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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Rt: Effective Reproduction Number of Covid-19
145 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization
145 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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MsQuic – QUIC Implementation from Microsoft
145 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud
145 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Show HN: Git-bug – Distributed bug tracker, or what to do when GitHub is down
145 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development
145 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Work Is Work
144 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with malicious packages
144 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
144 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry and academia
144 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
144 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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AngelList lays off a number of staff and cuts executive salaries
144 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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You probably don't need PostGIS
144 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Tips for Mathematical Handwriting (2007)
144 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Show HN: A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency
144 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
144 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)
143 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems
143 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Dat: A P2P hypermedia protocol with public-key-addressed file archives
143 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon
143 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
143 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Xubuntu 20.04
143 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff
143 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers
143 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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SELECT wat FROM sql
142 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Ask HN: I lost my job
142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Beginners guide to gateways and proxies
142 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight
142 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity
142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West
142 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018)
142 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
142 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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A case for ending lockdown
142 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust
141 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
141 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
141 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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The Invention of the AeroPress (2014)
140 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges
140 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Zoom Windows client could allow credentials to be leaked via UNC path injection
140 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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House cats have more impact on local wildlife than wild predators
140 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Apache Druid vs. Time-Series Databases
140 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Show HN: Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams
140 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code
140 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Could the Earth be an evaporated gas giant planet?
140 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?
139 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller
139 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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The relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem [pdf]
139 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right
139 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad interviews
139 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Resources for understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
139 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2
139 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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OsFree project: OS/2 Replacement
138 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Controlling My A/C with a Gameboy
138 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE
138 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Show HN: VS Code extension that fades out the colors until you take a break
138 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Show HN: Redsand.io – Find partners for software projects
138 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations (2015)
138 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control
137 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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IBM to face trial for lowering sales commissions after deals are closed
137 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust
137 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits
137 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Why Zoom Chose Oracle
137 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour
137 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Surprisingly Turing-Complete
137 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality
137 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates
137 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Rust docs team is no more
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
136 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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The Object Model of Self
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
136 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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A Little Clojure
136 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Cooperative Corporation of Dot-Org Registrants
136 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers everywhere
136 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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GitHub’s new offer closely matches that from GitLab
135 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media
135 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Boiling the machines when they needed to just chill
135 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Console for Mobile Browsers
135 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Collision Course: a type of road junction that is dangerous for cyclists (2018)
135 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Private Equity Wants in on the Bailout? Spare Me
135 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups
135 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Doing a math assignment with the Lean theorem prover
135 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video]
134 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms
134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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We’re Testing the Wrong People
134 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored
134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history
134 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Two Months with Powershell on a Unix
134 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
134 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
133 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns
133 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test
133 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99
133 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Restarts in Common Lisp
133 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Entropy and Life
133 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Coronavirus Vaccine Prospects
133 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
133 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Mort Drucker has died
132 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining
132 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix
131 points • comment • apr 02, 2020