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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

    3252 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  2. GitHub is now free for teams

    2572 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  3. John Conway has died

    2299 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  4. It’s Time to Build

    1798 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  5. Shirt Without Stripes

    1670 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  6. New iPhone SE

    1535 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  7. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

    1504 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  8. New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

    1415 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  9. Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

    1341 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  10. What Happened to Lee

    1265 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  11. Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

    1238 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  12. Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage

    1207 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  13. Apple Faceshield

    1163 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  14. How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

    1130 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  15. Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

    1127 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  16. Things I wished more developers knew about databases

    984 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  17. The Decline of Usability

    982 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  18. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

    981 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  19. Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

    980 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  20. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

    966 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  21. Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

    959 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  22. Career advice for people with bad luck

    958 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  23. If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

    867 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  24. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

    865 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  25. Seinfeld Adventure

    851 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  26. SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns

    851 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  27. Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

    849 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  28. Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

    843 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  29. Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

    827 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  30. Ask HN: What are you learning?

    825 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  31. Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C

    821 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  32. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

    814 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  33. Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

    813 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  34. Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

    805 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  35. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

    790 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  36. Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad

    769 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  37. In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

    768 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  38. YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

    763 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  39. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

    760 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  40. SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers

    744 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  41. Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)

    742 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  42. Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

    727 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  43. When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back

    724 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  44. Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

    721 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  45. Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

    716 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  46. Coronavirus and Credibility

    716 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  47. Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”

    709 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  48. Why I’m Leaving Elm

    708 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  49. We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir

    705 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  50. Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

    704 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  51. A (possible) solution to Covid-19

    691 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  52. Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

    688 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  53. Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

    687 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  54. Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate

    686 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  55. We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day

    684 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  56. “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”

    683 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  57. Redis 6.0 GA

    678 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  58. Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming

    670 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  59. YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

    667 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  60. Senate Stock Watcher

    665 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  61. The Anti-Amazon Alliance

    664 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  62. Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

    663 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  63. A Third Solution

    662 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  64. Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times

    659 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  65. For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression

    648 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  66. A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s

    648 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  67. Rules of thumb for a 1x developer

    644 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  68. Learning to See in the Dark (2018)

    639 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  69. textfiles.com

    634 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  70. Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?

    632 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  71. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

    629 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  72. The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution

    627 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  73. Jitsi Meet features update

    625 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  74. John Conway

    623 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  75. Rust/WinRT Public Preview

    620 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  76. WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC

    614 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  77. British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free

    613 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  78. Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust

    608 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  79. Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

    605 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  80. Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

    598 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  81. Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

    597 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  82. A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`

    596 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  83. Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

    596 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  84. Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

    595 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  85. Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet

    595 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  86. Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

    590 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  87. Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization

    589 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  88. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

    587 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  89. Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

    583 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  90. ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems

    582 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  91. E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall

    579 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  92. Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

    576 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  93. Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

    576 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  94. Time is the only real currency we have

    575 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  95. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

    572 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  96. IKEA Frekvens LED box hack

    570 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  97. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

    566 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  98. Tmux for Mere Mortals

    566 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  99. Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer

    563 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  100. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

    563 points • comment • apr 22, 2020