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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. How to SSH Properly

    559 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  2. I’ve Consed Every Pair

    556 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  3. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

    555 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  4. Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

    555 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  5. Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life

    553 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  6. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

    552 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  7. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

    551 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  8. PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database

    550 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  9. Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script

    547 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  10. TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

    545 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  11. A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume

    537 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  12. I've been writing TILs for 5 years

    536 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  13. The Wolfram Physics Project

    536 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  14. How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection

    535 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  15. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?

    534 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  16. Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans

    533 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  17. Secret iPad

    526 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  18. A possible new back end for Rust

    524 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  19. Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

    516 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  20. AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs

    516 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  21. Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

    515 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  22. ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes

    515 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  23. The software industry's greatest sin: hiring

    514 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  24. Bouncing DVD Logo

    514 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  25. How to Speak (2018) [video]

    513 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  26. Open-Source Virtual Background

    505 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  27. Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi

    501 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  28. Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows

    500 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  29. Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use

    498 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  30. Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

    495 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  31. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

    493 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  32. Over 275 days since Equifax’s data breach settlement and no one has been paid

    492 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  33. OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

    491 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  34. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

    490 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  35. Is BGP Safe Yet?

    489 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  36. Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China

    485 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  37. Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

    485 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  38. How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping

    479 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  39. Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees

    477 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  40. A crash course in compilers (2018)

    474 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  41. How SEO Ruined the Internet

    470 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  42. This Video Has X Views

    469 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  43. Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021

    467 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  44. What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics

    465 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  45. As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting

    465 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  46. Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators

    461 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  47. Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t

    461 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  48. Jukebox

    459 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  49. With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube

    455 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  50. SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb

    455 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  51. U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

    453 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  52. KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly language

    453 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  53. Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?

    450 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  54. An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

    450 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  55. Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees

    449 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  56. Keycloak: Open-source identity and access management

    442 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  57. Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

    441 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  58. Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

    438 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  59. 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

    437 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  60. Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations

    435 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  61. Good writing is a business advantage

    434 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  62. New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system

    432 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  63. Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers

    431 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  64. Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops

    429 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  65. How We reduced our Google Maps API cost

    428 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  66. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

    427 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  67. Lamest Edit Wars

    427 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  68. Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha

    424 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  69. Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding

    423 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  70. A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study

    421 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  71. Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination

    420 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  72. Your statement is correct but misses the point

    419 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  73. Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go

    418 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  74. First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz

    416 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  75. OpenTTD 1.10

    416 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  76. Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS

    416 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  77. ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download

    415 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  78. Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty

    414 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  79. Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?

    414 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  80. I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)

    412 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  81. Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim

    411 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  82. Ask HN: How to properly manage a product roadmap?

    411 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  83. Show HN: 33 line React

    408 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  84. Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing

    408 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  85. Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

    405 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  86. I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year

    405 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  87. Phoenix LiveDashboard

    405 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  88. Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies

    404 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  89. Temporal circuit of brain activity supports human consciousness

    404 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  90. IPFS 0.5

    403 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  91. Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer

    401 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  92. Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees

    401 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  93. The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper

    400 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  94. Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online

    400 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  95. Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support

    399 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  96. Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

    399 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  97. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

    398 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  98. A humble guide to database schema design

    397 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  99. JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers

    396 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  100. PWA Store

    395 points • comment • apr 24, 2020