top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-01-02

Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

6 years ago

908 upvotes – 437 comments

Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019

https://twitter.com/andershartmann/status/1212465415743512576

6 years ago

864 upvotes – 505 comments

Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

6 years ago

815 upvotes – 1096 comments

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065

6 years ago

815 upvotes – 297 comments

The Polygons of Another World

http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html

6 years ago

704 upvotes – 125 comments

Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system

https://pulsar.apache.org/

6 years ago

587 upvotes – 237 comments

Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/magic-mushroom-depression-psilocybin-trials-kcl-mental-health-addiction-a9251451.html

6 years ago

447 upvotes – 223 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936440

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 694 comments

Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon

https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 327 comments

Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/31/google-veterans-the-company-has-become-unrecognizable.html

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 349 comments

Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?

https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/7357/any-way-to-find-a-lost-kindle-inside-a-house

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 115 comments

Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)

http://blog.fogus.me/2015/04/27/six-works-of-computer-science-fiction/

6 years ago

371 upvotes – 93 comments

One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/china-swine-fever.html

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 296 comments

Just Build the Product

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/just-build-the-product/

6 years ago

343 upvotes – 102 comments

Programming Language Checklist

https://famicol.in/language_checklist.html

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 164 comments

BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-kill-cord-dead-man-switch/

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 261 comments

Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

https://www.cunicode.com/works/confusing-coleopterists/#StyleGAN

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 47 comments

How strong is your knot?

http://news.mit.edu/2020/model-how-strong-knot-0102

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 132 comments

Recover HD Using a Magnet

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/recover-hd/text.html

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 85 comments

On Privacy versus Freedom

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/02/01/on-privacy-versus-freedom/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 201 comments
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