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2020 Archive
541.
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) (web.archive.org)
755 points by brandrick on Dec 4, 2020 | 455 comments
542.
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur (twitter.com)
754 points by polyrand on Nov 14, 2020 | 235 comments
543.
The web is 30 years old today (home.cern)
754 points by Anon84 on Dec 20, 2020 | 163 comments
544.
The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations (arxiv.org)
754 points by lnyan on Jul 2, 2020 | 92 comments
545.
Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts (techcrunch.com)
752 points by Liriel on Dec 10, 2020 | 237 comments
546.
Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel (newatlas.com)
751 points by bornelsewhere on Nov 5, 2020 | 252 comments
547.
David Graeber has died (theguardian.com)
749 points by frabbit on Sep 3, 2020 | 263 comments
548.
I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com)
748 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2020 | 312 comments
549.
Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far (boilingsteam.com)
748 points by ekianjo on Apr 20, 2020 | 312 comments
550.
Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics (therobotreport.com)
748 points by tazlor on Dec 9, 2020 | 248 comments
551.
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline (gist.github.com)
748 points by rmason on Jan 24, 2020 | 209 comments
552.
Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS (kylehalladay.com)
747 points by ingve on May 20, 2020 | 101 comments
553.
Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? (krebsonsecurity.com)
746 points by MindGods on Jul 16, 2020 | 499 comments
554.
I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee (shkspr.mobi)
745 points by edent on Dec 18, 2020 | 314 comments
555.
Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better (psyche.co)
745 points by _zhqs on Aug 21, 2020 | 305 comments
556.
John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code (marc.info)
744 points by hellschreiber on May 18, 2020 | 257 comments
557.
A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers (arstechnica.com)
743 points by elsewhen on Nov 2, 2020 | 343 comments
558.
Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians (zdnet.com)
741 points by afrcnc on Sep 22, 2020 | 613 comments
559.
Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak (reportcybercrime.com)
741 points by Yeri on Sep 30, 2020 | 380 comments
560.
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN (wired.com)
741 points by axiomdata316 on Mar 2, 2020 | 295 comments
561.
Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
738 points by faang0722 on Jul 22, 2020 | 614 comments
562.
Moving from YouTube to PeerTube (battlepenguin.com)
738 points by djsumdog on Aug 20, 2020 | 451 comments
563.
Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics (lwn.net)
738 points by Tomte on Jun 18, 2020 | 319 comments
564.
Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn (pcmaffey.com)
737 points by rohmanhakim on Jun 11, 2020 | 448 comments
565.
Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google (lwn.net)
737 points by beachwood23 on Jul 28, 2020 | 332 comments
566.
Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data (floridatoday.com)
736 points by tmountain on May 19, 2020 | 191 comments
567.
Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt (scotthelme.co.uk)
736 points by c0r0n3r on Nov 23, 2020 | 160 comments
568.
When good ideas make bad business (tjcx.me)
735 points by tomjcleveland on Jan 3, 2020 | 341 comments
569.
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days (asia.nikkei.com)
734 points by baylearn on Aug 7, 2020 | 1265 comments
570.
Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) (quora.com)
734 points by webdva on Apr 22, 2020 | 661 comments