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Hacker News (2020)

While Mozilla executives make millions of dollars, Mozilla layoffs employees
10 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, ex-creators raise cash for a new gaming studio
10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Why are Polynesians so big and strong?
10 points • comment • may 26, 2020
The mmap() copy-on-write trick: reducing memory usage of array copies
10 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Finnish PM calls for a 4-day-week and 6-hour-day
10 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Airbnb's Resurgence
10 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
The Great American Pyramid in Memphis
10 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot
10 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Ask HN: How did you meet your spouse?
10 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This
10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Nike tells Amazon, 'I'm just not that into you'
10 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Startup Nation: The Country That Invented Itself
10 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Convert a Website to an API: Building a Serverless Web Scraper with the AWS CDK
10 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Turchin is wrong: There will be no coming collapse of America
10 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
When Goodharting Is Optimal
10 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Men discover mysterious metal monolith in Utah wilderness, immediately touch it
10 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Calling all devs – BOUNTIES for building privacy applications
10 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
When did Hacktoberfest become Spamtoberfest?
10 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Show HN: Genius – webgame to exercise your brain
10 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy
10 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Fax-2-Shredder
10 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Show HN: A minimal stack based VM in C
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
I Cited Their Study, So They Disavowed It
10 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Faulty planes reportedly poison passengers on hundreds of flights
10 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
List of tech events canceled due to Covid-19 in 2020
10 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Benefits Lapse for Millions as Trump Fails to Approve Bill
10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
What CRM is currently most popular among YC companies?
10 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
“It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle” – Matthew Cook, Caltech [pdf]
10 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design Was 50 Years Ahead of Its Time
10 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Twitter to begin labeling 'state-affiliated media outlets'
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
OneDev 3.2 – Self-Hosted All-in-One DevOps Platform
10 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
1876 United States presidential election
10 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Over 36,000 Flash Games Have Been Saved and Are Now Playable Offline
10 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Employers now allowed to take tips from waiters, split them with other workers
10 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott
10 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Almost Too Good to Be True: Health Insurance for $149/Month, Zero Deductible
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Bad day at the office? Try these life hacks from the military
10 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Hunting Ghost No. 1
10 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Overview of Decentralized Identity Standards
10 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
A fast radio burst in our own Galaxy
10 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Rocketredis – A Beautiful Redis GUI
10 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Most Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Gitlab runs phishing test against employees – and 20% handed over credentials
10 points • comment • may 25, 2020
The Death of the $15 Salad
10 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Public health and law experts issue guidelines for U.S. response to coronavirus
10 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
California lawmakers fly to Maui with lobbyists despite Covid, travel warnings
10 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Kafe is an open-source scriptable systems automation toolkit
10 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
How to store signed and encrypted data on IPFS
10 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Photo reveals Turkish submarine is first with new capability
10 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Who Biden Is Indebted to (e.g. Google Monopoly and the Financial Sector)
10 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
NASA doesn’t know if it wants Boeing to do another test of passenger spacecraft
10 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
JavaScript Visualized: The JavaScript Engine
10 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Java Buffer types versus native arrays: which is faster?
10 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Facebook to shift to remote for some areas
10 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Tell HN: A Thanks to the Mods
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Weight Loss Is Harder Than Rocket Science
10 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Whipping Boy
10 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Widely anticipated Iowa Poll thrown out due to web browser font size problem
10 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Games Playing with Computers (1972)
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
After outcry, Apple will let developers challenge App Store guidelines
10 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
20GB Leak of Intel Data
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Facing Coronavirus, America Chose Mass Unemployment
10 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Muslim teacher tells of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang
10 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
The Compleat History of Shredding (2002)
10 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
GitHub Is Down
10 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Elon Musk and the Value of Localism-What We Should Do Instead of Going to Mars
10 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
The Forecasting Fallacy
10 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue
10 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Rethinking Connection Security Indicators (2016) [pdf]
10 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
XXE on HTTPS://Duckduckgo.com
10 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Show HN: The only diary app with a community and features to boost mental health
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Iran cyberattack on Israel’s water supply could have sickened hundreds – report
10 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Don't hate the book because you don't use it
10 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Too Much for One Man: A new life of Charles V
10 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Apple cuts off Wordpress app to get a cut of domain sales
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Covid-19 Fatalities Dashboard
10 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Myriam Sarachik Never Gave Up on Physics
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Trump’s Coronavirus Press Event Was Even Worse Than It Looked
10 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Discovery suggests new promise for nonsilicon computer transistors
10 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Ask HN: How do you document long term products
10 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
The Chinese government fakes nearly 450M social media comments a year
10 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
“a cellphone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk” (when G. Maxwell arrested)
10 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Ask HN: Project ideas to learn CS fundamentals
10 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Turning any 2D photo into 3D using convolutional neural nets
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Single episode of heavy drinking tied to Brain Atrophy in Young Adults
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Uber Suspends 240 Accounts in Mexico over User Suspected to Have Coronavirus
10 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Castlevania III Password Algorithm
10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Show HN: Jsonbox.io V2 – Free HTTP-based JSON storage with private box
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Bit Manipulation with C++20
10 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Our social crisis is no longer just about inequality, it’s about life and death
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
How a misleading post went from the fringes to Trump’s Twitter
10 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Study of chloroquine for Covid-19 stopped early over heart rhythm problems
10 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Soft Skills for Managers
10 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
The Alienware Area-51m’s upgradable dream has failed in just one year
10 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Archillect – an AI created to discover and share stimulating visual content
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Look for Elon Musk to Unveil a New Battery That Will Shake the EV Market
10 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
SpaceX Starship high-altitude test flight
10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Townhall Live Stream
10 points • comment • may 21, 2020
A Cruel Deception – RAF Pilot Remains Discovered in North Korea
10 points • comment • sep 19, 2020