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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Fat pointers in C using libcello

    94 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  2. Tripadvisor lays off 25% of workforce

    94 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

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

    94 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

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

    94 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  5. GitHub was down again

    94 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  6. Promising Covid-19 treatment using convalescent serum therapy fast-tracked

    94 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  7. IMF Says Great Lockdown Recession Likely Worst Since Depression

    94 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  8. Introduction to Cybernetics (1957)

    94 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  9. Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

    93 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  10. Build institutions, not apps

    93 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  11. Private equity looting public health in a pandemic

    93 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  12. Downturns are accounting crooks’ worst enemy

    93 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  13. A survey of testing techniques we've found useful

    93 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  14. Museum of Computer Adventure Game History

    93 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  15. 2020 TinySeed Accelerator Batch

    93 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  16. QUIC – Will It Replace TCP/IP?

    93 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  17. Zoom’s security woes were no secret to business partners like Dropbox

    93 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  18. Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study estimates

    93 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  19. Why we do machine learning engineering with YAML, not notebooks

    92 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  20. Launch HN: Zynq (YC W20) – Book meetings instantly with your team

    92 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  21. Show HN: Sound visualisation, better than FFT (iOS)

    92 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  22. Tesla escalates battle over alleged theft of robocar secrets

    92 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  23. Google Maps SDK is crashing

    92 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  24. Artificial intelligence is quietly disrupting the fragrance development process

    92 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  25. Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods

    92 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  26. AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps

    92 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  27. Zoom Has a Dark Side – and an FBI Warning

    92 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  28. The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after death

    92 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  29. Photos of Jupiter from Juno space probe (2018)

    91 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  30. All the “reopen $statename” websites were registered on the same day

    91 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  31. Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches

    91 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  32. Timely Dataflow and Total Order

    91 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  33. Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available

    91 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  34. Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says

    91 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  35. Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom

    91 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  36. An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit

    91 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  37. Facebook/CMU Covid-19 U.S. county-by-county symptom map

    91 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  38. Opendoor is cutting 35% of its employees

    91 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  39. Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (2007) [pdf]

    91 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  40. Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month

    91 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  41. Extremely Large Telescope

    91 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  42. Git commands to know just after you get the basics

    91 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  43. Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

    91 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  44. Navy sacks carrier captain, pulls another carrier off station over Covid-19

    90 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  45. Nimporter 1.0 released (seamlessly import Nim code from Python)

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  46. Why Is Harvard Getting $9M in Stimulus Money When It Has a $40B Endowment?

    90 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  47. State of Software Engineering in 2020

    90 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  48. Git alias for printing recently-used branches

    90 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  49. Digital hoarders: Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment of mankind

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  50. Show HN: Crossnote – a note taking extension for VSCode

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  51. Wildlife collapse from climate change is predicted to hit suddenly and sooner

    90 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  52. Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  53. Share your desktop as a webcam in OBS, Hangouts, Zoom etc.

    90 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  54. Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish

    90 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  55. Trends in Show HN posts

    90 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  56. Show HN: Brök – Find broken links in text documents

    89 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  57. Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA's Perseverance Rover

    89 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  58. Mystery of two-million-year-old stone balls solved

    89 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  59. Spain to Roll Out Permanent Universal Basic Income ‘Soon’

    89 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  60. Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment

    89 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  61. Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

    89 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  62. Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest Pace on Record

    89 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  63. Unsolicited advice on CS independent work (2013)

    89 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  64. James Taylor (JHU bioinformatics leader) has died at 40

    89 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  65. “I, along with almost all of Disney Imagineering, am furloughed without pay”

    89 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  66. Go Debugging with Delve, or No More Fmt.Printfs

    89 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  67. Scheme.forth.jl: Scheme in Forth in Julia

    88 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  68. Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Against Covid-19

    88 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  69. Candidate to Lead the W.H.O. Accused of Covering Up Epidemics (2017)

    88 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  70. Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of SARS coronavirus (2004)

    88 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  71. Programming Servo: My own private runtime

    88 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  72. After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

    88 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  73. Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale

    88 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  74. New WebKit Features in Safari 13.1

    87 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  75. Public Books Database

    87 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  76. When Tailwinds Vanish

    87 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  77. Health insurers to investors: We’re good. Health insurers to lawmakers: Help

    87 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  78. Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel

    87 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  79. LibreOffice ReleaseNotes 7.0

    87 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  80. Paketo: Modular Buildpacks in Go

    87 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  81. Soros fund management backs electric-vehicle charging startup

    87 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  82. Synthesizing Optimal 8051 Code

    87 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  83. Macintosh Y2020

    87 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  84. SAP Graph: API Sandbox on preview

    87 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  85. Notes on the M4 Macro Language (2008)

    87 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  86. $7.5k Google services mix-up (2018)

    87 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  87. Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ

    87 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  88. More Than 5.2M More U.S. Workers Filed for Unemployment

    87 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  89. Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?

    86 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  90. Show HN: Midas, a Streaming Anomaly Detector. Now Implemented in Go

    86 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  91. Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

    86 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  92. 71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their March unemployment benefit

    86 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  93. Verified Functional Programming in Agda

    86 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  94. Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws

    86 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  95. As oil industry swoons, tar sands workers look to renewables for jobs

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  96. IRC Logger with fluid web interface, search function, and live streaming (2019)

    86 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  97. Al Alcorn, creator of Pong, explains the NTSC color graphics trick

    86 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  98. The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams

    86 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  99. How Bad Antitrust Enforcers Kill People

    86 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  100. Surgical mask brace creates a seal making standard masks comparable to N95s

    86 points • comment • apr 17, 2020