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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

    819 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  2. Written communication is remote work super power

    819 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  3. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    818 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  4. A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

    816 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  5. Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

    815 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  6. Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

    815 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  7. “Just walk out” technology by Amazon

    814 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  8. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

    814 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  9. Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead

    814 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  10. Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

    813 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  11. Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell

    813 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  12. All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

    813 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  13. DigitalOcean is laying off staff

    812 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  14. Being OK with not being extraordinary

    811 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  15. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

    810 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  16. Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site

    809 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  17. People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

    809 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  18. Relativty – An open-source VR headset

    809 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  19. Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

    807 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  20. How to Write Usefully

    806 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  21. Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

    805 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  22. Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

    804 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  23. Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

    804 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  24. Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

    804 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  25. WireGuard 1.0

    801 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  26. Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

    800 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  27. South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

    800 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  28. I got my file from Clearview AI

    799 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  29. I sold Baremetrics

    799 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  30. Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

    798 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  31. Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

    798 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  32. Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions

    797 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  33. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

    796 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  34. Show HN: Fraidycat

    794 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  35. Abstract Wikipedia

    791 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  36. DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features

    791 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  37. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

    790 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  38. How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

    790 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  39. Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime

    789 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  40. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

    789 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  41. Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book

    789 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  42. I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

    786 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  43. You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain

    786 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  44. I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency

    786 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  45. DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

    784 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  46. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

    783 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  47. .NET 5.0

    782 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  48. A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space

    782 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  49. Why can’t you buy a good webcam?

    781 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  50. Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

    781 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  51. Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

    781 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  52. Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

    781 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  53. Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations

    780 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  54. Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

    780 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  55. COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator

    780 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  56. Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country

    779 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  57. New Grad vs. Senior Dev

    779 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  58. Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show

    778 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  59. iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry

    777 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  60. How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model

    777 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  61. Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims

    777 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  62. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

    776 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  63. I should have loved biology

    776 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  64. Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

    776 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  65. Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees

    775 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  66. It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

    774 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  67. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

    773 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  68. “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”

    773 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  69. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms

    773 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  70. Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

    772 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  71. Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

    772 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  72. Products I Wish Existed

    772 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  73. How to Understand Things

    771 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  74. Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

    771 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  75. Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month

    771 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  76. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

    771 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  77. The Return of the 90s Web

    771 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  78. A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]

    770 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  79. An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall

    770 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  80. WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

    769 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  81. A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

    769 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  82. Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad

    769 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  83. In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

    768 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  84. Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

    766 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  85. Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

    766 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  86. Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

    765 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  87. Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

    764 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  88. 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery

    764 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

    764 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  90. Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

    763 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  91. Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

    763 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  92. Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

    763 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  93. YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

    763 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  94. Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees

    762 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  95. YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]

    762 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  96. Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

    761 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  97. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

    760 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  98. Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3

    760 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  99. Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

    760 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  100. My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works

    759 points • comment • jun 23, 2020