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Hacker News (2020)

Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones
199 points • comment • may 19, 2020
Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
199 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
GitLab Handbook
199 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
How the novel coronavirus has evolved
199 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
30k unsuspecting Rose Bowl attendees scooped up in a facial recognition test
199 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
How we use Rust in our mobile SDK
199 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy
199 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Wanggongchang Explosion
199 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web
199 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Performance of modern Java on data-heavy workloads
199 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money?
199 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
The theory of infectious origin of the Alzheimer’s disease
199 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Assange Hearing Day 15
199 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Dealing with Insomnia
199 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)
199 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
California Sues Vinod Khosla over Martins Beach Public Access
199 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Massacring C Pointers (2018)
199 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
On the destruction of America’s best high school
199 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug?
199 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data
199 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
199 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
199 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it
199 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256)
199 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection
199 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support
199 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
How does Brown University know where you are?
199 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
Google Analytics Opt Out
199 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial
199 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Raccoon Attack
199 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules
199 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages
199 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Anger mounts after corporations tap small-business relief funds
199 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
199 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults
199 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
India lifts ban on cryptocurrency trading
199 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
On the expressive power of programming languages (2019)
199 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days
199 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2
199 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
199 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips
199 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
199 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Poor man's document camera for videoconference
199 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline
199 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
199 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
RethinkDB 2.4.1
198 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
198 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Show HN: This Fursona Does Not Exist
198 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
198 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
198 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads
198 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed
198 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
The third wave of open source migration
198 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
YC S20 Remote Batch
198 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years
198 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
198 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19
198 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
How H-E-B planned for the pandemic
198 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
Zork source code, 1977
198 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts
198 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected
198 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust
198 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
Show HN: UIDesignDaily – soft launch with 600 open-source designs
198 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
LXD – next generation system container manager release 4.3
198 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market
198 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
What happened to Google's effort to scan university library books? (2017)
198 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Handmade Seattle – virtual low-level programming conference
198 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People
198 points • comment • may 23, 2020
An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains
198 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species extinction
198 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning
198 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map
198 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
OpenWrt 19.07
198 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick
198 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL
198 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Blog Anonymously
198 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
SaaS marketing tactics and case studies
198 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
198 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
198 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU
198 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Hard work vs. Long work (2011)
198 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Show HN: Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent
198 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Human Interface: Backpack harness innovation
198 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs (2013)
198 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence
198 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized
198 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework
198 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?
198 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Debugging Distributed Systems
198 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
I'm Married to an ER Doc in NYC
198 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Where Have All the Schematics Gone?
198 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor
198 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Do I Need Kubernetes?
198 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Hypercore protocol: a distributed (P2P) append-only log
198 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
A guide to writing a DNS Server from scratch in Rust
198 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues
198 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
198 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Google Wave’s failure is a lesson for modern real-time collaboration tools
198 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
How to use Reddit to get your first users
197 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
197 points • comment • aug 08, 2020