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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Against Essential and Accidental Complexity

    242 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  2. SeL4 is verified on RISC-V

    242 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  3. Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents

    242 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  4. C++20 has been approved

    242 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

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

    242 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  6. Rents are dropping across the US

    242 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  7. Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)

    242 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

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

    242 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

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

    242 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

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

    242 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  11. Swift Crypto

    242 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  12. Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)

    242 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  13. Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS

    242 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  14. Just 29k Western Monarch butterflies are left in California

    242 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

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

    242 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

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

    242 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  17. Please disable JavaScript to view this site

    242 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  18. The spine of San Francisco is now car-free

    242 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  19. Apple Acquires Fleetsmith

    242 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  20. Webpack 5

    242 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  21. Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup

    241 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  22. Expiring vs. permanent skills

    241 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  23. Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel

    241 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  24. Gmail and Google Drive Outage

    241 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  25. Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC

    241 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  26. Why is Snowflake so Valuable?

    241 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  27. Vine founder launches TikTok competitor

    241 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  28. Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week

    241 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  29. Debubble

    241 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  30. On Privacy versus Freedom

    241 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  31. Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)

    241 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  32. Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right

    241 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  33. A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

    241 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  34. GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

    241 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  35. Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard

    241 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  36. Purism – Fund Your App

    241 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  37. YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine

    241 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  38. The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present

    241 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  39. FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars

    241 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  40. Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encrypted Data

    241 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  41. Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds

    241 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  42. Linux 5.8-rc1

    241 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  43. We use too many damn modals (2018)

    241 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  44. The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer

    241 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  45. Evolving Reddit’s Workforce

    241 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  46. The Docker Compose Specification

    241 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  47. Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)

    241 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  48. Featherweight Go

    241 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  49. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

    241 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  50. OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64

    241 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  51. Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair

    241 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  52. Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal

    241 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  53. Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia

    241 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  54. The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing

    241 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  55. Costco will not allow returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water

    241 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  56. How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage

    241 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  57. The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing

    241 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  58. We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech

    241 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  59. The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe

    240 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  60. YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day

    240 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  61. Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

    240 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  62. Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?

    240 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  63. 110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)

    240 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  64. The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford

    240 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  65. WWDC to Be Moved Online

    240 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  66. Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler

    240 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  67. GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse

    240 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  68. A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly

    240 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  69. A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir

    240 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  70. SwiftUI tutorials rewritten completely

    240 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  71. HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database

    240 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  72. Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures

    240 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  73. Angular 9.0

    240 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  74. Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

    240 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  75. Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

    240 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  76. A Critique of React Hooks

    240 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  77. PinePhone – KDE Community edition

    240 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  78. An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013)

    240 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  79. Prowords

    240 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  80. TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?

    240 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  81. OpenSSL 3.0

    240 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  82. Notion.clone: open-source notes editor like in Notion

    240 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  83. What does privacy mean under surveillance capitalism?

    240 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  84. Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?

    240 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  85. Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

    240 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  86. Talkyard: Open-Source forum software – a StackOverflow, Reddit, Disqus hybrid

    240 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  87. Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)

    240 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  88. The anti-privacy EARN IT Act could change the internet as we know it

    240 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  89. Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs

    240 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  90. GitHub Discussions Beta

    240 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  91. The PEPs of Python 3.9

    240 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  92. Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

    240 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  93. KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released

    239 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  94. The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

    239 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  95. UVB radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous extinction kill mechanism

    239 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  96. Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

    239 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  97. Cool Machine Learning Books

    239 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  98. Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices

    239 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  99. Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel

    239 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  100. Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI [video]

    239 points • comment • jan 14, 2020