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Hacker News (2020)

Why We Prefer CSS Custom Properties to SASS Variables
6 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Leaked database indicates Chinese intelligence has probed senior Aus politicians
6 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
When I Requested Amazon's Data on Me, I Didn't Expect What I Would Get Back
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Goldman Sachs will claw back money paid to CEO, ex-CEO, & execs after 1MDB Fines
6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Philadelphia didn't cancel parade during 1918 pandemic. Results were devastating
6 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Tesla’s seven-day return policy has been quietly removed
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
We Don't Really Understand Randomness
6 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Royal Astronomical Society livestream [video]
6 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
CFOs: Covid-19 Work-from-Home Plans May Be Permanent
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Ask HN: What product, etc. do you think is snake oil?
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists
6 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
‘Dark Knight,’, ‘Grease,’ ‘Blues Brothers’, etc. Added to National Film Registry
6 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
SSH-lockbox: Personal centralised SSH key deployment to multiple boxes (and Git
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
A Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Street Like None Other (See Footnote)
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
The Lesson Americans Never Learn
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Name of Canada
6 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Millimeter Wave: A Bridge Too Far?
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Drones Are Destabilizing Global Politics
6 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Snakemake – Workflow Management System
6 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Facebook group pushing false claim of stolen U.S. election gains 325k members
6 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Alone
6 points • comment • may 17, 2020
The Nuances of Constants in Go; Go Isn’t JavaScript
6 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Ask HN: Is there way you can covert smartphone to a no contact thermometer?
6 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There
6 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator comes on 10 discs
6 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Utrecht restores historic canal made into motorway in 1970s
6 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Following Up on “Hello World”
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Historic Labels: An Enlightening Sonic Window to the Past
6 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
You can pay $750 an hour and walk on rides at Disney World
6 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools
6 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
The world’s first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi to Japan
6 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Thanos ransomware auto-spreads to Windows devices, evades security
6 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
We Must Tear Down the Barriers That Impede Scientific Progress
6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Investors Bet Against Tesla–and Lost $8.4B in Five Weeks
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
What to do when someone asks to sit next to you on an empty plane
6 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Free access to UK's National Archive records
6 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
First Drone Goes Flying to the North Pole on a Climate Mission
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Psychedelic Therapy Raises $30M Needed for FDA Approval
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
The cheap pen that changed writing forever
6 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Ideal Sleep Position: Train Your Body to Use It
6 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Rooting an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
6 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
The British government is investing in a sex party startup
6 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Magic Leap Tried to Create an Alternate Reality. Its Founder Was Already in One
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
IBM Supercomputer Summit Attacks Coronavirus
6 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
He Hunted Bin Laden for the CIA. Now He Wants Americans Dead
6 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Papers With Code: the latest in machine learning
6 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Show HN: Hy – a Python based Lisp dialiect
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
NASA investigating small air leak on International Space Station
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has “Skyrocketed” During Covid-19
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis using only Cough Recordings [pdf]
6 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
'Major' breakthrough in Covid-19 drug makes UK professors millionaires
6 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Zoom employee in China charged with shutting meetings commemorating Tiananmen
6 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Next.js
6 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
System76’s Lemur Pro: A powerful, ultralight OEM Linux laptop
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Why did it take so long for Reddit and Facebook to block racist groups?
6 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Tesla plans to make batteries cheap enough for a $25,000 car
6 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Write Kubernetes Network Policies with Inspektor Gadget’s Network Policy Advisor
6 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
USA cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran
6 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Stomach Ache and Diarrhea May Be Among the First Signs of Covid-19 Coronavirus
6 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
What Is Rpikernelhack? (2019)
6 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Netflix creates $100M Coronavirus Relief Fund
6 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Car design is about to change forever
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Amazon suspends all shipments to its warehouses except medical supplies products
6 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Could a pandemic destroy an economy? Iran and the Black Death
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Show HN: Gact Store
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Caramel: Massively scalable, zero runtime errors, choose two
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Uber and Lyft pricing algorithms charge more in non-white areas
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Show HN: VizTracer, trace and visualize your Python code execution
6 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Fundraise from Home – Why I’m Excited
6 points • comment • may 04, 2020
What does “90% effective” mean for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine?
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Starlink Daily Coverage Estimates
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Nutritionist Recommendations
6 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Italian officials demand UK health minister delete coronavirus 'fake news'
6 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
VSCode Notifications Are Annoying
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Equifax Breach
6 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
AR Copy and Paste – photograph something physical and paste it into a document
6 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Facebook Bets Big on Future of NYC, and Offices, with New Lease
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
'Sudden' cardiac arrests often aren't so sudden
6 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be
6 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Well preserved 2k-year-old brain cells found in Vesuvius victim
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Predict with Sklearn 20x Faster
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Her tutoring center was bombed. She leads Afghanistan's university entrance exam
6 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
The History of Standard ML (HOPL IV) [pdf]
6 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Why living with and tending plants is good for you
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Show HN: Leader Election Using Apache Kafka
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
The 15-Minute City–No Cars Required
6 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Show HN: Fun – unbreakable pen&paper encryption
6 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Deep Learning for NLP: Stanford Course (My Notes on the Free Lectures)
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Nvidia Built Most Powerful Industrial Computer in the U.S. in Three Weeks
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Ask HN: I'm missing travelling in pandemic. How do you satisfy your wanderlust?
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Bio-Inspired Hashing for Unsupervised Similarity Search (With John Hopfield)
6 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
7 looming questions about the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Custom 3D Printed MIDI Controller Knobs
6 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru
6 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Coronavirus – Getting Angry
6 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Feds logged website visitors in 2019, citing Patriot Act authority
6 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained
6 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Puerto Rican scientists mourn loss of Arecibo Observatory's iconic telescope
6 points • comment • dec 08, 2020