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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

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

    131 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  2. Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not

    131 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  3. Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos

    130 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  4. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview

    130 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  5. SyncPlay: Synchronize VLC with remote friends to watch together

    130 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  6. How to make a simple all-sky camera

    130 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  7. A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t

    130 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  8. What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?

    130 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  9. Show HN: Pxy – A Go server that proxies websocket livestreams to RTMP servers

    130 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  10. MySQL Sharding at Quora

    130 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  11. Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers

    130 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  12. Ride down into JavaScript dependency hell

    130 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  13. Nebula Graph: A Linearly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database Written in C++

    130 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  14. Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine

    130 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  15. Deprecating password authentication in GitHub API

    130 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  16. Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

    129 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  17. History of Erlang and Elixir

    129 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  18. ActivityPub Could Be the Future

    129 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  19. The Io Language

    129 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  20. Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

    128 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  21. Ask HN: How to get good at social media?

    128 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  22. Lambda School lays off 19 employees

    128 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  23. SmileBASIC 4 for Nintendo Switch

    128 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  24. Swiss Cat Ladders: Documenting and Deconstructing Feline-Friendly Infrastructure

    127 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  25. Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

    127 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  26. France rules Google must pay news firms for content

    127 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  27. Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown

    127 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  28. Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software

    127 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  29. Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps

    127 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  30. Libcsp: a fast C concurrency library influenced by the CSP model

    127 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  31. What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month ago

    126 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  32. Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud

    126 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  33. Expanded access programs for Remdesivir

    126 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  34. Deep Molecular Programming

    126 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  35. Oil is selling for less than $10 across key North American hubs

    126 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  36. Common templates to help you say “no”

    126 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  37. Ask HN: In the current crisis is starting freelancing doable?

    126 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  38. Software Development: Mistakes I Made

    126 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  39. Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure

    126 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  40. Twttr sketch (2006)

    126 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  41. Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research

    126 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  42. Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

    126 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  43. SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portfolio misery

    125 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  44. Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7M

    125 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  45. Show HN: Box Line Text – A simple whiteboarding tool for screencasts

    125 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  46. A book on algorithmic programming in Lisp

    125 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  47. Swedish hospital suspends Covid-19 treatment with chloroquine

    125 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  48. Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

    125 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  49. Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say

    124 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  50. IDA Home is coming

    124 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  51. Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth [video]

    124 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  52. Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of your users?

    124 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  53. Asciiflow in vs Code

    124 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  54. More Descent, Less Gradient

    124 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  55. Nvidia Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials

    124 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  56. Raku vs. Perl

    124 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  57. 30 Years of iRobot

    124 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  58. Free CS Courses – Amazon Future Engineer

    124 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  59. Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m

    123 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  60. Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet

    123 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  61. How to Run Wordpress on AWS

    123 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  62. SIMD instructions

    123 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  63. I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs in my code

    123 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  64. Show HN: Toga – Create apps from Google Sheets

    123 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  65. Combining event sourcing and stateful systems

    123 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  66. Google drops charges on shopping service to counter Amazon's surging ad sales

    123 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  67. Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality

    122 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  68. Forth Lessons

    122 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  69. Redux – Not Dead Yet (2018)

    122 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  70. Cxxxr: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler

    122 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  71. Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

    122 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  72. Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals

    121 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  73. How often does Rust change?

    121 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  74. Emotional debt in startups

    121 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  75. Re-Thinking Electronic Mail

    121 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  76. IETF Response to “LS on New IP, Shaping Future Network”

    121 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  77. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native Performance

    121 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  78. Basic Docker Commands for Beginners

    121 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  79. SYN cookies ate my dog – breaking TCP on Linux (2018)

    121 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  80. Something small, every day (2013)

    121 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  81. Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full downloads

    121 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  82. Running an independent Arch Linux rebuilder

    120 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  83. How to flash an LED: writing ARM assembly for an STM32 microcontroller

    120 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  84. Mark Zuckerberg Asserts Control of Facebook, Pushing Aside Dissenters

    120 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  85. Asymptomatic transmission, Achilles’ heel of current strategies to control Covid

    120 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  86. Amazon May Have Misled Congress, House Judiciary Chair Says

    120 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  87. Organizing a Group Buy of Flour

    120 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  88. Writing a RISC-V Emulator from Scratch

    120 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  89. Comparing the new Redis6 multithreaded I/O to Elasticache and KeyDB

    120 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  90. DeltaPy – Tabular Data Augmentation

    120 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  91. Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

    120 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  92. GoJS – Interactive JavaScript Diagrams for the Web

    119 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  93. A simple browser-based hexapod robot simulator built from first principles

    119 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  94. Probing Facebook's Misinformation Machine

    119 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  95. A secretive group trying to bring down North Korea’s regime

    119 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  96. Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required

    118 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  97. Pinephone – Community Edition: UBports

    118 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  98. Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars

    118 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  99. An Overview of Bayesian Inference (2019)

    118 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  100. Lessons in Managing Haskell Memory

    117 points • comment • apr 07, 2020