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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Michigan company thinks it may have found a coronavirus treatment drug
7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Software Engineering Topic of the Day
7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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British 5G towers are being set on fire amid coronavirus conspiracy theories
7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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5 Unusual Traps of Remote Work and How to Avoid Them
7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Large-scale antibody test suggests Covid-19 cases underreported by factor of 50
7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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A Technical Introduction to Blockchain
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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An 8th Narnia Novel that May Never be Published (2019)
7 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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This is SARS
7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Is accepting a phone call a threat vector?
7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500k
7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Covid-19 will change the entire notion of offices: Companies eye rental savings
7 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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A recession could be more deadly than the coronavirus
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Crafting Interpreters Is Complete
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone burning for eight days
7 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Training with quantization noise for extreme model compression
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How to store billions of rows of time-series data?
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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The fear of coronavirus is changing our psychology
7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Foldit, protein puzzle game, turns up 99 promising ways to confound coronavirus
7 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Ask HN: As an interviewer, how do you prepare for an interview?
7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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For case-insensitive string comparisons, avoid char-by-char functions
7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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LibreOffice 7.0 drops Adobe Flash support
7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Building a JavaScript Interpreter in Rust
7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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DualSense, the New Wireless Game Controller for Playstation 5
7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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I'm the Lego Designer who turned the original MOC into this Lego set (2015)
7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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“No handshakes, please” (Feb 2020)
7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Which Covid-19 drugs work best? (so far, there’s no cure)
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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How Animal Crossing, Runescape, and Warhammer Taught Me About Business
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Rethinking Programming: Network-Aware Type System
7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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‘Life Has to Go On’: How Sweden Has Faced the Virus Without a Lockdown
7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Unified Patent Court halt sales of ventilators across Europe
7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Silicon Valley Legends Launch Beyond Identity in Quest to Eliminate Passwords
7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Cuomo Authorizes Illegal Seizure and Redistribution of Ventilators
7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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PrintNC – An Open Source CNC capable of cutting steel
7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Eventbrite lays off half its workforce as coronavirus crushes events business
7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Do I understand classes and Objects? But why should I use it?
7 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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How to teach AI to summarise news articles; a new dataset for auto summarisation
7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Unintended Consequences, Part I: What if Chrysler was not bailed out in 1980?
7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Show HN: Xlskubectl – control your Kubernetes cluster with Google sheets
7 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Xbox doesn't use Bluetooth (to talk to controllers)
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Is HN Dead?
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Amazon shuts down distribution centers in France
7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Raoult Group's Hydroxychlorine-Covid-19 study did not meet “expected standards”
7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Introduction to Elixir
7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Show HN: Podely – Convert your YouTube channel into a podcast
7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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State Dept cables raised safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
7 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Reopening Small Businesses Is Just a Pyramid Scheme for the Rich
7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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DNA may not be life's instruction book
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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How to Design a Perpetual Energy Machine
7 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab
7 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible
7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Build a Simple Smart Card Emulator Reader
7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Deprecating Support for the Linux Kernel
7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Show HN: Validr-1.2 – Fastest Python validation library plus powerful features
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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YC Rejection Letters Are Out - Share your rejected project
7 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Why NJ’s Unemployment Insurance System Uses a 60-Year-Old Programming Language
7 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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How the CIA Found a Soviet Sub Without the Soviets Knowing (2017)
7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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A Peek into the Future of Database
7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Apple’s 5-Hour iPhone Ad Takes Viewers on Tour of the Hermitage Museum in Russia
7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Hacked Logitech remote reveals a HTTP server, Firefox and Flash
7 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Does anybody need help with DevOps
7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Kconfig-hardened-check: Check the hardening options in the Linux kernel config
7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Las Vegas mayor called reckless for suggesting Vegas be test case for reopening
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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San Francisco mayor caps Uber, Postmates, DoorDash delivery commissions
7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Check that file exists (different programming languages)
7 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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68% Improvement in Covid 19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir
7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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When events make craziness sane
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Was Leisure Suit Larry an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks?
7 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Searching for a Covid-19 Test in America
7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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After Coronavirus, Colleges Worry: Will Students Come Back?
7 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Show HN: I made a real-time Covid-19 tracker by country
7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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MPV Ready “First Time Home Buyer Checklist”
7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Nikon School Online – Free Online Courses for April
7 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Like No One They’d Ever Seen
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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AMD's Updated Ryzen 3 1200 with 12nm Zen+ Architecture Hits Retailers
7 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Over 200k H-1B Workers Could Lose Legal Status by June
7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Sprayable User Interfaces: Prototyping Large-Scale Interactive Surfaces
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as Covid-19, on ventilators
7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Bill Gates funding factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed
7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China
7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Mathematical introduction to first-order logic in 8 pages [pdf]
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Ford Tests Buzzing Wristbands to Keep Six-Foot Distance Between Factory Workers
7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Show HN: GIF Tracking Protection – Prevent privacy-invasive 1x1 GIFs
7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Netflix Plans To Sell Bonds Worth $1B To Acquire More Content
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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We Still Don't Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us
7 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Climate change: US megadrought 'already under way'
7 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Facebook AI Research: A state-of-the-art open-source chatbot
7 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Almost 8k could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your experiences with using Starlette or FastAPI in production?
7 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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FreeCodeCamp launches a free course for AWS developer certification
7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Hubble Space Telescope turns 30
7 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Notes on Nike Missile Site SF 88-L
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Masks Don’t Work – A review of science relevant to Covid-19 social policy
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Distance Learning Isn’t Working
7 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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What if Covid-19 isn't our biggest threat?
7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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How to Design a Perpetual Energy Machine
7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Welcome Back to C++
7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020