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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

I Became a Disciplined Investor over 40 Years. The Virus Broke Me in 40 Days
17 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Show HN: Plain Old Recipe: convert online recipes to plain-text
17 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
3M does not recommend attempts to sanitize, disinfect, or sterilize N95 masks [pdf]
17 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting?
17 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Build a real-time Twitter clone in 10 mins with Rails and StimulusReflex
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Google is kind of bad now? (Rather than finding answers it ranks SEO spam)
17 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Matcha, a better way to swap tokens
17 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Could Soon Leave Earth for 2 Years
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Covid-19 was not manmade or genetically modified (Intelligence Community)
17 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
Show HN: Supernotes – a better way to collect your thoughts
17 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure
17 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Alt-right extremists helped design Clearview facial recognition database
17 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Sara Blakely Is Giving $5M to Support Female-Run Small Businesses
17 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
17 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
China’s Luckin Coffee faked $310m in sales
17 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Facebook launches Messenger app for desktop
17 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Show HN: S3kit – AWS S3 command-line tool for tags/versions/lock management etc.
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-Op Board Told Him to Get Lost
17 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours, Could Revolutionize Recycling Industry
17 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Show HN: Video.bot (YC S20) – Like a chatbot, but with video-based interface
17 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
US accused of 'modern piracy' after diversion of masks meant for Europe
17 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Open source tools, 67 of them, used in Microsoft Word as third party technology
17 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Show HN: Slack app to control your team's Amazon purchases
17 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Ask HN: I'm building budgeting app. What features would you look for?
17 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Show HN: Teddy Bear Tracker iOS App
17 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Best Practices for Writing Bash Scripts
17 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Hokkaido forced to reinstate lockdown after coronavirus returned
17 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Researchers Say They Caught an iPhone Zero-Day Hack in the Wild
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
White House Erects Blockade Stopping States from Getting Coronavirus PPE
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
How AI startup BlueDot spotted Coronavirus before the WHO
16 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users
16 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data (2018)
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
NHS coronavirus app: memo discussed giving ministers power to de-anonymise users
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Pi-Hole 5.0 Beta – FTL/Dnsmasq Update
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
An interstellar comet that split in two
16 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Der Spiegel: Are we witnessing the implosion of a superpower?
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Power vs. Speed: The Xbox Series X And PS5 are different animals
16 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Ask HN: What are the Online Investing Courses you like?
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Google releases location data for 131 countries
16 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Trump says he is suspending immigration over coronavirus, need to protect jobs
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Ask HN: Keeping track of random stack traces
16 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
LibRaptorQ: Fountain Codes for C/C++
16 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Facebook investors launch third attempt to remove Mark Zuckerberg as chairman
16 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
AMA – Creator of NumPy, SciPy and Founder of Anaconda – Tomorrow 9:30AM CT
16 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Python multiprocessing understanding logic behind `chunksize` – Stack Overflow
16 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Marine Corps Bans Public Display of Confederate Flag
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Ask HN: If not Zoom. What to use for large group video with breakout rooms?
16 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Chinese Characters and Dictionaries
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Is Upwork Posting Fake Jobs to Keep Freelancers Bidding? [A Deep Dive]
16 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Yelp lays off or furloughs more than 2k employees due to coronavirus
16 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
How to design GraphQL Schemas: 101
16 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Stanford to offer free online CS class during pandemic
16 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Aerodynamically equivalent Covid-19 1.5m social distancing for walking&running [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Kanye West Vaults from Broke to Billions with Yeezy in Demand
16 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Report on a Long-Range Forecasting Study (1964) [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Trump Says He Will Temporarily Halt Immigration to U.S.
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Ask HN: Why most job sites hide salary?
16 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Antibody tests reveal that coronavirus infections vastly exceed official counts
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
UK phone masts attacked amid 5G-coronavirus conspiracy theory
16 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Is Cloudflare Safe Yet?
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
The End of the Harvard Century
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
DrawERD makes it easy to visualize your database structure
16 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Covid-19 Projections
16 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Google “wontfix” a “panic pin code to wipe device” issue in Android
16 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
Essential workers to get free college under new Whitmer plan
16 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
US officials knew of Wuhan health crisis in November, a second report claims
16 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Pandora's Vox: On community in cyberspace (1994)
16 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
Show HN: Vault on AWS – A Terraform Project for Secrets Management Anywhere
16 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Engineering NetBSD 9.0 [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
Life Without Children
16 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Ask HN: Books or resources to learn how KVM works deeply?
16 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
FCC, FTC Demand Gateway Providers Cut Off Covid-19 Robocall Scammers [pdf]
16 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
AWS deep-dive: How a news aggregator collects and serves up news articles
16 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Is the U.S. Empire in Jeopardy?
16 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
Ask HN: Learning a New Language Effectively
16 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
California has enough ventilators for now, peak expected in May, Newsom says
16 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
80% of people with Covid-19 are asymptomatic, China figures indicate
16 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
The best thing you can do to fight Covid-19 is nothing. Stop writing that paper
16 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Pitsby – Have a nice time documenting components
16 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features
16 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Are Tests Necessary in TypeScript?
16 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I'm the evil guy crippling the economy'
16 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Data on 53 Patients Treated With Investigational Antiviral Remdesivir
16 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
One of the less horrible of the many dystopian futures visited by Time Traveller
16 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
Do We Want to Live Without the Post Office?
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Vodafone chief speaks out after hospital-serving phone mast torched
16 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
15 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
NASA reveals multi-spacecraft plan to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth
15 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
Ask HN: How Do You Optimize Your Intake of Information?
15 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream
15 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Origami Assays
15 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python [Open Book]
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
One Day Sooner – Covid-19 Human Challenge Trials
15 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Fleet Management for Kubernetes Is Here
15 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
“Memories” – 256 byte MSDOS intro
15 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
Show HN: Shared Inbox for Gmail and Slack
15 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Building a command line tool to simulate the spread of an infection
15 points • comment • apr 11, 2020