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Hacker News (2020)

Stanford students are short-circuiting VC firms by investing in their peers
10 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
A fast radio burst in our own Galaxy
10 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Fairway Was Mismanaged and Looted by Private Equity
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
The engineer’s engineer: Dave Cutler (2016)
10 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
JQuery Is Better Than React (2017)
10 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper
10 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Boogaloo Movement
10 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Transparent privacy practices for Chrome Extensions
10 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
AWS AppSync offline reference architecture – powered by the Amplify DataStore
10 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Observations on Consequences of Short-Term Thinking in Technology Organizations
10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Trump’s Space Force Loses Early Trademark Battle to Netflix’s Space Force
10 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
An Event, Perhaps by Peter Salmon Review – A Timely Biography of Jacques Derrida
10 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Simplifier – Optimized Solar Cell
10 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Danish Covid-19 mink variant could spark new pandemic
10 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Amazon workers to stage a walkout Monday, demanding closure of facility
10 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
0day “In the Wild”
10 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott
10 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
WebKit Shutting Down (April Fools 2007)
10 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Covid-19 Human Challenge Trials
10 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator players observed Hurricane Laura in real-time
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
React Mental Models: Working with Input
10 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
New Trend: Data-Infrastructure-as-a-Service
10 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Look for Elon Musk to Unveil a New Battery That Will Shake the EV Market
10 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Airbnb's Resurgence
10 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Postel's Law in Development
10 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Reached 1001 PH upvotes without getting any batch – Our learnings
10 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
San Francisco Police Accessed Private Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
10 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Statistical Significance: A Practical Introduction
10 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Convert a Website to an API: Building a Serverless Web Scraper with the AWS CDK
10 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
New approach to detecting deepfakes by detecting pulse and heartbeat
10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Occupational Outlook Handbook
10 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
The 10x Advantage of Starting a Company
10 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
James Dyson says he spent £500M of his own money on the company’s canceled EV
10 points • comment • may 18, 2020
What’s Motivating the Matrix Engine Movement in Supercomputing?
10 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Google Invests $4.5B in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms
10 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Bay Area could be worst hit by outward pandemic migration
10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
We Should Regulate Ridesharing Like Buses and Restaurants
10 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Indications that gene editing could undo ageing
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Creator of Redis on How to Be More Productive (2017)
10 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
VS Code in the Browser
10 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Ask HN: What is a business anti-pattern you've experienced at work?
10 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
James 'Scotty' Doohan's ashes may have been smuggled aboard the ISS
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
10 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Hottest temperature on Earth recorded in Death Valley
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Why Are So Many People on Capitol Hill Getting Infected?
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Tesla’s New 4680 Battery Cell
10 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Google/fuzzbench: Fuzzer benchmarking as a service
10 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
Castlevania III Password Algorithm
10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
TensorFlow MLIR: An Introduction
10 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Show HN: Dial-a-Podcast
10 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Show HN: Adblock list that blocks email pixels and read-receipt trackers
10 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, but for Evicting People
10 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom (2016)
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Health experts join global anti-lockdown movement
10 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Regarding Zoom
10 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, ex-creators raise cash for a new gaming studio
10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Ask HN: What personal knowledge base software do you use?
10 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
The Zynga Analytics Platform
10 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Reddit promises to stop accessing user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14
10 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
VPNs Are Overrated
10 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Cancelled: Ambitious Dyson Electric Car – 600m Range – 0-62 in 4.8 Sec
10 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Quantum Memory Milestone Boosts Quantum Internet Future
10 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Trump admin to extend and expand immigration restrictions
10 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online
10 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Bellagio sportsbook error may be largest past post loss in Vegas history
10 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
iSH on Twitter: Apple not removing iSH
10 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Guthrie's One Trial Theory
10 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Fundamentals of Digital Security
10 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Bridgewater Associates Lays Off Several Dozen Employees
10 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Show HN: CraftQL – A Rust CLI tool for GraphQL schemas manipulation and graphviz
10 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Microship.com: The Library of Technomadics
10 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Nike and Coca-Cola Lobby Against Xinjiang Forced Labor Bil
10 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Show HN: Robinhood users vs. the S&P 500
10 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Training EfficientNets at Scale: 83% ImageNet Top-1 Accuracy in One Hour
10 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The Herd Immunity Taboo – Tablet Magazine
10 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Singapore Airlines Plans Flights to Nowhere
10 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Kubernetes is NOT a container orchestrator
10 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs. Placebo on Hospital Length of Stay
10 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Bloom Language
10 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
How to prevent 120k extra US deaths over Thanksgiving
10 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
The Fairey Rotodyne, the vertical takeoff and landing airliner time forgot
10 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Genetics in the Madhouse
10 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Those without broadband struggle in a stay-at-home nation
10 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Decrypting the Signal App
10 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
We need to talk about crying at work
10 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Show HN: CSNotes – A website for my Computer Science Notes
10 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Google developing all-in-one messaging app for businesses
10 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Robinhood Faces SEC Probe Related to Deals with High-Speed Traders
10 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Turning any 2D photo into 3D using convolutional neural nets
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Trusted Contacts won’t be supported after December 1, 2020
10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
N95DECON – A scientific consortium for study of N95 FFR decontamination
10 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Indirect Effects of Allocate Direct
10 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Blenheim Ginger Ale
10 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Show HN: DynaBlogger – A simple, alternative blogging platform
10 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Glitch puts Star Fox 64 ships in an unmodified Zelda cartridge
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Unilever to trial four-day working week in NZ
10 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Tech-starved government seeks industry’s best, brightest
10 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Lungs damaged by Coronavirus can repair themselves in three months
10 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
First Authorized Translation of Masahiro Mori's 1970 Essay “The Uncanny Valley”
10 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
The Deadliest Pandemics in History
10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020