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Hacker News (2020)

Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
279 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors
279 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI
279 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0
279 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Signs that a business idea will probably fail
279 points • comment • may 03, 2020
7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered
279 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition
279 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
279 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
279 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Lo-Fi Player
279 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
On Resigning from Google
279 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML
279 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
279 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
279 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass
279 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
279 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)
279 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
279 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Nicomachean Ethics
279 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Removing Holocaust Denial Content
278 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
278 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Toward a “modern” Emacs
278 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker
278 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
278 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’
278 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions
278 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
278 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks
278 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
278 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch
278 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast
278 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
GraphBLAS – Graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra
278 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Philosophers on GPT-3
278 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
278 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Did a Chinese Hack Kill Nortel?
278 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
278 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?
278 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
278 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
278 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard
278 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer
278 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
278 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
How to seriously read a scientific paper
278 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie
278 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents
278 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
How strong is your knot?
277 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Dan's online motorcycle repair course (1999-2020)
277 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Ask HN: I think I’ve burnt out. What should I do?
277 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
277 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Planning and Managing Layoffs
277 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Python malware on the rise
277 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics
277 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Fuchsia overview
277 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
277 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
277 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Graphical Linear Algebra
277 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states
277 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium
277 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]
277 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
A US Visa in 937 Days
277 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)
277 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter
277 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Don't write documentation in Markdown
276 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
All Hail Geometric Algebra
276 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds
276 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript
276 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?
276 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Pretending OOP Never Happened
276 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost
276 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years
276 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone
276 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
276 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Building a Developer Cult
276 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
276 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
The Whimsical Website Club
276 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software
276 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt
276 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t
276 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader
276 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
276 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]
276 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Collapse OS – Why Forth?
276 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)
276 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
276 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
People work longer and different hours under lockdown
276 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
276 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Every software system used at Gitlab
276 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit
276 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer
276 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
276 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Fast 2D Rendering on GPU
275 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Apache NiFi
275 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
275 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Electoral College Decision Tree
275 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs
275 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers
275 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]
275 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Neural programmer better than Quicksort
275 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
WSL Getting GUI Support
275 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy
275 points • comment • oct 19, 2020