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Hacker News (2020)

NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing
13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Adventures in Manipulating Python ASTs
13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
How to Rename Your Master Branch to Main
13 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
FBI Arrests San Francisco Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru
13 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Show HN: Free Movies
13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Frictionless zsh And oh-my-zsh Management With Antigen
13 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development environments
13 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Arctic Circle oil spill prompts Putin to declare state of emergency
13 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
The Hunger Affecting Billions
13 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Coronavirus: Dogs are trained to diagnose bug and can screen 750 people per hour
13 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Automatic golf club replaces a bag of clubs and improves your game
13 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out
13 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Ongoing Meow attack has nuked 1k databases without telling anyone why
13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
James Mattis Denounces Trump as Threat to the Constitution
13 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Great Woman of Mathematics: Marie-Sophie Germain, 1776-1831
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Black phosphorus could spur the next wave of tiny transistors (2015)
12 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Giant squid washed ashore in South Africa is a rare glimpse of deep-sea creature
12 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
The Emperor of Stones
12 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Microsoft "mirrors" Android apps into Windows 10 with new Your Phone update
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Sale of defective parrot leads to Canadian lawsuit
12 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Radiatori – pasta shaped like a radiator to maximize heat exchange
12 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF
12 points • comment • may 27, 2020
OnlyFans Is a Billion-Dollar Media Giant Hiding in Plain Sight
12 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Lattice Drops EULA Clause Forbidding FPGA Bitstream Reverse Engineering
12 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
BuzzFeed Acquires HuffPost, Expanding Its Slate of World-Class Media Brands
12 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
San Francisco official tasked with keeping streets clean arrested by FBI
12 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says Google Fired Her After Research Dispute, Email
12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Teacher Tells Off Neil Armstrong for Faking the Moon Landing
12 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Static Calls in Linux 5.10
12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
French cities and NGOs sue oil giant Total over 'climate inaction'
12 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Developer Logs: a simple knowledge base and sync tool for your dev team
12 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a 'Scam' and Silicon Valley 'Needs to Die'
12 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
APL is more French than English (1978)
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
The Day the C++ Standard Library Died
12 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max
12 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior
12 points • comment • may 16, 2020
WireGuide VPN Protocol
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming – Open-Source Media Server
12 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back
12 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Spotify's account page is completely broken in Firefox
12 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Palantir insiders struggled to sell because of trading platform
12 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
12 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Where do Business Mafias come from?
12 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
A one-line change to the Chrome sandbox
12 points • comment • may 12, 2020
GPUs on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
“What Did You Do?”
12 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Distributed Systems Lectures by Martin Kleppmann
12 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Show HN: From Data Model to HTML UI
12 points • comment • may 26, 2020
China's Chang'e-5 Moon mission probe touches down
12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Compiled data from the Hadley's supercomputer shows alarming climate trajectory
12 points • comment • may 27, 2020
I Deleted a Database in Production And I had no backup
12 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
100 startup ideas, from VCs and Founders
12 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (2006) [pdf]
12 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Ask HN: Where can I find archived dark web content?
12 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Ask HN: What music do you listen to
12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
I Got Out of Tech and Still Make a Decent Living
12 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress
12 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
What good is Bitcoin if the Internet fails?
12 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
How to build a successful business model around open source software
12 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Ask HN: What's your favorite book that nobody you know has heard of?
12 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]
12 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it
12 points • comment • may 28, 2020
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
12 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Ask HN: Why Isn't Microsoft Included in FAANG?
12 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350M Customer Records on Unsecured Elasticsearch
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Trump to suspend entry of certain foreign workers despite business opposition
12 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Show HN: If Correlation doesn't imply causation, then, what does?
12 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Time Tracking Under Quarantine
12 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Mystery Knowledge and Useful Tools
12 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
On the Usability of Editable Software
12 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Nasdaq threatens 75% of companies to appoint women and LGBT or diverse directors
12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Cade Metz Pulls a ‘Deep Capture’ on Slate Star Codex
12 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Student who must climb tree to join Zoom classes issues plea
12 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Microsoft's robot editor confuses mixed-race Little Mix singers
12 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
GraphQL Editor 3.0 – new release
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Foreign Stem Graduates Are Being Shut Out of the U.S. Job Market
12 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Ask HN: Do you run a dev shop/consultancy? How should I go about it?
12 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud over AWS and Maybe You Should Too
12 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Apple doubles down on upcoming iOS 14 privacy features
12 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
How tech workers can support police reform
12 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE
12 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History
12 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Show HN: Cold Email for Interesting People
12 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram based disposable mail
12 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO
12 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Telegram Caves to US Regulators: Delays Blockchain Launch, Offers Return $1.2B
12 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Tome raiders: solving a great book heist
12 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Ripple 2.0: 19 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Amplified by the Supply Chain
12 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
“How Could a Reasonable Person Ever Inject Heroin?”
12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
12 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Huawei: 5G Is About Capacity, Not Speed: One-on-one with CTO Paul Scanlan
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Wallpaper will crash your Samsung phone
12 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant exhibits efficient replication
12 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Is hot desking dead in a post-COVID19 work world?
12 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Coronal Mass Exception – Inject bit-flips in a process
12 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Robinhood outage appears to be caused by leap year bug
12 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Chinese Communist Party think tank staffer offered to pay me for 'sources'
12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Dashcam’s Flawed Design Let Us Track Drivers in Real-Time Across the US
12 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Git commits are snapshots, not diffs
12 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
The forehead-slappingly stupid attempt to cancel Steven Pinker
12 points • comment • jul 17, 2020