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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus

    203 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  2. Foursquare Merges with Factual

    202 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  3. Dataset of VCs investing in seed and Series A+ rounds

    202 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  4. Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and WorkFlowy in one

    202 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  5. How many jobs can be done at home? [pdf]

    202 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  6. The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19

    202 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  7. Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)

    202 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  8. Why We Can't Build

    201 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  9. Senator Blumenthal Mad That Zoom Not Offering the Encryption His Law Will Outlaw

    201 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  10. FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed / Wi-Fi usage [pdf]

    201 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  11. US Air Force Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-a-Sat

    200 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  12. GitHub Is Down

    200 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  13. 10-core i9-10900F desktop CPU lags behind 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile APU

    200 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  14. Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing

    200 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  15. T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down

    199 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  16. Anger mounts after corporations tap small-business relief funds

    199 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  17. Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

    199 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  18. What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2

    199 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  19. How we use Rust in our mobile SDK

    199 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  20. Debugging Distributed Systems

    198 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  21. YC S20 Remote Batch

    198 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  22. Google Wave’s failure is a lesson for modern real-time collaboration tools

    198 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  23. At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU

    198 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  24. The third wave of open source migration

    198 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  25. First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework

    198 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  26. Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications

    197 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  27. A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades

    197 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  28. Ilo sitelen, a handmade computer for Toki Pona

    197 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  29. Show HN: Fast Anomaly Detection in Graphs [pdf]

    197 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  30. People may know the best decision and not make it: study

    196 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  31. Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB

    196 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  32. Show HN: Quantum JavaScript

    196 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  33. My Favourite Diff

    196 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  34. Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft

    196 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  35. Guédelon Castle

    196 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  36. Crafting Interpreters Is Complete

    196 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  37. Some auto insurers are sending refunds to customers as crash rate falls

    195 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  38. How I lost control of our bank accounts to a phone scammer

    195 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  39. If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option

    195 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  40. Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python

    195 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  41. Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

    195 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  42. Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification

    194 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  43. Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong

    194 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  44. Polypane – Browser for Developers

    193 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  45. Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)

    192 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  46. Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction

    192 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  47. EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times

    192 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  48. Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers

    192 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  49. Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous juries

    192 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  50. Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success

    192 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  51. Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

    192 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  52. 'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of Humvees

    192 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  53. Dianne Feinstein's reply to constituents' opposition to EARN IT act

    192 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  54. SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test

    191 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  55. Google Credential Provider for Windows

    191 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  56. Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies

    191 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  57. Introduction to Permaculture (1994)

    190 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  58. Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

    190 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  59. The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwidth integer types

    189 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  60. Ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived millenia because it worked (2018)

    189 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  61. Ways to surf some of the decentralized web

    189 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  62. Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class

    189 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  63. Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful

    189 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  64. Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)

    189 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  65. Facebook Takes $5.7B Stake in India’s Jio

    189 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  66. How to Interview Engineers When You're Not Technical – Part II

    189 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  67. Crank.js – Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators

    189 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  68. Pennsylvania factory team clocks out after 28 days of live-in work for masks

    189 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  69. Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]

    189 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  70. The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]

    188 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  71. The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy

    188 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  72. China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners outside Great Firewall

    188 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  73. How Tech Can Build

    188 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  74. EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel

    188 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  75. Ladder of Algebraic Structures

    187 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  76. Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available

    187 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  77. WhatsApp ties NSO Group’s hacking operations to America in new court evidence

    187 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  78. Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

    187 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  79. Bangkok Smoking Kid

    186 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  80. A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) [pdf]

    186 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  81. Show HN: Gmail CLI Utils (bulk delete mail by query, get/create filters)

    186 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  82. OpenSSL high-severity bug – affects 1.1.1d, 1.1.1e, 1.1.1f

    185 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  83. For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)

    184 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  84. Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free

    183 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  85. Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday

    183 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  86. Boeing, expecting a long slump, will cut 16k jobs

    183 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  87. California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact

    183 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  88. Rediscovering CardDAV

    183 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  89. Things Markdown got wrong

    183 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  90. Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states

    182 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  91. LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA

    182 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  92. Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)

    182 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  93. Mac sandbox escape

    181 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  94. Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU

    181 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  95. I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual

    181 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  96. California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers

    181 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  97. Crypto Fund II

    180 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  98. Writing Python inside Rust

    180 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  99. HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS

    179 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  100. Remembering Conway

    179 points • comment • apr 13, 2020