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Hacker News (2020)

US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
234 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned
234 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more
234 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Are we losing our ability to remember?
234 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: React Guitar – A guitar component for React
234 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects
234 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)
234 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
234 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
New coronavirus variant: What do we know?
234 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
What Happened with Lego
234 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial
234 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US
234 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
234 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
234 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”
234 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
234 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip
234 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
234 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
234 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
234 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
234 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Possible dinosaur DNA has been found
234 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?
234 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
234 points • comment • may 08, 2020
I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
234 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour
234 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Fancy Clojure REPL
234 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Wearable Microphone Jamming
234 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting
233 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
233 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Diego Maradona has died
233 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
233 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
233 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
233 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier
233 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
233 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
How Apple Is Working From Home
233 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)
233 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Get Static
233 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Melbourne professor quits after government pressure about reporting data breach
233 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman
233 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)
233 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Programming trick questions
233 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query
233 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The Joys of Being a Stoic
233 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
233 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users
233 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Cider 1.0
233 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years
233 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal
233 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
SEC formally sues cryptocurrency company Ripple
233 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
HSE: Heterogeneous-memory storage engine designed for SSDs
233 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Lit: A ridiculously small responsive CSS framework
233 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra
233 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
233 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management
233 points • comment • may 08, 2020
The Chaos Engineering Book
233 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Hire people who give a shit
233 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap
233 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs
233 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
233 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
RISC-V OS using Rust: Filesystems
233 points • comment • may 12, 2020
The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
233 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies
233 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
SQLite as a Document Database
233 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
The Police Data Accessibility Project
233 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
In-App Purchase Rules
233 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Microsoft 365 Outage
233 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
US Government Continues Encryption War
233 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Leaving OCaml
233 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal
233 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
OCaml 4.10
233 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Learn Genetics
233 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built
233 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country
233 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators
233 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
Unverified.email
233 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
232 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Show HN: My GitHub Readme Is Interactive
232 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
232 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly
232 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data
232 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
232 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity
232 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
How and when to acquire SaaS users
232 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Architecture Playbook
232 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps
232 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time
232 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes
232 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
What is the core of the Python programming language?
232 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook
232 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
232 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Port knocking
232 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
232 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Endless Doom Scroller
232 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server
232 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
232 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable
232 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available for streaming
232 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”
232 points • comment • jan 19, 2020