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Hacker News (2020)

TikTok security flaws left personal data, videos vulnerable to hackers – Busine
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Bug bounty reporter cashes out on someone else's vulnerability exploit
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
States use coronavirus to ban abortions: ‘You can’t pause a pregnancy’
6 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Ask HN: What happened to the law of supply and demand?
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Leaving fintech to tackle food sustainability: Why I joined VOW
6 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Open Dylan 2020.1 – Now with LLVM Back End
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
An Intel MCS-48 based dual temperature sensor
6 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Ask HN: How do you keep track of the architecture of a personal project?
6 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Long a Holdout from Covid-19 Restrictions, Sweden Ends Its Pandemic Experiment
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
World war 3 has begun and we are unaware
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Blackrock tells staff they must reveal romances linked with anyone in company
6 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Are 'tech collectives' or 'tech volunteers' a thing? If so, is there a list?
6 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Facebook users may spread Russian propaganda less often when aware of its source
6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Trump Bid to End 'Dreamers' Immigrant Program
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Show HN: Howdy Stranger, a browser extension to delete locally stored data
6 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
UK Health minister says app should roll out by winter
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
City of SF Spends $8k per Homeless Person, per Hotel Room, per Month
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Unexplained phenomena keep suggesting the universe isn’t what we thought
6 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis using only Cough Recordings [pdf]
6 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Ask HN: Where do you buy and sell side projects?
6 points • comment • may 07, 2020
The Myth of ‘Pagan’ Christmas
6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
A hacker is selling details of 142M MGM hotel guests on the dark web
6 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Steve Blank How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
6 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Is Silicon Valley Still the Best Place to Start a Company? • Tomasz Tunguz
6 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Jeff Orlowski: We Need to Rethink Social Media Before It’s Too Late
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
ProtonMail – Secure Email
6 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
I Still Use a 34-Year-Old IBM Model M Keyboard
6 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
I dislike what “quantum supremacy” is doing to computing research
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There
6 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Show HN: Job board for companies that value work-life balance
6 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
How to block the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, version 20H2, from installing
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
'Clinically no longer exists': Italian doctor claims coronavirus losing potency
6 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
GitHub Issues as Comments
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Feasibility of controlling Covid-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts
6 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
He Hunted Bin Laden for the CIA. Now He Wants Americans Dead
6 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish – Microsoft plays their hand
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Go: Location interprets wrong timezone (DST) with slim zoneinfo
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Trump appointees short-circuited grid modernization
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills expecting their first child together
6 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Zoom deploys its core videoconferencing service on Oracle Cloud
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Apple Event today, live. iPhone 12?
6 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Three traditional Chinese medicines officially approved for Covid-19 in China
6 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Show HN: Apogee – cross between a spreadsheet and a notebook
6 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Why We're All Baking Bread During the Pandemic
6 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
The Ethics of Rebooting the Dead
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
The Official Coronavirus Numbers Are Wrong, and Everyone Knows It
6 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
A flowchart for considering VC advice
6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Show HN: Simple script that turns Chinese characters into Anki cards
6 points • comment • may 03, 2020
To Learn Japanese, You Need a Rocketship
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
China’s New Outbreak Shows Signs the Virus Could Be Changing
6 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Battle of the $350 laptops: Acer Swift 1 vs. Gateway Ryzen 3 3200U
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Trump signs an executive order taking direct aim at social media companies
6 points • comment • may 29, 2020
Goodbye to the Truly James Randi
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Dr. Fauci Backed Wuhan Lab with US Dollars for Coronavirus Research
6 points • comment • may 28, 2020
Eric Schmidt’s Daughter Has Tech Ambitions–Just Not in Silicon Valley
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Do Not Touch Your Face
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
USA cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran
6 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Crypto Fund II
6 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Major Retailers in Britain Say No to Glitter for Christmas
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Seattle Facebook contractor tests positive, WFH thru Mar 31
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Lars Arge Has Died
6 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Ask HN: Linux Laptop Options for 2020?
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
US companies riddled with members of Chinese Communist Party
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Giant jet engines aim to make our flying greener
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Miniselect: Practical and Generic Selection Algorithms
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
The Power of Simple CRUD
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in a Public Library (2013)
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the US (Treated with Remdesivir)
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
An accessible introduction to type theory and implementing a type-checker
6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
OpenJDK for Windows on ARM
6 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Team doesn't need eleven goalies
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Sangoma just retcon'ed me out of FreePBX, and I'm kinda pissed
6 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes
6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
3D printed terra cotta tiles restore devastated coral reefs
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Conference Conduct
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Sure, whataboutism seems bad, but have you considered other bad things?
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
First Confirmed Case of U.S. Coronavirus Reinfection
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Show HN: Komak, a geolocation-enabled volunteering platform for Covid-19
6 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 in Italy Since September 2019 (Milan National Cancer Institute)
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
China to curb farming near rivers in push to reverse water pollution – official
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools
6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Universal Basic Income (UBI) – A poverty fix?
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Amazon Kendra, an AI powered search service for enterprises, is openly available
6 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Five Eyes warns tech firms that encryption creates 'severe risks'
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Ask HN: What are the PL features that would get the most out of the human brain?
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Mind.ai: New symbolic AI approach, includes abductive and inductive reasoning
6 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Show HN: CLI tool to find synonyms in 14 diff languages from the terminal
6 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Tech Stacks of the Fortune 1000
6 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
What If Working from Home Goes on Forever?
6 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Ask HN: What Operating Systems courses would you recommend?
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
YouTube is deleting comments with 2 phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
6 points • comment • may 26, 2020
The Scientist Who Predicted 2020's Political Unrest on What Comes Next
6 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Verizon is pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram
6 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Chinese rocket firm Galactic Energy succeeds with first orbital launch
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
3D coordinate frames and why they matter for AR
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Providing basic services should be more efficient than universal basic income
6 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Transitioning to Remote Work: A Practical Guide
6 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
6 points • comment • nov 15, 2020