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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
232 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Founder's Field Guide for Navigating This Crisis
232 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Remote Work Report
231 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness
231 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Covid-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons
231 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech
231 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a router from their ISP
231 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
231 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
230 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs
230 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Nippon Colors
229 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (2011)
229 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts
229 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support
229 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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A theory of Zoom fatigue
228 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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What I wish I knew about React
228 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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I built a amp+cab+effects simulator for guitar on a Raspberry Pi 4B
228 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources
227 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Wgpu-rs on the web
226 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking
225 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips
225 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Medical staffing companies cut doctors’ pay while spending millions on ads
224 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ruby Concurrency Final Report
224 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life (2012) [video]
224 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Show HN: I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls
224 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
224 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too
224 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Rob Pike interview
223 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
223 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File
223 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Luminus – A Clojure Web Framework
223 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
223 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R
223 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence
223 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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John Conway: A Life in Games (2015)
222 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx
222 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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ProtonMail Bridge is now open source
221 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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A primer on some C obfuscation tricks
220 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Guitar – Git GUI Client
220 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
220 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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What happens when scientists admit error
219 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Csound: A sound and music computing system
219 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past
219 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Show HN: TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database
219 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email
218 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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The Amish health care system
218 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Paris to Create 650 Kilometers of Post-Lockdown Cycleways
218 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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How to play board games online with your friends
217 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
217 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Landlord service Naborly makes blacklist of tenants who missed 4/1 rent (YC '18)
217 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Using VueJS Alongside Django
217 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
216 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Tesla Q1 2020 Update
216 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history
215 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets
215 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Must Read from ACM Library?
215 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Learn Godot Game Development
215 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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How to Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act
214 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)
214 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims
214 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
213 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?
213 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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A Failure, but Not of Prediction
213 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies
213 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?
213 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
213 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably not
212 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Free software tools for staying in touch
212 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro
212 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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3D photographic inpainting from a single source image
212 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Amazon threatens to suspend French deliveries after court order
212 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
212 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video]
212 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Zappy – Screen capture tool
211 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull
211 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
211 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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0.999...= 1
211 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Pointless
210 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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We Need DevOps for ML Data
210 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Tailscale has reached general availability
210 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
210 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
210 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going
210 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)
210 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
210 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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How coffee became a modern necessity
209 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS
209 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
208 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Fastmail Labels Beta
208 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors
208 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Don't Mess with Texas
208 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom
207 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights
205 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
205 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
205 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing
204 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough
204 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Show HN: Watch YouTube videos in a 3D world with your friends
204 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Hello, LineageOS 17.1
204 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1
203 points • comment • apr 30, 2020