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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Michigan company thinks it may have found a coronavirus treatment drug

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  2. Software Engineering Topic of the Day

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  3. British 5G towers are being set on fire amid coronavirus conspiracy theories

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  4. 5 Unusual Traps of Remote Work and How to Avoid Them

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  5. Large-scale antibody test suggests Covid-19 cases underreported by factor of 50

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  6. A Technical Introduction to Blockchain

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  7. An 8th Narnia Novel that May Never be Published (2019)

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  8. This is SARS

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Is accepting a phone call a threat vector?

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  10. Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500k

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  11. Covid-19 will change the entire notion of offices: Companies eye rental savings

    7 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  12. A recession could be more deadly than the coronavirus

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  13. Crafting Interpreters Is Complete

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  14. Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone burning for eight days

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  15. Training with quantization noise for extreme model compression

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  16. Ask HN: How to store billions of rows of time-series data?

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  17. The fear of coronavirus is changing our psychology

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  18. Foldit, protein puzzle game, turns up 99 promising ways to confound coronavirus

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  19. Ask HN: As an interviewer, how do you prepare for an interview?

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  20. For case-insensitive string comparisons, avoid char-by-char functions

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  21. LibreOffice 7.0 drops Adobe Flash support

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  22. Building a JavaScript Interpreter in Rust

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  23. DualSense, the New Wireless Game Controller for Playstation 5

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  24. I'm the Lego Designer who turned the original MOC into this Lego set (2015)

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  25. “No handshakes, please” (Feb 2020)

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  26. Which Covid-19 drugs work best? (so far, there’s no cure)

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  27. How Animal Crossing, Runescape, and Warhammer Taught Me About Business

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  28. Rethinking Programming: Network-Aware Type System

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  29. ‘Life Has to Go On’: How Sweden Has Faced the Virus Without a Lockdown

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  30. Unified Patent Court halt sales of ventilators across Europe

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  31. Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  32. Silicon Valley Legends Launch Beyond Identity in Quest to Eliminate Passwords

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  33. Cuomo Authorizes Illegal Seizure and Redistribution of Ventilators

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  34. PrintNC – An Open Source CNC capable of cutting steel

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  35. Eventbrite lays off half its workforce as coronavirus crushes events business

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  36. Do I understand classes and Objects? But why should I use it?

    7 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  37. How to teach AI to summarise news articles; a new dataset for auto summarisation

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  38. Unintended Consequences, Part I: What if Chrysler was not bailed out in 1980?

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  39. Show HN: Xlskubectl – control your Kubernetes cluster with Google sheets

    7 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  40. Xbox doesn't use Bluetooth (to talk to controllers)

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  41. Ask HN: Is HN Dead?

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  42. Amazon shuts down distribution centers in France

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  43. Raoult Group's Hydroxychlorine-Covid-19 study did not meet “expected standards”

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  44. Introduction to Elixir

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  45. Show HN: Podely – Convert your YouTube channel into a podcast

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  46. State Dept cables raised safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  47. Reopening Small Businesses Is Just a Pyramid Scheme for the Rich

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  48. DNA may not be life's instruction book

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  49. How to Design a Perpetual Energy Machine

    7 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  50. State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  51. Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  52. Build a Simple Smart Card Emulator Reader

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  53. Deprecating Support for the Linux Kernel

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  54. Show HN: Validr-1.2 – Fastest Python validation library plus powerful features

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  55. YC Rejection Letters Are Out - Share your rejected project

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  56. Why NJ’s Unemployment Insurance System Uses a 60-Year-Old Programming Language

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  57. How the CIA Found a Soviet Sub Without the Soviets Knowing (2017)

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  58. A Peek into the Future of Database

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  59. Apple’s 5-Hour iPhone Ad Takes Viewers on Tour of the Hermitage Museum in Russia

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  60. Hacked Logitech remote reveals a HTTP server, Firefox and Flash

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  61. Ask HN: Does anybody need help with DevOps

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  62. Kconfig-hardened-check: Check the hardening options in the Linux kernel config

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  63. Las Vegas mayor called reckless for suggesting Vegas be test case for reopening

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  64. San Francisco mayor caps Uber, Postmates, DoorDash delivery commissions

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  65. Check that file exists (different programming languages)

    7 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  66. 68% Improvement in Covid 19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  67. When events make craziness sane

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  68. Was Leisure Suit Larry an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks?

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  69. Searching for a Covid-19 Test in America

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  70. After Coronavirus, Colleges Worry: Will Students Come Back?

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  71. Show HN: I made a real-time Covid-19 tracker by country

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  72. MPV Ready “First Time Home Buyer Checklist”

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  73. Nikon School Online – Free Online Courses for April

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  74. Like No One They’d Ever Seen

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  75. AMD's Updated Ryzen 3 1200 with 12nm Zen+ Architecture Hits Retailers

    7 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  76. Over 200k H-1B Workers Could Lose Legal Status by June

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  77. Sprayable User Interfaces: Prototyping Large-Scale Interactive Surfaces

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  78. Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as Covid-19, on ventilators

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  79. Bill Gates funding factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  80. Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  81. Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  82. Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  83. Mathematical introduction to first-order logic in 8 pages [pdf]

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  84. Ford Tests Buzzing Wristbands to Keep Six-Foot Distance Between Factory Workers

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  85. Show HN: GIF Tracking Protection – Prevent privacy-invasive 1x1 GIFs

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  86. Netflix Plans To Sell Bonds Worth $1B To Acquire More Content

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  87. We Still Don't Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us

    7 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  88. Climate change: US megadrought 'already under way'

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  89. Facebook AI Research: A state-of-the-art open-source chatbot

    7 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  90. Almost 8k could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  91. Ask HN: What are your experiences with using Starlette or FastAPI in production?

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  92. FreeCodeCamp launches a free course for AWS developer certification

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  93. Hubble Space Telescope turns 30

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  94. Notes on Nike Missile Site SF 88-L

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  95. Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  96. Masks Don’t Work – A review of science relevant to Covid-19 social policy

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  97. Distance Learning Isn’t Working

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  98. What if Covid-19 isn't our biggest threat?

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  99. How to Design a Perpetual Energy Machine

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  100. Welcome Back to C++

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020