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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives
179 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Remembering Conway
179 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Wi-Fi over Coax
178 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or request leave
178 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
178 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Avatarify: Photorealistic Avatars for Skype and Zoom
178 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs
178 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Show HN: A site to keep track of critters you can catch in Animal Crossing
178 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained
177 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus
177 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
177 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Vue 3 Beta
177 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Blurred rounded rectangles
177 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation
177 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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There are many SARS-CoV-2 strains with gene deletions
177 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Io_uring By Example: cat, cp and a web server with io_uring
177 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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How a nuclear submarine officer learned to live in tight quarters
177 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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May Sky Challenge
176 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?
176 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Rust Survey 2019 Results
175 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Lean Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf]
175 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter
175 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
175 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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The Berkshire Hathaway Site is a master class in human-centered design
175 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Ennui: How to Overcome Chronic Boredom
174 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Testing Sync at Dropbox
174 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Mastering systemd: Securing and sandboxing applications and services
174 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz
172 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Code is Engineering; Types are Science
172 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
172 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer
171 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Apollo 13 enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft
171 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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How much power can we expect from rainfall?
171 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Show HN: FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?
170 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (2013)
170 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Blog of Inigo Quilez, Creator of Shadertoy
170 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia
170 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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XB-1's wings are officially closed out
170 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Antarctic ice
170 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case
169 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Python programming is drowning in red tape
168 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains
168 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients
168 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers
168 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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“Typesetting Markdown” blog post series by a technical writer
168 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?
168 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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The Web is the Next Platform (1995)
168 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies
168 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS
168 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)
168 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought
167 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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AinD: Android in Docker
167 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)
167 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand
167 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff
167 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from confirmed cases
167 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Why not “Why not WireGuard?”
166 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Layoffs.fyi Coronavirus Tracker
166 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
166 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Build a Team that Ships (2012)
166 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (2018)
166 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Amazon fires 2 tech workers after they publicly criticized warehouse conditions
166 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Google Research Football
166 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal
166 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus
165 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
165 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Computers Can Be Understood
165 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19
165 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future
165 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Crimson Contagion
165 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS
165 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear
164 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool
164 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)
164 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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The 'Undertaker of Silicon Valley' Stays Busy as Startups Lay Off Thousands
164 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Using SIMD to aggregate billions of values per second
164 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows
164 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone
164 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism
164 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
164 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not
164 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
164 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt
163 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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AI Gahuku: AI Generator Will Turn Your Photos into Renaissance Paintings
163 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Chloroquine trial halted after 11 patients die on high dose
163 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
163 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Game developers share what they're most proud of making
163 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Windows 10 Hosted App Model
163 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Go Developer Survey 2019 Results
163 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
163 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western U.S., Says Study
163 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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CSS for Internationalisation
162 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations
162 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Medical staff say virus stigma driving Tokyo hospitals to edge of collapse
162 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser
162 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app
162 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos
162 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?
161 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Why we listen to new music
161 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Show HN: Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust
161 points • comment • apr 19, 2020