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Hacker News (2020)

How to safely bomb American cities
6 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Surviving the Hits (2008)
6 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Coronavirus: Thousands of Google staff in Dublin told to work from home tomorrow
6 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Why Mitch McConnell wants states to go bankrupt
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Pier 1 going out of business and closing all 540 stores
6 points • comment • may 19, 2020
The End of Open-Plan Everything
6 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
192M Data Records Exposed in Natura Cosmetics Data Leak
6 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Reasons not to be used by Facebook (2011-2019)
6 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Facebook removes troll network posing as Black Trump supporters
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Intel Considers Outsorcing Manufacturing
6 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Chinese government-paid scientists plead guilty to stealing research
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Projecting Bitcoin's Price with Popularity (Google Trends)
6 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
The Principles of Chaos Engineering
6 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Faster Ruby APIs with Postgres
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Facebook and Instagram launch live shopping
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
From Australia to Chile, a visualization of the distribution of wildfire smoke
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Google Chrome to hide notification spam starting February 2020
6 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
The “Apple Store Index” says it’s not yet time to reopen the economy
6 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Clipboard Injection on the Financial Times
6 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
36,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis
6 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Show HN: I made an API to generate social media images
6 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
AlphaZero learns to solve quantum problems
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
6 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Minimum Number of Settlers for Survival on Another Planet – Scientific Reports
6 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
How to under-complicate your product
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Joe Rogan #1470 – Elon Musk 7th May 2020 [video]
6 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Indian Government's Contact Tracing App Has Serious Security Vulnerabilities
6 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Democrats Want to End Endless Wars, with a Catch
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Text for Proofing Fonts: A Farewell to the Quick Brown Fox
6 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Raspberry Pi OS: Why It's No Longer Called 'Raspbian'
6 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Solving global inequality with vacuous buzzwords: welcome to the “Woke Davos”
6 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Don't use low-fidelity prototypes to test desirability
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Using the ‘shadow-effect’ to generate electricity
6 points • comment • may 22, 2020
I accidentally gatecrashed a security startup’s morning meeting
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Peru recovers priceless Inca manuscript stolen during occupation
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Why Bernie Sanders Lost
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
ts-migrate: A Tool for Migrating to TypeScript at Scale
6 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
Tiger King exposed the dark side of for-profit zoos, but we're not listening
6 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Crypto Taxes in 2020: Tax Guide with Real Scenarios
6 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
“Every proof assistant” online lecture
6 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
FDA ‘Grossly Misrepresented’ Blood Plasma Data, Scientists Say
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
AWS Account Structure: Think Twice Before Using AWS Organizations
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Chinese government releases new guidelines for science fiction
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Web Animations in Safari 13.1
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
We Need Better Masks
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
'Magic mushroom' drug reduces anxiety and depression in cancer patients
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
A ‘Mass Experiment’ for the Climate
6 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
DHS Wants to Force Immigrants to Submit Biometric Information
6 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
United States National Radio Quiet Zone
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Build a digital clock in Conway's Game of Life
6 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Things You Can Do with a Bag of Flour That’s Not Just Baking
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Zoom-Bashing: How Low Can We Go?
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Screw the economy; stop fudging numbers to suit it
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
How to Keep Your Code Clean and Easy to Understand
6 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Terrorism Experts Say QAnon Conspiracy Theory a Threat to National Security
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
SpaceX: Starlink satellte production now 120 per month
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Show HN: Recreation of Shrek's DVD menu as an SPA with routes (desktop only)
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
MIT DCI and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Collaborate on Digital Cash
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
WFH: 12-Month Barbados Welcome Stamp
6 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Rockets hit Iraq base where US troops are located
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Rare tick-borne infections diagnosed in England
6 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
India selects RISC-V for semiconductor self-sufficiency contest
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Getting to Know Greedy Algorithms Through Examples
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
Antibody surveys suggesting big undercount of Covid infections may be unreliable
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
A New Way of Modulating Color Emissions from Transparent Films
6 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Deploying Django with PostgreSQL to the Cloud
6 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Battery Free Game Boy powered by Light and Button Mashing
6 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Placentas from Covid-19-positive pregnant women show injury [graphic]
6 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Poland is making its citizens use a 'selfie' app during the coronavirus crisis
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
The Viral ‘Study’ About Runners Spreading Coronavirus Is Not a Study
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Fear and Greed Index
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Amazon Employees Share Our Views on Company Business
6 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Warren Buffett’s 2019 annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
iOS 14 Might Allow Users to Partially Interact with Apps Without Installing Them
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Shut down smoking. 7M Deaths worldwide per year
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Cutevariant – Genomics Variation Viewer
6 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Making Illegal States Unrepresentable
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Emily Dickinson Escapes
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
The Avenger (2015)
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Show HN: Modern Calendar Embed for Google Calendar
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
French regulator says Google must pay news sites to send them traffic
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
During the pandemic a digital crimewave has flooded the internet
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Falsehoods Programmers Believe
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
EGEB: US government will green-light largest solar farm, more – Electrek
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Ask HN: How do you get technical mentorship?
6 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Alone
6 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Contact Tracing Can Foil Covid-19 and Big Brother
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Apple TV+ offering free programs without subscription on its app for limited run
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
All Are Not Equal: Comparing Leading Enterprise Blockchains’ Developer Activity
6 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Once Booming San Francisco Apartment Market Goes in Reverse
6 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Announcing: Serverless Components GA
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science
6 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
The free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Quick and Dirty Static Sites
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Network Admins Commandline Cheatsheet/List
6 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research
6 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Mankiw: A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Monetary Theory [pdf]
6 points • comment • jan 27, 2020