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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Learning the concept of even numbers (differentiable ILP; my first paper impl.)

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  2. Unity 2020.1 is now available

    8 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  3. Twitter, Facebook Censor New York Post Link of Hunter Biden Exposé

    8 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  4. Woman in ICU warns of Covid-19 dangers: 'Don't take any chances'

    8 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  5. Horcrux Encrypted Messaging

    8 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  6. They Sold Their Stock. They could've made a difference, but they made a profit

    8 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  7. White US professor admits she has pretended to be Black for years

    8 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  8. China Should Have Stopped SARS-CoV-2

    8 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  9. Houston schools see surge in failing students as Covid wreaks havoc on grades

    8 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  10. Goodbye Google–Huawei Now Urgently Turns to Apple Instead

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  11. Diffbot's Natural Language API

    8 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  12. Wadge Degrees (2015)

    8 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  13. Stack Overflow is buying reviews for Teams

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  14. Don't Expect Millions to Die from Coronavirus, Says Richard Epstein

    8 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  15. Microsoft designing its own ARM-based chips for servers and Surface PCs

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  16. Latin America's second-biggest airline, Avianca, driven to bankruptcy by Covid

    8 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  17. Facebook and Instagram Down

    8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  18. Why does Google think the slowest animal is the sloth?

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  19. Searching for Mary Austin

    8 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  20. Show HN: Scaledger, a double-entry accounting database with a typed GraphQL API

    8 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  21. Sharpest knife made by cooking sand in a microwave oven

    8 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  22. Emergency Surveillance During Covid-19 Crisis

    8 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  23. Sequoia Capital Led $2B SpaceX Financing

    8 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  24. Snow Science Against the Avalanche

    8 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  25. Anatomy of a Constitutional Coup

    8 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  26. Ask HN: Possible benefits of Covid-19 pandemic?

    8 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  27. Donald Trump Nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

    8 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  28. Beat the clock: the surprising psychology behind being perpetually late

    8 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  29. “Why I Fear for Taiwan”

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  30. Amazon wants to depose Trump, says he's “biased” on $10Billion Pentagon contract

    8 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  31. Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie

    8 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  32. Researchers Identify Cells Likely Targeted by Covid-19 Virus

    8 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  33. Bringing light-speed internet to Sub-Saharan Africa

    8 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  34. Further iPad Pro with A14X and 5G due for release in October?

    8 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  35. I'm a dating app profile ghostwriter who pretends to be clients online

    8 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  36. Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture

    8 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  37. Romanesco broccoli has a form naturally approximating a fractal

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  38. Lastpass Is Replacing the Native Mac App with a Web App

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  39. Apple a/UX: The First Unix Mac OS

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  40. Five Great Libraries to Manage Big Data with Python

    8 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  41. San Francisco Bans Natural Gas for All New Construction

    8 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  42. How the 1957 Flu Pandemic Was Stopped Early in Its Path

    8 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  43. We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  44. Analysis of the Imperial College Epidemiological Model

    8 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  45. Chrome spares Google and YouTube when you auto-delete privacy data

    8 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  46. The Year the Music Died

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  47. India bans PUBG and over 100 additional Chinese apps

    8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  48. Chinese Research Papers Raise Doubts, Scientific Integrity Questioned

    8 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  49. Ask HN: Will devices keep getting hotter, uncomfortably so?

    8 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  50. High-profile coronavirus retractions raise concerns about data oversight

    8 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  51. Trump Tests Positive for Covid

    8 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  52. Fujifilm points to 400TB tape cartridge on the horizon

    8 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  53. Statement from Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty about new strain of Covid-19

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  54. Ask HN: Does Building a startup feels like doing the work of 10 people?

    8 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  55. Battery Electric vs Hydrogen Fuel Cell: Efficiency Comparison

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  56. Pirate Game

    8 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  57. The Wisdom of Insecurity [pdf]

    8 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  58. Cambridge University: All lectures to be online-only until summer of 2021

    8 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  59. Opaque: Passwords Never Leave Your Device

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  60. Presence of an Earth-Like Planet Around Our Nearest Star Confirmed

    8 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  61. CNN report finds Amazon's own products are being flagged as fire hazards

    8 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  62. Hair regeneration using adipose‐derived stem cell extract in alopecia

    8 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  63. Russia’s SolarWinds Attack – Schneier on Security

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  64. Esper’s dark vision for US-China conflict makes war more likely

    8 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  65. The Importance of Building a Diverse, Well-Rounded Engineering Team

    8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  66. How to run efficient remote meetings

    8 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  67. The Psychology Behind Donald Trump's Unwavering Support

    8 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  68. He Wasn’t Toscanini, but He Made Orchestras Sing

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  69. The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  70. SSH Key Based API Authentication

    8 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  71. Why East Germany is a map zombie

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  72. Smartphone Addiction – starting the conversation with your kids

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  73. I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks

    8 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  74. Payment processor Visa blacklists free speech software company Gab

    8 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  75. Looking Up Words with DICT

    8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  76. LibreCAD vs. QCAD (2019)

    8 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  77. Seventy-five percent of Ultranauts employees are on the autism spectrum

    8 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  78. Wealthy Nations Are Eating Their Way Past the Paris Agreement’s Climate Targets

    8 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  79. Covid-19 to Add as Many as 150M Extreme Poor by 2021

    8 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  80. Where's my simulator? Simulated effect absent from the programming experience

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  81. Signal.NotifyContext: context cancelation with Unix signals coming to Go 1.16

    8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  82. Notepad++ has been banned in China

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  83. Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of the Pandemic

    8 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  84. Amazon Sent Out a Scripted News Segment, and 11 Stations Aired It

    8 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  85. Bay Area county launches door-to-door testing amid 'dire' surge

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  86. Facebook’s Hate-Speech Rules Collide with Indian Politics

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Does anyone know any good resources for enterprise UX design?

    8 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  88. A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients

    8 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  89. New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster

    8 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  90. A lawsuit is threatening the Internet Archive, not as dire as you may have heard

    8 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  91. Step by step guide to becoming an Android developer

    8 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  92. August 1, 1981: The Launch of MTV Kills the Radio Star

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  93. Ominous map shows the entire West Coast with the worst air quality on Earth

    8 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  94. Show HN: Fiwit – The single tool to manage your internal IT

    8 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  95. Hands-Free Coding

    8 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  96. What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

    8 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  97. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Got a Big Social Media Boost from Indian Troll Farms

    8 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  98. Signs of Covid infection may be hidden in speech signals

    8 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  99. FB Said It Would Ban Holocaust Deniers. Instead, It Provided Them a Network

    8 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  100. Is an Antidepressant Right for You? Ask Your Brain Waves

    8 points • comment • feb 11, 2020