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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Customers do not ask for software complexity

    105 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  2. Gravity assist maneuvers in space

    104 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  3. Jitsi Meet Security and Privacy

    104 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  4. ReactOS 0.4.13

    104 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  5. Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015)

    104 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  6. Quantifying the Adpocalypse

    104 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  7. Guide to becoming a modern front end developer

    104 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  8. Show HN: Log-Scale Covid-19 Plots

    104 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  9. De-risking custom technology projects: 18F technology budgeting guide

    104 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  10. Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

    104 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  11. Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns

    104 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  12. Privacy Not Included

    104 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  13. Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library

    103 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  14. “Hello world” from scratch on a 6502 (2019) [video]

    103 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  15. Attorney General Barr Refuses to Release 9/11 Documents to Victims' Families

    103 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  16. Show HN: A map of the world's virtual museums

    103 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  17. The Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life

    103 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  18. Copying is not theft, but censorship is (2012)

    103 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  19. It's Time to Build for Good

    103 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  20. Honeypot as a Service

    103 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  21. Git: Newline injection in credential helper protocol

    103 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  22. Coronavirus Country Comparator

    103 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  23. Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice

    102 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  24. The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web

    102 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  25. An audio app that has consumed my life

    102 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  26. Fed aid program for corporations won't require them to preserve jobs

    102 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  27. 9M logs of Brits' road journeys spill from number-plate camera dashboard

    102 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  28. Lens Aberrations Explained

    102 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  29. Dueling Scar

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  30. The algebraic structure of functions, illustrated using React components

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  31. List of software and things that use or support WireGuard

    102 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  32. Nikon's 300mm F/2

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  33. Employers who use software to take screenshots of workers’ computers

    102 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  34. March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002

    101 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  35. A History of Erlang (2007)

    101 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  36. YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview

    100 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  37. BGP and RPKI

    100 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  38. YAML: Probably not so great after all (2019)

    100 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  39. “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

    100 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  40. Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems

    100 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  41. Borg: The Next Generation [pdf]

    100 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  42. The Chaos Programming Language

    100 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  43. The Wolfram Physics Project

    100 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  44. 73% Of Inmates At An Ohio Prison Test Positive For Coronavirus. 0 deaths so far

    99 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  45. Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects

    99 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  46. Egoless Programming (2011)

    99 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  47. Ask HN: Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem?

    99 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  48. An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp)

    99 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  49. First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition

    99 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  50. Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds

    99 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  51. Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy

    99 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  52. Brain's Expectations Affect Learning

    99 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  53. Buildings have their own microbiomes

    99 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  54. Show HN: Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM

    99 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  55. The SeL4 Foundation: What and Why

    98 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  56. V0LTpwn: Attacking x86 Processor Integrity from Software

    98 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  57. The Diminishing Returns of Everything

    98 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  58. Rams [video]

    98 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  59. Do you charge your MacBook on the left or right side? Turns out right is better

    98 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  60. Fed should pay every American, let hedge funds and billionaires ‘get wiped out’

    98 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  61. What Outranks Thread Priority?

    98 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  62. Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (2016)

    98 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  63. In Depth: The Game Boy Printer

    98 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  64. Cliqz is shutting down

    97 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  65. Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019)

    97 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  66. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)

    97 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  67. British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs

    97 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  68. NASA at Home: activities for children home from school

    97 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  69. New test of the gravitational 1/r2 law at separations down to 52μm

    97 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  70. Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID

    97 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  71. Benchmarking C++ Allocators

    97 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  72. Brim: Open-source desktop app to analyze large pcaps through the lens of Zeek

    97 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  73. YouTube-Style Face Detect – Crop and Blur Using Python and OpenCV

    97 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  74. Special K: an interactive K compiler that generates GLSL

    97 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  75. When does React re-render? Explaining rerenders and how to optimize performance

    96 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  76. Pointermove event latency in web browsers

    96 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  77. Libschrift: A lightweight TrueType font rendering library

    96 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  78. Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems

    96 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  79. Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic

    96 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  80. Deep dive into runc and OCI specifications

    96 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  81. Oaths: How do they Work? (2019)

    96 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  82. Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects

    95 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  83. TFHE: Fast Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus

    95 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  84. Show HN: CloudWright – Build apps in your own cloud

    95 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  85. Migrating ZooKeeper into Kubernetes

    95 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  86. Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test general relativity

    95 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  87. Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve

    95 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  88. OYO furloughs thousands of employees as revenue drops by over 50%

    95 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  89. Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]

    95 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  90. Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3

    95 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  91. Type I and Type II Errors: The Inevitable Errors in Optimization Experiments

    95 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  92. Show HN: A curated set of colour combinations

    95 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  93. Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools

    95 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  94. 'Bath sponge' breakthrough could boost cleaner cars

    94 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  95. Fat pointers in C using libcello

    94 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  96. Show HN: KarateClub a Python library for unsupervised machine learning on graphs

    94 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  97. What you need to know about the Covid-19 vaccine

    94 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  98. Principle of Least Astonishment

    94 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  99. Python 2 Is Dead

    94 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  100. Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US

    94 points • comment • apr 13, 2020