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Hacker News (2020)

Archivists Made a Directory of 5k Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls
6 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Dubai introduces facial recognition on public transport
6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
SGI's $250k Graphics Supercomputer from 1993
6 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more than it sounds
6 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic
6 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
FreeBSD 12.2-Release Announcement
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Faulty Iowa App Was Part of Push to Restore Democrats’ Digital Edge
6 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Puerto Rican scientists mourn loss of Arecibo Observatory's iconic telescope
6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Roman Legionary – professional heavy infantry of Roman Empire
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Washington’s Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale
6 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Show HN: gunDB project website redesign
6 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Owncast: A self hosted Twitch alternative
6 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
$25 x86 Computer: Is It Worth It?
6 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Second top Black female Google employee says she was recently ousted
6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Seattle bans events of 250 people
6 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Self-hosted open source GStreamer based video streaming platform
6 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
The origins of a 7000 year old fairy tale
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Statement regarding BGP hijacking on September 29
6 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Amazon says it will not ban TikTok from employee phones
6 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Ask HN: How Do You Roadmap
6 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Executable Models in Software Engineering
6 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company
6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Succinct/compact/compressed data structures for data-intensive Python programs
6 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Bill Gates Warns Climate Change Is an Even Harder Problem Than the Pandemic
6 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
The FBI Is Secretly Using Sabre for Global Travel Surveillance
6 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
How can you deal with negativity?
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Why Investors Have Learned to Love Wind and Solar Power
6 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Why millions of freelancers fear a Biden presidency may put them out of work
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Polar ice caps melting six times faster than in 1990s
6 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Tracy – A real time, frame and sampling profiler
6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Equations That Changed the World
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
No, the new Arm MacBook Air is not faster than 98% of PC laptops
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Augmented-Reality Startup Magic Leap to Explore a Sale
6 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Recursion in SQL Explained Visually
6 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
Tests indicate coronavirus can survive in the air up to 3 hours
6 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
We Need Design Thinking in Social Innovation
6 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
I did not know jitsi existed
6 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Experts Release Open Letter: Covid-19 Preys on Those with Vitamin D Deficiency
6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
HAProxy Data Plane API 2.0
6 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Why Signups and Logins Should Open in a Right Form Drawer
6 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
It’s Time to Cancel the U.S. Presidential Campaign
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Experts Condemn Keto. Will People Finally Stop?
6 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms
6 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
Show HN: Cloudboost.io – open-source BaaS platform just like Firebase
6 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
A Black AI Ethicist on Her Experiences at Google–and Her Controversial Departure
6 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Ask HN: Can US networks handle the coming increase in remote work and school?
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Left for dead, twice, RadioShack gets another shot online
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Serious flaw that lurked in sudo for 9 years hands over root privileges
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Daniel Stenberg: How my Twitter hijacks happened
6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Remote Work Wiki
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Global Top Companies [pdf]
6 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Is it ok to be a jerk to jerks at office?
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Masks May Do More Than We Think (With Dr. Monica Gandhi) [video]
6 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Israel invents one-minute coronavirus breath test
6 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
Tennessee Valley Authority fined $900K for nuclear violations, coverup
6 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Gitlab 12.10 Released with Requirements Management and Autoscaling CI on AWS
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
In Florida, Spanish-language misinformation with misleading Election Day claims
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Ask HN: What stack should I use for my mobile app?
6 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
The Vaccine Works Fast
6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Ask HN: Could reinforcement learning be used to create vaccines?
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
HPE is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston
6 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
Ex-Solus Dev Is Creating a Truly Modern Linux Distribution
6 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
Ice Age Farmer Discord has been terminated due to “Spreading Misinformation.”
6 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
We might not get a coronavirus vaccine
6 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Coliving rental startup HubHaus implodes, says no funds to pay unsecured claims
6 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
How Business and Home Networks Can Be Hacked from a Lightbulb
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
US Commerce Department delays TikTok ban following court ruling
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Ask HN: What should I do with the latest.dev domain?
6 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Ask HN: Know of an automated way to pollute the date big tech has on me?
6 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
Godoc.org will be closed owing to legal reason
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
WireGuard for Windows 0.3.1 is the release you’ve been waiting for
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
How T. Rex conserved energy
6 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
The Future Is Already Here
6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Researchers Rush to Test Coronavirus Vaccine in People- No Animal Trials First
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Tesla plans to make batteries cheap enough for a $25,000 car
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Cable TV prices have gone up so much they now exceed most combined utility bills
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Overview: Egocentric Videoconferencing
6 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
You don't (may not) need Moment.js
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
6 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Ask HN: What IRC / Matrix channels do you hang out on?
6 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Apple M1 Cinebench R23 Score
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Ubisoft places multiple employees on leave following allegations of misconduct
6 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
My internship: Brotli compression using a reduced dictionary
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Show HN: Vs Graphs. Visually compare products and more
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
NYC subway A-line was not running due to the AWS outage
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Pulse Oximeter Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients
6 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Chelsea Manning attempted suicide in jail, lawyer says
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Zoom employee in China charged with shutting meetings commemorating Tiananmen
6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Managing Engineers on the Spectrum
6 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Layoutit Grid for CSS
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Introduction to WebComponents with ShadowDOM
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Building your own website is cool again, and it's changing the whole internet
6 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Coronavirus: France to close all schools and universities, Macron says
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Log Off
6 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
TikTok app banned by US Army on work mobile phones
6 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Ask HN: How to buy shares pre-IPO?
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Ontario to shutter public schools until April 5 amid Covid-19 pandemic
6 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
The Pfizer-Biontech Vaccine May Be a Lot More Effective Than You Think
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020