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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Angela Merkel’s Scientific Background Could Save Germany

    14 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Why do you avoid Telegram, arguably one of the best cloud messengers?

    14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  3. Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology

    14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  4. Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in US veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 [pdf]

    14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  5. Teen created the largest Covid-19 tracker, rejects $8M to place ads

    14 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  6. Kakistocracy

    14 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  7. Coyote: Making it easier for developers to build reliable asynchronous software

    14 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  8. Ask HN: What payment processor can a private individual use to offer a service?

    14 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  9. Business Chat – A whole new way to talk to companies

    14 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  10. U.N. Backs Down on Partnership with Tencent for 75th Anniversary

    14 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  11. A $1,300 smart crib is vulnerable to a hack that rapidly rocks babies

    14 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  12. Free food and $100 prizes: Alaskans rally to get challenged classics to students

    14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  13. The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities

    14 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  14. Do it yourself? When the researcher becomes the subject (2016)

    14 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  15. Show HN: Add a mark as watched button to TED videos

    14 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  16. Five things a founder should know about investors

    14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  17. Kushner’s team seeks national US coronavirus surveillance system

    14 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  18. 'Heads we win, tails you lose': how America's rich turned pandemic into profit

    14 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  19. Poll: Half of Americans won’t trust contact-tracing apps

    14 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  20. On Vanishing

    14 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  21. Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I’m the evil guy crippling the economy'

    14 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  22. Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill

    14 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  23. Show HN: Virtual egg tapping Easter game

    14 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  24. New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew

    14 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  25. Digging into the Privacy Sandbox

    14 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  26. Ask HN: Which Linux filesystem “produce” less wear and tear on SSD NAND?

    14 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  27. Colors on the Web Are Getting Intense with Display-P3

    14 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  28. There is no greater illustration of corporate America’s moral decay than Amazon

    14 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  29. Pipx – Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments

    14 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  30. Show HN: Parallel.so – looking for early stage users

    14 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  31. Homesteader reduced water usage by 90%

    14 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  32. In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies

    14 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  33. MBA students demand tuition fee refunds over campus closures

    14 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  34. Shipping Web Components in 2020

    14 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  35. A Business Plan Is Not a Strategy

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  36. Essential Now, Deportable Later

    13 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  37. Apple and Google team up to contact trace Covid-19

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  38. LinkedIn networking when you're an introvert

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  39. Git Worktrees: The Best Git Feature You’ve Never Heard Of

    13 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  40. NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  41. Iron Kaleidoscope: LLVM Tutorial in Rust

    13 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  42. Dataviz and the 20th Anniversary of R

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Play Store removed our app, but allows WhatsApp

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  44. Child of Light: The troubled life of novelist Robert Stone

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  45. U.S. coronavirus toll tops 50k

    13 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  46. Show HN: Free Movies

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  47. Adventures in Manipulating Python ASTs

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  48. Tmux Resurrect: Persists tmux environment across system restarts

    13 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  49. Show HN: Pdfvuer: Pdf.js Based Pdf Viewer for VueJS

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  50. Teenager threatened by a deputy after posting about her Covid-19 infection

    13 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  51. Dangerzone: Working with Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked

    13 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  52. Magnus Carlsen to stage richest online chess tournament in history

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  53. 7.5-inch e-ink display is powered completely by NFC

    13 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  54. Sitting isn't killing you. Sitting still is. Jittercise

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  55. A wave of evictions is coming. Temporary bans won't help

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  56. Lizard laid 3 eggs, delivered another baby via live birth in the same pregnancy

    13 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  57. 10 Reasons to Use Haskell

    13 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  58. Login and Authentication Workflows

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  59. Mikado is the webs fastest template library for building user interfaces

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  60. Ask HN: Post Covid-19 will present many opportunities. What might they be?

    13 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  61. Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core

    13 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  62. Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps

    13 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  63. Mossad officer describes covert global battle to obtain ventilators at all costs

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  64. Coronavirus: Dogs are trained to diagnose bug and can screen 750 people per hour

    13 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  65. Data on Gilead’s remdesivir show no benefit for coronavirus patients

    13 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  66. WHO head warns worst of virus is still ahead

    13 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  67. Musk’s ventilator fiasco shows need for oversight of Gov. Newsom’s mask deal

    13 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  68. We Can’t Allow Big Tech to Exploit Coronavirus

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  69. Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  70. AMD Posts Record First Quarter, Revenue Up 40% YoY, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 on Track

    13 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  71. Like the Phoenix: The Discipline of Becoming (SaaS Adventure)

    13 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  72. Administration ended coronavirus detection pandemic program last year

    13 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  73. The SEC Rule That Destroyed the Universe

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  74. Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  75. Chiropractors Told to Stop Pretending They Can Treat Covid-19

    13 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  76. AVL tree implementation for Rust learning

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  77. Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  78. ACLU White Paper: Principles for Technology-Assisted Contact-Tracing

    13 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  79. Ask HN: What are your favorite technology podcasts?

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  80. 'Spot': A Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat Covid-19 Patients

    13 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  81. Twitter removes setting to control mobile app ads

    13 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  82. Show HN: Founder Bingo – Most common mistakes founders make

    13 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  83. New Qt releases might now be restricted to paying customers for 12 months

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  84. Taleb: The only man who has a clue

    13 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  85. How to find cause of high kernel_task CPU usage (MacBook Pro)

    13 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  86. Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50M

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  87. Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development environments

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  88. Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent

    13 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  89. C# Source Generators

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  90. This blog runs on my Raspberry Pi

    13 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  91. Add First Party Support for AdBlock Plus-Style Blocklists in Gecko/GeckoView

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  92. Hospitals Furloughing Staff, Altering Physician Pay Due to Covid-19

    13 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  93. Mortality rates drop sharply in parts of India, bucking coronavirus trend

    13 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  94. Tesla Achieved the Accuracy of Lidar with Its Advanced Computer Vision Tech

    13 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  95. This would be a great moment for food delivery robots

    13 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  96. RelaxedReader: A Firefox Addon to Fight Reading Anxiety

    12 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  97. Digits Launches Real-Time Finance Dashboard for Businesses; Raises $22M Series B

    12 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  98. Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?

    12 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  99. Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley Isn’t Joining Benchmark’s Next Fund

    12 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  100. Google Meet Free for Everyone

    12 points • comment • apr 29, 2020