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Hacker News (2020)

Set Up a Pi-Hole Ad Blocking VPN Server on Google Cloud’s Always Free Usage Tier
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Tiny Weed-Killing Robots Could Make Pesticides Obsolete
8 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
5 Tactics In Typography and Design That Can Help You Ship Your MVP Fast and Good
8 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
The Luxe Quarantine Lives of Silicon Valley’s Elite
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Moobot vs. Gatebot:Cloudflare Auto Blocks Botnet DDoS Attack Topping at 654 Gbps
8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Coronavirus tracking app locks up Android phones for ransom
8 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
NASA’s Osiris-Rex Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid Bennu
8 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Sculpture at CIA headquarters holds one of the most famous unsolved mysteries
8 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Trump fires cybersecurity director Christopher Krebs
8 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Analyzing WhatsApp Calls with Wireshark, Radare2 and Frida
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
White House says Trump ended Covid-19 pandemic
8 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
CA court rules Amazon can be liable for defective goods sold on its marketplace
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
The Great Filter of Startups
8 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
The Device Invented to Resuscitate Canaries in Coal Mines (Circa 1896)
8 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Uber employees sue over stock price decline
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Trump says Google CEO Sundar Pichai called to apologize
8 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Uber is dependent on fulltime drivers but can't afford to pay them like employee
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Temperatures at a Florida-Size Glacier in Antarctica Alarm Scientists
8 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Tptacek vs. Filosottile on rolling own crypto
8 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Ask HN: Any good books on the history of the internet?
8 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Ask HN: Does anyone know of a tool to see what data is sent to 3rd parties
8 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Facebook bans 'Roger Stone disinformation network'
8 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Building an 8-bit breadboard computer
8 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Ask HN: How can I help towards Covid-19?
8 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Anatomy of a Constitutional Coup
8 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
China says its GDP shrank by 6.8% in the first quarter
8 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Air Canada Boeing 737 Max ferry flight diverts after engine issue
8 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Whole Foods Secretly Upgrades Tech to Target and Squash Unionizing Efforts
8 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Shallow Trees with Heavy Leaves
8 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Mumbai Police Play a Trick on Honking Drivers
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Ask HN: What book, video, paper, or essay do you keep revisiting over and over?
8 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Open source vulnerabilities up almost 50% thanks to people looking for them
8 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
MicroG 0.2.12 released, adds support for Covid-19 contact tracing apps
8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
US, UK and Canada claim Russia tried to hack coronavirus vaccine research
8 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Roaming robots looking for metal to eat; what could go wrong?
8 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong users
8 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism
8 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Show HN: I filter Amazon products for above-average ratings/below-average prices
8 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Secular faith has no answer to the coronavirus
8 points • comment • may 15, 2020
The kids aren't alright: How Generation Covid is losing out
8 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Open-source Vulnerabilities up almost 50% cuz people looking for them
8 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered in Amazon rainforest
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride
8 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Is it time we started killing spammers? (2010)
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
China Houston consulate: Docs burning after US told it to shut down
8 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Russia’s SolarWinds Attack – Schneier on Security
8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Young people are screwed Here’s how to survive
8 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Ted Cruz Rips Jack Dorsey over Censorship of Post’s Hunter Biden Bombshell
8 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Remote Job Direct from Twitter
8 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
KubeInvaders – Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Amazon Restricts Advertising from Rival Device Makers on Its Site
8 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Lockdowns don’t seem to have any noticeable effect on the spread of Covid-19
8 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
UK to get first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Linguistic Theory
8 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Year of the Asterisk
8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Run and operate multiple meshes in one Kubernetes cluster
8 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Electoral Precedent 2020
8 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Raspberry Pi: High Quality Camera
8 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Texas breaks from CDC in vaccinating elderly over police and teachers
8 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
AMD Radeon RX 6800, 6800XT review: A safer GPU bet on red
8 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
DB Fiddle – SQL Database Playground
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
US Dept Treasury seeks feedback on its proposed (privacy invasive) crypto rules
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Payment processor Visa blacklists free speech software company Gab
8 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
I’m Leaving the West Coast
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
KFC ‘hacking’ Spotify Premium is an arrogant middle finger to all of us
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
What makes entrepreneurship so difficult?
8 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Boozy Liquid Shader
8 points • comment • may 29, 2020
It's the programming environment, not the programming language
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Deep Learning State of the Art (2020) – MIT Deep Learning Series
8 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Dozens of Amazon's own products have been reported as dangerous
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Project Management as Code with Graphviz (2017)
8 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Show HN: HackerDaily – Outline.com for Hacker News
8 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
EU Considering 5-Year Ban of Facial Recognition Tech in Public Spaces
8 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
New H-1B Rules Announced
8 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Radio Frequency Exposure Test Finds an iPhone 11 Pro Exceeds the FCC's Limit
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Data Caps are now more profitable than ever for ISPs
8 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
The US Has Its First ‘Community Spread’ Coronavirus Case
8 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains (Book)
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
How the 1957 Flu Pandemic Was Stopped Early in Its Path
8 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Burner phones and banking apps: Chinese brokers laundering Mexican drug money
8 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Worlds within a self: V. S. Naipaul and modernity
8 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Eddie Van Halen, legendary guitarist, dies aged 65
8 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963
8 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Workers and customers are catching Covid-19. Should businesses escape blame?
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
8 points • comment • may 28, 2020
States Sue Google over Digital Ad Practices
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
The Judgment Against Hakan Lans (2006)
8 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
NASA's Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Ethereum Users Giving the DAO Another Try After Digital Stickup
8 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
How the Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine
8 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Removing safeguards and oversight, cabinet okays mass surveillance to halt virus
8 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Nearly 100 U.S. air marshals have been infected with Covid-19
8 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Cosmopolitan Cocktail
8 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Sweden's HYBRIT starts operations at pilot plant for fossil-free steel
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
US White House Coronavirus Task Force to Wind Down around Memorial Day
8 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House (2017)
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
The next outbreak? We’re not ready (2015) [video]
8 points • comment • mar 17, 2020