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Hacker News (2020)

Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions
252 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Lua 5.4.0
252 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man
252 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Blogging vs. Blog Setups
252 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
SEC Enforcement of Insider Trading Dropped to Lowest Point in Decades
252 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT
252 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Machine Learning Research at Apple
252 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans
252 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
CS Unplugged – Computer Science without a computer
252 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
A quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers
252 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
252 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
252 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks
251 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch
251 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Bitwarden second security audit report
251 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo
251 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
251 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion
251 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost
251 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Simdjson 0.3: Faster JSON parser
251 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Apple Fitness+
251 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
251 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow
251 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display
251 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech
251 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]
251 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Robinhood and How to Lose Money
251 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
GTA V – The Wormy Fountain
251 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses
251 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
251 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
251 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax
251 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid
251 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (1897)
251 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
251 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Goat2Meeting
250 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines
250 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US
250 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
The war on food waste is a waste of time
250 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban
250 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Why do color TVs make black and white snow?
250 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
250 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed
250 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
250 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption
250 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding
250 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?
250 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns
250 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses
250 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition
250 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
BBC Basic Editor
250 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust
250 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The Hertz Story Isn’t What You Think
250 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook
250 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
Lovely Week with Elixir
250 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Chloroquine, past and present
250 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Real time image animation in opencv using first order model
250 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git
250 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)
250 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Anger Management
250 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
CA Root expired on 30 May 2020
249 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II
249 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation
249 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
U.S. faculty job market tanks
249 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files
249 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Python For Feature Film
249 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly
249 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Must ride mule to and from work location
249 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas
249 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation [video]
249 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)
249 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
A better Kubernetes from the ground up
249 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff
249 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?
249 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)
249 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
249 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)
249 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states
249 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
249 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
249 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google
249 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters following Jump sale
249 points • comment • may 28, 2020
US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies
249 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Linux from Scratch
249 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics
249 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories
248 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
248 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
248 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?
248 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation
248 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Lockdown: Open-source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping
248 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law
248 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base
248 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing
248 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Why Restaurants Are So Fucked
248 points • comment • may 01, 2020
YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills
248 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware
248 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Data-Oriented Architecture
248 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
TSMC officially begins 5 nm production
248 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
No Hello (2013)
248 points • comment • aug 21, 2020