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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. How does this poor man's log10 calculator trick work?

    19 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  2. The Contradictions of Eric Hobsbawm (2019)

    19 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  3. My story of transitioning from Mac to Linux

    19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  4. Designing experiments for understanding performance (2018) [pdf]

    19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  5. EPA to Weaken Controls on Mercury

    19 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  6. Boeing suspends 787 airplane production

    19 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  7. Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers

    19 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  8. When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine

    19 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  9. Ask HN: What opportunities will Covid-19 create?

    19 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Paper capital contributions as YC SAFE that converts to common stock?

    19 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  11. COBOL Is Trending on Twitter

    19 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  12. Airbnb raises $1B to weather the coronavirus crisis

    19 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  13. If Sweden succeeds, lockdowns will all have been for nothing

    19 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  14. Zoom E2E Encryption Explained Like You're 5

    19 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  15. Making a crow box for a rooster (2018)

    19 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  16. How to Have Impact

    19 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  17. GitHub Is Down

    19 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  18. Godot and Rust Tutorial Series

    19 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  19. Trump halts US funding to WHO for ‘covering up’ Covid-19 pandemic

    19 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  20. Show HN: Place where you can follow and share collections of links for learning

    19 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  21. 800G Specification [pdf]

    19 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  22. I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance

    19 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  23. For some survivors, coronavirus complications can last a ‘lifetime’

    19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  24. Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained for opposition (Apr. 14)

    19 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  25. The Web-based version of Apple Music has officially launched

    19 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  26. Ask HN: When do you expect life will get back to “normal”?

    19 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  27. Show HN: Finite State Machines for PostgreSQL

    19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  28. My book on defending from deplatform attacks is now free

    19 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  29. Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial

    19 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  30. Show HN: Terraform recipe for running Jitsi Meet on DigitalOcean

    19 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  31. Brian Eno’s 15 Essential Ambient Works

    18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  32. Our New Book “Building Secure and Reliable Systems”

    18 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  33. Team fortress 2 source code has leaked – possible remote execution exploit

    18 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  34. Equinox will not be making invoice payments until further notice

    18 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  35. Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator

    18 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  36. Ottawa man sending free sanitizer

    18 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  37. What's the difference between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?

    18 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  38. Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication

    18 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  39. How to Unbreak LTTng

    18 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  40. Wealthy people struggling without housekeepers during the lockdown

    18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  41. SpaceX to offer Starlink public beta in six months, Musk says

    18 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  42. I measured hundreds of Levi's jeans and compared how every pair fits

    18 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  43. Restarting America means people will die – five thinkers weigh moral choices

    18 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  44. Show HN: Type in Morse code using laptop lid

    18 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  45. Opaline – NextJS for CLI Tools

    18 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  46. Lists of corporate assets

    18 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  47. Ask HN: How much coffee do you drink as a programmer?

    18 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  48. Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform

    18 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  49. NIH Clinical Trial Shows Remdesivir Accelerates Recovery from Advanced Covid-19

    18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  50. Jitsi Server droplet on DigitalOcean in one click

    18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  51. US oil drops as much as 20% as oversupply concerns keep roiling markets

    18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  52. Google AdSense: “we're going to optimize your ad settings for you”

    18 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  53. The Iterate-and-Mutate Programming Anti-Pattern

    18 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  54. How Europe sleepwalked into the coronavirus crisis

    18 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  55. Why Are Farmers Destroying Food While Grocery Stores Are Empty?

    18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  56. B-Sides: Graham Greene’s “Stamboul Train”

    18 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  57. Ask HN: What are some open source alternative to Zoom

    18 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  58. Work 4 hours a day, according to science

    18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  59. Stonehenge Remodelled (2012) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  60. Dutch government encourages public services to share their software source code

    18 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  61. Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now Its Falling Apart

    18 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  62. Decision tree research papers from the last 30 years

    18 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  63. Show HN: A Showcase of OpenType Features

    18 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  64. Open Floor Plan Could Help Spread Coronavirus

    18 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  65. Do Covid-19 death rates by age suggest a path to staying open in a second wave?

    18 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  66. Launch HN: TagMango (YC W20) – Personalized video shoutouts in India

    18 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  67. Microsoft acquires open source SharePoint killer, Mayan EDMS

    18 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  68. Stockholm to reach herd immunity in May?

    18 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  69. James Dewar

    18 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  70. You (probably) don't need PostGIS

    18 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  71. Possible Chinese Nuclear Testing Stirs U.S. Concern

    18 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  72. FT journalist suspended over claims of Zoom eavesdropping

    18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  73. Twitter doesn’t server-side check the length of gender descriptions

    18 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  74. Ask HN: How to Proceed with an Unscrupulous Recruiter?

    18 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  75. Flow Control in Aeron

    18 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  76. Show HN: faasd 0.8.1 – lightweight Serverless with containerd and CNI

    18 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  77. Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps'

    17 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  78. Japan’s Coronavirus Cases Fall Sharply Without Compulsory Measures

    17 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  79. NYC Schools Chancellor forbids use of Zoom

    17 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  80. Are you living in a computer simulation? [pdf]

    17 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  81. UK listened to scientists about coronavirus who were slow to sound the alarm

    17 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  82. Gnome Shell is moving towards a convergent, mobile-friendly UI

    17 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  83. Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team

    17 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  84. A bit of sugar for the fastest Python framework

    17 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  85. Philosopher.life

    17 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  86. American Humbug

    17 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  87. Secret Scientists Pushing Administration on Covid-19 Plan

    17 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  88. AI spots critical Microsoft security bugs 97% of the time

    17 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  89. Bitcoin stealer infected 700 libraries of major programming language

    17 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  90. Show HN: A device simulator that cycles through many mobile device simulations

    17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  91. Is 24hr Cold Storage Possible Without Constant Power?

    17 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  92. The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun

    17 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  93. Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No

    17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  94. Ask HN: Does anybody need any help?

    17 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  95. The Binary Vector Clock

    17 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  96. How to Create a Compelling Landing Page

    17 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  97. Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe

    17 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  98. They All Retired Before They Hit 40. Then This Happened

    17 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  99. Trump Plans to Suspend Immigration to U.S.

    17 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  100. Venezuelan naval boat rams passenger cruise liner, damages itself, sinks

    17 points • comment • apr 05, 2020