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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
3252 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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GitHub is now free for teams
2572 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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John Conway has died
2299 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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It’s Time to Build
1798 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Shirt Without Stripes
1670 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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New iPhone SE
1535 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
1504 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
1415 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
1341 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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What Happened to Lee
1265 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
1238 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
1207 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Apple Faceshield
1163 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
1130 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
1127 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Things I wished more developers knew about databases
984 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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The Decline of Usability
982 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
981 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
980 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
966 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
959 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Career advice for people with bad luck
958 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
867 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
865 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Seinfeld Adventure
851 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
851 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
849 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
843 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
827 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Ask HN: What are you learning?
825 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
821 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
814 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
813 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
805 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife
790 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
769 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms
768 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
763 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
760 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
744 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)
742 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
727 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
724 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
721 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
716 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Coronavirus and Credibility
716 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”
709 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Why I’m Leaving Elm
708 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir
705 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording
704 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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A (possible) solution to Covid-19
691 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
688 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker
687 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate
686 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
684 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”
683 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Redis 6.0 GA
678 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
670 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
667 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Senate Stock Watcher
665 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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The Anti-Amazon Alliance
664 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
663 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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A Third Solution
662 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
659 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
648 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
648 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Rules of thumb for a 1x developer
644 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
639 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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textfiles.com
634 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
632 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
629 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution
627 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Jitsi Meet features update
625 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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John Conway
623 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Rust/WinRT Public Preview
620 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
614 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
613 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
608 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
605 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
598 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
597 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
596 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
596 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
595 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet
595 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
590 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
589 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
587 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
583 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems
582 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall
579 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
576 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04
576 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Time is the only real currency we have
575 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
572 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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IKEA Frekvens LED box hack
570 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020
566 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Tmux for Mere Mortals
566 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer
563 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
563 points • comment • apr 22, 2020