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Hacker News (2020)

14% of women considered quitting their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Apple Retreats After Threatening Devs of Linux with App Store Expulsion
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
In the 75 years since Hiroshima, nuclear testing has killed untold thousands
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
M20-114 NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Octopuses and Squids Change Color
6 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Apache Arrow 2.0.0 Rust Highlights
6 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
US Attorney charges against Joseph Sullivan for alleged cover-up of Uber hack
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Elementary OS on Raspberry Pi
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Show HN: Song to Sing – build your singing repertoire based on your vocal range
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Why Burger King UK wants people to eat at McDonald's
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Modelling the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
NoiseScope: Detecting Deepfake Images in a Blind Setting [pdf]
6 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Ask HN: How do you imagine the US in 50 years?
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
CDC says virus can spread indoors in air beyond six feet
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Architect of His Own Downfall
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Peak Oil Is Suddenly Upon Us
6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
A Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them (2018)
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Covid and Scented Candle Reviews (Thread)
6 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman once worked so hard he got scurvy (2016)
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Using Pl/PgSQL to Calculate New Postgres Columns
6 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
An Anthropologist’s Take on Homemaking (2010)
6 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Change Your Brain: Neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
WSL 2 Support is coming to Windows 10 Versions 1903 and 1909
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
All positive returns to major market indices over 3 decades occurred overnight
6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Crash-Only Software: More Than Meets the Eye (2006)
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Building My Own LoneStar Electronics Mmdvm Hotspot
6 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Most People with Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?
6 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Ask HN: How many paying customers which don't use your SaaS do you have?
6 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
The math behind a neural network
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Why living with and tending plants is good for you
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Show HN: Gact Store
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Show HN: Speed Up Python with Rust via WebAssembly
6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Odds of Catching Covid on a Plane Are Slim
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
First Drone Goes Flying to the North Pole on a Climate Mission
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Acceleration Towards a Bottleneck – A Theory of History
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
CDC: If all Americans wore masks, COVID19 could be controlled in 6-12 weeks
6 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Betelgeuse Supernova Twitter Bot
6 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
On Determinism (2011)
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Amazon Honeycode – NoCode business app creator
6 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Tesla car network is down
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Ask HN: What's the cheapest ACH payment processor for marketplaces?
6 points • comment • may 23, 2020
QAnon and the Fragility of Truth
6 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
No One Can Predict Future Climate, So Stop the Scaremongering
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
CentOS Is Dead
6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Show HN: Prometheus Troubleshooting in Kubernetes
6 points • comment • may 09, 2020
With Prop 22’s Passage, Tech Companies Are Just Writing Their Own Laws Now
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Show HN: JavaScript by Example
6 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Understanding Distributed Consensus (2018)
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
An American Evacuated from China Was Quarantined, Then Got a Bill for It
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book
6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Why cars do not make sense
6 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Tackling Period Poverty, Scotland Is First Nation to Make Sanitary Products Free
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Why Coronavirus (Covid-19) Is Worse Than the Flu
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Upcycling an old iPhone 5 and a Bluetooth speaker for a tabletop media station
6 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Facebook Source Code from August 2007
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
East TN baby breaks record after being born from embryo frozen 27 years
6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Using a Micro SD Card as the Hard Drive of a Dell Precision M20
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Camouflaged Fire Sprinklers Erupt to Protect a Historic Japanese Village
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
I Learned to Stop Approaching Conversations as Contests
6 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
That advice to women to ‘lean in’, be more confident it doesn’t help
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
What are your bets on the future?
6 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption
6 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Offline Reinforcement Learning
6 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
The world’s first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi to Japan
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
DHH Testimony Before the House Antitrust Subcommittee
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Chinese Spy Was Paid by the DNC
6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Browser ext replaces all faces with Nicolas Cage
6 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Apple head of security accused of offering bribes for concealed gun permits
6 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Show HN: One stop platform to grow your career
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK over Covid variant
6 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
GoThroughList – Setup Your CheckLists
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Hey by Basecamp
6 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Facebook Communications Chief: We are reducing distribution of anti-Biden posts
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Clever techniques to make jumping feel better in platformer games
6 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
A mildly insane idea for disabling the coronavirus
6 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple Face Congress in Antitrust Hearing
6 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
What happens when you open source everything?
6 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Coronavirus patients test positive for dengue despite not having the disease
6 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Biden Will Win Nevada by 1%
6 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Eric Schmidt: I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China
6 points • comment • may 02, 2020
China Cybersecurity: No Place to Hide
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Breach exposes profile data for 235M TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube users
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Who gains most from canceling student debt?
6 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Show HN: Simulate 2^100 live automata cells in milliseconds, in your browser
6 points • comment • may 27, 2020
City in Brazil where Covid ran amok may be a sentinel for the rest of the world
6 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Takeaways from Poking Around IBM Cloud
6 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Higher-Kinded Data
6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Forget Reform. We Need a Revolution
6 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
And We Have a Vaccine
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
KDevelop 5.5 Released
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Ask HN: Alternatives to Kindle Publishing
6 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Use ProxyJump with SSH for VMs with No Public IPs
6 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
6 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Quiet supersonic jet will halve the time it takes to get around the globe
6 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
ISO-UniK: lightweight multi-process unikernel through memory protection keys
6 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Ask HN: Do you close your eyes when you put food in your mouth?
6 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Why 2 Crises May Finally Force NYC Schools to Integrate
6 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020