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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
203 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Foursquare Merges with Factual
202 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Dataset of VCs investing in seed and Series A+ rounds
202 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and WorkFlowy in one
202 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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How many jobs can be done at home? [pdf]
202 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
202 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)
202 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Why We Can't Build
201 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Senator Blumenthal Mad That Zoom Not Offering the Encryption His Law Will Outlaw
201 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed / Wi-Fi usage [pdf]
201 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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US Air Force Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-a-Sat
200 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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GitHub Is Down
200 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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10-core i9-10900F desktop CPU lags behind 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile APU
200 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing
200 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down
199 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Anger mounts after corporations tap small-business relief funds
199 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
199 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2
199 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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How we use Rust in our mobile SDK
199 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Debugging Distributed Systems
198 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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YC S20 Remote Batch
198 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Google Wave’s failure is a lesson for modern real-time collaboration tools
198 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU
198 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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The third wave of open source migration
198 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework
198 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications
197 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades
197 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Ilo sitelen, a handmade computer for Toki Pona
197 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Show HN: Fast Anomaly Detection in Graphs [pdf]
197 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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People may know the best decision and not make it: study
196 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
196 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Show HN: Quantum JavaScript
196 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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My Favourite Diff
196 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft
196 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Guédelon Castle
196 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Crafting Interpreters Is Complete
196 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Some auto insurers are sending refunds to customers as crash rate falls
195 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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How I lost control of our bank accounts to a phone scammer
195 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option
195 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
195 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon
195 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
194 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong
194 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Polypane – Browser for Developers
193 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)
192 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction
192 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times
192 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers
192 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous juries
192 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success
192 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
192 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of Humvees
192 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Dianne Feinstein's reply to constituents' opposition to EARN IT act
192 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test
191 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Google Credential Provider for Windows
191 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
191 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Introduction to Permaculture (1994)
190 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
190 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwidth integer types
189 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived millenia because it worked (2018)
189 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ways to surf some of the decentralized web
189 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class
189 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful
189 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)
189 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Facebook Takes $5.7B Stake in India’s Jio
189 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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How to Interview Engineers When You're Not Technical – Part II
189 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Crank.js – Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators
189 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Pennsylvania factory team clocks out after 28 days of live-in work for masks
189 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]
189 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]
188 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy
188 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners outside Great Firewall
188 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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How Tech Can Build
188 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel
188 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Ladder of Algebraic Structures
187 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available
187 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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WhatsApp ties NSO Group’s hacking operations to America in new court evidence
187 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Show HN: Help Me Decide Please
187 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Bangkok Smoking Kid
186 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) [pdf]
186 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Show HN: Gmail CLI Utils (bulk delete mail by query, get/create filters)
186 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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OpenSSL high-severity bug – affects 1.1.1d, 1.1.1e, 1.1.1f
185 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)
184 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free
183 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
183 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Boeing, expecting a long slump, will cut 16k jobs
183 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact
183 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Rediscovering CardDAV
183 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Things Markdown got wrong
183 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states
182 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA
182 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)
182 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Mac sandbox escape
181 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU
181 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual
181 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers
181 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Crypto Fund II
180 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Writing Python inside Rust
180 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS
179 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Remembering Conway
179 points • comment • apr 13, 2020