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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police

    5 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  2. Nevertheless, She Existed

    5 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  3. Yelp’s anti-racist social credit nightmare

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  4. India open-sources its contact-tracing app

    5 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  5. Ask HN: What technologies would you use to “solve” voter fraud?

    5 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  6. Why a greater depression for the 2020s is inevitable

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  7. PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020

    5 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Owner wants to buy out my 1.5%, what do I need to consider?

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  9. America Failed at Covid-19, but the Economy’s Okay. Why?

    5 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  10. Smoke-Testing Rust HTTP Clients

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  11. Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?

    5 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  12. Drawn-on-skin electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  13. UK students lose Erasmus membership in Brexit deal

    5 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  14. The Ways of Dog to Mann

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  15. IntelliJ Rust: Updates for 2020.3

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  16. The New York Public Library Opts to Cancel Un-PC Feminists

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  17. China Halts Ant Group’s Blockbuster IPO

    5 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  18. What the coronavirus forcing me in lockdown's taught me about cooking

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  19. Code of Conduct guidelines by HN participants

    5 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  20. Apple bans radio app that is front for Iranian taxi service

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  21. Securely tunnel smart phone traffic with WireGuard and OpenBSD

    5 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  22. An OSS community that converts cars to electric. Part 3: Johannes Huebner

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  23. New England Journal of Medicine Urges Americans to Vote Trump Out of Office

    5 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  24. There Is No Evidence Lockdowns Saved Lives. It Is Indisputable They Caused Harm

    5 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  25. Boston Doctor Reports Serious Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna’s Vaccine

    5 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  26. Why almost everything you thought about running is wrong

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  27. U.K. Says New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  28. Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping

    5 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  29. European Commission proposes new rules for digital platforms

    5 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  30. Show HN: Sql2json – Python package to run SQL query and get JSON result

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  31. To Prevent Free Access to Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians to Be Afraid

    5 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  32. The Unraveling of the American Era

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  33. 911 is not a customer service line for someone's racist behavior

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  34. 'Unfixable' security flaw in Intel boot ROM

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  35. This Product Doesn't Exist

    5 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  36. TikTok owners show true colors with communist flag

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  37. Ask HN: What video games got you thinking about society this year?

    5 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  38. Slack CEO's notes on their complaint against Microsoft

    5 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  39. Deutsche Bank suggests a work from home tax [pdf]

    5 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  40. Bcachefs Linux File-System Seeing Performance Improvements, Other Progress

    5 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  41. Researchers Link Poor Memory to Attention Lapses and Media Multitasking

    5 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  42. DARPA AlphaDogfight Finals: AI agents compete to face a human F-16 pilot

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  43. Hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls

    5 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  44. Tutorial: Image Compression Using Autoencoders in Keras

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  45. Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency

    5 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  46. Emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2

    5 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  47. The Computer Chronicles – Windows 95 (1994)

    5 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  48. The search for a cure for dementia is not going well

    5 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  49. How Much Does a Cell Weigh? (2012)

    5 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  50. Can you recommend good technical newsletters to follow?

    5 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  51. There’s a question mark hanging over Apple’s Arm Macs

    5 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  52. Stanford Robot Built from Pigeon Feathers

    5 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  53. She Couldn’t Open For Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  54. AMA from SpaceX software team on Reddit (To start at 19:00 UTC)

    5 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  55. Show HN: Self-hosted VirusTotal-like for scanning files by multiple sandboxed AV

    5 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  56. Paseto – JOSE (JWT, JWE, JWS) without the many design deficits in JOSE standards

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  57. Twilio Set to Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment for $3.2B

    5 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  58. Computer Models of Covid-19 Outbreaks Could Help Stop Coronavirus

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  59. Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy

    5 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  60. The source of peanut allergies has been found in a surprising place

    5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  61. Hybrid 3D-printing bioinks help repair damaged knee cartilage

    5 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  62. The Birdsong that took over Canada

    5 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  63. Popular Online Learning Platform Was Created by a Religious ‘Cult’

    5 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  64. Unethical International Nurse-Staffing Agencies

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  65. South Korea’s Universal Basic Income Experiment to Boost the Economy [video]

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  66. Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity

    5 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  67. A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights

    5 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  68. Why are record levels of CEO's quitting and selling stock?

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  69. The International Flights Filled with Solo Babies

    5 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  70. A Simple Web Scraper in Go

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  71. Deterrence Project: Trump strategy to deter Black Americans from voting [video]

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  72. Bret Victor the Future of Programming

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  73. DiffTune: Optimizing CPU Simulator Parameters with Differentiable Surrogates

    5 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  74. Ask HN: What can I do at home to grow professionally?

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  75. Skating legend Keith Hufnagel dies at 46

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  76. They Live Alone in Ghost Towns

    5 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  77. Show HN: ThinkType – Write and Search Notes at the Same Time

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  78. Knowledge gap is a new Wealth gap

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  79. The Subtle Effects of Blood Circulation Can Be Used to Detect Deep Fakes

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  80. Ask HN: What are some deep, mentality changing books?

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  81. Apple's M1 Chip Cinebench Results: Lots of Room for Improvement

    5 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  82. Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings

    5 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  83. History from Below

    5 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  84. jwz: Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit

    5 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  85. Price of polluting in EU rises as carbon price hits record high

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  86. World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  87. Google's 3-Word Plan to Help Avoid Burnout Is So Simple You Should Steal It

    5 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  88. Build Apps for Free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  89. 5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $69B

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  90. No Cell Signal or Wi-Fi: Growing Up Inside America’s ‘Quiet Zone’

    5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  91. Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  92. How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  93. The time has come for a more human internet

    5 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  94. Spyware hidden in Chinese tax software was probably planted by a nation-state

    5 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  95. The new fuel to come from Saudi Arabia

    5 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  96. Canada’s Competition Bureau Fines Facebook Millions over Privacy

    5 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  97. Conan O’Brien Will End His Late-Night Show in 2021

    5 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  98. 5G was going to unite the world–instead it’s tearing us apart

    5 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  99. Jeff Dean about Timnit Gebru and Google's approach to research publication

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  100. California sues Cisco for alleged caste discrimination

    5 points • comment • jul 03, 2020