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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Show HN: Pygooglenews – Python library for advanced Google News data mining

    157 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  2. How I photograph the Milky Way with medium format film

    157 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  3. Show HN: The Agora – an experimental social network

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  4. New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  5. Functional programming in C++ (2012)

    157 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  6. Octopuses Like to Punch Fish

    157 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  7. Asana files to go public via direct listing

    157 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  8. Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking

    157 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  9. Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?

    157 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  10. Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability

    157 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  11. Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)

    157 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  12. CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”

    157 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  13. Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely

    157 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  14. AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

    157 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  15. Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories

    157 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  16. Zero Trust Information

    157 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  17. Bandcamp is waiving fees today in support of artists

    157 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  18. Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?

    157 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  19. Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died. CUPS creator M. Sweet has moved on to a fork

    157 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  20. Big Trouble in a Deep Void

    157 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  21. Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

    157 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  22. Top U.S. cities have seen internet speeds decline this past week

    157 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  23. An update to 37-year-old MIDI

    157 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  24. Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks

    157 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  25. Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git is underrated (2019)

    157 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  26. Text exceeding maxlength will no longer be truncated when pasted in Firefox 77

    157 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  27. My toothbrush streams gyroscope data

    157 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  28. The Zephyr premium economy airline seat

    157 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  29. Trader Joe's founder Joe Coulombe has died

    157 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  30. Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018)

    157 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  31. A Port of “The Last True Unix” to x86

    157 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  32. Math-as-Code (2015)

    157 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  33. Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees

    156 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  34. Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM

    156 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  35. The Physics of Fried Rice

    156 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  36. How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time

    156 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  37. Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

    156 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  38. 0xF Rules

    156 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  39. Ode to J

    156 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  40. Pb-jelly – A Protobuf code generation framework for Rust, developed at Dropbox

    156 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  41. Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)

    156 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  42. Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?

    156 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  43. Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes

    156 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  44. Porting a 100% local app to the web

    156 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  45. A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster

    156 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  46. Writing Software to Last 50 Years

    156 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  47. Unix Toolbox (2008)

    156 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  48. 2020 Bundles

    156 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  49. Psychological techniques to practice Stoicism

    156 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  50. Researchers create air filter that can kill the coronavirus

    156 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  51. “Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”

    156 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  52. Inefficient, but Smart

    156 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  53. Gravity: An embeddable programming language without any external dependencies

    156 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  54. ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online courses in Fall 2020

    156 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  55. Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore

    156 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  56. Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac

    156 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  57. Founders share the challenges of running a tech business

    156 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  58. What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project

    156 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  59. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

    156 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  60. Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes

    156 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  61. Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini

    156 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  62. Online Text to Diagram Tools

    156 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  63. Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi

    156 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  64. Personal info of 6M Israelis leaked after Likud uploads voter info

    156 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  65. An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy

    156 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  66. Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server

    156 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  67. Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

    156 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  68. What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?

    156 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  69. Amiga Java

    156 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  70. New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD

    156 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  71. Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?

    156 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  72. When to assume neural networks can solve a problem

    156 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  73. Tinc – A Virtual Private Network (VPN) Daemon

    156 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  74. What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]

    156 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  75. Software should be designed to last

    156 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  76. Black hole paradoxes reveal a fundamental link between energy and order

    156 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  77. US Postal Service data suggests significant population decline in San Francisco

    156 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  78. How to better calculate churn rates

    156 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  79. Ted Williams's Strike Zone

    156 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  80. Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society

    156 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  81. Apple removes then restores DoNotPay app in the App Store

    156 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  82. I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me

    156 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  83. How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer

    156 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  84. Book publishers call on Apple to match 15% commission granted to developers

    156 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  85. Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign

    156 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  86. Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'historic' space mission

    156 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  87. Police Are Still Citing the Homeless, Despite CDC and Council Guidance

    156 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  88. Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter

    156 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  89. Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software?

    156 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  90. Kubernetes 1.18

    156 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  91. Vaping-related lung injuries primarily linked to black-market products

    156 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  92. Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home

    156 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  93. Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf]

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  94. Introduction to Statistical Learning

    156 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  95. An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  96. The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System

    156 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  97. Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system

    156 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  98. A Text Renaissance

    156 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  99. Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google

    156 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  100. Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers

    155 points • comment • jan 08, 2020