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Hacker News (Mar 2020)

  1. Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?

    259 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  2. Full third-party cookie blocking and more

    259 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  3. How do Unix pipes work?

    258 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  4. The Warby Parker clones are imploding

    258 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  5. Giving Americans Money to Offset Coronavirus Impact Gains Support in Congress

    258 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  6. 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries

    258 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  7. Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers

    258 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  8. The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

    257 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  9. Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready

    257 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  10. Better Business Bureau rejects Molekule’s air purifier claims

    257 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  11. Millions of Tiny Databases

    256 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  12. A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (2018)

    256 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  13. Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface

    256 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  14. Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolution

    255 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  15. How many users block Google analytics? (2017)

    255 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  16. Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country

    255 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  17. Risky hack could double access to ventilators

    254 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  18. Jack Welch has died

    254 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  19. Please re-add original author to docs and license

    254 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  20. Two Years with Rust

    254 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  21. Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete

    254 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  22. AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch

    253 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  23. Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans

    252 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  24. A quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers

    252 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  25. GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

    251 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  26. Why do color TVs make black and white snow?

    250 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  27. Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?

    250 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  28. Chloroquine, past and present

    250 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  29. Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses

    250 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  30. Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly

    249 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  31. HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation

    248 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  32. Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich

    248 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  33. Data-Oriented Architecture

    248 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  34. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

    247 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  35. Cognitive Biases in Software Development

    247 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  36. Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch

    246 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  37. How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]

    246 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  38. iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers

    246 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  39. ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang

    246 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  40. Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown

    245 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  41. Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

    244 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  42. Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance

    244 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  43. Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]

    244 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  44. Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling

    244 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  45. Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)

    244 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  46. Knowledge Graphs

    243 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  47. Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?

    243 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  48. The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years

    243 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  49. Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets

    242 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  50. The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

    242 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  51. 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths

    242 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  52. The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present

    241 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  53. Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week

    241 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  54. Costco will not allow returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water

    241 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  55. Talkyard: Open-Source forum software – a StackOverflow, Reddit, Disqus hybrid

    240 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  56. Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures

    240 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  57. Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)

    240 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  58. YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day

    240 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  59. GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse

    240 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  60. WWDC to Be Moved Online

    240 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  61. NASA reveals what the final X-57 all-electric X-plane will look like

    239 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  62. A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production

    238 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  63. Text Processing in the Shell

    238 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  64. How I Teach Classes Remotely

    238 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  65. Learn Awk by Example (2019)

    238 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  66. The Polygons of Doom: PSX

    237 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  67. Julia 1.4

    237 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  68. Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering

    237 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  69. Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix

    237 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  70. What If Andrew Yang Was Right?

    236 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  71. Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings [pdf]

    236 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  72. State projections for Covid-19

    236 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  73. Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]

    236 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  74. Show HN: SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password manager

    235 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  75. Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test

    235 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  76. The untold origin story of eBay that I lived (2018)

    235 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  77. Erlang LS – The Erlang Language Server

    235 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  78. Lagrangian Neural Networks

    234 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  79. Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live

    234 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  80. Get Static

    233 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  81. Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators

    233 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  82. Melbourne professor quits after government pressure about reporting data breach

    233 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  83. AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs

    233 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  84. I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries

    233 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  85. FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test

    233 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  86. How Apple Is Working From Home

    233 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  87. Containment gets harder every day we delay

    232 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  88. Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook

    232 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  89. Krzysztof Penderecki has died

    231 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  90. NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis

    230 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  91. 2020 Stock Market Crash

    230 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  92. Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN)

    230 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  93. Saudis suspected of phone spying campaign in US

    230 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  94. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days

    230 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  95. Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)

    230 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  96. P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017)

    230 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  97. Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets

    230 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  98. How Tailscale Works

    229 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  99. The Word from Wuhan

    229 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  100. AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to cloud report

    229 points • comment • mar 12, 2020