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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID

    245 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  2. Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft

    245 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  3. Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

    245 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  4. Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown

    245 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  5. Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering

    245 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  6. The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program

    245 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  7. Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]

    244 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  8. App privacy labels now live on the App Store

    244 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  9. Int. students may need to leave US if classes are 100% Remote

    244 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  10. Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous

    244 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  11. The economics of vending machines

    244 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  12. Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

    244 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  13. Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling

    244 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  14. Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server

    244 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  15. Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth: study (2019)

    244 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  16. Firefox Picture-in-Picture

    244 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  17. Better C – A subset of D Programming Language

    244 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  18. Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform

    244 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  19. Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

    244 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  20. First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English

    244 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  21. An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

    244 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  22. Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry

    244 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  23. GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about

    244 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  24. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left

    244 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  25. XB-1 Supersonic Rollout

    244 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  26. Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux

    244 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  27. What it’s like inside your plane’s hidden ‘crew rest’

    244 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  28. Cutter – Free and Open Source Re Platform Powered by Radare2

    244 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  29. Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance

    244 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  30. McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality

    244 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  31. School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads

    244 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  32. Flowcharts of programming language constructs

    244 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  33. Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

    244 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  34. The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

    244 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  35. How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing

    244 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  36. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    244 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  37. Microservices [video]

    244 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  38. Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance

    244 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  39. How I Spend My Attention

    244 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  40. Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them

    244 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  41. Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

    244 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  42. Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF

    244 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  43. How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020

    244 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  44. Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

    244 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  45. Adventures in Improving AI Economics

    244 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  46. Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

    244 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  47. Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)

    244 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  48. IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    244 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  49. I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (2015)

    243 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  50. Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year

    243 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  51. Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier

    243 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  52. Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"

    243 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  53. Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem

    243 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  54. Bogleheads

    243 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  55. Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites

    243 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  56. Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?

    243 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  57. 'Dord': A Ghost Word

    243 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  58. Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better

    243 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  59. Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones

    243 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  60. Knowledge Graphs

    243 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  61. New species of fungus identified via Twitter

    243 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  62. Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push

    243 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  63. US Oil Prices Negative for the First Time in History

    243 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  64. Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019)

    243 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  65. Netgear Firmware Requires Online Registration

    243 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  66. Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine

    243 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  67. Scuba diver accidentally discovers prehistoric industrial complex in Mexico

    243 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  68. Hackers used SolarWinds' dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign

    243 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  69. How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)

    243 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  70. I sold my side-project for $30k

    243 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  71. The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years

    243 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  72. An Intro to Compilers (2017)

    243 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  73. Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

    243 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  74. Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online

    243 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  75. Carbon: Create and share images of source code

    243 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  76. Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM

    243 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  77. Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API

    243 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  78. Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack

    243 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  79. How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)

    243 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  80. So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)

    243 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  81. SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

    243 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  82. If you see the cops, start recording

    243 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  83. The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

    242 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  84. Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

    242 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  85. Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]

    242 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  86. Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets

    242 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  87. Webpack 5

    242 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  88. Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now

    242 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  89. The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)

    242 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  90. My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video]

    242 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  91. Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body

    242 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  92. Rents are dropping across the US

    242 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  93. The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning

    242 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  94. Master of Orion

    242 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  95. Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it

    242 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  96. SeL4 is verified on RISC-V

    242 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  97. One Week of NixOS

    242 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  98. Show HN: ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D

    242 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  99. AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

    242 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  100. Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery

    242 points • comment • nov 17, 2020