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Hacker News (2020)

iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max
12 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Proposal for a way to reduce coronavirus infections by optimizing whom to test
12 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
QAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline
12 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Italy Plans Large-Scale Lockdown in Country’s North to Fight Coronavirus
12 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon
12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Manyverse for iOS
12 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Malloc as a Service
12 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Ask HN: Do you have trouble staying productive with all the online distractions?
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Reading and writing skills can be taught through Minecraft
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Researchers find another vulnerability inside Intel CPUs
12 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite
12 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Go F*** Someone
12 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Bret Weinstein locked out of Facebook
12 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
The Internet Is Multilingual but You Need to Learn Mandarin
12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Book Summary: Why Nations Fail – Understanding why countries are rich or poor
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
100 startup ideas, from VCs and Founders
12 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Is Apple Building Its Own Search Engine?
12 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Continues Drifting, Crosses Prime Meridian (2019)
12 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Explosive Hydroforming a Steel Sphere [video]
12 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
From Siberia to Tibet: Life on a Train
12 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Git Sucks, What Am I Doing Wrong?
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Microsoft's robot editor confuses mixed-race Little Mix singers
12 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]
12 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Tinkerbell Effect
12 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress
12 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
The disturbing and under-researched legacy of depleted uranium weapons
12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Windows Update for the Removal of Adobe Flash Player
12 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Why does soap work so well on most viruses
12 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
12 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Box Response to Covid-19
12 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Lean HTTP Server for Gleam
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Notes from the Quest Factory (2019)
12 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Endangered Elements
12 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
The forehead-slappingly stupid attempt to cancel Steven Pinker
12 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
LibFirm: An optimizing compiler back-end
12 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Read the transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s tense meeting with Facebook employees
12 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Intel defends AVX-512 against critics who wish it to die a 'painful death'
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
The Possible Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm in Covid-19
12 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Japanese Wonder Weapons
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Ask HN: Advice for a prisoner learning to program
12 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Spain will register people who refuse Covid vaccine, says health minister
12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability
12 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Polar 2.0 Released (open-source knowledge base)
12 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Hong Kong Is Slipping Away
12 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Typical infrastructure investments fail to deliver positive risk-adjusted return [pdf]
12 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
New Chinese virus 'will have infected hundreds'
12 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Distributed Systems Lectures by Martin Kleppmann
12 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Show HN: Cold Email for Interesting People
12 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
German Court Bans Tesla Ad Statements Related to Autonomous Driving
12 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Show HN: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
A one-line change to the Chrome sandbox
12 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Company Culture Is More Important Than Rules and Policies
12 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
A comparison of text rendering on different systems
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Show HN: CTOnet, a private community for CTOs and engineering leaders
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Casey Muratori on getting rid of OOP mindset [video]
12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
The Bitter Secret of ‘Wormwood’ (2018)
12 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Standing on the outside looking in: X-rays through glass
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The myth of NoSQL (vs. RDBMS) agility
12 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Deepfake queen to deliver Christmas message
12 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Public Domain
12 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Paper Money with an Expiration Date
12 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
12 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Stupid RCU Tricks: Enlisting the Aid of a Debugger
12 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Screenshots of the app the caused the Iowa caucus failures
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Google has now patched five Chrome zero-days in three weeks
12 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
“I Don’t Think the Virus Can Be Stopped Anymore”, Says Harvard Epidemiologist
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Show HN: Founderpath – Raise $10k-$1m in 72 hours, free revenue analytics
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Telegram agrees to pay $18.5M penalty in SEC settlement over failed TON offering
12 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Debunking reports claiming Covid-19 definitely wasn’t made in a lab
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Air Force B-21 stealth bomber runs Kubernetes
12 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
C# designer Torgersen: Why the programming language is still so popular and
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Ask HN: Where can I find archived dark web content?
12 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Africa's scientific capacity and solutions need to be driven by locals
12 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Show HN: Coronavirus.gov
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
12 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
12 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Developer Logs: a simple knowledge base and sync tool for your dev team
12 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Apple Privacy Changes
12 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Intel SGX defeated yet again–this time thanks to on-chip power meter
12 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
People are dying of coronavirus because we’re too slow at clinical research
12 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
How to Clean CSV Data at the Command Line – Part 2
12 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Germany’s Merkel: 60 to 70% in Germany will become infected with coronavirus
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
NSF grant changes raise alarm about commitment to basic research
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
How the Evolution of Porn Changed Adolescence – Megan Maas – TEDxMSU
12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Linus Torvalds: “I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry” (2018)
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with Covid-19
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Banana Production in Iceland
12 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
PeakFinder: See the view from any mountain or hill
12 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
WireGuide VPN Protocol
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Algorithm Is the Problem, Not Mark Zuckerberg
12 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Private Equity loading companies with debt to pay themselves dividends
12 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
65 Directories to Submit Your Startup
12 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Apple doubles down on upcoming iOS 14 privacy features
12 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Firefox 77.0.1 released to prevent DDoSing DoH DNS providers
12 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
“The Social Dilemma” Fails to Tackle the Real Issues in Tech
12 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
New Desktop Client for AWS Client VPN
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2020