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Hacker News (2020)

Data Hunter-Gatherer
13 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
What if you abandon your smartphone?
13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Links to prepared statements by Bezos, Zuckerberg, S.Pichai and T.Cook (notes)
13 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Open Problems in Robotics
13 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Against Literary Darwinism (2011) [pdf]
13 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Linus Torvalds Switches to AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years of Using Intel
13 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Solving the expiring. X.509 root CA certificate-mageddon, partly at least
13 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Canada's Covid Alert Mobile App
13 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Show HN: Sizle.io – React Presentation Builder
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
The Nooscope: A map of AI limits and biases
13 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Freegle junked Google Maps for OpenStreetMap and saved £700/month
13 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Coronavirus: Dogs are trained to diagnose bug and can screen 750 people per hour
13 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
NHS procurement official privately selling PPE
13 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Academic Censorship in STEM Fields
13 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Show HN: Free, secure dev tunnels with custom domains using Fly and WireGuard
12 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Ask HN: What do you do when you get soft banned from captcha?
12 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Major Design Changes Coming in Gnome 40, Out Next Year
12 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Hong Kong security law revealed – violators may face life imprisonment
12 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
5G wireless may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts
12 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Ask HN: Simple but modern Python dev set-up?
12 points • comment • may 27, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant exhibits efficient replication
12 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
France: Employee who suffered “boredom at work” awarded €40k damages
12 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Open letter by Google employees in support of Dr. Gebru
12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
SF Bay Area: What Might Have Been
12 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Ask HN: How to Get into Google?
12 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
San Francisco official tasked with keeping streets clean arrested by FBI
12 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Safety and immunogenicity of an rAd26 and rAd5 vector-based Covid-19 vaccine
12 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Lessons in Platform Building: How to Grow and Scale a Commerce Platform
12 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Engineer gets 9 years in prison after stealing $10M of BTC from Microsoft
12 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
French cities and NGOs sue oil giant Total over 'climate inaction'
12 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Trump’s campaign website hacked by cryptocurrency scammers
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Tesco coupons easily faked to save £750 on Hotels.com bookings worldwide
12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Covid bill calls for Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs
12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a 'Scam' and Silicon Valley 'Needs to Die'
12 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Ask HN: What's a solid, non-mesh/-repeater/-cloud WiFi-GbE bridge ~100 USD?
12 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
The Day the C++ Standard Library Died
12 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
AOC’s debut Twitch stream is one of the biggest ever
12 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Lululemon to Buy Mirror, a Fitness Startup, for $500M
12 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
The Joy of Cryptography
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Cognitive distortion
12 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Are FPGAs More Secure Than Processors?
12 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Facebook Employees Begin to Revolt
12 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Facebook will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests
12 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
12 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
New hotness: Pwning devs with targeted poisoned stacks
12 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Ask HN: Why isn't there an open-source FPGA?
12 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
GPUs on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Oil is getting crushed again with one futures contract down 50%
12 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Nashville Bombing Suspect Anthony Warner's Possible Ties to 5G Conspiracy Theory
12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Ten Paradoxes of Technology – great essay for all technologists [pdf]
12 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
What is a letter?: Literary correspondence in the age of instant communications
12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Show HN: Syncit - An open source privacy-first co-browsing Tool
12 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
PyTorch 3D: Digging Deeper in Deep Learning
12 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
House-GAN:Relational GANs for Graph-Constrained House Layout Generation
12 points • comment • may 09, 2020
What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race
12 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL
12 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Helping people spot the spoofs: a URL experiment
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud over AWS and Maybe You Should Too
12 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Coronal Mass Exception – Inject bit-flips in a process
12 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Interference: Open-source distibuted database with complex event processing
12 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
How to Be a Freelancer When You’re Feeling Down and Depressed
12 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
How doing too much made a $6k MR business shut down
12 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla adds Raspberry Pi as a “first class citizen”
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Facebook Helped FBI Exploit Vulnerability in Linux for Child Predator Sting
12 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
'LinkedIn Is Not a Dating Site' Should Users Be Trying to Find Love on LinkedIn?
12 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Arlene Gottfried’s New York, Through the Eyes of Her Brother Gilbert (2018)
12 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
I Love Ed on CP/M
12 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Spotify's account page is completely broken in Firefox
12 points • comment • may 11, 2020
A Physicist Has Discovered Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
I Got Out of Tech and Still Make a Decent Living
12 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Apple has reportedly held talks to buy Wondery
12 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
WHO Deletes Misleading Tweet That Spread Paranoia About Covid-19 Reinfection
12 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest
12 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the world's progress grinding to a halt?
12 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Fusion is not 20 years in the future.It’s 50 years in the past–and we missed it
12 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
A new study unveils the mechanism of the nanoparticle gelation transition
12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
1400 Bitcoins Stolen
12 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Don't Talk to the Police
12 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
The Race to Redesign Sugar
12 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
The Real Reason to Wear a Mask
12 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
When Seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position
12 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Disney: Tweet with hashtag MayThe4th implies you accept Disney's TOS
12 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
YouTube Is Down
12 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Reddit Ireland turns off at midnight to stop racist trolls
12 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Tackling Cancer Metastasis with Engineered Blood Platelets
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Navy unclassified three videos with unexplained UFOs
12 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Seed firing drones that plant thousands of trees/day
12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History
12 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple
12 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Hiding in plain sight: PhantomLance walks into a market
12 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
A Million Random Digits Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. Now One Has Exposed Flaws
12 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Sweden escapes economic slump by refusing to impose lockdown
12 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Show HN: Oyabun – resilient C2 infrastructure for pentesters
12 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Residential Segregation – A Simulation
12 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
One Shot 3D Photography (Facebook Siggraph 2020)
12 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Slack CEO: Microsoft is ‘unhealthily preoccupied with killing us’
12 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Giant squid washed ashore in South Africa is a rare glimpse of deep-sea creature
12 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Open Source Sustainability
12 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Affirm Postpones Its Initial Public Offering
12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020