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Hacker News (2020)

State of Clojure 2020
288 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration
288 points • comment • may 11, 2020
California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
288 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)
288 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Working at Apple (2011)
288 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 3: Effect Systems
288 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Year Without a Summer
287 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
287 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Show HN: r/hnblogs, Blogging is not Dead
287 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence
287 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Show HN: Simulation-based high school physics course notes
287 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Megadesk
287 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
287 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Low latency tuning guide
287 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices
287 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output
287 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor
287 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Remote work means anyone can take your job
287 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Philipp Hagemeister, former YouTube-dl maintainer re: takedown
287 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
287 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives
287 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
287 points • comment • may 12, 2020
On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses
287 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable
287 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard
287 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon
287 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
De-Googling: My Progress
287 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
287 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Robinhood was indeed too good to be true
287 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light
286 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Thunderbird’s New Home
286 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar
286 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students
286 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
286 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Text-Only Websites
286 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
London tube map made from a working circuit board
286 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
An animal that doesn't breathe oxygen
286 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”
286 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
286 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Li Wenliang
286 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet
286 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
286 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Rich Tables in the Terminal
286 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
286 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
A Little Money Laundering Can Have a Big Impact on Real Estate Prices (2019)
286 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Why we are suing the Administration
286 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them
286 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
286 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
EULA Found on a Package of Fruit
286 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Twitter is suspending pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
286 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK
286 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites
285 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence
285 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Advent of Code 2020
285 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-status
285 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
EU’s Top Court Restricts Personal-Data Transfers to U.S., Citing Surveillance
285 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
285 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)
285 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
285 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Reading habits that changed my life
285 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Fuchsia Programming Language Policy
285 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
GPT-3
285 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?
285 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
What is interesting about Factorio
285 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor
285 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
285 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Cells are fast and crowded places (2011)
285 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
285 points • comment • may 22, 2020
EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation
285 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Getting Fiber to My Town [video]
285 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)
285 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
285 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates
285 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Eight Years at Roblox
285 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove
285 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies
284 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Ask HN: How are you holding up?
284 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
The social obligation to be bad at things
284 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
284 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California
284 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Office noise generator
284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
MirageJS: An API mocking library for frontend development
284 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
284 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license
284 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
284 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017)
284 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s
284 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Clear Your Terminal in Style
284 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Bash Error Handling
284 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative
284 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
China Bans Americans Working for WSJ, NYT, WaPo
284 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)
284 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company
284 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
284 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
284 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why
284 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble
284 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
284 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”
284 points • comment • feb 11, 2020