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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF
24 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Many States Have Laws Against Wearing Masks in Public
24 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Scratch: Block-based visual programming language
24 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Debian Project Leader Elections 2020
24 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Germany Cries Foul over Berlin-Bound Masks Diverted to U.S.
24 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)
24 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says (2019)
24 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Walter Ong on Romanticism and Technology (2014)
24 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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The many languages missing from the internet
24 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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I Grew My App to $14k-Mo by Using Other Apps' Data
24 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Tesla Model Y Heat Pump – The Start of Something Bigger?
24 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Start-Ups Pursue ‘Free Money’ with Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash
23 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU
23 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Could we restructure society so that people don't hate their jobs?
23 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Looking to setup my own email server – should I do it or not bother?
23 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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How California has contained coronavirus – and New York has not
23 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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An amateur astronomer became one of history’s greatest solar observers (2017)
23 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Universities begin considering canceling in-person classes until 2021
23 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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How I Write: Start with a Series of Sincere Sentences
23 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Stop making apps with surveillance-based components
23 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them
23 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Let's do AWS whiteboard sessions – I'll review your architecture, live
23 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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NHS worker quit when she was stopped from wearing face mask
23 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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I just shut down my startup (2019)
23 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism
23 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Seemingly Popular Covid-19 Model Is Obvious Nonsense
23 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Unlikely Optimism: The Conjunctive Events Bias
23 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Autogenerate GraphQL API from MySQL/PostgreSQL Database with GraphQLize
23 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Writer Unblock
23 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Behind the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus dashboard
23 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Show HN: Zappy, a fast, free screen capture tool for macOS from Zapier
23 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communities During Coronavirus
23 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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I am a New York food courier. It's worse than you think.
23 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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The Bitcoin Halving, Explained
23 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Harnessing Vision for Computation (2008) [pdf]
23 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Prog Lang?
23 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says
23 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Malicious URLs cause Git (v2.26.0) to present stored credentials to wrong server
23 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Do We Need a New IP?
23 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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First 100 Days of Dio
23 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Level up CloudFormation with VS Code
23 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19
23 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19
23 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Calico – Like Cat, but for Colors
23 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly
23 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Google Fi gets iPhone eSIM support
23 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Theodore Roosevelt incident a portent of worse to come
23 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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What is the hardest thing in Computer Science?
23 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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St. Hildegard's Litteræ Ignotæ (2016)
23 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Stop Trying to Be Productive
23 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule
23 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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A brittle star-inspired robot that can crawl underwater
23 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Bangladesh Govt. denies CORVID-19 spread, arresting those who disagree
23 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals
23 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
23 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Digital Ocean Networking Issues Due to Internet Backbone Provider Outage
23 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you backup your email?
23 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Using chemistry to unlock the difference between cold- and hot-brew coffee
22 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments
22 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Dash is React for Python, R, and Julia
22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Tell HN: I recorded a short presentation, and sold $14,379 in the first day
22 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Fighter jet crash averted by defect in civil ejection incident
22 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Why do you need a LinkedIn account?
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Scaling to 50k users as a small startup
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Blanket-like “sarapes” from northern Mexico are intriguing textiles (2011)
22 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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100 more open-source UI designs uploaded
22 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Why Testing Is No Longer Sufficient for Today’s Software Delivery Pipelines
22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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‘Quarantine fatigue’: Researchers find more Americans venturing against orders
22 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Every Application Fails in Unique but Predictable Ways: A Study in Zoom
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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UBSan ␇ Runtime
22 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Spain to become first country in Europe to roll out universal basic income
22 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Elon Musk launches into expletive-laden rant calling quarantine measures fascist
22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500k
22 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Millennials are getting stung by back-to-back economic crises
22 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Apache Kafka: Life after the honeymoon period
22 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Ask HN: How will the world change post pandemic?
22 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms
22 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Ask HN: OK to restart an app abandoned by it's founders?
22 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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GitHub Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
22 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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The Inevitable Return of COBOL
22 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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TSMC Ramps 5nm, 3nm to Pack Over a Quarter-Billion Transistors Per sq mm
22 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Employees refuse to return to work as long as they’re getting extra $600/week.
22 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan
22 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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CamelCamelCamel Is Not Tracking Amazon Pricing Anymore
22 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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In the coronavirus era, the force is still with Jack Dorsey
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravity challenge
22 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Employee motivation ideas for managers and leaders
22 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Shining a Flashlight on Digital Holography
22 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Build a GraphQL API server efficiently without vendor lock-in
22 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox
22 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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We Have Become a Police State, and None of Us Should Be Okay with That
22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Lawmakers in Canada, US call for probes of LiveNation/Ticketmaster refund policy
22 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Money Is Losing Its Meaning
22 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Hearts and Stomachs: Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
22 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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‘Sadness’ and Disbelief from a World Missing American Leadership
21 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Mozilla Installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75
21 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Why Didn’t Saturn Eat Titan, Its Biggest Moon?
21 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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School Faces FBI Probe for Using Webcams on Laptops to Watch Students at Home
21 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Scientists discover a new class of taste receptors
21 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Google CEO tells employees return to office won't happen until at least June 1
21 points • comment • apr 28, 2020