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Hacker News (2020)

  1. A Remote Alaskan Town Used Car Headlights to Help Save a Kid

    4 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  2. Washington’s China Policy Has Lost Its Wei

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  3. Amazon deletes 20k user reviews after finding evidence of suspicious activity

    4 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  4. Covid-19 Positivity Rate Might Not Mean What You Think It Does

    4 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  5. Show HN: Hustling Sunlight – anagrams in black and white

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  6. Ask HN: How do you set up a virtual browser

    4 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  7. China Exports Are Booming and Trade Surplus Is Widening–Why Is the Yuan So Weak?

    4 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  8. Qualcomm’s Founder on Why the US Doesn’t Have Its Own Huawei

    4 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  9. Private Property and Social Hierarchies as Concurrency Control Mechanisms

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  10. Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  11. The start of life on Earth is an event horizon we struggle to see beyond

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  12. Right to Repair Ad in MA

    4 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  13. Metrics Lead to Effective Sprint Retrospectives

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  14. GameStop considers installment plans for Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X

    4 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  15. Stargate Project

    4 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  16. Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students

    4 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  17. Correct Your Posture

    4 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  18. General Motors takes 11% stake and $2B in equity in electric truck maker Nikola

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  19. Googling for Gut Symptoms Predicts Covid Hot Spots

    4 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  20. How China Is Taking over International Organizations, One Vote at a Time

    4 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  21. The End of the University (The New Republic)

    4 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  22. Ask HN: If you could reinvent the web browser, what would you do differently?

    4 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  23. Neither Microsoft nor Oracle gets to buy TikTok US: Chinese state media

    4 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  24. Changes in proton density, spurred by solar wind, may predict earthquakes

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  25. Wallpaper image crashing Android phones

    4 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  26. Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown

    4 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  27. M-PESA has achieved a key milestone in Kenya

    4 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  28. JPMorgan Sends Traders Home After Worker Gets Covid-19

    4 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  29. Raise Ducks, Not Chickens

    4 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  30. Kickstarter: Open-Source Sciter Engine

    4 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  31. Web APIs for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices – By Microsoft Edge

    4 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  32. Eli Lilly reports first, promising results for an antibody against Covid-19

    4 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  33. Stripe is paying employees $20k if they leave big cities, but with a pay cut

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  34. Lipid metabolism controls brain development

    4 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  35. The world’s longest burning fires: China’s unseen story (2013)

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  36. Twitter Suspends Chinese Virologist Acc Who Claimed Coronavirus Was Made in Lab

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  37. John Carmack Unscripted (at Facebook Connect)

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  38. Investments between US and China drop to lowest level in nearly a decade

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  39. Tony Abbott hacked after posting boarding pass on Instagram

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  40. Built to Last (COBOL in 2020)

    4 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  41. Apple Shipping ARM Based Macs to Devopers

    4 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  42. Japan's beloved matsutake mushroom under threat

    4 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  43. Ask HN: What RSS feeds/newsletters are you subscribed to?

    4 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  44. Growing Saffron Hydroponically: A Guide

    4 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  45. Where Basic Income Has Been Tested Worldwide

    4 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  46. How Orbán played Germany, Europe's great power

    4 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  47. Visby's portable Covid-19 test gets FDA approval

    4 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  48. Bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers, DOJ says

    4 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  49. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Technology

    4 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  50. Show HN: Debut – a retro terminal PowerPoint clone

    4 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  51. USB Overload: Portwell Motherboard Has 20 USB Ports

    4 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  52. Dual Circulation and China’s New Hedged Integration Strategy

    4 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  53. How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  54. Amazon Sidewalk: A New Way to Stay Connected

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  55. The difficult teenage years: Setting tech strategy after a launch (2019)

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  56. Rosetta spacecraft detects unexpected ultraviolet aurora at a comet

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  57. CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  58. Rat King

    4 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  59. UC Berkeley Reward-Free RL Beats SOTA Reward-Based RL

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  60. The HSBC Files

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  61. What a WoW virtual outbreak taught us about how humans behave in epidemics

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  62. T-Mobile amassed “unprecedented concentration of spectrum,” AT&T complains

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  63. Tech journalism’s ‘on background’ scourge

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  64. Sony Is Said to Cut PS5 Target by 4M Due to Chip Woes

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  65. Opytimizer: Nature-Inspired Computation in Python

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  66. Microsoft Develops a ‘Virtual Commute’ for Remote Workers

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  67. Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to virus pandemic are now permanent

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  68. Boring Co. looks to hire for ‘secret tunnel’ between LA and Vegas

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  69. Ever wonder how LSD works? An answer has been discovered

    4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  70. Workflows in AWS and GCP

    4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  71. The Boom in Fireworks Conspiracy Theories

    4 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  72. The Core Lesson of the Covid-19 Heart Debate

    4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  73. Twitter appears to prefer white people for thumbnails

    4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  74. Men Behind QAnon

    4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  75. Monadic Functional Control Flow Micro-Library for JavaScript/TypeScript

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  76. Save Money and Uninstall Tinder

    4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  77. Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox

    4 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  78. Eigengrau

    4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  79. Cloth Masks Are Useless Against Covid-19

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  80. The Interface of Kai Krause's Software

    4 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  81. Revealed: MoD and UK’s most snr scientist weren’t consulted on £400m OneWeb deal

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  82. 157-day cycle in unusual cosmic radio bursts

    4 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  83. Parameterized Equation Solver in Go

    4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  84. Ask HN: What are good Qs to check the emotional state of a person before hiring?

    4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  85. No more warnings: America has weeks to save Democracy

    4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  86. Reddit AMA: We're about to launch a new 360 VR camera to film a spacewalk

    4 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  87. Xi Just Saved the World

    4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  88. Losing trust in AWS. SNS is broken for 24 days

    4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  89. Epic is acquiring SuperAwesome, a company focused on kids' online safety

    4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  90. Argentine lawmaker suspended after sexual ACT during virtual session of Congress

    4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  91. Sam Zeloof Home Chip Fab: Silicon IC Fabrication in the Garage (2018)

    4 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  92. A Tale of Two Libcs

    4 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  93. Is it moral/ethical to buy a Tesla?

    4 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  94. What to Do When the Future Feels Hopeless

    4 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  95. A. Ashkin – whose 1970 invention of 'tractor beam' led to 2018 Nobel –dies at 98

    4 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  96. NASA app allows you to find new exoplanets

    4 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  97. Revelations from a Trove of Trump Tax Records

    4 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  98. US restricts technology sales to Chinese semiconductor giant

    4 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  99. The Resurgence and Importance of Email Newsletters

    4 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  100. Corona Leaked Likely from Wuhan Institute of Virology: Experts

    4 points • comment • apr 26, 2020