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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

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

    232 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  2. Founder's Field Guide for Navigating This Crisis

    232 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  3. Remote Work Report

    231 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  4. Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness

    231 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  5. Covid-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons

    231 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  6. WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech

    231 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  7. The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a router from their ISP

    231 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  8. Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance

    231 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  9. Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

    230 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  10. Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs

    230 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  11. Nippon Colors

    229 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  12. Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (2011)

    229 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  13. Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts

    229 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  14. Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support

    229 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  15. A theory of Zoom fatigue

    228 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  16. What I wish I knew about React

    228 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  17. I built a amp+cab+effects simulator for guitar on a Raspberry Pi 4B

    228 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  18. Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources

    227 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  19. Wgpu-rs on the web

    226 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  20. Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking

    225 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  21. Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips

    225 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  22. Medical staffing companies cut doctors’ pay while spending millions on ads

    224 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  23. Ruby Concurrency Final Report

    224 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  24. Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life (2012) [video]

    224 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  25. Show HN: I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls

    224 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  26. YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection

    224 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  27. Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too

    224 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  28. Rob Pike interview

    223 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  29. Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

    223 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  30. Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File

    223 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  31. Luminus – A Clojure Web Framework

    223 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  32. Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?

    223 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  33. Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

    223 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  34. Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence

    223 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  35. John Conway: A Life in Games (2015)

    222 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  36. Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx

    222 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  37. ProtonMail Bridge is now open source

    221 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  38. A primer on some C obfuscation tricks

    220 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  39. Guitar – Git GUI Client

    220 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  40. A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox

    220 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  41. What happens when scientists admit error

    219 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  42. Csound: A sound and music computing system

    219 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  43. A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past

    219 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  44. Show HN: TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database

    219 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  45. Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email

    218 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  46. The Amish health care system

    218 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  47. Paris to Create 650 Kilometers of Post-Lockdown Cycleways

    218 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  48. How to play board games online with your friends

    217 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  49. Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

    217 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  50. Landlord service Naborly makes blacklist of tenants who missed 4/1 rent (YC '18)

    217 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  51. Using VueJS Alongside Django

    217 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  52. Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

    216 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  53. Tesla Q1 2020 Update

    216 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  54. CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history

    215 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  55. Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets

    215 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Must Read from ACM Library?

    215 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  57. Learn Godot Game Development

    215 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  58. How to Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

    214 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  59. The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

    214 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  60. Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims

    214 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  61. Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz

    213 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  62. How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?

    213 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  63. A Failure, but Not of Prediction

    213 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  64. Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies

    213 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  65. Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?

    213 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  66. Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone

    213 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  67. Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably not

    212 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  68. Free software tools for staying in touch

    212 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  69. Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro

    212 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  70. 3D photographic inpainting from a single source image

    212 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  71. Amazon threatens to suspend French deliveries after court order

    212 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  72. Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen

    212 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  73. Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video]

    212 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  74. Zappy – Screen capture tool

    211 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  75. Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull

    211 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  76. I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower

    211 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  77. 0.999...= 1

    211 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  78. Pointless

    210 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  79. We Need DevOps for ML Data

    210 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  80. Tailscale has reached general availability

    210 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  81. It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen

    210 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  82. Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0

    210 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  83. Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going

    210 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  84. Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)

    210 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  85. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    210 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  86. How coffee became a modern necessity

    209 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  87. Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

    209 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  88. Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows

    208 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  89. Fastmail Labels Beta

    208 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  90. Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors

    208 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  91. Don't Mess with Texas

    208 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  92. How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom

    207 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  93. Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights

    205 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  94. Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante

    205 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  95. The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic

    205 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  96. Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing

    204 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  97. Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough

    204 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  98. Show HN: Watch YouTube videos in a 3D world with your friends

    204 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  99. Hello, LineageOS 17.1

    204 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  100. Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1

    203 points • comment • apr 30, 2020