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Hacker News (2020)

Google isn’t building the coronavirus screening site – and it’s not ready
6 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor
6 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models
6 points • comment • may 15, 2020
The insane number of cookies on Formula1.com
6 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Selling Fonts.zip
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Anti-virus creator John McAfee arrested over tax evasion charges
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
How to Break YouTube (Copyright Claim Your Own Video) [video]
6 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
City in Brazil where Covid ran amok may be a sentinel for the rest of the world
6 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Zuckerberg defends Trump's “looting and shooting” reference in leaked audio
6 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Understanding Positioning in CSS
6 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
How to answer over 200 investor questions
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Windows Terminal update includes a retro-style CRT mode
6 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Whirlwind Tour of Stack (Haskell Build Tool) for Beginners
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Efforts to Control the Coronavirus in the U.S. Could Get Even More Extreme
6 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Layoutit Grid for CSS
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
'More masks than jellyfish': coronavirus waste ends up in ocean – The Guardian
6 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media
6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
BPA replacement hinders heart function, study reveals
6 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Csidh Reference Implementation
6 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Ask HN: Why are people certain a vaccine with be found for Coronavirus?
6 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images from eight of its classic films
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Facial Recognition Moves into a New Front in the U. S.: Schools
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Apple Warns Looters with Stolen iPhones: You Are Being Tracked
6 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
China Creates 55B Tons of Artificial Rain a Year
6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Cops Raided and Shut Down the Only Magic Mushroom 'Church' in the U.S.
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Abusing my computer science knowledge to cheat at Catan
6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method for bandstructure computation
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Google Maps rival caught steeling data with fake roads
6 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
A Response to Hello World
6 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
NASA says it will pay private companies to gather Moon rocks
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Build Your Own Pinhole Videocam
6 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Twitter suspends Scott Atlas, White House Covid advisor, for mask tweets
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Ask HN: How do you get technical mentorship?
6 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez
6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
A Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home (2017)
6 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Two-Stage Mechanical Oscillator – A Mechanical Amplifier
6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
6 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Go: Location interprets wrong timezone (DST) with slim zoneinfo
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Reddit’s CEO on Why He Banned ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
6 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
FreeBSD 12.2-Release Announcement
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
US Attorney charges against Joseph Sullivan for alleged cover-up of Uber hack
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
CDC: If all Americans wore masks, COVID19 could be controlled in 6-12 weeks
6 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
10,800 Assault Weapons Parts Seized by CBP in Louisville from China
6 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Building Character: Writing a Backstory for Our AI
6 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Is Silicon Valley Still the Best Place to Start a Company? • Tomasz Tunguz
6 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Software engineering photonics and color science
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
DeepRobust- Pytorch Library for adversarial attack and defense in deep learning
6 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
British Diplomat Works with North Korean Military
6 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Anti-Putin blogger murdered in a French hotel, hallmarks of Russian hit squad
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Physicists Argue That Black Holes from the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Ask HN: What is the next logical iteration of array languages?
6 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
M1 MacBook Pro and Air can only drive 1 external display
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
The art and science of naming prescription drugs (2016)
6 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Eric Schmidt’s Daughter Has Tech Ambitions–Just Not in Silicon Valley
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Caricatures of Nazis and the number four (and letter Г) in Russian
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Brazil's Supreme Court suffered a ransomware attack
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Ask HN: Why so few virus cases in Russia?
6 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
H1B Salaries: When to Trust the Data and when to ask questions
6 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (1999)
6 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework
6 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
How an investor actually values your startup
6 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
The Scientist Who Predicted 2020's Political Unrest on What Comes Next
6 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
RuboCop: Is it time to change the name?
6 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Show HN: Computing Exact Odds for Betfair.com's Exchange Hi Lo in Ptime/Pspace
6 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to Covid-19
6 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
The FBI Is Secretly Using Sabre for Global Travel Surveillance
6 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
A microscope for everyone: Researchers develop open-source optical toolbox
6 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
An overview of Greek/Hebrew/Latin-based symbols in mathematics
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Show HN: Auto frame like Nvidia Broadcast but in the browser with TensorFlow
6 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (1999)
6 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack; the Future of Tech Journalism
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
US military barring anyone who was hospitalized due to Covid-19 from enlisting
6 points • comment • may 09, 2020
VLang for Automation Scripting – A Super Fast Bash, Python, & Go Alternative
6 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Cadillac reveals the Lyriq, its new long-range electric SUV
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Michael Cohen says he's working to free Reality Winner
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Another High Profile Google Exit:This time , Without Exit Package
6 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
California Bar Exam Flagged a THIRD of Applicants as Cheating
6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
Why We're All Baking Bread During the Pandemic
6 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
'It's the screams of the damned ' The eerie AI world of deepfake music
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Bumper Sticker Computer Science [pdf]
6 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Beaker Browser 1.0
6 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Teen Vogue pulls glowing Facebook story after 'sponsored content' accusations
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Coronavirus clobbers Uber, leading to $1.8B quarterly loss
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Soros Regrets Early Investment in Peter Thiel’s Palantir
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Open source color copy paste from your phone camera to web, sketch, figma plugin
6 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Show HN: Lala – Learning Japanese App
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Why Google thinks we need to regulate AI
6 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Wikimedia Foundation’s Transparency Report
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Apple copied product Teleport as “Sign in with Apple”
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Some Windows 10 users about to be force upgraded if they use older versions
6 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Some people who recover from corona might be left with 20/30% less lung function
6 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Black Death
6 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
This is how ancient Rome’s republic died
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills expecting their first child together
6 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Which rating is better, mathematically speaking?
6 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Chinese rocket firm Galactic Energy succeeds with first orbital launch
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020