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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few (2019)

    77 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  2. General Transit Feed Specification and Clojure

    77 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

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

    77 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  4. TclSqueak – IDE for Tcl

    77 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  5. Show HN: KCP: a new low-latency, secure network stack

    77 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  6. Facebook and the Silent Bob Effect (2019)

    77 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  7. Programming languages are not languages (2018)

    77 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  8. Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fight coronavirus

    77 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  9. Vidgear – A complete, cross-platform video processing Python framework

    77 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  10. Performance, Protection, and Sterilization of Face Mask Materials

    77 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  11. Mathematicians try to understand how CS proof solves Connes embedding conjecture

    76 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  12. Taiwan’s government bars its agencies from using Zoom over security concerns

    76 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  13. Chernobyl wildfires and radiation risk

    76 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  14. Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by WebRTC and Golang

    76 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  15. The cost of virtualizing CS conferences

    76 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  16. Why did GE Moore disappear from history?

    76 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  17. Show HN: Glass Dome — an Alfred workflow to fight link rot in markdown notes

    76 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  18. Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2

    75 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  19. SecureDNS will shutdown on 30th of April 2020

    75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  20. Ask HN: What is the real difference between Terraform and Ansible?

    75 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  21. Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year

    75 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  22. TracePrivately – open-source sample app using Apple's contact tracing framework

    75 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  23. 50k-year-old three-ply cord fragment found at Neanderthal site

    75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  24. ERP-Application in Python, PyQt5 and PostgreSQL

    75 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  25. Electricity as Power (1880) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  26. The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients

    75 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  27. Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel

    75 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  28. New Zealand relied on science and empathy

    75 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  29. How to Win a Currency War

    75 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  30. Signal Threatens to Leave the US If Earn IT Act Passes

    75 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  31. Estimating Covid-19's Rt in Real-Time

    75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  32. Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps

    75 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  33. Proving that C++'s grammar is undecidable

    75 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  34. No, I Won't Link to Your Spammy Article

    75 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  35. Musth

    75 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  36. Six Hopeful Sci-Fi Stories of a Post Covid-19 World

    75 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  37. Show HN: Silk, a simple systems programming language

    75 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  38. Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?

    74 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  39. Show HN: Booste – Run apps in EC2, synced to your own text editor

    74 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  40. Troubleshooting Systemd with SystemTap

    74 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  41. Millions of Americans can't afford food, rent and other basics, report finds

    74 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  42. Hospitals Deploy AI Tools to Detect Covid-19 on Chest Scans

    74 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  43. FBI Says Foreign States Hacked into U.S. Covid-19 Research Centers

    74 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  44. My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

    74 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  45. Intermodal: A new command-line BitTorrent metainfo utility

    74 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  46. Near 90% Mortality Rate in Intubated Covid-19 Patients in NYC

    74 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  47. Lung damage in recovered Covid sufferers apparently permanent, research finds

    74 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  48. Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices

    74 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  49. Natural number game

    74 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  50. The internet’s fifth man (2013)

    74 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  51. Hydroxychloroquine Update for April 6

    73 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  52. Designing GraphQL schemas

    73 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  53. Improving G1 out-of-the-box performance

    73 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  54. Do notation considered harmful

    73 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  55. RaSCSI: SCSI Interface for Raspberry Pi (2019)

    73 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  56. Show HN: React-tater – A React component to add annotations to any element

    73 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  57. Finite State Machines with Python Coroutines

    73 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  58. Psychological effects of coding style (2016)

    73 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  59. Capability Myths Demolished (2003)

    73 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  60. A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe language alive

    73 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  61. How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time

    73 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  62. Why Is the Stock Market Booming?

    73 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  63. BlockBlock 1.0.0 beta – rewritten and open source

    73 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  64. First sighting of Majorana fermion on a common metal

    72 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  65. Understanding BERT and Search Relevance (2019)

    72 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  66. Google's Chief Internet Evangelist: 'privacy may be an anomaly' (2013)

    72 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  67. $50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic S905X3 SoC with 4GB RAM

    72 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  68. QRCP: Transfer files to mobile device by scanning a QR code from the terminal

    72 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  69. Show HN: Elevator party – An interactive small talk experience

    72 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  70. Show HN: Rust Implementation of Conway's Game of Life

    72 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  71. Bolsonaro fires health minister, calls to reopen economy

    72 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  72. Dvořák in Iowa

    72 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  73. Scientists discover brightest supernova ever seen

    72 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  74. Show HN: A modern BASIC-like teaching and learning programming language

    72 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  75. Many Planes Are Still Flying, Nearly Empty

    72 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  76. How Dolt stores table data

    72 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  77. The Intensional Spreadsheet

    72 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  78. Self-Management of Fatal Familial Insomnia: Case Report (2006)

    72 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  79. Customers hate MVPs – Make it simple, loveable, and complete instead (2017)

    72 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  80. Server-Side Rendering Is a Thiel Truth

    71 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  81. The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19

    71 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  82. The Guile in TeXmacs (2019) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  83. SF Bay Area Shelter-in-Place Orders Extended as Some Rules Ease

    71 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?

    71 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  85. To make the perfect mirror, physicists confront the mystery of glass

    71 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  86. Show HN: Like Headspace, but free forever

    71 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  87. Getting to the bottom of line height (2019)

    71 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  88. U.S. airlines want a $50B bailout. They spent $45B buying back their stock

    71 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  89. Covid-19: Only 268 cases and no deaths. How did Vietnam with 97M people do it?

    70 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  90. Go 1.14.2 and Go 1.13.10 are released

    70 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  91. Nbdev: Use Notebooks for Literate Programming

    70 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  92. A chat protocol for remote lectures

    70 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  93. TalkBack: A new keyboard for typing braille on Android

    70 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  94. Show HN: Run the unmodified iOS kernel image on the VIM3 development board

    70 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  95. Git wishlist: aggregate changes across non-contiguous commits (2019)

    70 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  96. Why Explore the Moon

    70 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  97. Green Threads Explained (2013)

    70 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  98. A Gooey and Delicious History of Mac and Cheese, a Meal Once Fit for a King

    70 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  99. WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7

    70 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  100. Trump to temporarily suspend all immigration into the US

    70 points • comment • apr 21, 2020