Best of 2020

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2020. 1,099 posts.

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How the Digg team was acquihired

About a year after the catastrophic Digg V4 launch, our last-ditch experiment to salvage the site showed a spark of hope. We’d cajoled our way into a Facebook beta that allowed us to publish each Digg users’s read articles into their Facebook newsfeed, sending every clicking friend directly to Digg’s permalink page…