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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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The Sourcehut Project Hub
316 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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IBM will offer free COBOL training
316 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store
315 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator
315 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
314 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again
314 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling
313 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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WhyTheName
312 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)
312 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
310 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries
310 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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UTF-8 Everywhere
310 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise
309 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll
309 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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The ProtonMail Android app is now open source
308 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
308 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
308 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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COBOL programmers answer call
307 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
307 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Mosh
306 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Netflix now supports TLS 1.3
305 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Are we too busy to enjoy life?
304 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs
303 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
302 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Yet another novel I will no longer write
300 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]
300 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
299 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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On WD Red NAS Drives
299 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch
298 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design
297 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]
297 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
297 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Show HN: Write generative fine art in Rust
297 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked
297 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong
296 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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R 4.0
295 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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What's Next for Scala
294 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Covid-19’s impact on Tor
294 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day
293 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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In Pursuit of PPE
293 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7
293 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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State Machines in Rust
291 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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PostgreSQL's Imperfections
291 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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What does a Director of Engineering do?
290 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time
289 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data'
289 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
289 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Engineering code quality in Firefox
289 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year
288 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives
287 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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De-Googling: My Progress
287 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)
285 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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What is interesting about Factorio
285 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Office noise generator
284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Omni Group Layoffs
283 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
283 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)
283 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
283 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files
283 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
282 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
282 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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The 2020 iPhone SE
282 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell
281 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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My experience with NixOS
281 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology
281 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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A TCP/IP Tutorial (1991)
281 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Nicomachean Ethics
279 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors
279 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
279 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
279 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
278 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie
278 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?
278 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’
278 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t
276 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]
275 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Configs suck? Try a real programming language
275 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs
275 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?
274 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
274 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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A Guide to Pricing Plans
274 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?
273 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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The SF Anti-Mask League of 1919
273 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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A Taste of GPU Compute [video]
272 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi
272 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions
271 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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“Sequel” to the million dollar homepage using WebGL
271 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Ex-NSA hacker drops zero-day for Zoom
271 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
271 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
271 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events
270 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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A scheduling tool for bread baking
270 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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My NixOS Desktop Flow
269 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right
269 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem
268 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?
268 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)
268 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]
268 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Systems that defy detailed understanding
268 points • comment • apr 10, 2020