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Hacker News (2020)

  1. One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud

    221 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  2. New Features in Java 14

    221 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  3. Building replacement proprietary battery packs

    221 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  4. Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004

    221 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  5. What is your favorite C programming trick? (2009)

    221 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  6. Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)

    221 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  7. Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5

    221 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  8. Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library

    221 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  9. Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder

    221 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  10. .NET Memory Performance Analysis

    221 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  11. Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management

    221 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  12. Cloudflare Radar

    221 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  13. WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing

    221 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  14. Pine64 September update

    221 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  15. Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says

    220 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  16. Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

    220 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  17. A primer on some C obfuscation tricks

    220 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  18. What to do if you’re stopped by the police

    220 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  19. Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

    220 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  20. Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975)

    220 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  21. Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller

    220 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  22. What is 5D chess?

    220 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  23. Use a Decision Journal

    220 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  24. AWS IAM is having issues again

    220 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  25. Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration

    220 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  26. Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools

    220 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  27. A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox

    220 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  28. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (2015)

    220 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  29. SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)

    220 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  30. What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with

    220 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  31. Bookmarklets I Use

    220 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  32. Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting

    220 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  33. Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients

    220 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  34. Elliott Management buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey

    220 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  35. Why forgiving someone else is about you

    220 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  36. Crouching T2, Hidden Danger

    220 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  37. Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices

    220 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  38. Hacking with environment variables

    220 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  39. I/O library 6x faster than fmt, 10x faster than stdio.h and iostream

    220 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  40. TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban

    220 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  41. Guitar – Git GUI Client

    220 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  42. Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence

    220 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  43. WireViz: Tool for documenting cables, wiring harnesses and connector pinouts

    220 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  44. Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results

    220 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  45. Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux

    220 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  46. 5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives

    220 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  47. Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

    220 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  48. HTTP 402: Payment Required

    220 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  49. The Rust Compilation Model Calamity

    220 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  50. Hackers tell the story of the Twitter attack from the inside

    220 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  51. Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based energy-saving platform

    220 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  52. Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)

    220 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  53. Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history

    219 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  54. AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?

    219 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  55. Security Architecture Anti-Patterns

    219 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  56. The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp

    219 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  57. Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires

    219 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  58. Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results

    219 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  59. Csound: A sound and music computing system

    219 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  60. A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers

    219 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  61. Beware the Casual Polymath

    219 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  62. Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation

    219 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  63. Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

    219 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  64. Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications

    219 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  65. Haskell Problems for a New Decade

    219 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  66. What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?

    219 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  67. Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

    219 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  68. Show HN: LinkAce – Self-hosted, FOSS bookmark archive

    219 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  69. GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

    219 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  70. Which GPUs to get for deep learning

    219 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  71. April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%

    219 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  72. Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

    219 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  73. Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head

    219 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  74. Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets [pdf]

    219 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  75. Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn

    219 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  76. Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

    219 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  77. Apple’s Rejection of Hey from the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases

    219 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  78. Show HN: TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database

    219 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  79. Giant Pacific Octopus

    219 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  80. A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past

    219 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  81. The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

    219 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  82. Why you should write

    219 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  83. After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.

    219 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  84. Former Uber executive charged with paying 'hush money' to conceal breach

    219 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  85. Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?

    219 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  86. Little Things That Made Amiga Great

    219 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  87. iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money

    219 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  88. Why GPT-3 Matters

    219 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  89. About the Rosetta Translation Environment

    219 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  90. Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes

    219 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  91. Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz

    219 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  92. Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2: Term Rewriting

    219 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  93. What happens when scientists admit error

    219 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  94. Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0

    219 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  95. 74% of Startups Have Trimmed Staff, 65% Have Less Than 6 Months of Cash

    219 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  96. Business Operations – Tech Stack

    219 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  97. Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)

    218 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  98. SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase

    218 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  99. Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?

    218 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  100. How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server

    218 points • comment • jan 14, 2020