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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Angela Merkel’s Scientific Background Could Save Germany
14 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do you avoid Telegram, arguably one of the best cloud messengers?
14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology
14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in US veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 [pdf]
14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Teen created the largest Covid-19 tracker, rejects $8M to place ads
14 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Kakistocracy
14 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Coyote: Making it easier for developers to build reliable asynchronous software
14 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Ask HN: What payment processor can a private individual use to offer a service?
14 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Business Chat – A whole new way to talk to companies
14 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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U.N. Backs Down on Partnership with Tencent for 75th Anniversary
14 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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A $1,300 smart crib is vulnerable to a hack that rapidly rocks babies
14 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Free food and $100 prizes: Alaskans rally to get challenged classics to students
14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities
14 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Do it yourself? When the researcher becomes the subject (2016)
14 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Show HN: Add a mark as watched button to TED videos
14 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Five things a founder should know about investors
14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Kushner’s team seeks national US coronavirus surveillance system
14 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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'Heads we win, tails you lose': how America's rich turned pandemic into profit
14 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Poll: Half of Americans won’t trust contact-tracing apps
14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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On Vanishing
14 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I’m the evil guy crippling the economy'
14 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill
14 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Show HN: Virtual egg tapping Easter game
14 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew
14 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Digging into the Privacy Sandbox
14 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Ask HN: Which Linux filesystem “produce” less wear and tear on SSD NAND?
14 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Colors on the Web Are Getting Intense with Display-P3
14 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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There is no greater illustration of corporate America’s moral decay than Amazon
14 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Pipx – Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments
14 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Show HN: Parallel.so – looking for early stage users
14 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Homesteader reduced water usage by 90%
14 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies
14 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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MBA students demand tuition fee refunds over campus closures
14 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Shipping Web Components in 2020
14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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A Business Plan Is Not a Strategy
13 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Essential Now, Deportable Later
13 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Apple and Google team up to contact trace Covid-19
13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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LinkedIn networking when you're an introvert
13 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Git Worktrees: The Best Git Feature You’ve Never Heard Of
13 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing
13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Iron Kaleidoscope: LLVM Tutorial in Rust
13 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Dataviz and the 20th Anniversary of R
13 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Play Store removed our app, but allows WhatsApp
13 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Child of Light: The troubled life of novelist Robert Stone
13 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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U.S. coronavirus toll tops 50k
13 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Show HN: Free Movies
13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Adventures in Manipulating Python ASTs
13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Tmux Resurrect: Persists tmux environment across system restarts
13 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Show HN: Pdfvuer: Pdf.js Based Pdf Viewer for VueJS
13 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Teenager threatened by a deputy after posting about her Covid-19 infection
13 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Dangerzone: Working with Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked
13 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Magnus Carlsen to stage richest online chess tournament in history
13 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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7.5-inch e-ink display is powered completely by NFC
13 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Sitting isn't killing you. Sitting still is. Jittercise
13 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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A wave of evictions is coming. Temporary bans won't help
13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Lizard laid 3 eggs, delivered another baby via live birth in the same pregnancy
13 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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10 Reasons to Use Haskell
13 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Login and Authentication Workflows
13 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Mikado is the webs fastest template library for building user interfaces
13 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Post Covid-19 will present many opportunities. What might they be?
13 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core
13 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps
13 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Mossad officer describes covert global battle to obtain ventilators at all costs
13 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Coronavirus: Dogs are trained to diagnose bug and can screen 750 people per hour
13 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Data on Gilead’s remdesivir show no benefit for coronavirus patients
13 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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WHO head warns worst of virus is still ahead
13 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Musk’s ventilator fiasco shows need for oversight of Gov. Newsom’s mask deal
13 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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We Can’t Allow Big Tech to Exploit Coronavirus
13 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat
13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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AMD Posts Record First Quarter, Revenue Up 40% YoY, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 on Track
13 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Like the Phoenix: The Discipline of Becoming (SaaS Adventure)
13 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Administration ended coronavirus detection pandemic program last year
13 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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The SEC Rule That Destroyed the Universe
13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation
13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Chiropractors Told to Stop Pretending They Can Treat Covid-19
13 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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AVL tree implementation for Rust learning
13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system
13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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ACLU White Paper: Principles for Technology-Assisted Contact-Tracing
13 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your favorite technology podcasts?
13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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'Spot': A Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat Covid-19 Patients
13 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Twitter removes setting to control mobile app ads
13 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Show HN: Founder Bingo – Most common mistakes founders make
13 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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New Qt releases might now be restricted to paying customers for 12 months
13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Taleb: The only man who has a clue
13 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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How to find cause of high kernel_task CPU usage (MacBook Pro)
13 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50M
13 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development environments
13 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent
13 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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C# Source Generators
13 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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This blog runs on my Raspberry Pi
13 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Add First Party Support for AdBlock Plus-Style Blocklists in Gecko/GeckoView
13 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Hospitals Furloughing Staff, Altering Physician Pay Due to Covid-19
13 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Mortality rates drop sharply in parts of India, bucking coronavirus trend
13 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Tesla Achieved the Accuracy of Lidar with Its Advanced Computer Vision Tech
13 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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This would be a great moment for food delivery robots
13 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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RelaxedReader: A Firefox Addon to Fight Reading Anxiety
12 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Digits Launches Real-Time Finance Dashboard for Businesses; Raises $22M Series B
12 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?
12 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley Isn’t Joining Benchmark’s Next Fund
12 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Google Meet Free for Everyone
12 points • comment • apr 29, 2020