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Hacker News (2020)

Experian South Africa consumer and business databases leaked online
4 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Apple is tweaking how MacBooks charge to extend their battery’s lifespan
4 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Show HN: Practical Programming Language with Expressive Power, in 10 KLOC C++11
4 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Ask HN: Have You Donated to Wikipedia?
4 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Rust concurrency: a streaming workflow, served with a side of back-pressure
4 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Show HN: Asynctasks – A sensible task system for vim to boost your development
4 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Socratic vs. Euclidean Forms of API Documentation
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Bellamy Salute
4 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Proposed Bill Would Give Americans $2k a Month During Pandemic
4 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Test Driven Development Is Overrated – Level Up Coding
4 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
People Mean Two Different Things by “MVP”
4 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Kmon, Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
4 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Germany will issue coronavirus antibody certificates
4 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Ask HN: Ideas for “Knowledge Snacks”
4 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
OS13k – A Tiny Web Based OS and Game Engine
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Are the aliens us? UFOs may be piloted by time-traveling humans
4 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Meat and dairy production emit more nitrogen than Earth can cope with
4 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Study: Fake Russian Twitter accounts politicized discourse about vaccines
4 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
The Body Keeps the Score
4 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Icicle Tree with static JSON data
4 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Most Popular YouTuber in Every Country
4 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
The United States leads in coronavirus cases, but not pandemic response
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
SoftBank Won’t Buy $3B in WeWork Stock
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Show HN: Asktrump.co – A Press Conference Simulation
4 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
China is hiding the extent and nature of its “debt-trap” diplomacy
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Wind and obstacle motion affect honeybee flight strategy in complex environments
4 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Indian Intelligence agencies red-flag use of 53 mobile apps with links to China
4 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
YouTube: Scientists May Have Found a Way to Treat All Cancers, by Accident (MR1)
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Young people, barely sick with Covid-19, are dying from strokes
4 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
SoftBank terminates $3BN tender offer for WeWork shares
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
US GDP shrank 4.8% in Q1 as the coronavirus dragged the economy into recession
4 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics
4 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Using Makefiles with Go (Golang)
4 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Kamau Brathwaite and the Voice of the Caribbean
4 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Plague Inc. Removed from the App Store in China
4 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
New Report Shows Why We Must Tackle Excessive Wealth to Save the Planet
4 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Star Labs’ Newest Linux Laptop Is Small but Perfectly Formed
4 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Under Modi, India’s Press Is Not So Free Anymore
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Parody (in Go) of some of the basic Python core features (collections package)
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Jeff Bezos’ iPhone X Was Hacked
4 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Why the Left Coast Is Still Burning
4 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
GitHub uses Datasette to publish an SQL-enabled interface of Covid-19 data
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Fermi Estimates on Postgres Performance
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Making a beeline: wildflower paths across UK could save species
4 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
The Panda Language: No Loops, No Ifs, Just Fun
4 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Facebook Says Its ‘Blender’ Chatbot Is the Most Humanlike Ever
4 points • comment • may 01, 2020
NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields [video]
4 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets over China
4 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Joe Rogan's Endorsement Is One of the Most Influential in America
4 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Liquor Laws Loosen Up in the Face of Delivery-Only Dining
4 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
The Twitter Hack – What Happened?
4 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Show HN: Gastby plugin to showcase code blocks in carbon or Ubuntu terminals
4 points • comment • may 24, 2020
‘I’ll be doing this for decades’: Arlan Hamilton’s challenging status quo of VC
4 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Coronavirus Statistic: 42% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population
4 points • comment • may 29, 2020
President Rodrigo Duterte orders police to kill citizens who defy lockdown
4 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing
4 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Republicans and Democrats See Covid-19 Differently. Is That Making People Sick?
4 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Ask HN: Good tech sites with user submitted articles
4 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Price of Bitcoin around the world in the local currencies
4 points • comment • may 11, 2020
June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big
4 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Creating Porter; an open-source CLI to make cloud deployments easier
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Flash Crash – the trading savant who crashed the US stock market
4 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Airdevronsix icefall (2014)
4 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
4 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Real Men Don’t Rent
4 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, CN
4 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Privacy focused Zoom alternative Beacon enters open beta
4 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
The Panopticon Is Already Here
4 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Scratching the surface: drones cast new light on mystery of Nazca Lines
4 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Noam Chomsky: The world is at the most dangerous moment in human history
4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Save your bacon: A real meat shortage looms with virus shutdowns
4 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Interview with Nim language creator Andreas Rumpf [video]
4 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
How to Trick Your Brain to Remember Almost Anything
4 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
U.S. has thrown more than $6T at the coronavirus crisis. That number could grow
4 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
U.S. coronavirus deaths in early weeks of pandemic exceeded official number
4 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
Melbourne's Air Quality Index
4 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Show HN: GroWrk – Flexible home workstations for distributed teams
4 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome
4 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
How do we move around in a zero-carbon world? (Aug 24th 2020)
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Sir Roger Scruton: 1944-2020
4 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
I Used Alexa to Play Board Games and Now I Never Have to Play with Family Again
4 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
China to build Wuhan hospital in six days
4 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Encryption debate continues with William Barr pressuring Apple to unlock iPhone
4 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Control Theory Can Help Us Control Covid-19
4 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas
4 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
Sitrep: F-35 upgrades aim for more compute power (and maybe new software)
4 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Widespread Vote-by-Mail Fraud Allegations in Paterson NJ City Council Election
4 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Navajo Language Grammar
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
China launches robotic mission to orbit, land, and drive on Mars
4 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Middle aged misery peaks at age 47.2, economist says
4 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
What Happens If America’s 2.5M Farmworkers Get Sick?
4 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Two satellites in close shave over US city of Pittsburgh
4 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights
4 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
There's Waldo is a robot that finds Waldo
4 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Data is unrecoverable on macbooks with secure boot if T2 firmware gets corrupted
4 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Don't Believe the Coronavirus Models, They Aren't Supposed to Be Right
4 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Group behind Central Park Covid tent hospital has anti-gay agenda
4 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Fundamental issues we see with email
4 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
NASA Researcher Arrested in Relation to China’s Talents Program
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020