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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives

    179 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  2. Remembering Conway

    179 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  3. Wi-Fi over Coax

    178 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  4. Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or request leave

    178 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  5. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    178 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  6. Avatarify: Photorealistic Avatars for Skype and Zoom

    178 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  7. Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs

    178 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  8. Show HN: A site to keep track of critters you can catch in Animal Crossing

    178 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  9. A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained

    177 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  10. Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus

    177 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  11. Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

    177 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  12. Vue 3 Beta

    177 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  13. Blurred rounded rectangles

    177 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  14. CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation

    177 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  15. There are many SARS-CoV-2 strains with gene deletions

    177 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  16. Io_uring By Example: cat, cp and a web server with io_uring

    177 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  17. How a nuclear submarine officer learned to live in tight quarters

    177 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  18. May Sky Challenge

    176 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  19. Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

    176 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  20. Rust Survey 2019 Results

    175 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  21. Lean Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf]

    175 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  22. Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter

    175 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  23. Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak

    175 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  24. The Berkshire Hathaway Site is a master class in human-centered design

    175 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  25. Ennui: How to Overcome Chronic Boredom

    174 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  26. Testing Sync at Dropbox

    174 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  27. Mastering systemd: Securing and sandboxing applications and services

    174 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  28. Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz

    172 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  29. Code is Engineering; Types are Science

    172 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  30. It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?

    172 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  31. WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer

    171 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  32. Apollo 13 enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft

    171 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  33. How much power can we expect from rainfall?

    171 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  34. Show HN: FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?

    170 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  35. I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (2013)

    170 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  36. Blog of Inigo Quilez, Creator of Shadertoy

    170 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  37. Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia

    170 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  38. XB-1's wings are officially closed out

    170 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  39. Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Antarctic ice

    170 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  40. The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case

    169 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  41. Python programming is drowning in red tape

    168 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  42. Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains

    168 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  43. Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients

    168 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  44. Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers

    168 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  45. “Typesetting Markdown” blog post series by a technical writer

    168 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  46. No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?

    168 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  47. The Web is the Next Platform (1995)

    168 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  48. Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies

    168 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  49. Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS

    168 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  50. 75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)

    168 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  51. Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought

    167 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  52. AinD: Android in Docker

    167 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  53. WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)

    167 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  54. UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand

    167 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  55. Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff

    167 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  56. SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from confirmed cases

    167 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  57. Why not “Why not WireGuard?”

    166 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  58. Layoffs.fyi Coronavirus Tracker

    166 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  59. Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform

    166 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  60. Build a Team that Ships (2012)

    166 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  61. Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (2018)

    166 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  62. Amazon fires 2 tech workers after they publicly criticized warehouse conditions

    166 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  63. Google Research Football

    166 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  64. A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal

    166 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  65. Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus

    165 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  66. You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die

    165 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  67. Computers Can Be Understood

    165 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  68. Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19

    165 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  69. The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future

    165 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  70. Crimson Contagion

    165 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  71. iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

    165 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  72. Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear

    164 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  73. Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool

    164 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  74. Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)

    164 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  75. The 'Undertaker of Silicon Valley' Stays Busy as Startups Lay Off Thousands

    164 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  76. Using SIMD to aggregate billions of values per second

    164 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  77. Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows

    164 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  78. Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone

    164 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  79. Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

    164 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  80. Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams

    164 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  81. Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not

    164 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  82. Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)

    164 points • comment • apr 29, 2020

  83. GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt

    163 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  84. AI Gahuku: AI Generator Will Turn Your Photos into Renaissance Paintings

    163 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  85. Chloroquine trial halted after 11 patients die on high dose

    163 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  86. Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?

    163 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  87. Game developers share what they're most proud of making

    163 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  88. Windows 10 Hosted App Model

    163 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  89. Go Developer Survey 2019 Results

    163 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  90. How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law

    163 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  91. Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western U.S., Says Study

    163 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  92. CSS for Internationalisation

    162 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  93. Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations

    162 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  94. Medical staff say virus stigma driving Tokyo hospitals to edge of collapse

    162 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  95. Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser

    162 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  96. Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app

    162 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  97. “Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos

    162 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  98. Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

    161 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  99. Why we listen to new music

    161 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  100. Show HN: Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust

    161 points • comment • apr 19, 2020