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Hacker News (2020)

Show HN: Ekati – A Database (Early)
6 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Deploying a Containerized PHP Application to AWS Using Docker and ECS
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse
6 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
US satellite intelligence: The Ukrainian flight in Iran shot down by a missile
6 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
A client-centric specification of database isolation
6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
6 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Google, Cambridge, DeepMind's ‘Performer’ Transformer Slashes Compute Costs
6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Write Once, Build Anywhere
6 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
What If We Nuke the Moon?
6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Why You're Still Not CEO
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Recursion in SQL Explained Visually
6 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Napster sold for a song to UK virtual events company
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Founder-led firms outpacing CEO-led ones in market recovery
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Bitbucket deleting Mercurial repos June 1
6 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas
6 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
The iBackPack, a failed crowdfund with an FTC investigation
6 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Raspberry Pi 400 vs. ZX Spectrum
6 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Our world re-engineered for social distancing (photo gallery)
6 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Ocoee (FL) Massacre
6 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
YouTube broadcasts climate disinformation to millions. Brands make it profitable
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Covid: WHO looks at possible 'e-vaccination certificates' for travel
6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Meander: Maps of rivers that never existed
6 points • comment • may 26, 2020
A nimble robot dog: Meet A1, a lifelike four-legged robot
6 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Don’t Ever Ignore Reinforcement Learning Again
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
To Serve the Public, Seek Profits
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
The Psychology of Security (2008)
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Apache Arrow 2.0.0 Rust Highlights
6 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
What is the Insurrection Act that Trump is threatening to invoke?
6 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
US Fertility says patient data was stolen in a ransomware attack
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Data Engineering 101: From Batch Processing to Streaming
6 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Alpine-term: x86_64 under QEMU with termux on Android
6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Searching for Coronavirus inhibitors: Rapid screening and open data
6 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Reddit Acquires Dubsmash
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
An origin story for a family of oddball meteorites
6 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? – McKinsey
6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Audible is becoming more like Amazon Prime Video
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
The terms simp, virgin, and incel will all be banned on Twitch
6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Designed vs. Evolutionary Code
6 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Ask HN: How is Amazon's Luna Game service allowed on iOS?
6 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Feller's coin-tossing puzzle: tidy simulation in R
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
6 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It (2008) [pdf]
6 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Intel 10nm Jasper Lake Low-Power CPU Lineup Leaks, IPC Lift Expected
6 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Octopuses and Squids Change Color
6 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Hello You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230
6 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Where there’s smoke – the cigarettes-and-Covid story is growing harder to ignore
6 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Amazon Kubernetes Distro (EKS-D)
6 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
Show HN: Song to Sing – build your singing repertoire based on your vocal range
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
CDC says virus can spread indoors in air beyond six feet
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Modelling the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed
6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Architect of His Own Downfall
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
The Sun Never Sets on the Woke Empire
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
A Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them (2018)
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
The Idea Adoption Curve
6 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Microsoft hit by Office 365 login issues in A/NZ
6 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Show HN: Diggy – a reactive Python notebook in the browser
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman once worked so hard he got scurvy (2016)
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Biden Will Win Nevada by 1%
6 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Engineering Porn: Hyperbaric pipeline repair 800 feet under the waves
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
The monoliths in Utah, California, and Romania, explained
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
The math behind a neural network
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
WireGuard for Windows 0.3.1 is the release you’ve been waiting for
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Acceleration Towards a Bottleneck – A Theory of History
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK over Covid variant
6 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
‘I feel liberated’: the women celebrating their body ha
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
UK Salaries for Senior Engineers
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Most People with Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?
6 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more than it sounds
6 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Apple Surges to $2T Market Value
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Second top Black female Google employee says she was recently ousted
6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
No One Can Predict Future Climate, So Stop the Scaremongering
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures
6 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Crypto Taxes in 2020: Tax Guide with Real Scenarios
6 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Starship Launch in 1 Min
6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Cabal: Experimental P2P community chat platform
6 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Show HN: Aggregating reviews of popular podcast hosting platforms
6 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
An American Evacuated from China Was Quarantined, Then Got a Bill for It
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses
6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Why cars do not make sense
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
SCons Is Still Slow
6 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
5 Places World War III Could Start in 2020
6 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
What did Earth look like up to 750m years ago? Move through time
6 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Show HN: Zé Faker – a CLI for generating Excel data
6 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Using Content from the Dark Web to Provide Content to the Clear Web
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
US offers $10M bounty on hackers meddling in the presidential election
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
My internship: Brotli compression using a reduced dictionary
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Podcast Addict: Android chief apologizes for incorrect removal
6 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Dead Simple Time-Domain Reflectometry with Just a Battery and an Oscilloscope
6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
China Is Collecting DNA from Tens of Millions of Men and Boys
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
How to block the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, version 20H2, from installing
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Open-source software Eclipse is hopping the pond to Europe
6 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Show HN: Batchdist, a PyTorch package for batched computations of distances
6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
The computer pioneer who built modern China
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Tackling Period Poverty, Scotland Is First Nation to Make Sanitary Products Free
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Do you know about OpenBLAS alternative Mir GLAS?
6 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Reading Poorly Structured Excel Files with Pandas – Practical Business Python
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
What’s the Price of Getting Your Data? More Data
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
America’s first commercial space SAR (Synthetic-Aperture Radar) imagery
6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020