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Hacker News (2020)

The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched
239 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System
239 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel
239 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
NASA reveals what the final X-57 all-electric X-plane will look like
239 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally
239 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Alone in a Crowded Milky Way
239 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
239 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices
239 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Writing a software book and making over $100k
239 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer
239 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack
239 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math
239 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
239 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
How I automate my home
239 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API
239 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
What end-to-end encryption should look like
239 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Cello – High Level C
239 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
239 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
The Edge of Emulation
239 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]
239 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
We Are Trying Out PeerTube
239 points • comment • may 09, 2020
How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
239 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
239 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Clojure for the Erlang VM
239 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS
239 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Cool Machine Learning Books
239 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature
239 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released
239 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
239 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
239 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Beginner's Guide to Abstraction
239 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
239 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project
239 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
The Light Phone
239 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
ORC – Nim's new memory managment
239 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
238 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
The Future of Clojure
238 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
238 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers
238 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if lands on specific runways
238 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (2007)
238 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system
238 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
How I Teach Classes Remotely
238 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
238 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Deno will stop using TypeScript
238 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
Build a toy quantum computer at home
238 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
238 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet
238 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
238 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Vimflowy
238 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
How to stay private when using Android
238 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
238 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Claude Shannon Invented the Future
238 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)
238 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
238 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Learn Awk by Example (2019)
238 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
238 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is
238 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
When Parallel: Pull, Don't Push
238 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach
238 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore
238 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh
238 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
The life and death of email read tracking
238 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Show HN: Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display
238 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
Show HN: Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
238 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Researchers and Founders
238 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Open-Source Music Production Tools
238 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?
238 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Your Move, iPad
238 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Scientist David Sinclair on why we age and why he thinks we don’t have to (2019)
238 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition
238 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law
238 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
How Antennas Work
238 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Text Processing in the Shell
238 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]
237 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Google App Maker Shutting Down
237 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows
237 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison
237 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby
237 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way
237 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks
237 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
237 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone
237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
237 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Undiscoverable UI Madness
237 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
237 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway
237 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
V (Vlang) 0.2
237 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Valve and HackerOne: how not to handle vulnerability reports
237 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
237 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators
237 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
237 points • comment • may 06, 2020
GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
237 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
237 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?
237 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
What a great technical resume can do for you
237 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
237 points • comment • may 28, 2020