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Hacker News (2020)

Can We Pull Back from the Brink?
6 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Seeing is believing: a client-centric specification of database isolation [pdf]
6 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
I followed the advice for Paris’s hottest day – it didn’t help (2019)
6 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Ask HN: Is there a new and interesting open source forum library?
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
New Study Shows That Hydroxychloroquine Saves Lives
6 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
James Randi has passed away
6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Vigilant Crimebusters at Best Buy's Geek Squad Chalk Up Another Collar
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Show HN: Repull – a tool to update an image/restart a Docker container
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Show HN: Fun – unbreakable pen&paper encryption
6 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Show HN: Auto frame like Nvidia Broadcast but in the browser with TensorFlow
6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF
6 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Babylonian Map of the World
6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
6 Rules for every technical founder to succeed in a startup
6 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
SM2 (Chinese) National Secret algorithm is accepted into Linux kernel
6 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Critical issues in digital contract tracing
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Nutritionist Recommendations
6 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Economics Is a Disgrace
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
42% of Amazon's Reviews Might Be 'Unreliable'
6 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists
6 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS in Android Messages beta
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
About AutoGreens: Fully Automated Robofarm and the Future of Home Appliances
6 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
A microscope for everyone: Researchers develop open-source optical toolbox
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Yes, This Site Uses Cookies, Because Nearly All Sites Use Cookies
6 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Why renaming Git’s master branch is a terrible idea
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
All Four Officers Involved in George Floyd's Killing Now Face Charges
6 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
9 Companies That Use Rust in Production
6 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Trump's Executive Order on Social Media: It's Legally Meaningless
6 points • comment • may 29, 2020
VC Guide (Anonymous fund and investor partner reviews by founders)
6 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Italian airport adopts AR thermal scanning helmets
6 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Show HN: Diggy – a reactive Python notebook in the browser
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Build Your Own Pinhole Videocam
6 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has “Skyrocketed” During Covid-19
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
A Walk Through Druid Heights (2018)
6 points • comment • may 10, 2020
EFF Launches New Podcast: How to Fix the Internet
6 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
The mysterious fairy circles of Namibia
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
uBlock Origin Extra has been discontinued
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Classics for every aspiring leader's bookshelf (Patrick Henry Winston)
6 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Amazon, Walmart donate to QAnon-supporting politician in Tennessee
6 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Grubhub stock halted after report Uber is eyeing a takeover
6 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Oxford Covid vaccine hit 90% success rate thanks to dosing error
6 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Stanford coronavirus research: Did politically-motivated scientists hype study?
6 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Put not thy trust in Nate Silver
6 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
iMac 2020
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Structure of a Hallucinogen-Activated Gq-Coupled 5-HT2A Serotonin Receptor [pdf]
6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Why (and how) public institutions should release more hardware designs as OSH
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Dutch prosecutors: Trump’s Twitter hacked by guessing password: maga2020
6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Vaccine targeting RBD of the S protein of SARS-CoV-2 induces protective immunity
6 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Why abandoned domain names are so dangerous
6 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
On Trusting Macintosh Hardware
6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Ask HN: Encryption for blog posts on static sites?
6 points • comment • may 04, 2020
China's Qingdao orders city-wide Covid-19 testing following new infections
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Beware This New Microsoft Teams Password Hacking Threat to 75M Users
6 points • comment • may 02, 2020
BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture
6 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
An overview of Greek/Hebrew/Latin-based symbols in mathematics
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
White House told FDA chief to approve Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or resign
6 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Google Cloud launches Filestore High Scale, a new storage tier
6 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Ask HN: Ex-atheists/agnostics, I will be 50 y/0 soon. Should I explore Faith?
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Scientists Say Lithium Should Be Added to Drinking Water to Prevent Suicides
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Facing collapse, the famed Arecibo Observatory will be demolished
6 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
New York City Residents’ Wealth Drops $336B from Year Ago
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
How does TypeScript work? The bird's eye view
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Developers, Big Sur, and Vindication
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)[video]
6 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Csidh Reference Implementation
6 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Matheminecraft: When Mathematics Merge with Minecraft
6 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Verily’s Covid Testing Program Halted in San Francisco and Oakland
6 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Facebook cancels F8 developer conference due to coronavirus concerns
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Thingifying the World (Ii)
6 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
How a Random Guy Made the #2 Movie in America for $1k
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Ask HN: PhD vs. job @Google vs. starting a startup
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Designing and developing our own [less boring] company blog
6 points • comment • may 07, 2020
How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
6 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Qasem Soleimani: US Kills Iran Quds Force Leader, Pentagon Confirms
6 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
How to Scale Out a Real-Time Data Warehouse for Second-Level Analytics
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Napster sold for a song to UK virtual events company
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Clever-show is a software suite to operate multiple quadcopters over a network
6 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Fully-Dynamic Planarity Testing in Polylogarithmic Time
6 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Twitter abruptly changes hacked-materials policy after blocking Biden story
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Punishing Risk Guarantees Failure
6 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Extract or Die – San Francisco Techxodus
6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Adsense as an Indicator
6 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Black Death
6 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Fair competition and transparency benefits us all
6 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
6 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Papergraph: AI/ML citation graph with Postgres and GraphQL
6 points • comment • may 03, 2020
The Cult of Posits
6 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Effect of Intel's CPU power management while benchmarking a Haskell server
6 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
HN is suppressing anti-tech stories
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Indie game in development with cool “turn 2D paintings into 3D reality” feature
6 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Increase in Analog Problems
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Podcast Addict: Android chief apologizes for incorrect removal
6 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Listening is a competitive advantage because almost no one does it
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Coeur Values: A new book tracks Frida Kahlo’s Paris years
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Office 365 outage ongoing after roll back fails
6 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
New Android Malware Can Steal Google Authenticator 2FA Codes
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
The Oldest Evidence of Animals Might Be from a Different Organism
6 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Amazon Announces AWS Data Center in Cape Town, South Africa
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Build a video game like a Lego set with this new Unity tool
6 points • comment • oct 27, 2020