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Hacker News (2020)

Cloudflare was down
915 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Stripe Treasury
914 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
TailwindCSS v2.0
914 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Level 3 Global Outage
911 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
910 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
907 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
905 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
904 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
901 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
900 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Mozilla lays off 70
900 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
899 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Amnesia is now open source
898 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
898 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old
898 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Alex Trebek has died
896 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
896 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
896 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
895 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
894 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
893 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
891 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Apple acquires Dark Sky
890 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Software Disenchantment (2018)
889 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
888 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Frances Allen has died
888 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
887 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
887 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
884 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
882 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Single Page Applications using Rust
880 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Intel's disruption is now complete
879 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
879 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
878 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Using Anki to remember what you read
875 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
874 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Explorabl.es
874 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
873 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
871 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
869 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently
868 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Things I wish I’d known about CSS
867 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
867 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Scrollbar Blindness
867 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Zoomquilt (2004)
867 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
A half-hour to learn Rust
865 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
865 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
865 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young
865 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
863 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now
862 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
862 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
861 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Six Months of Tiny Projects
859 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
SMS is not 2FA-secure
856 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
856 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
853 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
853 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
852 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
852 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Ask HN: How to learn sales?
852 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Seinfeld Adventure
851 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
851 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
850 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
850 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
849 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
849 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
847 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
So you've made a mistake and it's public
844 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
843 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
842 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
842 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
foo@bar.com
841 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
838 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut
838 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
837 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
837 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
837 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
837 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
836 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
X
832 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
832 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
830 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
830 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
827 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
827 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
826 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Ask HN: What are you learning?
825 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
825 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang
825 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
825 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
824 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
823 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Bitcoin is a disaster
822 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
822 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
My FOSS Story
821 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
821 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Don't use third party auth to sign in
821 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
820 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Written communication is remote work super power
819 points • comment • jun 19, 2020