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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32

    393 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  2. Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

    393 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  3. A Message to Our Users

    389 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  4. Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100

    388 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  5. PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures

    386 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  6. Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

    385 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  7. 1.1.1.1 for Families

    385 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  8. Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

    384 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  9. Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1

    384 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  10. U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests

    383 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)

    382 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  12. Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws

    380 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  13. The Global Dollar Short Squeeze

    378 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  14. Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

    377 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  15. Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

    377 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  16. Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

    377 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  17. Pulumi – Modern Infrastructure as Code

    376 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  18. Firefox 75.0

    376 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  19. Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

    375 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  20. A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games

    375 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  21. We abused Slack's TURN servers to gain access to internal services

    375 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  22. Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood

    375 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  23. The Power of Prolog

    374 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  24. John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]

    374 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  25. Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech

    373 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  26. Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)

    373 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  27. I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust

    372 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  28. Books I recommend to my software engineering students

    371 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  29. Hands-on Scala Programming

    370 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  30. Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers

    369 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  31. Patreon lays off 13% of workforce

    368 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  32. Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux

    368 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  33. Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]

    368 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  34. Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address

    367 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  35. Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020

    367 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  36. Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities

    366 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  37. Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

    365 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  38. Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer

    365 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  39. Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project

    364 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  40. Tell HN: Launch HN Test

    363 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  41. Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health

    363 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  42. Simula: A VR window manager for Linux

    363 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  43. Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories

    362 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  44. Lossless Image Compression Through Super-Resolution

    362 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  45. Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems

    361 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  46. How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master

    361 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  47. ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development

    361 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  48. Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

    359 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  49. Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system

    358 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  50. All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April

    358 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  51. Make Linux Fast Again (2019)

    356 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  52. Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies

    354 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  53. Getting Started with WireGuard

    353 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  54. QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

    351 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  55. Emacs: The most successful malleable system

    350 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  56. I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too

    350 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  57. Gallery of database schema diagrams of open-source packages

    348 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  58. DigitalOcean VPC

    348 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  59. Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac

    348 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  60. Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education

    348 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

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

    348 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  62. Deploys at Slack

    347 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  63. Manager's Playbook: Heuristics for effective management

    346 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  64. Nim 1.2

    346 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  65. Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust

    346 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  66. Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money

    345 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  67. The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May

    344 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  68. Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case

    343 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  69. Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing

    343 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  70. A-Shell: Terminal for iOS

    341 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  71. Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)

    340 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  72. NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service

    339 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  73. Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)

    338 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  74. Moving Away from Gmail

    336 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  75. Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it

    336 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  76. Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

    335 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  77. What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)

    334 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  78. Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage

    333 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  79. Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet

    333 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  80. Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

    332 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  81. New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity

    331 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  82. Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2

    331 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  83. Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)

    330 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  84. Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends

    330 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  85. Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis

    330 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  86. Jack Dorsey gives $1B to fund global Covid-19 relief

    326 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  87. Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time tracking app

    326 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  88. Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling

    326 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  89. The Open Web Is Dying

    324 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  90. The Svelte Compiler Handbook

    323 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  91. Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember

    323 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  92. I could do that in a weekend (2016)

    321 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  93. Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM

    321 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  94. AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS

    319 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  95. Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

    319 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  96. Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

    318 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  97. After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light

    317 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  98. ICQ New

    317 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  99. “A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group

    316 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  100. The Sourcehut Project Hub

    316 points • comment • apr 30, 2020