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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast

    182 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  2. What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?

    182 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  3. I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible

    182 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  4. IRC and Emacs all the things

    182 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  5. How Zoom works [slides]

    182 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  6. Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report

    182 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  7. Go Type Parameters – Draft Design

    182 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  8. Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers

    182 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  9. Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)

    182 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  10. Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress

    182 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  11. Actix – Actor Framework for Rust

    182 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  12. JPMorgan to pay nearly $1B for metals market manipulation

    182 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  13. 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

    182 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  14. Rust for JavaScript Developers – Functions and Control Flow

    182 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  15. Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed

    182 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  16. Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text

    182 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  17. Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada

    182 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  18. Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On

    182 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  19. Stop Firing the Innocent

    182 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  20. New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

    182 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  21. IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out

    182 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  22. Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines

    182 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  23. Max Von Sydow has died

    182 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  24. Show HN: Canvas engines performance comparison – PixiJS, Two.js, and Paper.js

    182 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  25. LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA

    182 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  26. MasterClass is seizing its moment

    182 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  27. 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video]

    182 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  28. NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customization [pdf]

    182 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  29. Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup?

    182 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  30. TamaGo – bare metal Go for ARM SoCs

    182 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  31. Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction (2016) [video]

    182 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  32. Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak

    182 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  33. German man living at Delhi airport since March 18

    182 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  34. Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough

    182 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  35. Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices

    182 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  36. 3D printing boats is becoming standard practice

    182 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  37. Minimal single-board computer based on Motorola 68000

    182 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  38. Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom

    182 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  39. Linear Regression

    181 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  40. Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative

    181 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  41. CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving

    181 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  42. Launch HN: BaseDash (YC S20) – Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet

    181 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  43. Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale

    181 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  44. Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

    181 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  45. Video Gaming Will Take Over

    181 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  46. Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship

    181 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  47. I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual

    181 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  48. Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality

    181 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  49. Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

    181 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  50. Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along

    181 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  51. Mac sandbox escape

    181 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  52. Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates

    181 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  53. The Political History of Pad Thai

    181 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  54. The Abundance of Silicon Valley

    181 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  55. Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU Driver Development

    181 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  56. Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises

    181 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  57. See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016)

    181 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  58. Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU

    181 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  59. ThinkPad 560E

    181 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  60. Valve drops VR support for macOS

    181 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  61. Hardware-Accelerated TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons for macOS 11.0

    181 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  62. Show HN: Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation

    181 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more

    181 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  64. What I Learned About SaaS at Buildium

    181 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  65. The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolvable

    181 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  66. Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code

    181 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  67. To listen well, get curious

    181 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  68. If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make them meaningless?

    181 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  69. France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones

    181 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  70. How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry

    181 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  71. The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found

    181 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  72. Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos

    181 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  73. Windows Explorer Through the Years

    181 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  74. Sortition

    181 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  75. Concentrichron: A clock and calendar made of concentric rings

    181 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  76. We all wear tinfoil hats now

    181 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  77. Straightened Trees

    181 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  78. AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac

    181 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  79. How to sell to 20M software devs with amazing onboarding

    181 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  80. AI Expert Roadmap

    181 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  81. Shaking Up the Diamond Industry

    181 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  82. California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers

    181 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  83. Boom supersonic jet readies for rollout

    181 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  84. Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (2014)

    181 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  85. Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

    181 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  86. Computational Music Synthesis

    181 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  87. Downsides of Google Authenticator

    181 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  88. CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT

    180 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  89. Stuxnet's Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug

    180 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  90. Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives?

    180 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  91. The Story of Hertz Going Bust

    180 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  92. OpenVidu: Open-source, multi-platform, WebRTC videoconferences

    180 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  93. The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020

    180 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  94. Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement

    180 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  95. Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source

    180 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  96. The GitHub Availability Report

    180 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  97. Let them paste passwords (2017)

    180 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  98. United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden

    180 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  99. Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?

    180 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  100. Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning

    180 points • comment • sep 16, 2020