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Hacker News (2020)

Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police
5 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Nevertheless, She Existed
5 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Yelp’s anti-racist social credit nightmare
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
India open-sources its contact-tracing app
5 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Ask HN: What technologies would you use to “solve” voter fraud?
5 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Why a greater depression for the 2020s is inevitable
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020
5 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Ask HN: Owner wants to buy out my 1.5%, what do I need to consider?
5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
America Failed at Covid-19, but the Economy’s Okay. Why?
5 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Smoke-Testing Rust HTTP Clients
5 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
5 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Drawn-on-skin electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
UK students lose Erasmus membership in Brexit deal
5 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
The Ways of Dog to Mann
5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
IntelliJ Rust: Updates for 2020.3
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
The New York Public Library Opts to Cancel Un-PC Feminists
5 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
China Halts Ant Group’s Blockbuster IPO
5 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
What the coronavirus forcing me in lockdown's taught me about cooking
5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Code of Conduct guidelines by HN participants
5 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
Apple bans radio app that is front for Iranian taxi service
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Securely tunnel smart phone traffic with WireGuard and OpenBSD
5 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
An OSS community that converts cars to electric. Part 3: Johannes Huebner
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
New England Journal of Medicine Urges Americans to Vote Trump Out of Office
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
There Is No Evidence Lockdowns Saved Lives. It Is Indisputable They Caused Harm
5 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Boston Doctor Reports Serious Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna’s Vaccine
5 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Why almost everything you thought about running is wrong
5 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
U.K. Says New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’
5 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping
5 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
European Commission proposes new rules for digital platforms
5 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Show HN: Sql2json – Python package to run SQL query and get JSON result
5 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
To Prevent Free Access to Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians to Be Afraid
5 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
The Unraveling of the American Era
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
911 is not a customer service line for someone's racist behavior
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
'Unfixable' security flaw in Intel boot ROM
5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
This Product Doesn't Exist
5 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
TikTok owners show true colors with communist flag
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Ask HN: What video games got you thinking about society this year?
5 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Slack CEO's notes on their complaint against Microsoft
5 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Deutsche Bank suggests a work from home tax [pdf]
5 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Bcachefs Linux File-System Seeing Performance Improvements, Other Progress
5 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Researchers Link Poor Memory to Attention Lapses and Media Multitasking
5 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
DARPA AlphaDogfight Finals: AI agents compete to face a human F-16 pilot
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Tutorial: Image Compression Using Autoencoders in Keras
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency
5 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2
5 points • comment • may 05, 2020
The Computer Chronicles – Windows 95 (1994)
5 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
The search for a cure for dementia is not going well
5 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
How Much Does a Cell Weigh? (2012)
5 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Can you recommend good technical newsletters to follow?
5 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
There’s a question mark hanging over Apple’s Arm Macs
5 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Stanford Robot Built from Pigeon Feathers
5 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
She Couldn’t Open For Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could
5 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
AMA from SpaceX software team on Reddit (To start at 19:00 UTC)
5 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Show HN: Self-hosted VirusTotal-like for scanning files by multiple sandboxed AV
5 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Paseto – JOSE (JWT, JWE, JWS) without the many design deficits in JOSE standards
5 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Twilio Set to Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment for $3.2B
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Computer Models of Covid-19 Outbreaks Could Help Stop Coronavirus
5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy
5 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
The source of peanut allergies has been found in a surprising place
5 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Hybrid 3D-printing bioinks help repair damaged knee cartilage
5 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
The Birdsong that took over Canada
5 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Popular Online Learning Platform Was Created by a Religious ‘Cult’
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Unethical International Nurse-Staffing Agencies
5 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
South Korea’s Universal Basic Income Experiment to Boost the Economy [video]
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity
5 points • comment • may 27, 2020
A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Why are record levels of CEO's quitting and selling stock?
5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
The International Flights Filled with Solo Babies
5 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
A Simple Web Scraper in Go
5 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Deterrence Project: Trump strategy to deter Black Americans from voting [video]
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Bret Victor the Future of Programming
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
DiffTune: Optimizing CPU Simulator Parameters with Differentiable Surrogates
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Ask HN: What can I do at home to grow professionally?
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Skating legend Keith Hufnagel dies at 46
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
They Live Alone in Ghost Towns
5 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
Show HN: ThinkType – Write and Search Notes at the Same Time
5 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Knowledge gap is a new Wealth gap
5 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
The Subtle Effects of Blood Circulation Can Be Used to Detect Deep Fakes
5 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Ask HN: What are some deep, mentality changing books?
5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Apple's M1 Chip Cinebench Results: Lots of Room for Improvement
5 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
5 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
History from Below
5 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
jwz: Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit
5 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Price of polluting in EU rises as carbon price hits record high
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Google's 3-Word Plan to Help Avoid Burnout Is So Simple You Should Steal It
5 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Build Apps for Free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier
5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $69B
5 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
No Cell Signal or Wi-Fi: Growing Up Inside America’s ‘Quiet Zone’
5 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
The time has come for a more human internet
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Spyware hidden in Chinese tax software was probably planted by a nation-state
5 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
The new fuel to come from Saudi Arabia
5 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Canada’s Competition Bureau Fines Facebook Millions over Privacy
5 points • comment • may 21, 2020
Conan O’Brien Will End His Late-Night Show in 2021
5 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
5G was going to unite the world–instead it’s tearing us apart
5 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Jeff Dean about Timnit Gebru and Google's approach to research publication
5 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
California sues Cisco for alleged caste discrimination
5 points • comment • jul 03, 2020