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Hacker News (2020)

Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows
184 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies
184 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Launch HN: Savvy (YC W20) – Give employees tax-free cash for health insurance
184 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
184 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning
184 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Protein discovered inside a meteorite
184 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds
184 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)
184 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
184 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
The 2,500 year old history of why Python’s all([]) returns True
184 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Why companies lose their best innovators (2019)
184 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
30% Faster Rust Build Times using Cranelift instead of the LLVM
184 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Is Hacker News Bullshit?
184 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
184 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Story of a Stalking Scandal
184 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox
184 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 months
184 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
How can you be so certain? (2019) [pdf]
184 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Go Things I Love: Channels and Goroutines
184 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts
184 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II
184 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
184 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)
184 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
184 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?
184 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Gitlab 13.1
184 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Lists
184 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
“Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited
184 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Nim in 2020: A Short Recap
184 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems
183 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses
183 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
183 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC
183 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact
183 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free
183 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking
183 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
183 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better
183 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
183 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
Boeing, expecting a long slump, will cut 16k jobs
183 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
183 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Rust concurrency: the archetype of a message-passing bug
183 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Things Markdown got wrong
183 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
GitHub was down
183 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate
183 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
PostgreSQL B-Tree index deduplication
183 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists
183 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS
183 points • comment • may 29, 2020
How to identify an immoral maze
183 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
AWS Graviton2
183 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
183 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
A Backpacker's Guide to Maps
183 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Rediscovering CardDAV
183 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
183 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster
183 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
183 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications
183 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"
183 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun arrested
183 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C
183 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)
183 points • comment • may 03, 2020
Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface
183 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects
183 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
183 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14
183 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS?
183 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Algorithm for Drawing Trees
183 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
183 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
183 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Pyrrhic Victory
183 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
Pelorus Jack
183 points • comment • may 25, 2020
You’re better off using Exceptions
183 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
183 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
SpaceX applies to offer high-speed internet service to Canadians
183 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Arizona DMV Sells Drivers' Photos and SSNs to Private Investigators
183 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
183 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
The Future of RTS
183 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots
183 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
Lawyers automate this, so why don't airlines?
183 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme
183 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez
183 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Stop Firing the Innocent
182 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
Spreadsheet Horror Stories
182 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
IRC and Emacs all the things
182 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
182 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)
182 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak
182 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
The Cornell Note-Taking System
182 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
MasterClass is seizing its moment
182 points • comment • may 26, 2020
Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough
182 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
Rust for JavaScript Developers – Functions and Control Flow
182 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states
182 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out
182 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup?
182 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text
182 points • comment • may 10, 2020
VC List
182 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?
182 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?
182 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
182 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
182 points • comment • may 13, 2020