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2020 Archive
751.
YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account (medium.com)
674 points by Suncho on Apr 11, 2020 | 263 comments
752.
Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA (electrospaces.net)
674 points by XzetaU8 on Nov 1, 2020 | 227 comments
753.
Attention is your scarcest resource (benkuhn.net)
674 points by adambyrtek on Sep 6, 2020 | 172 comments
754.
The Next Step for Generics (blog.golang.org)
673 points by ainar-g on Jun 16, 2020 | 664 comments
755.
A Third Solution (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
673 points by rafaelc on Apr 24, 2020 | 516 comments
756.
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font (vole.wtf)
673 points by phoe-krk on May 10, 2020 | 284 comments
757.
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018) (github.com)
673 points by billme on Jun 6, 2020 | 266 comments
758.
Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
673 points by mmastrac on Apr 8, 2020 | 180 comments
759.
Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case (morganhilltimes.com)
672 points by spike021 on Nov 23, 2020 | 955 comments
760.
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012) (daedtech.com)
672 points by DerCommodore on Jul 8, 2020 | 432 comments
761.
BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X (hackaday.com)
672 points by fogus on Jan 9, 2020 | 415 comments
762.
Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent (infoq.com)
672 points by oftenwrong on Mar 25, 2020 | 318 comments
763.
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB (github.com)
672 points by ethanpil on Sep 18, 2020 | 261 comments
764.
Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature (thebigtech.substack.com)
671 points by anupamchugh on Dec 18, 2020 | 420 comments
765.
αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (justine.storage.googleapis.com)
671 points by Pneumaticat on Aug 24, 2020 | 286 comments
766.
Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection (bbc.com)
671 points by n_parks on Nov 16, 2020 | 5 comments
767.
Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19 (politico.com)
670 points by tlrobinson on Mar 17, 2020 | 117 comments
768.
Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video] (tesla.com)
669 points by belltaco on Feb 3, 2020 | 641 comments
769.
Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images (theverge.com)
669 points by danso on May 20, 2020 | 553 comments
770.
ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly (bbc.co.uk)
669 points by goodcanadian on Jul 28, 2020 | 449 comments
771.
I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel (alaa.blog)
669 points by hackerpain on Dec 12, 2020 | 290 comments
772.
Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times (gist.github.com)
669 points by premek on Apr 13, 2020 | 267 comments
773.
For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression (quantamagazine.org)
669 points by theafh on Apr 16, 2020 | 225 comments
774.
Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain (fireeye.com)
669 points by anigbrowl on Dec 14, 2020 | 224 comments
775.
GitHub CLI is now in beta (github.blog)
669 points by twapi on Feb 12, 2020 | 188 comments
776.
De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer (fivethirtyeight.com)
668 points by oftenwrong on Jun 2, 2020 | 721 comments
777.
Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
668 points by rayalez on Jun 14, 2020 | 339 comments
778.
City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once (anvaka.github.io)
668 points by jordinebot on Jan 22, 2020 | 143 comments
779.
Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011) (johndcook.com)
667 points by nilsandrey on Jun 24, 2020 | 228 comments
780.
Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs (webrtcforthecurious.com)
667 points by Sean-Der on Aug 30, 2020 | 72 comments