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Hacker News (2020)

Deep-learning robot Shimon writes and rhymes in real time
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Veblen values and the uncanny valley of interactivity
9 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
California imposes overnight curfew to stem coronavirus
9 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Ubuntu's Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log
9 points • comment • may 12, 2020
An Early Hacker Used a Cereal Box Whistle to Take over Phone Lines
9 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Backdoor accounts discovered in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data
9 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Hollywood studio MGM puts itself up for sale at $5bn
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Teen mastermind of Twitter hack was involved in fatal home invasion, say police
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown
9 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
The Godfather of Fake News
9 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Show HN: Wassup – Save your personal memories and emotions together
9 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
A Conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt (1959) [video]
9 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Movie Datasets for Machine Learning
9 points • comment • may 31, 2020
A Brief History of Surgeons
9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History
9 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better
9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Climate change: A major global threat
9 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Learning to program at 57 years young
9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
The pandemic was just a ‘scamdemic’ – until truth hit home hard
9 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor
9 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
How does a virus assemble inside a cell?
9 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Cyberstalker locates victim by enhancing reflection in her eye (2019)
9 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Turkmenistan Bans the Word “Coronavirus”
9 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Kosmos – Graphic development environment for Clojure
9 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
A pragmatic approach to mobile architecture (iOS and Android)
9 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Show HN: Turn an AWS API call into a readable stream (Node.js)
9 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
An Indian doctor who is in Jail for 6 months for protesting against govt
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
9 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Show HN: TQL – Codegen-free and typesafe GraphQL operations in TypeScript
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Show HN: HoloLens 2 pure JavaScript WebGL simulator (prototype)
9 points • comment • may 12, 2020
The first two statements of your BASH script should be
9 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again
9 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Sorry, Immunity to Covid-19 Won't Be Like a Superpower
9 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Zune, Google Glass, and the Newton Still Have a Lot to Teach Us
9 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
America's identity politics went from inclusion to division (2018)
9 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Extract Movie Ratings from Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB in .NET Core
9 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
TSMC Ariz Fab a Tangled Web
9 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Privacy activists beg Google to ban un-removable bloatware from Android
9 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
White House Economists Warned in 2019 a Pandemic Could Devastate America
9 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Humble Book Bundle: Cybersecurity 2020 by Wiley
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Amazon Deforestation Soars as Pandemic Hobbles Enforcement
9 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
The Company Behind the Iowa Caucus App Debacle Has a Deeply Troubling Plan
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
AMD Radeon 'Big Navi' RX Gamma Flagship GPU Specs and Benchmarks Leaked
9 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
All your favorite brands, from BSTOEM to ZGGCD
9 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we need
9 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
I Recovered from Covid-19. But I Can’t Donate My Plasma Because I’m Gay
9 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
The Walkman wasn't invented in Japan
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Hygiene Is Overrated – You Can Be Too Clean
9 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Sentropy emerges from stealth with an AI platform to tackle online abuse
9 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Ask HN: Those who run dev shops – what products do you pay for?
9 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
The Trouble with Triscuits
9 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Why Does Tylenol Kill Snakes?
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Federal court rules WhatsApp and Facebook’s malware case against NSO can proceed
9 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Alexagate Is an Ultrasonic Slap to Your Amazon Alexa’s Spying Ears
9 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Ask HN: What traits of senior engineers do you find most valuable?
9 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Microsoft’s TikTok buyout would cover every Five Eyes nation other than the UK
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Apple buys virtual reality company NextVR
9 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm
9 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Punkbit – a slick Hacker News reader
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Red Planet Ride-Along
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Covid-19: four fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate
9 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Take a Bill Gates-Style “Think Week” to Recharge Your Thinking (2010)
9 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős (2019)
9 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Germany's New Immigration Law
9 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Show HN: Lifebelt – Secure and reliable applications on Kubernetes
9 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Wired to Care
9 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
'The West' is, in fact, the world's biggest gated community
9 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke's thought on no-code, low-code movement
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Georgian Ices and Victorian Bombes (2004)
9 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Analog Devices to acquire Maxim Integrated
9 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
The Paper Clip Problem. When users use your systems differently than designed
9 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure
9 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dies at Age 73
9 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Low turnout and polarization are a deadly combo for electoral stability
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Show HN: iLert – one platform for uptime monitoring, alerting and being on-call
9 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless *
9 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve (2019)
9 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
IQ Scores Falling
9 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Axel Rauschmayer made a list of small bugs in Apple’s products
9 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Once More with Feeling
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Free Ivy League Online Courses
9 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Ask HN: What real-time chat are you using in place of slack?
9 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
An art fair where you can buy a steer and a painting
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Salesforce Unveils Tools to Help Companies Safely Reopen Offices
9 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Notes about Google CloudSQL for Postgres
9 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Unemployment Rate in U.S. stands to hit 32% says Federal Reserve
9 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Nest Aware
9 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Testers are the first to see indications of failure. Here's their warning signs
9 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Show HN: Does your browser supports WebAssembly?
9 points • comment • may 08, 2020
AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with 'Amazon' vs. 'AWS'
9 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
A quick dive into k3s and the Mender Update Module for Kubernetes
9 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Grumman knew it was polluting groundwater, kept critical information secret
9 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Peter Montgomery Has Died
9 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Peter Rex: I’m Leaving Seattle for Texas So My Employees Can Be Free
9 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Tom Cruise teaming with Elon Musk, NASA to shoot action movie in space
9 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Generate random fake data and populate your application for easier development
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Show HN: Golang Chrome Headless Driver
9 points • comment • apr 06, 2020