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Hacker News (2020)

  1. The Concorde Fallacy and why people make bad decisions

    7 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  2. Dosing error turns into lucky punch for AstraZeneca and Oxford

    7 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  3. Microsoft update for Office 365 makes Bing default search engine in Chrome

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  4. Tech icon criticizes SF, announces move to Florida: 'Impossible to stay here'

    7 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  5. Druid Enables Analytics at Airbnb

    7 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  6. New Steps to Combat Disinformation

    7 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  7. ‘Life Has to Go On’: How Sweden Has Faced the Virus Without a Lockdown

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  8. Ajit Pai says he’ll help Trump impose crackdown on Twitter and Facebook

    7 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  9. As Businesses Close, WeWork Tries to Lure Workers Back

    7 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  10. Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind

    7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  11. Wuhan coronavirus death toll rises to 17 with 547 infected says China

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  12. After Trump tweets Defcon hacking video, voting security experts call BS

    7 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  13. Gut microbes shape our antibodies before we are infected by pathogens

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  14. Russians spread fake news over Oxford coronavirus vaccine

    7 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  15. Las Vegas mayor called reckless for suggesting Vegas be test case for reopening

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  16. Microsoft SharePoint is being used to send spam

    7 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  17. Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity

    7 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  18. Show HN: Search YouTube chess videos by in-video content

    7 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  19. Nicolas Bourbaki

    7 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  20. Big Companies vs. Startups

    7 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  21. Job Anxiety Spills into Tech Sector

    7 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  22. Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” plan to impose hard limits

    7 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  23. Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge (2012)

    7 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  24. Bathtub Curve

    7 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  25. San Francisco consulate is harboring Chinese military researcher wanted by FBI

    7 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  26. Thelio Mega: The World’s Smallest Quad-GPU Deep Learning System

    7 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  27. Global Catastrophic Risk

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  28. Ask HN: How to improve signal-to-noise ratio in comments?

    7 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  29. A Man Whose Science Fiction Keeps Turning into Our Shitty Cyberpunk Reality

    7 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  30. Differential testing for finding missed optimisations in LLVM's RISC-V back end

    7 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  31. The Climate Crisis: Lighting Up Its Impacts

    7 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  32. Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  33. Why working from home should be standard practice

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  34. Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020?

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  35. US ‘would lose any war’ fought in the Pacific with China

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  36. Singapore startup develops 60-second Covid-19 breath test

    7 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  37. Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  38. New open source ACME proxy/front end for CAs e.g. EJBCA

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  39. Lenovo Believes in the Linux Desktop

    7 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  40. Making Time for Cron Triggers: A Look Inside

    7 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  41. Covid-19: España necesita ayuda urgente/Spain needs urgent help

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  42. The Case for Internet Originalism

    7 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  43. If transistors can't get smaller, then software developers have to get smarter

    7 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  44. Indian doctor duped into buying 'Aladdin's lamp' after genie show

    7 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  45. 'Ghost' DNA in West Africans Complicates Story of Human Origins

    7 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  46. Overlooked No More: Roberta Cowell, Trans Trailblazer, Pilot and Auto Racer

    7 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  47. NetBSD: There's an amiga running a mirror at HTTP://de.netbsd.org

    7 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  48. New AI can deepfake movements of a person from just 1 image

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  49. What Does Apple Silicon Mean for the Raspberry Pi and ARM64?

    7 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  50. Why Past Attempts of Software Metrics Have Failed Us

    7 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  51. Chess Podcast removed from YouTube for being “Harmful or Dangerous” [video]

    7 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  52. Trump Lied about Science

    7 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  53. Code execution (REPL) in Telegram chat

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  54. Rapid Home Covid-19 Tests Are the Best Path to a New Normal. They're Illegal

    7 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  55. Ask HN: Books/resources to learn the technical aspects of Video Conferencing?

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  56. A solar-powered rocket might be our ticket to interstellar space

    7 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  57. The dual PhD problem of today’s startups

    7 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  58. Ant/worm on a rubber band paradox

    7 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  59. Oxford study suggests millions may have already built up coronavirus immunity

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  60. Black Friday store shopping falls 52% during pandemic as e-commerce sales surge

    7 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  61. How Claude Shannon’s information theory built the foundation for the digital era

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  62. A simpler approach to bookmarks

    7 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  63. How to explain 4D geometry at a party

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  64. Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy

    7 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  65. Billionaire Peter Thiel Sells a Majority of His Remaining Facebook Stake

    7 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  66. Apple cuts App Store commission from 30% to 15%, if your apps earn less than $1M

    7 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  67. Mozilla Firefox gets a “HTTPS Only Mode” for more secure browsing

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  68. Cambridge Analytica database identified Black voters as ripe for “deterrence”

    7 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Good USB camera for remote work with good Linux compatibility?

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  70. Pandemic Making College Students Question the Price of Their Education

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  71. Antibiotic Resistance May Be a Key Factor in Italy's Covid-19 Deaths

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  72. How I Made $350k in Machine Learning Tournaments

    7 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  73. Scachs D’amor (2009)

    7 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  74. Ask HN: What is the best article you read online this year?

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  75. A Tale of Two Talebs

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  76. Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  77. Show HN: How I landed an interview almost every time I applied (as a developer)

    7 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  78. Show HN: I built a website to check performance of top websites in the world

    7 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  79. Firmware Bug kills SSDs after 40k hours

    7 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  80. Other Things Equal (1992) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  81. Show HN: Blendful–Crowdfunding for Pesticide Testing on Your Favorite Foods

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  82. SolarWinds compromised by a second backdoor, from a different group of hackers

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  83. Safari now blocks all third-party cookies by default

    7 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  84. Data of 243M Brazilians exposed online via website source code

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  85. The TeX Pestilence (Why TeX/LaTeX Sucks)

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  86. Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable

    7 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  87. Covid Usher in Totalitarianism Warns Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

    7 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  88. On the pervasive presence of military language elements in computer security

    7 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  89. TV crew arrested for no reason

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  90. Facebook exec: we got Trump elected, and we shouldn’t stop him in 2020

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  91. I've Been Running the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U and Ubuntu 20.04 as My Main System

    7 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  92. The High Cost of Homeownership

    7 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  93. Ask HN: How is your workplace addressing the protests?

    7 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  94. What does it take to maintain large open-source projects?

    7 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  95. S3 Bucket Access Logging Fundamentals

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  96. Williams College Cuts Price 15%, Cancels Sports Due to Virus

    7 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  97. Graphene Solar Thermal Film Could Be a New Way to Harvest Renewable Energy

    7 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  98. Government Rescinds Plan to Strip Visas From Foreign Students in Online Classes

    7 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  99. Ask HN: Why Are There `Remote: Only US` or `Remote: Only Europe` Jobs?

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  100. Java's 25th birthday – celebrated with 25 Hours of Java

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2020