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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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How does this poor man's log10 calculator trick work?
19 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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The Contradictions of Eric Hobsbawm (2019)
19 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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My story of transitioning from Mac to Linux
19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Designing experiments for understanding performance (2018) [pdf]
19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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EPA to Weaken Controls on Mercury
19 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Boeing suspends 787 airplane production
19 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers
19 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine
19 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What opportunities will Covid-19 create?
19 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Paper capital contributions as YC SAFE that converts to common stock?
19 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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COBOL Is Trending on Twitter
19 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Airbnb raises $1B to weather the coronavirus crisis
19 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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If Sweden succeeds, lockdowns will all have been for nothing
19 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Zoom E2E Encryption Explained Like You're 5
19 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Making a crow box for a rooster (2018)
19 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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How to Have Impact
19 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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GitHub Is Down
19 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Godot and Rust Tutorial Series
19 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Trump halts US funding to WHO for ‘covering up’ Covid-19 pandemic
19 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Show HN: Place where you can follow and share collections of links for learning
19 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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800G Specification [pdf]
19 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance
19 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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For some survivors, coronavirus complications can last a ‘lifetime’
19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained for opposition (Apr. 14)
19 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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The Web-based version of Apple Music has officially launched
19 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Ask HN: When do you expect life will get back to “normal”?
19 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Show HN: Finite State Machines for PostgreSQL
19 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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My book on defending from deplatform attacks is now free
19 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial
19 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Show HN: Terraform recipe for running Jitsi Meet on DigitalOcean
19 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Brian Eno’s 15 Essential Ambient Works
18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Our New Book “Building Secure and Reliable Systems”
18 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Team fortress 2 source code has leaked – possible remote execution exploit
18 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Equinox will not be making invoice payments until further notice
18 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator
18 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Ottawa man sending free sanitizer
18 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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What's the difference between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?
18 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication
18 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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How to Unbreak LTTng
18 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Wealthy people struggling without housekeepers during the lockdown
18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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SpaceX to offer Starlink public beta in six months, Musk says
18 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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I measured hundreds of Levi's jeans and compared how every pair fits
18 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Restarting America means people will die – five thinkers weigh moral choices
18 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Show HN: Type in Morse code using laptop lid
18 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Opaline – NextJS for CLI Tools
18 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Lists of corporate assets
18 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How much coffee do you drink as a programmer?
18 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform
18 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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NIH Clinical Trial Shows Remdesivir Accelerates Recovery from Advanced Covid-19
18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Jitsi Server droplet on DigitalOcean in one click
18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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US oil drops as much as 20% as oversupply concerns keep roiling markets
18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Google AdSense: “we're going to optimize your ad settings for you”
18 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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The Iterate-and-Mutate Programming Anti-Pattern
18 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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How Europe sleepwalked into the coronavirus crisis
18 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Why Are Farmers Destroying Food While Grocery Stores Are Empty?
18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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B-Sides: Graham Greene’s “Stamboul Train”
18 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some open source alternative to Zoom
18 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Work 4 hours a day, according to science
18 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Stonehenge Remodelled (2012) [pdf]
18 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Dutch government encourages public services to share their software source code
18 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now Its Falling Apart
18 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Decision tree research papers from the last 30 years
18 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Show HN: A Showcase of OpenType Features
18 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Open Floor Plan Could Help Spread Coronavirus
18 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Do Covid-19 death rates by age suggest a path to staying open in a second wave?
18 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Launch HN: TagMango (YC W20) – Personalized video shoutouts in India
18 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Microsoft acquires open source SharePoint killer, Mayan EDMS
18 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Stockholm to reach herd immunity in May?
18 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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James Dewar
18 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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You (probably) don't need PostGIS
18 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Possible Chinese Nuclear Testing Stirs U.S. Concern
18 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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FT journalist suspended over claims of Zoom eavesdropping
18 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Twitter doesn’t server-side check the length of gender descriptions
18 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Ask HN: How to Proceed with an Unscrupulous Recruiter?
18 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Flow Control in Aeron
18 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Show HN: faasd 0.8.1 – lightweight Serverless with containerd and CNI
18 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps'
17 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Japan’s Coronavirus Cases Fall Sharply Without Compulsory Measures
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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NYC Schools Chancellor forbids use of Zoom
17 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Are you living in a computer simulation? [pdf]
17 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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UK listened to scientists about coronavirus who were slow to sound the alarm
17 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Gnome Shell is moving towards a convergent, mobile-friendly UI
17 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team
17 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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A bit of sugar for the fastest Python framework
17 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Philosopher.life
17 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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American Humbug
17 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Secret Scientists Pushing Administration on Covid-19 Plan
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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AI spots critical Microsoft security bugs 97% of the time
17 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Bitcoin stealer infected 700 libraries of major programming language
17 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: A device simulator that cycles through many mobile device simulations
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Is 24hr Cold Storage Possible Without Constant Power?
17 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun
17 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Does anybody need any help?
17 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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The Binary Vector Clock
17 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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How to Create a Compelling Landing Page
17 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe
17 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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They All Retired Before They Hit 40. Then This Happened
17 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Trump Plans to Suspend Immigration to U.S.
17 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Venezuelan naval boat rams passenger cruise liner, damages itself, sinks
17 points • comment • apr 05, 2020