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Hacker News (2020)

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: Central Banks Purpose
8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong
8 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered in Amazon rainforest
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Newly released incident reports detail US Navy's 'UFO' encounters
8 points • comment • may 14, 2020
The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know
8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Show HN: To Listen to Any Page Prefix the URL with Playthis.link
8 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Functional Programming in Bash Scripts
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Get ready to eat bugs if you want to live beyond 2050
8 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains (Book)
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
There's discussion in some Islamic circles that AI may be the antichrist Dajjaal
8 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Tawk of the Town
8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
The Coronavirus Outbreak Should Concern Us About Chronic Wasting Disease
8 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
The tech industry is culpable for Trump
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Her Cellphone Number Used to Be Elon Musk's. You Can Imagine the Calls She Gets
8 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Expensify's CEO urges people to vote against Trump
8 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills over degrees
8 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
A 'Cure for Heart Disease'? a Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys
8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Computers Barely Work – Interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman
8 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
MomentJs is deprecated. Here's how I chose a successor OSS Test suite included
8 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Suddenly, Health Officials Say Social Justice Matters More Social Distance
8 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Show HN: Add popups to your website ️ backed with Google Sheets (for free)
8 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Show HN: Who Voted [for What]
8 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Da Vinci – Overrated?
8 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Alzheimer’s: New protein found in spinal fluid indicates stage of the disease
8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly
8 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
New Covid Cases Soar in Denmark, Surpassing No-Lockdown Sweden
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Show HN: On-demand servers using SSH ProxyCommand
8 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Never Again: We Need Science Based Government
8 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Loneliness could be changing your brain and body
8 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
AstraZeneca to Buy Alexion for $39B
8 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Ask HN: Did Nate Silver End Up Listening to Nassim Taleb's Critique?
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences
8 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Show HN: A web-browser to web-browser file sharing app (uses WebSockets, no DB)
8 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
American Red Cross Study Suggests Possible New Covid-19 Timeline in the US
8 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
John Oliver on police accountability (2016)
8 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Let's Encrypt Issues New Root and Intermediate Certificates
8 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
How the Brain Teases Apart a Song's Words and Music
8 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction No. 121 (1990)
8 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Ethereum Users Giving the DAO Another Try After Digital Stickup
8 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
Ask HN: Bored, stuck in a rut. What to do?
8 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
30 Days of Cold Showers: Not What I Was Expecting
8 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
EU recommends 1.44M resettlements in 2020 “to fulfil its moral duty” [pdf]
8 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
'Punishment by statistics': the father who foresaw A-level algorithm flaws
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
What local news articles could look like if news websites were not so horrible
8 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
How Facebook became “the most Chinese company In Silicon Valley”
8 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Twitter Is in China’s Pocket
8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
The difference between quarantine, isolation, and social distancing, explained
8 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
People’s feelings during Coronavirus pandemic
8 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
.com price rises are on their way after ICANN approves Verisign contract
8 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Ask HN: Why would a bot (or person) leave these identical nonsense IMDB reviews?
8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Turkish Court Clears Way for Hagia Sophia to Be Used as a Mosque Again
8 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Show HN: A Chrome extension to help save books you want to read
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
The tools we need to fight Covid-19
8 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
It's the programming environment, not the programming language
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Palantir Vanishes from Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign
8 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Work and Let Work: Three models for managing political conflict at your company
8 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
The Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
8 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
US to Sell Taiwan Drones; Rockets
8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
MP for Cambridge urges the UK government to buy ARM
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
A Wintry Ride Through Venice
8 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth's core
8 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
What the EU Gets Right–and the US Gets Wrong–About Antitrust
8 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Ask HN: How do I get started with developing an app from scratch?
8 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Oxford scientists develop extremely rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19
8 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Fortnite for Android just got axed from the Google Play Store too
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
I’m Leaving the West Coast
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Drive and Listen – drive around cites while listening to their local radio
8 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
8 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Vit-D and COVID19 update: big review (Benskin) peer reviewed; tide turning?
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm?
8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Recursive Islands and Lakes
8 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written by Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (2017)
8 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
UK and US claim coronavirus labs being attacked by state hackers
8 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Trump Fires Christopher Krebs, Official Who Disputed Election Fraud Claims
8 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Is NASA Working on a Warp Drive?
8 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Baricitinib treatment linked to reduced mortality in Covid-19 patients
8 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Face masks ‘significantly reduce’ spread of Covid-19, study finds
8 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Facebook moves to limit spread of dubious Hunter Biden laptop story
8 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Ask HN: What's the state of P2P database sync?
8 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Censoring the Biden story: How social media becomes state media
8 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Roche gets FDA approval for Covid-19 antibody test with 99.8% specificity
8 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Woke Science Is an Experiment Certain to Fail
8 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Coronavirus hastens Japan's shift away from hanko seals
8 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Glenn Greenwald: Big Tech is censoring Covid debate
8 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Linux 5.8 Optionally Flush the L1d Cache on Context Switch to Increase Security
8 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Create bootable USB drives the easy way (Windows)
8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Publishers Sue the Internet Archive, Declare It a Pirate Site
8 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Facts You Need to Know About Google on Its 21st Birthday
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Trump shared a deceptive video blaming ‘fake news.’ Twitter labeled it as fake
8 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
My current sources of earnings from blogging
8 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
8 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
The one kind of founder vcs will never fund
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Elon Musk’s SpaceX uses Linux in Starlink satellite system
8 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Microsoft Crushed Slack
8 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Ask HN: How can we prevent excessive force by police?
8 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
MIT now issues digital degree proofs on Bitcoin using “blockcerts”
8 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
ACLU sues Clearview AI claiming the company's tech crosses ethical bounds
8 points • comment • may 29, 2020
The Great Filter of Startups
8 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
We Love Tailwind
8 points • comment • apr 22, 2020