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Hacker News (2020)

Minimum Number of Settlers for Survival on Another Planet – Scientific Reports
6 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Brotli compression using a reduced dictionary
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Service Might Be Available in November
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
One of Norway's richest men, arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife
6 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Amazon Offers $500 ‘Prime Bike,’ Encroaching on Peloton’s Niche
6 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
SpaceX: Starlink satellte production now 120 per month
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Inaugural eBPF Summit for users and developers
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
A hacker is selling details of 142M MGM hotel guests on the dark web
6 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Jraft – the best blogging platform ever
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Lies, Damned Lies, and Keynotes
6 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
A Microsoft executive accidentally exposed one of the ugly truths of tech
6 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
How Karma Systems Should Work: The Beta-Binomial
6 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Signs the Pandemic Is About to Get Much Worse
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Who is the Australian woman arrested for her Facebook post?
6 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
GoThroughList – Setup Your CheckLists
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
The Backbone: Conclusion
6 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Learning to Play No-Press Diplomacy with Best Response Policy Iteration
6 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Ask HN: Would you want a distributed Postgres that runs on Spot Instances?
6 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
A Cambrian Explosion of Crypto Proofs
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Mainline Linux on the MikroTik RB3011
6 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
New coronavirus can persist in air for hours and on surfaces for days – study
6 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Extract or Die – San Francisco Techxodus
6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
The silent epidemic of America’s problem with guns
6 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
The Future Is Already Here
6 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Elon Musk’s Starlink Could Disrupt the Telecommunications Industry
6 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Scientists developed a technology for printing neuroprostheses on 3D bioprinter
6 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
China’s New Outbreak Shows Signs the Virus Could Be Changing
6 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Most cyber-security reports only focus on the cool threats
6 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Andrew Yang says the US should seriously consider switching to a 4-day workweek
6 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Blair Witch is free from Epic Games
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
How does TypeScript work? The bird's eye view
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Axelson/dep_viz – a visual tool to understand Elixir recompilation
6 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
The Washington Post Releases U.S. Climate Data on GitHub
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Dogfooding
6 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Supreme Court rejects lawsuit against Facebook for hosting terrorists
6 points • comment • may 18, 2020
NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
6 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Sensitive to bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
An Intel MCS-48 based dual temperature sensor
6 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
I hired 3 world-class designers for $199
6 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Clever-show is a software suite to operate multiple quadcopters over a network
6 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
How I Learn Difficult Skills – My Quest to Photograph a Galaxy
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
If Working from Home Is Destroying Your Back, You're Not Alone
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Docker.hostip.dev – Access localhost from Docker on Mac, Linux, windows
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
“What codec should I use?”
6 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Show HN: Deep Reinforcement Learning based algo trading in beta testing
6 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools
6 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
WHO official hits back at Trump for his use of the term 'Chinese virus'
6 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Portland Passes Ban on Facial Recognition in Stores, Banks, Restaurants and More
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Ask HN: If you were forced to abandon Mac OS, what would you use?
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Trump Covid post deleted by Facebook and hidden by Twitter
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Roman Legionary – professional heavy infantry of Roman Empire
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
6 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
'They don't care about safety': Amazon workers struggle with pandemic demand
6 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
A Content Analysis of Coronavirus Tweets in the US Just Prior to the Pandemic
6 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Global Variables – Still a Major Source of Problems in IT Projects
6 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence
6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Truckers Facing Coronavirus Hurdles in Keeping Supply Chains Moving
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Earth Inc: Centralization and Variegation in the Global Company Network (2015)
6 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Show HN: JavaScript by Example
6 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
“This one trick to do sqr() and cube() in C”
6 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
The future of Postgres sharding [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Unexplained phenomena keep suggesting the universe isn’t what we thought
6 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Self-hosted open source GStreamer based video streaming platform
6 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Windows trust in abandoned code lets ransomware burrow deep in targeted machines
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Pardons Were the Framers’ Blind Spot
6 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Want a Covid-19 Test? It’s Much Easier to Get in Wealthier, Whiter Neighborhoods
6 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Vitalik Buterin interviews Tyler Cowen on tech and crypto [video]
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Discrimination charges at Pinterest reveal a hidden hiring problem
6 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Cameras and Lenses Are Crooked and How to Adjust Them
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Fact check: Is Covid-19 caused by human consumption of animals?
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
What happens when you open source everything?
6 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Huawei releases openEuler operating system source code
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
European Parliament votes in favor of 'right to repair'
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of Covid-19: clinical trial
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 in Italy Since September 2019 (Milan National Cancer Institute)
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Google open-sources LIT, a toolset for evaluating natural language models
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Show HN: Don't Work With Startups (Or FAANGs)
6 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Turkey Says It Sent 500k Coronavirus Test Kits to United States
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
AMD Big Navi might still be faster than the RTX 3080
6 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Century-old vaccine limits Covid spread, so bring it back, urge Israeli experts
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack
6 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
A Technical Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
We Don't Do That Here
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Amazon Sidewalk
6 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Taleb: Think how instead of hunkering down you can get aggressive.
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Suffering, Unfaltering Manet
6 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Abel Prize in Mathematics Shared by 2 Trailblazers of Probability and Dynamics
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
What Is Relativity, Anyway?
6 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
The Edge of Emulation
6 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Facebook users may spread Russian propaganda less often when aware of its source
6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Lenia – Mathematical Life Forms [video]
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
No Drugs, No Crime and Pennies for School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Mystery over monster star's vanishing act
6 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Gold and Dollar: How Money Became Worthless [video]
6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
How Is Money Created? – Everything You Need to Know
6 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Ask HN: How does one become a better Software Engineer?
6 points • comment • dec 09, 2020