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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Tributes pour in for Skype founder Toivo Annus

    7 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  2. Early Stage B2B Founders – Insights from Author, James Clear

    7 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  3. Geoffrey Hinton on black box AI for health applications

    7 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  4. Building a JavaScript Interpreter in Rust

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  5. Verisign: ICANN drawing attention to comment period distorted process

    7 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  6. Mercedes-Benz onboard logic unit (OLU) source code leaks online

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  7. Bloomberg's investment portfolio includes bets on private equity, fracking

    7 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  8. Sexual partner selection is shaped by your opposite-sex parent in childhood

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  9. Robinhood increases guardrails on options trading after customer suicide

    7 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  10. DualSense, the New Wireless Game Controller for Playstation 5

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  11. Megadiverse Countries

    7 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  12. China Bans Free Text Editor Notepad++ – PCMag

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  13. Revealed: Oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities

    7 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  14. Modeling what would happen to the UK if the Gulf Stream shuts down

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  15. Google to cut marketing budgets by as much as half

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  16. US Democrats try to ban Internet shutoffs until pandemic is over

    7 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  17. George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery and Amy Cooper (Trevor Noah)

    7 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  18. A recession could be more deadly than the coronavirus

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  19. Twitter unlocks previously locked SDKMAN account then deletes all 3.5k followers

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  20. When events make craziness sane

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  21. How AI provided early warnings of the Wuhan virus

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  22. Sam Altman lost a bold bubble bet made in 2015. Now he must pay $100k

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  23. Startup Option Value Calculator

    7 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  24. Show HN: We Turned the HN FAQs into an FAQ-Bot

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  25. Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  26. Apple’s 5-Hour iPhone Ad Takes Viewers on Tour of the Hermitage Museum in Russia

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  27. Notes on Nike Missile Site SF 88-L

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  28. Signal in LIGO/Virgo Data. Found by a Burst Search

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  29. Show HN: I'm building a cloud cost tool for Terraform

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  30. Like No One They’d Ever Seen

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  31. Will Electron take over native macOS development?

    7 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  32. 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro review: The standard macOS workhorse

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  33. Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test

    7 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  34. Mathematical introduction to first-order logic in 8 pages [pdf]

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  35. Google removed 813 creepware apps from the Android Play Store

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  36. Olympus to Exit Camera Business After 84 Years

    7 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  37. AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified over 100 Politicians as Criminals

    7 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  38. Scientists see signs of lasting immunity to Covid-19 even after mild infections

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  39. Sprayable User Interfaces: Prototyping Large-Scale Interactive Surfaces

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  40. Mitchell Baker Becomes Mozilla CEO

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  41. How Low Can Solar Cells Go? Perovskite Researchers Say Down, Down

    7 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  42. Poor quality American diet kills sperm count and lowers male testosterone

    7 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  43. Free (and Legal) Science Fiction/Fantasy Reading for the Coronapocalypse

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  44. German court limits power of spy agency's bugging overseas

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  45. Michelle Obama to launch podcast about relationships and health on Spotify

    7 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  46. You are now remotely controlled

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  47. Cromemco Computer Corporation

    7 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  48. I criticized ‘South Park’ for spawning a generation of trolls

    7 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  49. Poop: Peacefully Opposing Oppressive Puritanism

    7 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  50. How Seamless, Grubhub, and Yelp are Defrauding us

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  51. Ask HN: Freelancers who transitioned to passive income, how did you do it?

    7 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  52. How to make more good decisions

    7 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  53. Tech Experts Are Pessimistic About Their Industry

    7 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  54. Eventbrite lays off half its workforce as coronavirus crushes events business

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  55. Low Dose Lithium May Stop Alzheimer’s Disease in Its Tracks

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  56. Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  57. Earth has temporarily gained another moon

    7 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  58. A Peek into the Future of Database

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  59. Solve problems more effectively by adopting a strategic mindset

    7 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  60. Ralph Ellison in Opposition

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  61. Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  62. The U.S. Is Almost Out of Its Stockpile of N95 Masks, Face Shields, and Gowns

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  63. Rethinking Programming: Network-Aware Type System

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  64. The US is diving into a dark Covid hole, and there's no plan to get out

    7 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  65. New Zealand has no new Covid-19 cases for 14 days in a row

    7 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  66. Fire Method: Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  67. Writing an NES Emulator in Go

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  68. Building Containers Without Docker

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  69. Ask HN: What books got you curious and inspired about fields other than CS?

    7 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Jupyter-like notebook for technical communicators?

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  71. Interview with Ev Kontsevoy, Founder of Mailgun and Gravitational

    7 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  72. Three Mile Island Lessons for Covid-19: FEMA and Me

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  73. Satellites, spacecraft malfunction as Earth's magnetic field weakens

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  74. Instacart: Making emails long enough that Gmail cuts off Unsubscribe

    7 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  75. ICE: Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Colleges Go Online-Only in Fall

    7 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  76. The Surprisingly Cutthroat Business of Communion Crackers

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  77. Amazon to donate to drug charity linked to Scientology

    7 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  78. Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump’s Posts

    7 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  79. Elon Musk's promised ventilators never delivered to California hospitals

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  80. Lessons from 136 Books, Read in One Year

    7 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  81. CopyQ – Clipboard manager with advanced features

    7 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  82. FBI sees spike in cyber crime reports during coronavirus pandemic

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  83. FreeCodeCamp launches a free course for AWS developer certification

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  84. How to Learn Cryptography as a Programmer

    7 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  85. Unicode Normalization in PostgreSQL 13

    7 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  86. WAVM: WASM VM for Non-Web Applications

    7 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  87. Objective data doesn't go deep enough to engender trust

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  88. How to Clean and Disinfect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Stuff

    7 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  89. SpaceX loses another Starship prototype in explosion

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  90. Big O notations that every developer should know about

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  91. 68% Improvement in Covid 19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  92. Daffodils and Telephone Directories

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  93. ‘Quantum secret sharing’ scheme allows 10 parties to communicate securely

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  94. Ask HN: How well do you think your team handled the start of lockdown?

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  95. With Coronavrus in the News, We Must Also Be Aware of Chronic Wasting Disease

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  96. San Francisco mayor caps Uber, Postmates, DoorDash delivery commissions

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  97. CPython destroys decade old software with inept threats

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  98. Construct a standalone COVID19 contact tracing device with a Raspberry Pi

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  99. New antibody mix could form 'potent' Covid-19 treatment, say scientists

    7 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  100. Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2020