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Hacker News (2020)

Accurate Estimations
12 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Chime – an open-source tool for Covid-19 capacity planning
12 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
WikiLeaks: Data dump 22-04-2020
12 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Why Many Americans Don't Vote
12 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
The Great Affordability Crisis
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says Google Fired Her After Research Dispute, Email
12 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks
12 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Mentions of the term “simp” across Twitch chat doubled following its ban
12 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Modern Designs to Get Inspiration
12 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Don’t reconnect mailing machines, USPS tells plants. Tacoma does it anyway
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Site reliability engineering- Predictions for 2020
12 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Tide: A modular Rust web framework built around async/await
12 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
FreeBSD Renames “Master Boot Record” to “Main Boot Record”
12 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid
12 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
12 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Amazon’s Program to Spy on Workers’ Private Facebook Groups
12 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
How a self-attention layer can learn convolutional filters?
12 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
We can solve the coronavirus-test mess now if we want to
12 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Former Pimco CEO gets 9 months jail in college admissions scandal
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Adam Savage opens up about some realities of wearing hearing aids
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Show HN: Across – Supercharge your customer experience in Slack
12 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus
12 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Ask HN: I want to make school more afforadable
12 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN?
12 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Tesla whistleblower complaint points to accounting oddities, two sets of books
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Leaked Document Reveals Binance’s Elaborate Scheme to Evade Bitcoin Regulators
12 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
An Evening With George Steiner
12 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Audible robs indie audiobook creators
12 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
The Security Value of Inefficiency – Schneier on Security
12 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector
12 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley Isn’t Joining Benchmark’s Next Fund
12 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Can You Build a CPU?
12 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Spying on the Scammers
12 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Making the Grade
12 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Foreign Stem Graduates Are Being Shut Out of the U.S. Job Market
12 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Chinese Communist Party think tank staffer offered to pay me for 'sources'
12 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Ask HN: Unrecognized Google Cloud charge – scared to chargeback
12 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks
12 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Influencer culture should be burnt to the ground
12 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350M Customer Records on Unsecured Elasticsearch
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
How tech workers can support police reform
12 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Another FB worker quits in disgust, saying it 'is on the wrong side of history'
12 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Ivermectin reduces SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA by 5000-fold within 48 hours
12 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Custom-made UEFI bootkit found lurking in the wild
12 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it
12 points • comment • may 28, 2020
GraphQL Editor 3.0 – new release
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations (2015)
12 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
The Dead Vote in Michigan – Voter Database Being Modified (Post Election)
12 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
New online accelerator – to combat coronavirus world and aftermath
12 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Gamifying Franz Kafka
12 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
It looks like Instagram's algorithm systematically boosts seminude pictures
12 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Nicko van Someren is Satoshi Nakamoto
12 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Paul Davies: “The Demon in the Machine” – Talks at Google
12 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Ask HN: Why Facebook requires login to view public pages?
12 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Royal Mail issues stamps honoring classic British computer games
12 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
(.NET) Introducing the Half Type
12 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
US Pres. Trump: Will Invoke Defense Production Act Against Coronavirus
12 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Google Play Music will begin shutting down in September
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
US Air Force Flew Half a Million Coronavirus Test Swabs from Italy to Tennessee
12 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook
12 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
When the CIA Interferes in Foreign Elections
12 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Show HN: Grist, a Hacker Friendly Spreadsheet
12 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
The Emperor of Stones
12 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Google Android phone earthquake visualisation
12 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
NPM v7 Series – Introduction
12 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Walt Disney World digitally adds masks to guests not wearing them in ride photos
12 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
G2Plot: The NEW Charting library of responsive, interactive, configurative API
12 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret
12 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Blizzard now claims full copyright for player-made “custom game” mods
12 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Massachusetts Regulators to File Complaint Against Robinhood
12 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
CEO by day, internet sleuth by night
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
California under counted Covid-19 cases after TLS certificate expired
12 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Tesla and other EVs are a good fit for the US Army's next-gen brigades
12 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Online avatar service Gravatar allows mass collection of user info
12 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Compiled data from the Hadley's supercomputer shows alarming climate trajectory
12 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Student who must climb tree to join Zoom classes issues plea
12 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Show HN: The Monty Hall Problem in JavaScript
12 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Facebook Grants Researchers Access to Study 2020 Election
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Cade Metz Pulls a ‘Deep Capture’ on Slate Star Codex
12 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages
12 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Ask HN: Tired of Leetcode style interviews. What to do?
12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Van Buren appeal arguments in light of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ambiguity
12 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Time Tracking Under Quarantine
12 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Ignore all nutrition studies without a control group
12 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
GitOps Using Helm3 and Flux for an Node.js and Express.js Microservice
12 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
A Low Energy Pulsed Plasma Spark Plug for a Lean Burn Combustion Engine
12 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Jordan Peterson's year of 'absolute hell'
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
BMW's New Diamond Motorcycle Chain Never Needs Lube or Adjustment
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Covid-19's Impact on U.S. Commerce via Foot Traffic Data
12 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Ask HN: How do you avoid bullshit tech content in search?
12 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Fun with Interpolation
12 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Months later, the great Twitter hack still boggles my mind
12 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After $730k Negative Balance
12 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Show HN: Alarmism.watch – I made a website that tracks alarmist predictions
12 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
19,000 young British girls were raped last year by grooming gangs
12 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Radiatori – pasta shaped like a radiator to maximize heat exchange
12 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Ask HN: What's it like to not own a smartphone?
12 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
New FIREFLY series coming out, but not on TV
12 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
You're under arrest–and live on video: Cops are live-streaming from crime scenes
12 points • comment • mar 04, 2020