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Hacker News (Mar 2020)

  1. Swiss government files criminal complaint over Crypto AG scandal involving CIA

    163 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  2. Software optimization resources for C++, assembly, Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS

    163 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  3. Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison

    162 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  4. I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library

    162 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  5. SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

    162 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  6. Mass amateurization

    161 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  7. How Google Code Search Worked (2012)

    161 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  8. Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights

    161 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  9. Windows: Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]

    161 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  10. Sophos acquired for $3.9B

    161 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  11. Zero Trust Networks

    161 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  12. The History of WD-40

    160 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  13. Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life

    160 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  14. Hacking up your own shell completion

    160 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  15. How coffee took over the world

    160 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  16. Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

    160 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  17. Show HN: Crescendo – macOS App to view real time event data

    160 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  18. The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux

    159 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  19. Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens

    159 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  20. How to Create a LED Mask Using Arduino, NeoPixels, and C++

    159 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  21. Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks [video]

    159 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  22. FDA issues first emergency use authorization for point-of-care diagnostic

    158 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  23. 'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential 'worst case' scenario

    158 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  24. A Look Back at Manufacturing Linux Hardware

    158 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  25. DFI GHF51: AMD Ryzen R1000 on a Raspberry Pi Sized Board

    158 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  26. Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources

    158 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  27. PgSync: Sync Postgres data between databases

    158 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  28. Berlin Clubs stream live electronic music

    158 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  29. OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight

    158 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  30. Coronavirus outbreak makes lobsters so cheap that sellers face a fatal blow

    158 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  31. Self-hosted, super simple photo stream

    158 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  32. Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking

    157 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  33. Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

    157 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  34. NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel

    157 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  35. Zero Trust Information

    157 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  36. Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks

    157 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  37. Top U.S. cities have seen internet speeds decline this past week

    157 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  38. AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

    157 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  39. Kubernetes 1.18

    156 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  40. Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home

    156 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  41. When to assume neural networks can solve a problem

    156 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  42. Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software?

    156 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  43. Lesser-known Pandas tricks (2019)

    155 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  44. GTK has a new website

    155 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  45. A Mysterious Song on the Internet (2019)

    155 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  46. Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound

    155 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  47. U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for coronavirus

    154 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  48. The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online

    154 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  49. Discord outage postmortem

    154 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  50. How is the Linux kernel tested?

    154 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  51. In praise of S3

    154 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  52. The story of Henry Ford's $5 a day wages: not what you think (2012)

    154 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  53. Obscure Features of JPEG (2011)

    154 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  54. How Do We Know That Epic Poems Were Recited from Memory?

    153 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  55. LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking

    153 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  56. NASA's free history e-book collection

    153 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  57. Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies

    153 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Recommendations for Working from Home?

    153 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  59. Hundred Year Mistakes

    153 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  60. BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989

    152 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  61. The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card

    152 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  62. The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket's computer

    152 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  63. PlayStation 5: the specs and the tech

    152 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  64. British billionaire Hohn launches campaign to starve coal plants of finance

    151 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  65. Introduction to SerenityOS Programming

    151 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  66. 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered

    151 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  67. Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus

    151 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  68. Amazon, Microsoft join Italy’s initiative to offer free Wi-Fi, eBooks

    151 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  69. Aerogel from fruit biowaste produces ultracapacitors

    151 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  70. With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new infectious diseases

    150 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  71. Swift 5.2

    150 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  72. AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors

    150 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  73. Always Be Journaling (2018)

    150 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  74. Fund-my-project: Earn grants/funding for your project

    150 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  75. Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit

    150 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  76. Adding tests when you don't have time to

    149 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  77. Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec

    149 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  78. Amiga Machine Code Course

    149 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  79. ‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to track phones without warrants

    149 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  80. Spanish flu helped create Sweden's modern welfare state

    149 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  81. EdDSA, Ed25519, Ed25519-IETF, Ed25519ph, Ed25519ctx, HashEdDSA, PureEdDSA, WTF?

    149 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  82. Show HN: Matrix rain, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set for terminals

    149 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  83. Gmailctl – Declarative Configuration for Gmail Filters

    148 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  84. Show HN: YC's startup advice, organized and searchable

    148 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  85. Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in North America

    148 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  86. Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology

    148 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  87. Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Staging environments made easy

    148 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  88. Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak

    148 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  89. How different are different diff algorithms in Git?

    148 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  90. GraphQLize: JVM library to build GraphQL API instantly from PostgreSQL and MySQL

    148 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  91. Not all young people are ‘digital natives’

    148 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  92. Java 14 GA

    148 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  93. High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of Covid-19

    147 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  94. Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing

    147 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  95. ComputeDRAM: In-Memory Compute Using Off-the-Shelf DRAMs (2019) [pdf]

    147 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  96. Thank You, Arash

    147 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  97. A review of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital and Ideology”

    146 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  98. France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister

    146 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  99. Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Kickstarter

    146 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  100. Corporate Socialism: The Government Is Bailing Out Investors and Not You

    146 points • comment • mar 26, 2020