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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32
393 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
393 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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A Message to Our Users
389 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100
388 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures
386 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
385 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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1.1.1.1 for Families
385 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
384 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
384 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests
383 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
382 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
380 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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The Global Dollar Short Squeeze
378 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
377 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Custom Game Engines: A Small Study
377 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
377 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Pulumi – Modern Infrastructure as Code
376 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Firefox 75.0
376 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
375 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games
375 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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We abused Slack's TURN servers to gain access to internal services
375 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood
375 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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The Power of Prolog
374 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
374 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech
373 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)
373 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust
372 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Books I recommend to my software engineering students
371 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Hands-on Scala Programming
370 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
369 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Patreon lays off 13% of workforce
368 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
368 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]
368 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address
367 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
367 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities
366 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
365 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer
365 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
364 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Tell HN: Launch HN Test
363 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health
363 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Simula: A VR window manager for Linux
363 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories
362 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Lossless Image Compression Through Super-Resolution
362 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
361 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master
361 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development
361 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
359 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system
358 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April
358 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Make Linux Fast Again (2019)
356 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies
354 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Getting Started with WireGuard
353 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten
351 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Emacs: The most successful malleable system
350 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too
350 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Gallery of database schema diagrams of open-source packages
348 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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DigitalOcean VPC
348 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac
348 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
348 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe
348 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Deploys at Slack
347 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Manager's Playbook: Heuristics for effective management
346 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Nim 1.2
346 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust
346 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money
345 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May
344 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
343 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing
343 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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A-Shell: Terminal for iOS
341 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)
340 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service
339 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)
338 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Moving Away from Gmail
336 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it
336 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
335 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)
334 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage
333 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet
333 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
332 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
331 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
331 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)
330 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
330 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis
330 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Jack Dorsey gives $1B to fund global Covid-19 relief
326 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time tracking app
326 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling
326 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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The Open Web Is Dying
324 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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The Svelte Compiler Handbook
323 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember
323 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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I could do that in a weekend (2016)
321 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM
321 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS
319 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
319 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
318 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
317 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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ICQ New
317 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
316 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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The Sourcehut Project Hub
316 points • comment • apr 30, 2020