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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. The Sourcehut Project Hub

    316 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  2. IBM will offer free COBOL training

    316 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  3. Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store

    315 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  4. Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator

    315 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  5. Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns

    314 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  6. If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again

    314 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  7. Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling

    313 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  8. WhyTheName

    312 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  9. What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)

    312 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  10. Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?

    310 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  11. Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

    310 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  12. UTF-8 Everywhere

    310 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  13. SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise

    309 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  14. Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

    309 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  15. The ProtonMail Android app is now open source

    308 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  16. China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

    308 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  17. GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM

    308 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  18. COBOL programmers answer call

    307 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  19. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities

    307 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  20. Mosh

    306 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  21. Netflix now supports TLS 1.3

    305 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  22. Are we too busy to enjoy life?

    304 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  23. 'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs

    303 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  24. Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?

    302 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  25. Yet another novel I will no longer write

    300 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  26. Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]

    300 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  27. Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life

    299 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  28. On WD Red NAS Drives

    299 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  29. NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch

    298 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  30. Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design

    297 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  31. PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]

    297 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  32. Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park

    297 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  33. Show HN: Write generative fine art in Rust

    297 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  34. Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

    297 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  35. All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong

    296 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  36. R 4.0

    295 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  37. What's Next for Scala

    294 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  38. Covid-19’s impact on Tor

    294 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  39. Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day

    293 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  40. In Pursuit of PPE

    293 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  41. Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

    293 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  42. State Machines in Rust

    291 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  43. PostgreSQL's Imperfections

    291 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  44. What does a Director of Engineering do?

    290 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  45. When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time

    289 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  46. Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data'

    289 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  47. Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

    289 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  48. Engineering code quality in Firefox

    289 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  49. Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year

    288 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  50. UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives

    287 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  51. De-Googling: My Progress

    287 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  52. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

    285 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  53. What is interesting about Factorio

    285 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  54. Office noise generator

    284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  55. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

    284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  56. Omni Group Layoffs

    283 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  57. Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox

    283 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  58. Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)

    283 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  59. Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

    283 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  60. Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files

    283 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  61. Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch

    282 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  62. OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web

    282 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  63. The 2020 iPhone SE

    282 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  64. What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

    281 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  65. My experience with NixOS

    281 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  66. Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology

    281 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  67. A TCP/IP Tutorial (1991)

    281 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  68. Nicomachean Ethics

    279 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  69. Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

    279 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  70. Psilocybin Produced in Yeast

    279 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  71. FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation

    279 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  72. Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard

    278 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  73. My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie

    278 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  74. What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?

    278 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  75. L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’

    278 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  76. Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t

    276 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  77. Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]

    275 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  78. Configs suck? Try a real programming language

    275 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  79. A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

    275 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  80. iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?

    274 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  81. Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?

    274 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  82. A Guide to Pricing Plans

    274 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  83. Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?

    273 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  84. The SF Anti-Mask League of 1919

    273 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  85. A Taste of GPU Compute [video]

    272 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  86. Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

    272 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  87. Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions

    271 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  88. “Sequel” to the million dollar homepage using WebGL

    271 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  89. Ex-NSA hacker drops zero-day for Zoom

    271 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  90. Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

    271 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  91. Attack Matrix for Kubernetes

    271 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  92. Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

    270 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  93. A scheduling tool for bread baking

    270 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  94. My NixOS Desktop Flow

    269 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  95. How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right

    269 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  96. Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem

    268 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  97. Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?

    268 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  98. Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)

    268 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  99. Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]

    268 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  100. Systems that defy detailed understanding

    268 points • comment • apr 10, 2020