbus user data breach (email, name, phone, address) with 800k rows
13 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Ask HN: Have you observed any Covid-19 related panic buying yet?
13 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
UK Coronavirus tests not reported due to “max file size”
13 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in New Zealand
13 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Why People Become Internet Trolls
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
A Connectome of the Adult Drosophila Central Brain
13 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Death of a Forgotten Anomaly
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as Threat to Constitution
13 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
4chan users allegedly cancelling votes in Oregon via e-voting bug
13 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Emojicode – full-blown programming language consisting of emojis
13 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
The Emacs Problem (2005)
13 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
China: “Will Use Military Force to Take Control of Taiwan If Diplomacy Fails”
13 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Ecosia now a default search engine option on iOS, iPadOS, macOS
13 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Dell launched sweeping update of its Latitude, Precision business laptop lines
13 points • comment • may 21, 2020
GoDaddy wins our 2020 award for most evil company email
13 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
RdRand Performance as Bad as ~3% Original Speed with CrossTalk/Srbds Mitigation
13 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
A Mysterious Obama Biography Is Selling Like Crazy on Amazon. Did a AI Write It?
13 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development environments
13 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Dissuading Voting
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Ongoing Meow attack has nuked 1k databases without telling anyone why
13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Singularity – an open source simple, fast, and secure container platform
13 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Dangerzone: Working with Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked
13 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
The Absurd (Lack of) Support for Android Developers
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Singapore is spending 12 times more on coronavirus than they did on the GFC
13 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Facebook Nears Purchase of Kustomer in Deal That Values It at $1B
13 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Apple’s malware problem is getting worse
13 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Why did I build monoliths all around the world? [video]
13 points • comment • dec 09, 2020