Home / 2020
2020 Archive
3901.
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009) (petersmagnusson.org)
311 points by ahupp on Aug 31, 2020 | 440 comments
3902.
CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off (bloomberg.com)
311 points by infodocket on Mar 15, 2020 | 375 comments
3903.
Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it (npr.org)
311 points by moorage on Jan 15, 2020 | 357 comments
3904.
The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering (techcrunch.com)
311 points by crivabene on Feb 13, 2020 | 301 comments
3905.
All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight (flightglobal.com)
311 points by prostoalex on May 30, 2020 | 255 comments
3906.
When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook (medium.com)
311 points by input_sh on Oct 13, 2020 | 253 comments
3907.
Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers (lukerissacher.com)
311 points by QuadrupleA on Nov 20, 2020 | 244 comments
3908.
Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit (blog.aboutamazon.com)
311 points by ssully on Jun 24, 2020 | 238 comments
3909.
My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)
311 points by edward on Jul 23, 2020 | 232 comments
3910.
Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good (search.lycos.com)
311 points by tikwidd on Feb 8, 2020 | 220 comments
3911.
Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving (k0lwc.com)
311 points by lightlyused on Aug 28, 2020 | 211 comments
3912.
Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle (uni-mainz.de)
311 points by rustoo on Nov 10, 2020 | 207 comments
3913.
WiFi 6 gets 1.34 Gbps on the Raspberry Pi CM4 (jeffgeerling.com)
311 points by geerlingguy on Dec 22, 2020 | 204 comments
3914.
Notion Timeline View (notion.so)
311 points by AlphaWeaver on Nov 11, 2020 | 188 comments
3915.
TikTok reveals details of how its algorithm works (axios.com)
311 points by 0xedb on Sep 10, 2020 | 185 comments
3916.
How to Serve over 100K Web Pages a Day on a Slower Home Internet Connection (cheapskatesguide.org)
311 points by sT370ma2 on May 7, 2020 | 165 comments
3917.
The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s (thedrive.com)
311 points by tomohawk on Sep 7, 2020 | 164 comments
3918.
Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams (gather.town)
311 points by eambutu on Nov 9, 2020 | 161 comments
3919.
Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge (translate.googleusercontent.com)
311 points by gorm on May 10, 2020 | 155 comments
3920.
Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business (theregister.com)
311 points by kiyanwang on Aug 7, 2020 | 154 comments
3921.
Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development (github.com)
311 points by zdw on Oct 26, 2020 | 153 comments
3922.
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists (nature.com)
311 points by headalgorithm on Sep 28, 2020 | 151 comments
3923.
Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1 (github.com)
311 points by soheil on Nov 23, 2020 | 151 comments
3924.
Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries (dansdeals.com)
311 points by ikarandeep on Apr 27, 2020 | 150 comments
3925.
NBA suspends season over the coronavirus after player tests positive (axios.com)
311 points by jonbaer on Mar 12, 2020 | 139 comments
3926.
MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software (musescore.org)
311 points by programLyrique on Jun 15, 2020 | 111 comments
3927.
PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf] (wescottdesign.com)
311 points by anonu on Apr 1, 2020 | 106 comments
3928.
Discord Desktop App RCE (mksben.l0.cm)
311 points by Wingy on Oct 19, 2020 | 103 comments
3929.
A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time (carolchen.me)
311 points by chrisseaton on Jul 5, 2020 | 97 comments
3930.
Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste (rollingstone.com)
311 points by elijahwheelock on Jan 24, 2020 | 94 comments