woid

top stories

Hacker News (2020)

Show HN: Plot your Docker Image’s downloads over time
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
One billion Android devices at risk of hacking
8 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Fauci urges calm as mutated Covid-19 strain from UK found in California
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Foregen: Using Regenerative Medicine to Undo Male Genital Mutilation
8 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Collapse of insect populations may foreshadow the earthly ecosystems collapse
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
China says its GDP shrank by 6.8% in the first quarter
8 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Large 2000-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines
8 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Ask HN: Are there any jobs yet in WebAssembly?
8 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
US Dept Treasury seeks feedback on its proposed (privacy invasive) crypto rules
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Raspberry Pi: High Quality Camera
8 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Chinese games billionaire dies 'after poisoning'
8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
8 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Signal Desktop grants RCE to Signal developers
8 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Show HN: An 'offline' reverse-geocoder API written in Go
8 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy
8 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Ask HN: Is reverse engineering a saleable skill?
8 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Microsoft Edge on Linux preview is coming in October
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Going Viral, or Not, in the Milky Way
8 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
U.S. Military Seeks Authorization to Expand Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya
8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Common Cold Coronaviruses Might Prime the Immune System to Recognize SARS-CoV-2
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Nokia Escalates Patent Wars by Taking on German Lenovo Sales
8 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Y2K fixes have left Y2020 bugs
8 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
China bans fishing in Yangtze River for 10 years
8 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
RISC-V’s Expanding Footprint
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Similarity: unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag
8 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Robinhood's Gamification Combines Surveillance Capitalism and Finance Capitalism
8 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
How do you kneel on a neck for nine minutes?
8 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Shallow Trees with Heavy Leaves
8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
China's influence via WeChat 'flying under the radar of Western democracies
8 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Healthcare giant UHS hit by ransomware attack
8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
A Brief History of Knowledge Graph's Main Ideas
8 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Man infected with coronavirus goes to bars ‘to spread’ it
8 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
GPS-Implanted Fake Eggs Might Save Sea Turtles from Illegal Poaching
8 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse
8 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
AMD Radeon RX 6800, 6800XT review: A safer GPU bet on red
8 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
WinDIY – HAWT Wind Turbine
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
8 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
A Civil Rights Expert Explains the Social Science of Police Racism
8 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Stuff Your Pi-Hole from Anywhere
8 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
62% Say the Political Climate (US) Prevents Them from Sharing Political Views
8 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Moving to Austin: Your Guide to Living, Working and Playing in ATX
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
The Unintended Beauty of Starlings
8 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
A lint framework that writes better Python code for you
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from over 4k women
8 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Media learns what musicians already know: Spotify only works for the stars
8 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
A Look at a Vintage Sony CD Burner
8 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Fear of white space
8 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
For 9 years, multinationals like Shell and Bayer funded prominent climate denier
8 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
A Small open-source Game In C++
8 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Ask HN: What benefits can I provide to improve employee’s sleeping habits?
8 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Suicide Spike in Japan Shows Mental Health Toll of Covid-19
8 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
An early version of Starship takes its first tentative steps off Earth
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Electoral Precedent 2020
8 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won’t act
8 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Burner phones and banking apps: Chinese brokers laundering Mexican drug money
8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Ask HN: State of XMPP and open and extensible alternatives?
8 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
What happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
A nuclear bomb shot a manhole into space before Sputnik
8 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Amazon stops development of Crucible
8 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Researchers still don't know why this Atari 2600 game works
8 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Spacecraft will fly by Venus week after announcement on signs of life
8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Malware stashed in China-mandated software is more extensive than thought
8 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
An Asymmetric Landscape: The Different Shapes of Blue and Red News
8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Show HN: I built Reddit but for research only
8 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
EU Bans Lighted Lady Hood Ornament on Rolls Royce Cars Due to Light Pollution
8 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
John Oliver on Facial Recognition
8 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Microsoft Teams Is Down
8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Control Runaway Postgres Queries with Statement Timeout
8 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Be Productive This Pandemic: Learn Lisp in 52 Pages [pdf]
8 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
The Coming Eviction Crisis: ‘It’s Hard to Pay the Bills on Nothing’
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Ask HN: Does anyone know of a tool to see what data is sent to 3rd parties
8 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Boeing faces $20M fine by FAA
8 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Interactive map of protests in Poland – looks impressive
8 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
The Power of the Passive Protagonist
8 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper
8 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Facebook sued by Australian information watchdog over data breach
8 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Credit Checks for Covid Tests
8 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
React Native vs. Flutter for app development (2020)
8 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Blur attacks bypass Bluetooth Classic and BLE security mechanisms CVE-2020-15802
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Show HN: JuvMed – Health practice management software
8 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook (2019)
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
How to Make Yourself into a Learning Machine
8 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Ask HN: Best Graphics libraries to build CAD solutions?
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
The Right to a Nonconsensus Opinion
8 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Oxford scientists develop extremely rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19
8 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
What Is Poverty (2000)
8 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
AWS Kinesis now supports data retention period up to one year
8 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Bots on Keybase
8 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Monorepo Is a Bad Idea
8 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Show HN: Raspberry Pi WiFi extender/router/ad-blocker to filter all DNS traffic
8 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Is it time we started killing spammers? (2010)
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
The Coronavirus Pandemic Turned Bill Gates into a Fake Villain
8 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Texas breaks from CDC in vaccinating elderly over police and teachers
8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to axe Obamacare amid pandemic
8 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
We built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Ask HN: How physical server boots are done scale with disk encryption enabled?
8 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
How Do I Hide All Firefox Browser Welcome Pages?
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
15 Children Are Hospitalized with Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19
8 points • comment • may 05, 2020