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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF

    24 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  2. Many States Have Laws Against Wearing Masks in Public

    24 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  3. Scratch: Block-based visual programming language

    24 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  4. Debian Project Leader Elections 2020

    24 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  5. Germany Cries Foul over Berlin-Bound Masks Diverted to U.S.

    24 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  6. Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)

    24 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  7. 'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says (2019)

    24 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  8. Walter Ong on Romanticism and Technology (2014)

    24 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  9. The many languages missing from the internet

    24 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  10. I Grew My App to $14k-Mo by Using Other Apps' Data

    24 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  11. Tesla Model Y Heat Pump – The Start of Something Bigger?

    24 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  12. Start-Ups Pursue ‘Free Money’ with Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash

    23 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  13. A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU

    23 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  14. Ask HN: Could we restructure society so that people don't hate their jobs?

    23 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  15. Ask HN: Looking to setup my own email server – should I do it or not bother?

    23 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  16. How California has contained coronavirus – and New York has not

    23 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  17. An amateur astronomer became one of history’s greatest solar observers (2017)

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  18. Universities begin considering canceling in-person classes until 2021

    23 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  19. How I Write: Start with a Series of Sincere Sentences

    23 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  20. Stop making apps with surveillance-based components

    23 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  21. API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them

    23 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  22. Let's do AWS whiteboard sessions – I'll review your architecture, live

    23 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  23. NHS worker quit when she was stopped from wearing face mask

    23 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  24. I just shut down my startup (2019)

    23 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  25. Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism

    23 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  26. Seemingly Popular Covid-19 Model Is Obvious Nonsense

    23 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  27. Unlikely Optimism: The Conjunctive Events Bias

    23 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  28. Autogenerate GraphQL API from MySQL/PostgreSQL Database with GraphQLize

    23 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  29. Writer Unblock

    23 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  30. Behind the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus dashboard

    23 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  31. Show HN: Zappy, a fast, free screen capture tool for macOS from Zapier

    23 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  32. Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communities During Coronavirus

    23 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  33. I am a New York food courier. It's worse than you think.

    23 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  34. The Bitcoin Halving, Explained

    23 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  35. Harnessing Vision for Computation (2008) [pdf]

    23 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  36. Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Prog Lang?

    23 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  37. Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says

    23 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  38. Malicious URLs cause Git (v2.26.0) to present stored credentials to wrong server

    23 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  39. Do We Need a New IP?

    23 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  40. First 100 Days of Dio

    23 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  41. Level up CloudFormation with VS Code

    23 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  42. How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19

    23 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  43. Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19

    23 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  44. Calico – Like Cat, but for Colors

    23 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  45. WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly

    23 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  46. Google Fi gets iPhone eSIM support

    23 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  47. Theodore Roosevelt incident a portent of worse to come

    23 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  48. What is the hardest thing in Computer Science?

    23 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  49. St. Hildegard's Litteræ Ignotæ (2016)

    23 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  50. Stop Trying to Be Productive

    23 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  51. The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule

    23 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  52. A brittle star-inspired robot that can crawl underwater

    23 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  53. Bangladesh Govt. denies CORVID-19 spread, arresting those who disagree

    23 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  54. Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals

    23 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  55. Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  56. Digital Ocean Networking Issues Due to Internet Backbone Provider Outage

    23 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  57. Ask HN: How do you backup your email?

    23 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  58. Using chemistry to unlock the difference between cold- and hot-brew coffee

    22 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  59. The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments

    22 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  60. Dash is React for Python, R, and Julia

    22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  61. Tell HN: I recorded a short presentation, and sold $14,379 in the first day

    22 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  62. Fighter jet crash averted by defect in civil ejection incident

    22 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  63. Why do you need a LinkedIn account?

    22 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  64. Scaling to 50k users as a small startup

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  65. Blanket-like “sarapes” from northern Mexico are intriguing textiles (2011)

    22 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  66. 100 more open-source UI designs uploaded

    22 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  67. Why Testing Is No Longer Sufficient for Today’s Software Delivery Pipelines

    22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  68. ‘Quarantine fatigue’: Researchers find more Americans venturing against orders

    22 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  69. Every Application Fails in Unique but Predictable Ways: A Study in Zoom

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  70. UBSan ␇ Runtime

    22 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  71. Spain to become first country in Europe to roll out universal basic income

    22 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  72. Elon Musk launches into expletive-laden rant calling quarantine measures fascist

    22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  73. Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500k

    22 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  74. Millennials are getting stung by back-to-back economic crises

    22 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  75. Apache Kafka: Life after the honeymoon period

    22 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  76. Ask HN: How will the world change post pandemic?

    22 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  77. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms

    22 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  78. Ask HN: OK to restart an app abandoned by it's founders?

    22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  79. GitHub Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly

    22 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  80. The Inevitable Return of COBOL

    22 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  81. TSMC Ramps 5nm, 3nm to Pack Over a Quarter-Billion Transistors Per sq mm

    22 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  82. Employees refuse to return to work as long as they’re getting extra $600/week.

    22 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  83. Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan

    22 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  84. CamelCamelCamel Is Not Tracking Amazon Pricing Anymore

    22 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  85. In the coronavirus era, the force is still with Jack Dorsey

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  86. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravity challenge

    22 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  87. Employee motivation ideas for managers and leaders

    22 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  88. Shining a Flashlight on Digital Holography

    22 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  89. Build a GraphQL API server efficiently without vendor lock-in

    22 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  90. Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  91. We Have Become a Police State, and None of Us Should Be Okay with That

    22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  92. Lawmakers in Canada, US call for probes of LiveNation/Ticketmaster refund policy

    22 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  93. Money Is Losing Its Meaning

    22 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  94. Hearts and Stomachs: Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

    22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  95. ‘Sadness’ and Disbelief from a World Missing American Leadership

    21 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  96. Mozilla Installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75

    21 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  97. Why Didn’t Saturn Eat Titan, Its Biggest Moon?

    21 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  98. School Faces FBI Probe for Using Webcams on Laptops to Watch Students at Home

    21 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  99. Scientists discover a new class of taste receptors

    21 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  100. Google CEO tells employees return to office won't happen until at least June 1

    21 points • comment • apr 28, 2020