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Hacker News (2020)

Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
172 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data privacy concerns
172 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Creativity Changes as We Age
172 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
How to Start a Startup (2014)
172 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development
172 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine
172 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly
172 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
Witchcraft and Wizardry – RPG game created in Minecraft
172 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Everybody Can Make DeepFakes Now [video]
172 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
An Honest Review of Gatsby
172 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Mats Järlström’s victorious 6-year battle over yellow lights
172 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Asynchronous Programming
172 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
172 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
What would happen if computers never got any faster?
171 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot
171 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?
171 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Literate DevOps
171 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
A Guide to Minimalist Web Design (2017)
171 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
171 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All
171 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
171 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged
171 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository
171 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards
171 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system
171 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
171 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
171 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
171 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript
171 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
171 points • comment • may 14, 2020
The Art of the Possible
171 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light
171 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails
171 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion
171 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
171 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
.NET 5.0 – New APIs
171 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)
171 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds
171 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots? (2011)
171 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB
171 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Bootstrap 5 Beta 1
171 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
Homemade Liquid Nitrogen Generator
171 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Open-source paved the way for today’s remote software development processes
171 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings
171 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (2014) [pdf]
171 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings
171 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
Multi-Tenant Architectures
171 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Show HN: My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang
171 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing
171 points • comment • may 21, 2020
The World Is Still Producing More Oil Than It Needs
171 points • comment • may 01, 2020
Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?
171 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
171 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Apollo 13 enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft
171 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Grid – A Lua Game Engine
171 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Why is there only one Snap Store?
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
Ask HN: What landing page do you love?
171 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Decision fatigue
171 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Säkkijärven polkka
171 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automatic updates are critical
171 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Old, Good Database Design
171 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics
171 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Nature invented play long before it invented us
171 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
Bicycle Geometry Terms
171 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
Detailed audit of Voatz' voting app confirms security flaws
171 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go
171 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode on iPad Pro
171 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance
171 points • comment • may 04, 2020
EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
171 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]
171 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
How much power can we expect from rainfall?
171 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
171 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance with ADHD
171 points • comment • may 21, 2020
How India Censors the Web
171 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Demand for medical equipment is making air cargo fees ‘crazy’
171 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
How NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon
171 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
171 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult
171 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
Two new ways to read a file quickly
171 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
3D engine implemented in DNA code
171 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer
171 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Launch HN: Datasaur (YC W20) – data labeling interface for NLP
171 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Next.js 9.5
170 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Ask HN: How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?
170 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man?
170 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
170 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Riding the RISC-V wave
170 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang
170 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica
170 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders
170 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch
170 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
170 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
'Unfixable' security flaw in Intel boot ROM
170 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too
170 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Guessing smart phone PINs by monitoring the accelerometer
170 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
170 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Photo of a suspended, glowing single atom wins photography prize
170 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
170 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Show HN: FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?
170 points • comment • apr 16, 2020