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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Ask HN: In what unexpected ways has writing a blog affected your career?
33 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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My First “Conway's Game of Life” Program in Tribute to John Conway
33 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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WeWork to Accept Oil Barrels as Tenants
33 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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DeSpeak: Practice at public speaking
33 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Contributors Leaving Pytest
33 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Americans losing faith in what Trump says about the coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos
33 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Zz: A smart and efficient directory changer (2017)
33 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Data storage and transfer using human muscle contractions (2018)
33 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
33 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Void Linux: Some Context for Recent Events
33 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Corona App – 10 requirements for the evaluation of “Contact Tracing” apps
33 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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March Retail Sales Plunged 8.7% as Coronavirus Shutdowns Took Hold
33 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems
33 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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The world could soon run out of space to store oil. Prices may plunge below zero
33 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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U.S. Senators demand small business loan data from SBA and Treasury [pdf]
33 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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SEC vs. Telegram: A Battle That Could Be Avoided
33 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Face masks from China intended for France 'hijacked' by US at the last minute
33 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Adventures in RISC-V
33 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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How to Use a Differential Analyzer
32 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Hungary's Prime Minister Orban Is Allowed to Rule by Decree
32 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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The secret behind “unkillable” Android backdoor called xHelper has been revealed
32 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Phase-space model to forecast COVID-19 infection peak for U.S. states
32 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
32 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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AMD Reports first Quarter 2020 Financial Results – Revenue grows 40% YoY
32 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Generating Crime Safe CSRF Tokens
32 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster
32 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Show HN: LinCV – transform LinkedIn profile to printable CV in 5 seconds
32 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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There's a New Language Server and Code Formatter for Erlang
32 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Understanding medical tests: sensitivity, specificity, predictive value (2018)
32 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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An Update on the Status of Our UX Design Program
32 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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A Goat Farmer Built a Doomsday Machine That Just Booked a 4,144% Return
32 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Slams Virus Lockdown
32 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Editors believed their magazines could change lives
32 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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“The Great ISAs” reading list
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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What humans would look like if we could survive car wrecks (2016)
32 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Using Nginx and Lua and Redis to Build an Edge Computing Platform
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions
32 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Twitter Thinks My Gender Is [EICAR String] (Or “Server-Side Checks Matter”)
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Trapped by Coronavirus, Nigeria’s Elite Faces Squalid Hospitals
32 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is every day
32 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Phone Cloning
32 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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To make a perfect mirror, physicists confront the mystery of glass
32 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Bid
32 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Lessig vs. NYT: Very. Good. News
32 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Crank: JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators
31 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Ebpf_exporter: Prometheus exporter for custom eBPF metrics
31 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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The COBOL Problem
31 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Extreme rainfall triggered the 2018 rift eruption at Kīlauea Volcano
31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Ask HN: How to employ the 30M Americans that will lose their jobs?
31 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Privacy preserving contact tracing: the comic
31 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Air pollution drops in European cities: how does your street look?
31 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Burning Man cancelled this year, will move online
31 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Casio CQ-1 calculator and clock
31 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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The Coming Mental Health Crisis as Remote Working Surges
31 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Building a Nerves Lullaby Player
31 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Sun Small Programmable Object Technology Project (2007)
31 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Stockholm expected to reach herd immunity in May, Swedish ambassador says
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Esperanto, an International Language
31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Linux Bash vs. Windows PowerShell
31 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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DevOps Career Accelerator Series
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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2600: Spring Issue and Important Update
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Manager listening to my calls, dropping references in open meetings
31 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Bill Comes Due for Overextended Airbnb Hosts
31 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Gamer Janken, or How to Pick a First Player
31 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform
31 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Lucid Motors' Peter Rawlinson Talks E-Car Efficiency
31 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Coronavirus: People-tracking wristbands tested to enforce lockdown
31 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Why We Should Teach Python instead of Racket
31 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Please get your parents off Facebook
31 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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How to Read a Paper – Stanford University [pdf]
31 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Coronavirus: Would you volunteer to be exposed? These Stanford grads did
31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Show HN: Music sharing site that allows listeners to support artists
31 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Chef, Ansible, Puppet- When to Use Configuration Management?
31 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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The Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World of Wuhan
31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Jarrett Heather presents: Word Crimes (2014)
30 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Human Misjudgment Revisited (2017) [pdf]
30 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Google to Significantly Slow Hiring in 2020: Full CEO Memo
30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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IoT Emergency Alert Button with RPi and Notify17 (who launched on HN last year)
30 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Viruses are Largely Unrelated to Life on Earth. Where Do They Come From?
30 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error
30 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?
30 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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“Design outside-in, develop inside-out”
30 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Schools Are Spying on Students
30 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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The Subways Seeded the Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
30 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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‘I’m Just Living a Nightmare’: Oil Industry Braces for Devastation
30 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Coronavirus deaths of Wikidata notable people
30 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go too far?
30 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in Nirsoft tools
30 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos?
30 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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A team exploited the coronavirus pandemic to set a new cannonball record
30 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Plan9 – A Distributed Operating System
30 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Azure Storage Static Website and Azure Front Door
30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Firefox Private Relay: Generate unique, random, anonymous email addresses
30 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Magic: A Key-Based Authentication System for Self-Sovereign Identity
30 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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3M Says No Evidence That Products Have Been Seized
30 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Show HN: A Github Action for deploying files to the any cloud storage
30 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Too Much Food in the Wrong Places
30 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Homeless Americans qualify for stimulus checks even if they haven't filed taxes
30 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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In NYC, almost 9 in 10 Covid-19 patients on ventilators don't make it
30 points • comment • apr 23, 2020