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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers

    676 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  2. Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th

    675 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  3. Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

    675 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  4. Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

    675 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  5. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

    673 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  6. Remembering my father

    673 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  7. Off-Facebook activity

    673 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  8. Invert, always, invert

    672 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  9. Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

    672 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  10. Web by Google (TM)

    672 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  11. Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA

    671 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  12. After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

    671 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  13. US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

    671 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  14. Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

    671 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  15. Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA

    670 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  16. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

    670 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  17. The Next Step for Generics

    670 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  18. CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

    670 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  19. The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)

    670 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  20. Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming

    670 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  21. Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

    670 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  22. Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

    668 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  23. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

    668 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  24. Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

    667 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  25. How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)

    667 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  26. YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

    667 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  27. Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB

    666 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  28. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

    666 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  29. How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

    665 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  30. Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

    665 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  31. Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

    665 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  32. Senate Stock Watcher

    665 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  33. What is the best dumb TV?

    665 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  34. Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent

    664 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  35. Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case

    664 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  36. The Anti-Amazon Alliance

    664 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  37. BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

    664 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  38. A former Uber engineer's disaster story

    664 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  39. αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

    664 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  40. WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

    664 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  41. If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

    663 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  42. Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

    663 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  43. A Third Solution

    662 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  44. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

    662 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  45. Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

    662 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  46. Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums

    661 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  47. Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

    661 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  48. I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

    661 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  49. Product Marketing for Engineers

    661 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  50. I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride

    661 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  51. Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

    660 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  52. Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads

    660 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  53. Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011)

    660 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  54. Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

    659 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  55. Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times

    659 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  56. For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

    659 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  57. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

    658 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  58. Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit

    658 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  59. Attention is your scarcest resource

    658 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  60. Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]

    657 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  61. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

    657 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  62. Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

    657 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  63. “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

    657 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  64. GitHub CLI 1.0

    656 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  65. Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

    656 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  66. Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go

    654 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  67. Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable

    654 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  68. Say goodbye to hold music

    654 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  69. Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection

    654 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  70. GitHub CLI is now in beta

    654 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  71. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]

    653 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  72. Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon

    652 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  73. To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills

    652 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  74. First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO

    652 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  75. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

    651 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  76. Calibre 5.0

    650 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  77. macOS Big Sur

    649 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  78. Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system

    648 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  79. I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next

    648 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  80. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

    648 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  81. A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s

    648 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  82. For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression

    648 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  83. ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

    647 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  84. De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer

    646 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  85. It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)

    645 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  86. Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

    645 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  87. Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?

    645 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  88. Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people

    645 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  89. Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear

    645 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  90. Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

    645 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  91. Wikipedia is getting a new look

    644 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  92. Terry Jones has died

    644 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  93. Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'

    644 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  94. After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

    644 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  95. Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

    644 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  96. Rules of thumb for a 1x developer

    644 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  97. Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month

    643 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  98. I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

    643 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  99. The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

    642 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  100. AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

    642 points • comment • dec 07, 2020