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Hacker News (2020)

In Bash, when to alias, when to script, and when to write a function?
11 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Future Propaganda Will Be Computer Generated
11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Show HN: StepUp – 3 minute video chat that starts with a blur
11 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (2019)
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Whiteboard coding interviews are 'anti-women psychological stress exams'
11 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Byteconf Flutter, a free live-streamed Flutter conference
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals
11 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
A Brief Introduction to Beam
11 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Does owning a car hurt your health? Evidence from China indicates yes
11 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Charter can charge online video sites for network connections, court rules
11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
What really happened at Herculaneum?
11 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
As Tony Hsieh is memorialized in Vegas, fingers point at the 'Park City Crew'
11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Earth Is Literally Moving Less Now That We're All on Lockdown
11 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Xkcd 1110: Click and Drag
11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
The Sauce of the Middle Ages
11 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Verizon to buy wireless services provider Tracfone in $6.25B deal
11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
After-Meditation: Wordsworth's political turn
11 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Mochi – Spaced Repetition with Modern UI
11 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Zero-Shot Learning in Modern NLP
11 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars
11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
How to back up your password manager
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse
11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
The New Old Home
11 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
The right and wrong way to set up Python 3 on macOS (2019, updated 2020))
11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
11 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Announcing Flutter 1.22
11 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Ask HN: What is a good business writing course focusing on developers?
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Remembering the startups we lost in 2020
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Amazon engineer says Ring should be 'shut down immediately'
11 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II
11 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Routine meetings are (mostly) a waste of time
11 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
$70k for Zoom classes? Virus crisis leaves US students miffed
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
ICE Says Newly Enrolling Intl Students Can't Come to US If Classes Fully Online
11 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
BinaryBuilder: Build native binaries for 13 platforms in minutes
11 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
No-Code and Low-Code Software Is a Disruptor You Should Pay Attention To
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
FCC enacts $200M telehealth initiative to ease Covid-19 burden on hospitals
11 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
On the performance and design of Julia BioSequences compared to the Seq language
11 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Mathematical proof that rocked number theory will be published
11 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
'I Have Billions in the Bank': A Sex Worker's Life in Animal Crossing
11 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Thousands of Zoom video calls left exposed on open Web
11 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Did Twitter Help Vox Media Steal a Twitter Account from a Writer?
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Ahead with Python 2 Removal
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
PS5 and Xbox Series X hardware specifications compared
11 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
PJSIP – open-source multimedia communication library written in C
11 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Dragon-ISS Rendezvous in Progress
11 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Denver to close several streets to allow for more outdoor activities
11 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years
11 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
US resorts to “piracy”, seizes shipment of masks
11 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Why does it suddenly feel like 1999 on the internet?
11 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Here Are 10 Awesome Chrome Flags to Try Out
11 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Chewbacca defense
11 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
What you need to know about Chinese Coronavirus and what they aren’t telling you
11 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Taiwan will help fleeing Hongkongers move to island, Tsai Ing-wen says
11 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Fucking Laptops
11 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
'Ventilators' donated by Elon Musk can't be used on coronavirus patients
11 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Health Officials Say 'No Thanks' to Contact-Tracing Tech
11 points • comment • may 08, 2020
A New Day for Microsoft Store
11 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
UK: Mast fire probe amid 5G coronavirus claims
11 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Forgotten Movie Royalty
11 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
How did people use ed?
11 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
Russian spies target Covid-19 vaccine research
11 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
KORG's New Synthesizer is based around a Raspberry Pi 3
11 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
555 Timer IC Integrated Circuit
11 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
The Beats, the Hungryalists, and the Call of the East
11 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Bookshop.org earns more than $1M for indie bookstores
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Tiger at NYC's Bronx Zoo Tests Positive for Coronavirus
11 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Why don’t /e/ smartphones ship (yet) to the USA?
11 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
What usage restrictions can we place in a free software license?
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
You don't have to be stupid to work here but it helps
11 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Why is there no Git workflow for non-devs?
11 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Starving rats turning into cannibals as restaurant food supply disappears
11 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Codepen releases online Flutter editor
11 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Spain about to bring in basic income scheme, could 'stay forever'
11 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Trump DOL Throws 401k Investors to the Wolves
11 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
A new social network that celebrates debate and critical thinking
11 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
CDC Confirms First Possible Community Transmission of Coronavirus in U.S.
11 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Destiny 2’s Google Stadia Population Has Dropped by More Than Half Since Launch
11 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Apple may allow Spotify to set as Default Music App
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Box goes remote: “The future of a digital workplace”
11 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Ask HN: How does Clearbit Reveal know who I am?
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Show HN: A quiz for companies/people to learn about tools for remote work
11 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
BipBuffer: A High-Performance, Lock-Free Ring Buffer Implementation
11 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Uber-as-a-Service Launches
11 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
India's Response to Covid-19 Is a Humanitarian Disaster
11 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources
11 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Trump Threatens World Health Organization Funding
11 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Habitual tub bathing and risks of incident coronary heart disease and stroke
11 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Show HN: CovidWatch – Real Time Coronavirus Tracker with Trend Analysis and News
11 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson
11 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Show HN: MLonFHIR: Fusing Sklearn with the HL7 FHIR Standard
11 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
FPSpreadsheet – Spreadsheet App in Lazarus
11 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Senator calls for an investigation of the ad-blocking industry
11 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
A former Microsoft engineer stole more than $10M from the company
11 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
The Hacker Manifesto
11 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
The Polygons of Another World: Game Boy Advance
11 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
A Rapid Test for Covid-19 Arrives via a 20-Year-Old Technology in Many Hospitals
11 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a serverless platform
11 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
BIOS Bug – Passwords for Asus, Acer and Sony
11 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Tesla ranks last on influential JD Power quality survey
11 points • comment • jun 25, 2020