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Hacker News (2020)

Weight Loss Is Harder Than Rocket Science
10 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
10 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Widely anticipated Iowa Poll thrown out due to web browser font size problem
10 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Benefits Lapse for Millions as Trump Fails to Approve Bill
10 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World
10 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
A history of elliptic curves in tweets
10 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
City disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here's what happened next
10 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
A brief introduction to definite clause grammars (2004)
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
The Compleat History of Shredding (2002)
10 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Should Blackmail Be Legal?
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Crab Command and Control
10 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Why That Big Customer You Are Chasing Will Kill Your Startup
10 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
XXE on HTTPS://Duckduckgo.com
10 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Life and Breath: The human story of how ventilators came to breathe for us
10 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
The Question Is Whether We Live in a Democracy or a Corporate State
10 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
China vs. Democracy: A Handbook for Democracies
10 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Christopher Columbus Statues Are Being Beheaded in America
10 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
FTC investigating 9 social media and video streaming services
10 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
10 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Six-page narratives tackling our biggest challenges
10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Fusion – A New “Computed Observable” for Distributed Real-Time Apps
10 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
10 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Too Much for One Man: A new life of Charles V
10 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Using Types to Guarantee Domain Invariants
10 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Covid-19 Fatalities Dashboard
10 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Surveillance Company Explains How to Keep Facebook from Detecting Fake Accounts
10 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
LibreOffice 7.0 “Personal Edition” Branding Dropped
10 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Ongoing Challenges in Computer Science
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Trump’s Coronavirus Press Event Was Even Worse Than It Looked
10 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Sandvine Cancels Belarus Deal, Citing Abuses
10 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Gitlab runs phishing test against employees – and 20% handed over credentials
10 points • comment • may 25, 2020
VW introduces ID.4 electric SUV with 250 miles of range and a $40k price tag
10 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Uber Suspends 240 Accounts in Mexico over User Suspected to Have Coronavirus
10 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Fictional Companies Wiki
10 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
We should be grateful for good news in Georgia
10 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Introduction to Terraform
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Show HN: Jsonbox.io V2 – Free HTTP-based JSON storage with private box
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Show HN: Reproduction.live – R estimation for Covid in regions around the world
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Our social crisis is no longer just about inequality, it’s about life and death
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
The history of Cracker Jack prizes (2016)
10 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Twitter reports record user growth, explores subscriptions
10 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
More than 30 states file suit demanding breakup of Google (2nd antitrust suit)
10 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design Was 50 Years Ahead of Its Time
10 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020
10 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Every Startup Has Three Stories, and You Need to Tell All of Them
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Dish-O-TRON – AI to detect dirty dishes in the sink
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Artificial Ankle Looks Realistic
10 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Counting Inversions via Rank Queries
10 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Reports: Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
“Strange metals,” a new state of matter
10 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Why Covid-19 kills certain patients revealed in 'breakthrough finding'
10 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
How to test CLI commands made with Go and Cobra
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Algorithms Can Bioengineer Cells for You
10 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Hack Reactor bootcamp dishonestly advertises 6 figure salary in 12 weeks
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Why Woke History Is Not the Answer
10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Coronavirus: Italy extends its quarantine to the entire country
10 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects' alibis
10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Sex in Space
10 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Mask Mandates Work to Slow Spread of Coronavirus, Kansas Study Finds
10 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
The Simple Reason the Polls Failed So Hard in 2020
10 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Gmail redesign turns it into a one-stop productivity suite
10 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Jeff Bezos: Here’s how I make Amazon’s highest-stakes decisions
10 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
The Virus Will Win
10 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Chileans Vote to Draft a New Constitution
10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Show HN: Self-Published Book – “A Pocket Guide to CCPA” for Web Developers
10 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Happy Endings Could Mess Up Your Brain's Decision-Making, Study Says
10 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
The Importance of the Scientific Method to Startups
10 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
75 Minutes of Cruise's Autonomous Driving with Kyle Vogt and Sam Altman
10 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App of the Future
10 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Kontrast Is a Contrast Checker
10 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Will Big Business Finally Reckon with the Climate Crisis?
10 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Google antitrust investigation is coming to a head
10 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
What Is the Most Profitable Hollywood Movie Ever?
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
SpaceX Starship high altitude test live stream
10 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Quantumly Generated Random Bytes in Racket
10 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Coca-Cola is discontinuing the Odwalla juice brand
10 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
TechLead Got Banned from Facebook
10 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Capacitor issues are causing RTX 3080/3090 crashes
10 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Antirez (Redis creator): don’t believe this is just a flu
10 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?
10 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Ask HN: How do you manage backup 2FA codes?
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Is ICE Running Human Experiments Resulting in Mass Hysterectomies?
10 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Fight the Virus Please
10 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Show HN: Timesheet – Minimalist Work Hours Manager
10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Google disabled my daughter's email account
10 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
What to pack in your evacuation bag
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Regex Cheatsheet – I Hate Regex
10 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Need to plan something out? Check out the slick MasterPlan
10 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Sundar Pichai Says Google Doesn't Plan to Go Entirely Remote
10 points • comment • may 22, 2020
The No-Money-Down Million Dollar Tech Stack
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Continuous Profiling Go Applications Running in Kubernetes
10 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Ask HN: How would you design an secure online voting system?
10 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
MIP*=Re
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Amazon has created fertile ground for bribery schemes, sellers say
10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Ask HN: Best tool stack for Laracast-type instructional videos?
10 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Biotech conference led to 245,000 Covid-19 cases across US
10 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Half of Fox News Viewers Believe Bill Gates Wants to Use Vaccine to Track You
10 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Spot the sniper in these photos (2014)
10 points • comment • nov 19, 2020