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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)
267 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Show HN: Game of Life in 32 bytes of assembler
266 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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A cold outreach strategy that works
266 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
266 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan
266 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)
266 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Swift on Mac OS 9
266 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)
264 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
264 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding
264 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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We've Built Cities We Can't Afford
264 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (2014)
264 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
263 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board
263 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Forecasting s-curves is hard
262 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Urbit OS 1
261 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover
261 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users
261 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses
261 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild
260 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Selfie 2 Waifu
259 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
259 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation
258 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Don't Make Students Use Eclipse
258 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later
258 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]
258 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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ClojureScript 1.10.741
258 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices
258 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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GitHub is degraded/down
258 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts
257 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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How to Edit Your Own Writing
257 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
257 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers
255 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)
255 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
255 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists
254 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Rust 1.43
253 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Pop OS 20.04 LTS
252 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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CS Unplugged – Computer Science without a computer
252 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions
252 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
252 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study
252 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study
252 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
251 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Simdjson 0.3: Faster JSON parser
251 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Goat2Meeting
250 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Anger Management
250 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files
249 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies
249 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)
249 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Build versus Buy
248 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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OK Soda
248 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
247 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Embedding Binary Objects in C
246 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients
246 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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SICP in Python
246 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Free System Programming Textbook (Illinois CS241)
246 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping?
245 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Dwellito Mini Office
245 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession
245 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights
245 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Better C – A subset of D Programming Language
244 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020
244 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them
244 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth: study (2019)
244 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Microservices [video]
244 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online
243 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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US Oil Prices Negative for the First Time in History
243 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
242 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)
242 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)
241 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
241 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
241 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine
241 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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The Docker Compose Specification
241 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?
240 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
240 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford
240 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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A Critique of React Hooks
240 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally
239 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API
239 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]
239 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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What end-to-end encryption should look like
239 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer
239 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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How Antennas Work
238 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Valve and HackerOne: how not to handle vulnerability reports
237 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016)
237 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs
235 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
235 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
235 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour
234 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Possible dinosaur DNA has been found
234 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
234 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
234 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned
234 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Unverified.email
233 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
233 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
233 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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HSE: Heterogeneous-memory storage engine designed for SSDs
233 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
232 points • comment • apr 28, 2020