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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Cutting-edge engineering borrows nature’s innovations

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  2. Private Property and Social Hierarchies as Concurrency Control Mechanisms

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  3. Virgin Islands Will Subpoena Leon Black, Billionaire Investor in Epstein Case

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  4. Why eggs are among the healthiest foods

    4 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  5. The LG Wing is a “T” shaped, dual-screen smartphone

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  6. China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  7. Cessna makes history by taking off and landing with no one aboard. Here’s how

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  8. A Paper Typesetting Editor Compiled with XeLaTeX

    4 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  9. My advice after interviewing 100 software engineers

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  10. ‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap

    4 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  11. The Rise of Mohammed Bin Salman

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  12. Marc Cuban Audited Protocols of Re-Openings in Dallas for Health Compliance

    4 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  13. Flash Crash – the trading savant who crashed the US stock market

    4 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  14. Getting started with automatic differentiation in Julia with Zygote – train XOR

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  15. Ask HN: How to Learn Web Design?

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  16. Twitter seems to be testing an edit feature

    4 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  17. The State of the American Restaurant, City by City

    4 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  18. Ada Gnat Ecosystem Community Survey

    4 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  19. Defense Dept. orders Stars and Stripes newspaper to shut down

    4 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  20. PSYWAR/PSYOPs

    4 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  21. Mozart and Scatology

    4 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  22. The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns

    4 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  23. Show HN: Cover Faces from Protest Photos

    4 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  24. Malicious tweets targeting epilepsy charity trigger seizures

    4 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  25. Trump bans 'anti-American' diversity training

    4 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  26. White Supremacist Groups Are Thriving on Facebook

    4 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  27. The Wikipedia page of a Bollywood star has become an internet battleground

    4 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  28. Bitburner – A cyberpunk-themed programming incremental game

    4 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  29. History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin

    4 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  31. Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  32. Are capsules network a good idea? A generative perspective

    4 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  35. ESO: Possible marker of life spotted on Venus

    4 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  36. Ask HN: Why don't more apps use OTP as the first factor?

    4 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  37. Hitler Youths – the rise of teenage far right terrorists [pdf]

    4 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  38. Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Programming

    4 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  39. Xi Just Saved the World

    4 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  40. Invest in TinySeed's Second Fund

    4 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  41. Newly Discovered Mechanism of Learning

    4 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  42. John Carmack Unscripted (at Facebook Connect)

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  43. Built to Last (COBOL in 2020)

    4 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  44. Re: Princeton University's Admissions of Racism

    4 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  45. USB Overload: Portwell Motherboard Has 20 USB Ports

    4 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  46. The CIA sent a team of 4 operators on a mission targeting China. None came back

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  47. Neoliberalism, Obesity, and Covid-19 in Mexico

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  49. The HSBC Files

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  50. Tech journalism’s ‘on background’ scourge

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  54. Pentagon spent $1B meant for Covid supplies on jets and body armor

    4 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  55. Workflows in AWS and GCP

    4 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  56. Da Vinci's Drawings Contain a Surprising Mix of Bacteria, Fungi, and Human DNA

    3 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  57. Pandemic Day Traders Are Turning Wall Street Upside Down

    3 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  58. Simple-Decision-Making-Framework/

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  59. MVVM and Databinding for Unity3d

    3 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  60. Trump's Twitter account was hacked, Dutch ministry confirms

    3 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  61. The Portable SIMD Project Group

    3 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  62. German fighter escorted a US bomber to safety in World War II

    3 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  63. An experiment to inform universal basic income

    3 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  64. What football will look like in the future

    3 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  65. War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable [pdf]

    3 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  66. macOS 11.0 Big Sur: The Ars Technica Review

    3 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  67. Covid-19 Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on Virus Spread

    3 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  68. Covid Unknowns Leave Survivors Fearing Life Insurance Rejection

    3 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  69. Multiple 'water bodies' found under surface of Mars

    3 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  70. AMD Ryzen 7 5800U Zen 3 Mobile Cezanne CPU Benchmark Leak Confirms Big IPC Gains

    3 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  71. Microsoft using GitHub to promote their products

    3 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  72. Google Chrome Update Gets Serious: Homeland Security Confirms Attacks Underway

    3 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  73. NASA’s 1966 plan for a mission to Mars (2012)

    3 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  74. NASA confirms water on sunlit side of the Moon

    3 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  75. SP Balasubrahmanyam: Legendary Indian singer dies

    3 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  76. Connected cars must be open to third parties, say Massachusetts voters

    3 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  77. President Donald Trump says he has tested positive for coronavirus

    3 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  78. LibreOffice turns ten and what's next Lots to learn, and get excited about

    3 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  79. Using SPF on HELO/EHLO hostnames is repurposing SPF to validate a different thi

    3 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  80. Simplifying (Mostly Philosophy) Books into Easy-to-Follow Formulas

    3 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  81. The Imperial Doppelgänger – When One Typewriter Is Never Enough

    3 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  82. Automatminer: ML Pipelines for Materials Science

    3 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  83. The Apple Walled Garden

    3 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  84. Bitcoin price above $20k records new all-time-high

    3 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  85. Fish vs. Zsh vs. Bash and Why You Should Switch to Fish

    3 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  86. Why Blockchains are not the answer to Voting Systems (yet)

    3 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  87. What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Going Outside

    3 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  88. The stock market doesn’t care who wins

    3 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  89. Unit Testing Google Maps API with Jest

    3 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  90. An open letter to my friends with fuck you money

    3 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  91. Comet – modern PHP framework for building fast REST APIs

    3 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  92. The tech antitrust problem no one is talking about

    3 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  93. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

    3 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  94. Belgian Minister of Budget publish prices of Covid vaccines by mistake

    3 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  95. Ask HN: How difficult is a search engine MVP that just works?

    3 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  96. Yes, Young People Are Dying of Covid

    3 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  97. Grade school math cranked up in one page of concepts and symbols

    3 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  98. Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society

    3 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  99. Archai: Design neural networks with state-of-the-art neural architecture search

    3 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  100. Virality and Chaos

    3 points • comment • dec 29, 2020