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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)

    267 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  2. Show HN: Game of Life in 32 bytes of assembler

    266 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  3. A cold outreach strategy that works

    266 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  4. Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)

    266 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  5. NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

    266 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  6. When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)

    266 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  7. Swift on Mac OS 9

    266 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  8. Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

    264 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  9. 230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question

    264 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  10. How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding

    264 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  11. We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

    264 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  12. If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (2014)

    264 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  13. Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL

    263 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  14. Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board

    263 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  15. Forecasting s-curves is hard

    262 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  16. Urbit OS 1

    261 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  17. Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover

    261 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  18. How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users

    261 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  19. Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses

    261 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  20. You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild

    260 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  21. Selfie 2 Waifu

    259 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  22. CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth

    259 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  23. A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation

    258 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  24. Don't Make Students Use Eclipse

    258 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  25. Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later

    258 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  26. Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]

    258 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  27. ClojureScript 1.10.741

    258 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  28. The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices

    258 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  29. GitHub is degraded/down

    258 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  30. PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts

    257 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  31. How to Edit Your Own Writing

    257 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  32. Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures

    257 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  33. Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers

    255 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  34. Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)

    255 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  35. Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus

    255 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  36. Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists

    254 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  37. Rust 1.43

    253 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  38. Pop OS 20.04 LTS

    252 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  39. CS Unplugged – Computer Science without a computer

    252 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  40. Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

    252 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  41. Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all

    252 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  42. Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study

    252 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  43. Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study

    252 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  44. Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust

    251 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  45. Simdjson 0.3: Faster JSON parser

    251 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  46. Goat2Meeting

    250 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  47. Anger Management

    250 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  48. mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files

    249 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  49. US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies

    249 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  50. Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)

    249 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  51. Build versus Buy

    248 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  52. OK Soda

    248 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  53. California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]

    247 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  54. Embedding Binary Objects in C

    246 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  55. Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

    246 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  56. SICP in Python

    246 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  57. Free System Programming Textbook (Illinois CS241)

    246 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping?

    245 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  59. Dwellito Mini Office

    245 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  60. Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession

    245 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  61. Digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights

    245 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  62. Better C – A subset of D Programming Language

    244 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  63. How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020

    244 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  64. Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them

    244 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  65. Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth: study (2019)

    244 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  66. Microservices [video]

    244 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  67. Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online

    243 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  68. US Oil Prices Negative for the First Time in History

    243 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  69. Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

    242 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  70. Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)

    242 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  71. Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)

    241 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  72. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

    241 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  73. The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing

    241 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  74. YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine

    241 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  75. The Docker Compose Specification

    241 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  76. Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?

    240 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  77. Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

    240 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  78. The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford

    240 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  79. A Critique of React Hooks

    240 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  80. How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally

    239 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  81. Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API

    239 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  82. Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]

    239 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  83. What end-to-end encryption should look like

    239 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  84. The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer

    239 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  85. How Antennas Work

    238 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  86. Valve and HackerOne: how not to handle vulnerability reports

    237 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  87. So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016)

    237 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  88. Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

    235 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  89. What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile

    235 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  90. AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

    235 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  91. Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour

    234 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  92. Possible dinosaur DNA has been found

    234 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  93. Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning

    234 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  94. Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

    234 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  95. William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned

    234 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  96. Unverified.email

    233 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  97. Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region

    233 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  98. Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19

    233 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  99. HSE: Heterogeneous-memory storage engine designed for SSDs

    233 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  100. India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates

    232 points • comment • apr 28, 2020