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Hacker News (2020)

Digitizing Old 8mm Tapes
4 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To
4 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Covid and California’s farmworkers: study lays bare disproportionate risks
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
The math of brewing a better espresso
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Major Reddit Outage
4 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Vaccines
4 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Google Fiber to offer 2 Gig internet for $100 a month starting this year
4 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Ask HN: What do you think about Alibaba Cloud? How does it compare to the big 3?
4 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Show HN: A souece analyser help you to understand code efficiently
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
A New York Power Plant Is Mining $50K Worth of Bitcoin a Day
4 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Connascence: A software quality metric and a taxonomy for types of coupling
4 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Urban Exiles Are Fueling a Suburban Housing Boom Across the U.S.
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Best Machine Learning Textbooks That All Data Scientists Should Read
4 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees
4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Modular Game Worlds in Phaser
4 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Covid-19 contact tracing hits Apple devices with iOS and iPadOS 13.5
4 points • comment • may 21, 2020
The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19
4 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Uncertainty over who could access NHSX contact tracing app data as pilot starts
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
China, Money and Alibaba Spin-Off Ant (Cory Doctorow)
4 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Cheap, Easy Deepfakes Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing
4 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Asymptomatic Covid-19 Carrier Who Shed Virus for 70 Days
4 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Amazon lifts ban on FedEx for third-party marketplace sellers
4 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
AT&T service outage in TN/KY following Christmas-day bombing
4 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Sowing doubt: people around world receive mystery seed parcels
4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
MIT disciplining professor with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
4 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Ubuntu 20.10 is Now Available to Download
4 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
July home sales spike a record 24.7% as prices set a new high
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Big tech and corporate tax cuts: targets of Joe Biden's urgent economic plans
4 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Ted Nelson Reads George Orwell's Poem, “The Money God”
4 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
The year deepfakes went mainstream
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Types of Coronavirus People
4 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Free online digital skills courses revive hope and careers for millions
4 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Integration testing in Kubernetes, and why we stopped using Helm tests
4 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Ask HN: How to spend tech learning budget
4 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
U.S. Plans to Block Flights by Chinese Airlines
4 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Microscopic 3D-printed Star Trek Voyager can move on its own
4 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
A Survey (and Analysis) of Istio's Network Security Features
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
The ACLU, Censorship and Semantic Contagion
4 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Create Your Own Expression Parser
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Pfizer’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose
4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Prominent LGBTQ+ Technologists, Past and Present
4 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PS Store after bugs complaints, offers refund
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Aircraft carrier landing 1986 vs. 2019
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Trump-Pelosi $2k Stimulus Checks Are a Mistake
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
A new TikTok clone hit the top of the App Store by paying users to watch videos
4 points • comment • may 30, 2020
On monotonicity in relational databases and service-oriented architecture
4 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Udacity China to Shutdown
4 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Petrovich
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Chesterton's Fence
4 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal
4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Fast-Roping
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Apple is forced to include charger for not demonstrating environmental benefits
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
What Makes Jio Different?
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Software Assertions and Code Quality (2006)
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Prospecting for Hash Functions (2018)
4 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
How to Write Well
4 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Ask HN: Tracking down fake Airbnb owner
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Supabase the Open Source Firebase Alternative
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Ask HN: Online kids games for math and memory?
4 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Fined: Umeå University Failed to Sufficiently Protect Sensitive Personal Data
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
How We Acquired HEY.com
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Show HN: CLI to compare monthly costs on AWS
4 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
End-to-end encryption threatened by new proposed bill
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Gavin Newsom responds after attending large dinner party against his own Edicts
4 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
MIT Sloan Management Review is free for 60 days
4 points • comment • may 06, 2020
New York’s Quontic Becomes First US Bank to Offer a Bitcoin Rewards Debit Card
4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Tim Sweeney of Epic Games Slams Apple, Calls It “Absolute Monopoly”
4 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?
4 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
AMD Reveals RDNA 2 and CDNA GPU Architecures, Zen CPU Roadmap Details
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest
4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Linux mobile, daily driver reality check
4 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (2011)
4 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Lockdowns and Mask Mandates Do Not Lead to Reduced Covid or Deaths, New Study
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Facebook Allows Victory Declarations in States Before Votes Are Counted
4 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
Psychopathic traits linked to noncompliance with social distancing amid pandemic
4 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Steve Jobs announcing transition from PowerPC to Intel (2005)
4 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
AutoCompress: SOTA Automatic DNN Pruning for Ultra-High Compression Rates
4 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
V language now uses autofree Rust-like memory management
4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Kim Kardashian “Freezing” Instagram and Facebook Accounts
4 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
'Straight to Gunshots': How a U.S. Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist
4 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
NIH abruptly cuts coronavirus research funding, alarming scientists
4 points • comment • may 02, 2020
How to Generate a Sequence of Unique Random Integers (2012)
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking to get actionable feedback, not guilt
4 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Interesting Ideas from the Future Data Conf
4 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Satellite Vu aims to scope out the whole globe with thermal vision
4 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
iMac slows down after Big Sur upgrade
4 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Modify Intel CPU Microcode – on the fly (chip-red-pill / crbus_scripts)
4 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Inclusiveness in Language for Outsiders Looking In
4 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Why are telehealth companies treating healthcare like the gig economy?
4 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Smartphone app Helfie.ai checks for skin cancer within minutes for just $3
4 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Cpupower-GUI – graphical GUI to modify CPU frequency limits and governors
4 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Debug Riot-OS on PineTime Smart Watch with VSCode
4 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
Show HN: Design by Contract (tm) – C++
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Big Tech adding 20000 jobs by 2022 in NYC
4 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Negative Capability
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Thousands protest in Berlin against coronavirus restrictions
4 points • comment • aug 02, 2020