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Hacker News (2020)

Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
237 points • comment • may 06, 2020
How do I design a game from scratch? A primer on core loops
237 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
What a great technical resume can do for you
237 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks
237 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
237 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
237 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Malloc Geiger Counter
237 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
237 points • comment • may 11, 2020
V (Vlang) 0.2
237 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016)
237 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
State projections for Covid-19
236 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop
236 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit
236 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s (2019)
236 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)
236 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
What If Andrew Yang Was Right?
236 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
A Surprise AWS Bill
236 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Go is boring, and that’s fantastic
236 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends
236 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)
236 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake
236 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
236 points • comment • may 23, 2020
India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers
236 points • comment • may 02, 2020
The Incredibly Stupid One
236 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]
236 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
The stable marriage problem and modern dating
236 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping
236 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
236 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
JPMorgan to trade shares of pre-IPO giants including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb
236 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings [pdf]
236 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
236 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi
236 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
236 points • comment • may 20, 2020
The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook
236 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up
236 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
236 points • comment • may 16, 2020
Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns
236 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Google Acquires North
236 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Street View of 1940s New York
236 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust
236 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments
236 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Colorize Your CLI
236 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts
236 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange
236 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Console, the vital tool that Apple abandoned
236 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
The compositor is evil
236 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software
236 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
236 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015)
235 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties
235 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Ways of Implementing a System Call
235 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]
235 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
235 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
How Best Buy saved itself (2019)
235 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Erlang LS – The Erlang Language Server
235 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App
235 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
When Fonts Fall
235 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs
235 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
235 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy
235 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Data science interview questions with answers
235 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Universal Paperclips
235 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
235 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years
235 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker
235 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography
235 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
Show HN: SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning
235 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code
235 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
The untold origin story of eBay that I lived (2018)
235 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
235 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim
235 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Blender GIS
235 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test
235 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
235 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Show HN: SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password manager
235 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Shanghai stock exchange suspends Ant Group's A-share IPO
235 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?
235 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)
235 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
235 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
The Book of Shaders
235 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?
235 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
235 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
235 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker
235 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Show HN: I made a Mahjong browser game
235 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Libc++'s Implementation of std::string
235 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
235 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
235 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Are we losing our ability to remember?
234 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust
234 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history
234 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
234 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
234 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live
234 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more
234 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
What Happened with Lego
234 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US
234 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects
234 points • comment • jul 30, 2020