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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mortality

    69 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  2. Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification

    69 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  3. Tiger at US zoo tests positive for coronavirus

    69 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  4. Truisms (1978)

    69 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  5. Saudi Arabia ripped off my open-source app and published it on the App Store

    69 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  6. Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeting participants

    69 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  7. Tesla, Musk must face shareholder lawsuit over going-private tweet

    69 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  8. Show HN: Create apps from GraphQL APIs without writing code

    69 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  9. A Developer's Guide to Surviving the Coronapocalypse

    69 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  10. On Surviving Screens and Social Media in Isolation

    69 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  11. Does Irrationality Fuel Innovation?

    69 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  12. ‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem

    69 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  13. Times New Arial

    69 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  14. Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support

    69 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  15. A Conversation with Alan Kay (2004)

    69 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  16. Ask HN: Tricks to improve posture?

    68 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  17. Foucault pendulum

    68 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  18. Making an invertible function out of non-invertible parts

    68 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  19. Wall Street’s Largest Oil Trade (2017)

    68 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  20. Show HN: HFD – A design language for laser cutters written in Go

    68 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  21. Vegetables get freakish in the land of the midnight sun (2014)

    68 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  22. Running decade-old games in containers

    68 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  23. The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode (Gatsby/React)

    68 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  24. Urbit for Normies

    68 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  25. Higher-order logic and equality; multiple ways to use lambda calculus for logic

    68 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  26. Face-touching may reflect unconscious hand-smelling [pdf]

    68 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  27. 30% of random sample test positive for Covid antibodies in Massachusetts

    68 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  28. Show HN: A compiler for a small language into x86-64 assembly

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  29. Why did the 1982-era MCZ 2/60 desktop computer have an Exxon logo on it?

    68 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  30. Six Months with Julia: Parse-Time Transpilation in 80 Lines or Less

    68 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  31. What about those funny shaped cars? [video]

    68 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  32. The pope just proposed a universal basic income

    67 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  33. Cloudflare Stops Using ReCAPTCHA

    67 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  34. Programming Servo: Workers at your Service

    67 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  35. The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support

    67 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  36. The science of helping out: 'To help yourself, start by helping others'

    67 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  37. Gilead data suggests coronavirus patients are responding to treatment

    67 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  38. Physics of Cricket (2005)

    67 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  39. Mediasoup – WebRTC Video Conferencing

    67 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  40. Why startups should generate absolutely crazy ideas every single day

    67 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  41. Exit unicorns, pursued by bears

    67 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  42. Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds

    67 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  43. Porting a React Front End to TypeScript

    67 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  44. Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in December 2020

    67 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  45. A new way of playing Japanese and English games side-by-side (2016)

    67 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  46. Incremental Regular Expressions (2012)

    67 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  47. Show HN: A free online ordering system for restaurants

    67 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  48. Show HN: Pragli, a virtual office for remote teams

    66 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  49. Rebuilding James Bond's Apple IIc – A Software Forgery [video]

    66 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  50. Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor

    66 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  51. The New Science of Seeing Around Corners (2018)

    66 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  52. RISC OS and NetBSD running on the same SoC

    66 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  53. “Mamma Desta” and Ethiopian food in the U.S

    66 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  54. Key Visualizer: Observe distributed databases to discover the unknowns

    66 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  55. Is This the End of Airbnb?

    66 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  56. Ubuntu Mate 20.04

    66 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  57. Uber says Levandowski on his own for $180M to Google

    66 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  58. Operation Popeye

    66 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  59. Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet

    66 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  60. Italy’s coronavirus death toll is far higher than reported

    66 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  61. Use of Mussels to Improve Water Quality in Reflecting Pool [pdf]

    66 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  62. Right-to-left-language-induced GUI bugs

    66 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  63. Ask HN: I’m already fluent in English. How can I improve further?

    66 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  64. 31% Can’t Pay the Rent: ‘It’s Only Going to Get Worse’

    66 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  65. Google inserts links to its Duo video chat app when users text about Zoom

    66 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  66. Understanding Free Cultural Works

    65 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  67. Intro to The 8-Point Grid System (2016)

    65 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  68. Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through postpandemic period

    65 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  69. Learning Spring with Kotlin – Sprint 0

    65 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  70. In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung

    65 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  71. Riot Games newest title “Valorant” installs kernel driver to run anti-cheat

    65 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  72. Customers say Getaround has been slow to pay repair bills

    65 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  73. I designed and built my own function generator

    65 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  74. Avoiding Retpolines with Static Calls

    65 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  75. Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results

    65 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  76. Filling in PDF forms with Python (2018)

    65 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  77. A Graph Convolutional Neural Network Approach to Antibiotic Discovery

    65 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  78. Client-side content encryption

    65 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  79. The Relative Weirdness of Birds

    65 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  80. Layout-Isolated Components

    65 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  81. Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs

    65 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  82. Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America

    65 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  83. Mailvelope

    65 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  84. What The Economist doesn't tell you

    64 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  85. Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake

    64 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  86. Flat HTML

    64 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  87. Freelancer Contract Template (2018)

    64 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  88. Conway's Game of Life Implemented in Conway's Game of Life

    64 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  89. Exercise by club swinging in the 19th century

    64 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  90. From Bifrost to Panfrost – deep dive into the first render

    64 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  91. Difficulties Everywhere: Can Kierkegaard tell us how to live?

    64 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  92. WhatsApp just dropped a bunch of hacking group NSO's IPs in their latest filing

    64 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  93. Screensharing your talk slides is skeuomorphic

    64 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  94. “Baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again

    63 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  95. Gravitational waves reveal collision of heavy and light black holes

    63 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  96. 3D cartoon face and cat face from one image

    63 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  97. IMF predicts worst downturn since Great Depression

    63 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  98. Old Square Discovers Psychedelic Valley

    63 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  99. The Epic Online Orchestra

    63 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  100. How Reliable Are University Rankings?

    63 points • comment • apr 21, 2020