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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology

    268 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  2. Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’

    268 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  3. Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call

    268 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  4. Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go

    268 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  5. Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers

    268 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  6. Why N95 masks are hard to make

    268 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  7. How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?

    268 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  8. Pygame 2.0

    268 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  9. Where our economy is, for the young

    268 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  10. RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

    268 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  11. Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban

    268 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  12. Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Tampering of Mortgage Funds

    268 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  13. Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)

    268 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  14. MIT 6.004: Computation Structures

    268 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  15. Largest Known Maya Structure Found

    267 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  16. The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death

    267 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  17. The Problem with Palm Oil

    267 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  18. A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

    267 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  19. Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)

    267 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  20. Google Stories

    267 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  21. Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

    267 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol

    267 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  23. Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

    267 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  24. Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users

    267 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  25. Is the web getting slower?

    267 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  26. Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager

    267 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  27. Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer

    267 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  28. Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage

    267 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  29. What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?

    267 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  30. Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

    267 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  31. Bruce Schneier: Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough

    267 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  32. Tor Browser 9.5

    267 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  33. Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab

    267 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  34. Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day

    267 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  35. Slower News

    267 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  36. Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots

    267 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  37. Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine

    267 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  38. SpiderFoot: OSINT collection and reconnaissance tool

    267 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  39. A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers

    267 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  40. Kubernetes YAML Generator

    266 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  41. Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

    266 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  42. Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants

    266 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  43. Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum

    266 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  44. Walmart Exclusive Wi-Fi Router Contains Backdoor to Control Devices

    266 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  45. Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres

    266 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  46. When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)

    266 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  47. Blender 2.90

    266 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  48. Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis

    266 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  49. Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems

    266 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  50. A cold outreach strategy that works

    266 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  51. Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (2000)

    266 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  52. Swift on Mac OS 9

    266 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  53. The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with

    266 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  54. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years

    266 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  55. Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)

    266 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  56. Nim 1.4

    266 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  57. Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1

    266 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  58. I built an app to fix my depression

    266 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  59. Show HN: Game of Life in 32 bytes of assembler

    266 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  60. Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

    266 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  61. EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership

    266 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  62. Swift Algorithms

    266 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  63. Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)

    266 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  64. Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform

    266 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  65. Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation

    266 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  66. Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

    266 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  67. NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

    266 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  68. Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later

    266 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  69. How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019

    266 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?

    266 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  71. Oil plummets 30% as OPEC deal failure sparks price war fears

    266 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  72. This Artwork Does Not Exist

    266 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  73. Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached

    265 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  74. Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic

    265 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  75. Nvidia is now worth more than Intel

    265 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  76. Anatomy of a Scam

    265 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  77. Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health

    265 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  78. Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)

    265 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  79. Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'

    265 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  80. The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)

    265 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  81. The stock market and economy have parted ways

    265 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  82. The Tao of Programming (1987)

    265 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  83. Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

    265 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  84. Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born

    265 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  85. The History of the URL

    265 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  86. White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations

    265 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  87. Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assange extradition hearing

    265 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  88. A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension

    265 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  89. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

    265 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  90. Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic

    265 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  91. Industry spent millions selling recycling, to sell more plastic

    265 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  92. Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries

    265 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  93. Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life

    265 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  94. Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?

    265 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  95. Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial

    265 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  96. Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible

    265 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  97. I am lonely will anyone speak to me

    265 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  98. Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents

    265 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  99. DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

    265 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  100. Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)

    265 points • comment • mar 02, 2020