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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Ask HN: In what unexpected ways has writing a blog affected your career?

    33 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  2. My First “Conway's Game of Life” Program in Tribute to John Conway

    33 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  3. WeWork to Accept Oil Barrels as Tenants

    33 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  4. DeSpeak: Practice at public speaking

    33 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  5. Contributors Leaving Pytest

    33 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  6. Americans losing faith in what Trump says about the coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos

    33 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  7. Zz: A smart and efficient directory changer (2017)

    33 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  8. Data storage and transfer using human muscle contractions (2018)

    33 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  9. Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol

    33 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  10. Void Linux: Some Context for Recent Events

    33 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  11. Corona App – 10 requirements for the evaluation of “Contact Tracing” apps

    33 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  12. March Retail Sales Plunged 8.7% as Coronavirus Shutdowns Took Hold

    33 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  13. Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems

    33 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  14. The world could soon run out of space to store oil. Prices may plunge below zero

    33 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  15. U.S. Senators demand small business loan data from SBA and Treasury [pdf]

    33 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  16. SEC vs. Telegram: A Battle That Could Be Avoided

    33 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  17. Face masks from China intended for France 'hijacked' by US at the last minute

    33 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  18. Adventures in RISC-V

    33 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  19. USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared

    32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  20. How to Use a Differential Analyzer

    32 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  21. Hungary's Prime Minister Orban Is Allowed to Rule by Decree

    32 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  22. The secret behind “unkillable” Android backdoor called xHelper has been revealed

    32 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  23. Phase-space model to forecast COVID-19 infection peak for U.S. states

    32 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  24. Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19

    32 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  25. AMD Reports first Quarter 2020 Financial Results – Revenue grows 40% YoY

    32 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  26. Generating Crime Safe CSRF Tokens

    32 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  27. US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster

    32 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  28. Show HN: LinCV – transform LinkedIn profile to printable CV in 5 seconds

    32 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  29. There's a New Language Server and Code Formatter for Erlang

    32 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  30. Understanding medical tests: sensitivity, specificity, predictive value (2018)

    32 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  31. An Update on the Status of Our UX Design Program

    32 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  32. A Goat Farmer Built a Doomsday Machine That Just Booked a 4,144% Return

    32 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  33. Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Slams Virus Lockdown

    32 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  34. Editors believed their magazines could change lives

    32 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  35. “The Great ISAs” reading list

    32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  36. What humans would look like if we could survive car wrecks (2016)

    32 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  37. Using Nginx and Lua and Redis to Build an Edge Computing Platform

    32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  38. Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions

    32 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  39. Twitter Thinks My Gender Is [EICAR String] (Or “Server-Side Checks Matter”)

    32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  40. Trapped by Coronavirus, Nigeria’s Elite Faces Squalid Hospitals

    32 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  41. Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is every day

    32 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  42. Phone Cloning

    32 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

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

    32 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  44. Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Bid

    32 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  45. Lessig vs. NYT: Very. Good. News

    32 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  46. Crank: JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators

    31 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  47. Ebpf_exporter: Prometheus exporter for custom eBPF metrics

    31 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  48. The COBOL Problem

    31 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  49. Extreme rainfall triggered the 2018 rift eruption at Kīlauea Volcano

    31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  50. Ask HN: How to employ the 30M Americans that will lose their jobs?

    31 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  51. Privacy preserving contact tracing: the comic

    31 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  52. Air pollution drops in European cities: how does your street look?

    31 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  53. Burning Man cancelled this year, will move online

    31 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  54. Casio CQ-1 calculator and clock

    31 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  55. The Coming Mental Health Crisis as Remote Working Surges

    31 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  56. Building a Nerves Lullaby Player

    31 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  57. Sun Small Programmable Object Technology Project (2007)

    31 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  58. Stockholm expected to reach herd immunity in May, Swedish ambassador says

    31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  59. Esperanto, an International Language

    31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  60. Linux Bash vs. Windows PowerShell

    31 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  61. DevOps Career Accelerator Series

    31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  62. 2600: Spring Issue and Important Update

    31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Manager listening to my calls, dropping references in open meetings

    31 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  64. Bill Comes Due for Overextended Airbnb Hosts

    31 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  65. Gamer Janken, or How to Pick a First Player

    31 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  66. ‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform

    31 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  67. Lucid Motors' Peter Rawlinson Talks E-Car Efficiency

    31 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  68. Coronavirus: People-tracking wristbands tested to enforce lockdown

    31 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  69. Why We Should Teach Python instead of Racket

    31 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  70. Please get your parents off Facebook

    31 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  71. How to Read a Paper – Stanford University [pdf]

    31 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  72. Coronavirus: Would you volunteer to be exposed? These Stanford grads did

    31 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  73. Show HN: Music sharing site that allows listeners to support artists

    31 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Chef, Ansible, Puppet- When to Use Configuration Management?

    31 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  75. The Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World of Wuhan

    31 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  76. Jarrett Heather presents: Word Crimes (2014)

    30 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  77. Human Misjudgment Revisited (2017) [pdf]

    30 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  78. Google to Significantly Slow Hiring in 2020: Full CEO Memo

    30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  79. IoT Emergency Alert Button with RPi and Notify17 (who launched on HN last year)

    30 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  80. Viruses are Largely Unrelated to Life on Earth. Where Do They Come From?

    30 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  81. Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error

    30 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  82. Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?

    30 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  83. “Design outside-in, develop inside-out”

    30 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  84. Schools Are Spying on Students

    30 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  85. The Subways Seeded the Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City

    30 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  86. ‘I’m Just Living a Nightmare’: Oil Industry Braces for Devastation

    30 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  87. Coronavirus deaths of Wikidata notable people

    30 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  88. Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go too far?

    30 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  89. DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in Nirsoft tools

    30 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  90. Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos?

    30 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  91. A team exploited the coronavirus pandemic to set a new cannonball record

    30 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  92. Plan9 – A Distributed Operating System

    30 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  93. Azure Storage Static Website and Azure Front Door

    30 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  94. Firefox Private Relay: Generate unique, random, anonymous email addresses

    30 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  95. Magic: A Key-Based Authentication System for Self-Sovereign Identity

    30 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  96. 3M Says No Evidence That Products Have Been Seized

    30 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  97. Show HN: A Github Action for deploying files to the any cloud storage

    30 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  98. Too Much Food in the Wrong Places

    30 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  99. Homeless Americans qualify for stimulus checks even if they haven't filed taxes

    30 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  100. In NYC, almost 9 in 10 Covid-19 patients on ventilators don't make it

    30 points • comment • apr 23, 2020