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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Rt: Effective Reproduction Number of Covid-19

    145 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  2. Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization

    145 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  3. MsQuic – QUIC Implementation from Microsoft

    145 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  4. Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud

    145 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  5. Show HN: Git-bug – Distributed bug tracker, or what to do when GitHub is down

    145 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  6. FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development

    145 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  7. Work Is Work

    144 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  8. Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with malicious packages

    144 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  9. 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

    144 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  10. A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry and academia

    144 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  11. Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'

    144 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  12. AngelList lays off a number of staff and cuts executive salaries

    144 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  13. You probably don't need PostGIS

    144 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  14. Tips for Mathematical Handwriting (2007)

    144 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  15. Show HN: A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency

    144 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  16. Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing

    144 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  17. Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)

    143 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  18. Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems

    143 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  19. Dat: A P2P hypermedia protocol with public-key-addressed file archives

    143 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  20. Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon

    143 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  21. What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

    143 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  22. Xubuntu 20.04

    143 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  23. Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff

    143 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  24. Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers

    143 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  25. SELECT wat FROM sql

    142 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  26. Ask HN: I lost my job

    142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  27. Beginners guide to gateways and proxies

    142 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  28. Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight

    142 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  29. Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity

    142 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  30. Pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West

    142 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  31. Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018)

    142 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  32. How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes

    142 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  33. A case for ending lockdown

    142 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  34. Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust

    141 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  35. Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C

    141 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  36. Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills

    141 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  37. The Invention of the AeroPress (2014)

    140 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  38. Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges

    140 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  39. Zoom Windows client could allow credentials to be leaked via UNC path injection

    140 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  40. House cats have more impact on local wildlife than wild predators

    140 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  41. Apache Druid vs. Time-Series Databases

    140 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  42. Show HN: Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

    140 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  43. Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code

    140 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  44. Could the Earth be an evaporated gas giant planet?

    140 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  45. The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?

    139 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  46. FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller

    139 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  47. The relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem [pdf]

    139 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  48. Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right

    139 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  49. Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad interviews

    139 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  50. Resources for understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology

    139 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  51. Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2

    139 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  52. OsFree project: OS/2 Replacement

    138 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  53. Controlling My A/C with a Gameboy

    138 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  54. An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE

    138 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  55. Show HN: VS Code extension that fades out the colors until you take a break

    138 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  56. Show HN: Redsand.io – Find partners for software projects

    138 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  57. Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations (2015)

    138 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  58. Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control

    137 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  59. IBM to face trial for lowering sales commissions after deals are closed

    137 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  60. Iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust

    137 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  61. Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits

    137 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  62. Why Zoom Chose Oracle

    137 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  63. Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

    137 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  64. Surprisingly Turing-Complete

    137 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  65. Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality

    137 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  66. Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates

    137 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  67. Rust docs team is no more

    136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  68. Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids

    136 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  69. The Object Model of Self

    136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  70. Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

    136 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  71. A Little Clojure

    136 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  72. Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa

    136 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  73. Cooperative Corporation of Dot-Org Registrants

    136 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  74. The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers everywhere

    136 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  75. GitHub’s new offer closely matches that from GitLab

    135 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  76. Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media

    135 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  77. Boiling the machines when they needed to just chill

    135 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  78. Console for Mobile Browsers

    135 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  79. Collision Course: a type of road junction that is dangerous for cyclists (2018)

    135 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  80. Private Equity Wants in on the Bailout? Spare Me

    135 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  81. Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups

    135 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  82. Doing a math assignment with the Lean theorem prover

    135 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  83. Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video]

    134 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  84. PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms

    134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  85. We’re Testing the Wrong People

    134 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  86. U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored

    134 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history

    134 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  88. Two Months with Powershell on a Unix

    134 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  89. Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut

    134 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  90. Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

    133 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  91. New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns

    133 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  92. Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test

    133 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  93. AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99

    133 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  94. Restarts in Common Lisp

    133 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  95. Entropy and Life

    133 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  96. Coronavirus Vaccine Prospects

    133 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  97. A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income

    133 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  98. Mort Drucker has died

    132 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  99. California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining

    132 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  100. Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix

    131 points • comment • apr 02, 2020