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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

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

    86 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

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

    86 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  3. Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately

    85 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  4. Pydeps: A Useful Program

    85 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  5. Learn to code by creating working applications

    85 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  6. Doing Python Configuration Right (2019)

    85 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  7. Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review

    85 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  8. Metaprogramming in Flat Assembler

    85 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  9. Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS

    85 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  10. Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

    85 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  11. Anton (Computer)

    85 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  12. Towards an ImageNet Moment for Speech-to-Text

    84 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  13. Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator

    84 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  14. When debugging, attitude matters

    84 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  15. Writing HTML with Racket and X-Expressions (2019)

    84 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  16. C program proofs with Frama-C and its weakest-precondition plugin [pdf]

    84 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  17. Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California

    84 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  18. US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies

    84 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  19. Charlatans sell bogus treatment exposing blood to UV light (2016)

    84 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  20. Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years

    84 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  21. Perfect UX Is Impossible (2019)

    83 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  22. The Birth of Calculus (1986) [video]

    83 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  23. Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries

    83 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  24. Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager

    83 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  25. Introduction to Flat-File CMS

    83 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  26. Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs

    83 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  27. Monitor your web page's total memory usage with `performance.measureMemory()`

    83 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  28. A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Million Kegs Are Going Stale

    83 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  29. Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System

    83 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  30. Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing

    82 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  31. The Print Book Trade, and Money

    82 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  32. Most-recommended programming books

    82 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  33. Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines

    82 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  34. GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates

    82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  35. Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels

    82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  36. Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates attention?

    82 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  37. Show HN: Vuln Cost – immersive VS Code extension to surface vulnerabilities

    82 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  38. Show HN: Get a Hand LA

    82 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  39. Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt sues Atari for failure to pay for VCS console design

    82 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  40. Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees

    82 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  41. Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A

    82 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  42. Using Twilio to make a call forwarding and voice messaging system

    81 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  43. List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore (2018)

    81 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  44. Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign

    81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  45. Fear of an impending car-price collapse grips auto industry

    81 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  46. The Man Who Got No Whammies (2015)

    81 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  47. Hacking website like HN in French

    81 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  48. Ask HN: What is a must read for a developer without a computer science degree?

    81 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  49. Economic Growth Is Incompatible with Biodiversity Conservation

    81 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  50. Show HN: Live Program Notes for Schubert Sonata in B-Flat

    81 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  51. As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work

    81 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  52. The first two years of my PhD

    81 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  53. Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

    81 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  54. How to build a darkroom for £100 or less

    81 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  55. Time-restricted feeding can reset disrupted clock rhythm, protect against cancer

    81 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  56. New Air Force One instruction manuals cost $84M

    81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  57. How to Avoid the Assignment Statement (2010)

    81 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  58. GitLand: A Multiplayer game controlled using GitHub

    81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  59. Feynman: making the extraordinary look easy

    81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  60. The messy secret reality behind OpenAI

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  61. The Petrucci Music Library

    80 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  62. January 2018 US diplomatic cables warned of coronavirus leaking from Wuhan lab

    80 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  63. iPhone SE and the Commodification of the Pocket Computer

    80 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  64. New Yorkers consider relocating post coronavirus

    80 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  65. Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’

    80 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  66. AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, Second Edition

    80 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  67. Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions

    80 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  68. Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0

    80 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  69. AMD vs. Intel 2020: Who Makes the Best CPUs?

    80 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  70. Towards Sequoia OpenPGP v1.0

    80 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  71. Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform

    80 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  72. A long view of globalisation in short: The agricultural revolution (2018)

    80 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  73. Mental models around Ok-Wrapping

    80 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  74. SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps

    80 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  75. Get started with computer science papers

    80 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  76. Crystal 0.34

    79 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  77. Software Is Polluting the World

    79 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  78. Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018)

    79 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  79. Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981)

    79 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  80. What Are Spomeniks?

    79 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  81. Forecasting with uncertainty

    79 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  82. A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal

    79 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  83. China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says

    79 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?

    79 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  85. Lambda Store: Serverless Redis

    78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  86. Even Faster Math Functions

    78 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  87. Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More

    78 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  88. From Zero to Zero Trust

    78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  89. 5G Virus Conspiracy Theory Fueled by Coordinated Effort

    78 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  90. Some landlords say only 25% of retail tenants paid April rent

    78 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  91. Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders

    78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  92. Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)

    78 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  93. Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world

    78 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  94. A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

    78 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  95. Replace GRUB2 with systemd-boot on Ubuntu 18.04 (2018)

    78 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  96. The Marvel of Mozart’s Letters

    78 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  97. What Is a Game? (2018)

    78 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  98. April Is Canceled

    78 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  99. The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017)

    78 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  100. New Guinea villagers unearth evidence of the island’s Neolithic past

    77 points • comment • apr 09, 2020