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Hacker News (Apr 2020)

  1. The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars

    161 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  2. Interactive guide to Buffer Overflow exploitation

    161 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  3. Show HN: Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust

    161 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

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

    161 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  5. Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket

    161 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  6. Why we listen to new music

    161 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  7. 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

    160 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Resources to learn basic UI layout design for React apps?

    160 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  9. Airport Stuffed with Airliners

    160 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  10. What happens when, Kubernetes edition

    160 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  11. The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

    160 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  12. “May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (1956)

    160 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  13. ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer

    160 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  14. Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1

    160 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  15. Phelia – React for Slack Apps

    160 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  16. Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations

    159 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  17. Cofactor Explained: Clearing Elliptic Curves' dirty little secret

    159 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  18. Our Long Bets and Predictions about 02020

    159 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  19. Google allows G Suite administrators to monitor and audit user emails

    159 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  20. Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatment of warehouse workers

    159 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  21. WireGuard on K8s: road-warrior-style VPN server

    158 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  22. Show HN: A stupid website for animating images on top of videos (HTML5 and WASM)

    158 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  23. Unicorn layoffs keep piling up

    157 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  24. How I photograph the Milky Way with medium format film

    157 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  25. Mental Model Fallacy (2018)

    157 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  26. Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years

    157 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  27. Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories

    157 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  28. Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability

    157 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  29. Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git is underrated (2019)

    157 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  30. Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

    157 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  31. Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf]

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  32. Ode to J

    156 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  33. Police Are Still Citing the Homeless, Despite CDC and Council Guidance

    156 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  34. Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system

    156 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  35. Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign

    156 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  36. Psychological techniques to practice Stoicism

    156 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  37. Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society

    156 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  38. Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly

    155 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  39. Federal Reserve balance sheet trends

    155 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  40. For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends (2018)

    155 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  41. Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

    155 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  42. What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox

    154 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  43. GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy

    154 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  44. Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM [video]

    154 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  45. I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data

    154 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  46. I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC

    154 points • comment • apr 16, 2020

  47. Large-Scale BGP Hijack

    153 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  48. 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought

    153 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  49. Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast

    153 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  50. Building a WireGuard jail with FreeBSD's standard tools

    153 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  51. Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?

    153 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  52. Over 500k Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web

    153 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  53. In Pursuit of PPE

    153 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  54. Map of usage of intensive care beds in Germany

    153 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  55. Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning

    152 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  56. StarCharter – CLI tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky

    152 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  57. Building a ternary computer at home: a software emulator

    152 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  58. Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (2016)

    152 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  59. A startup is building computer chips using real neurons

    151 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  60. Mobius – .NET runtime running on .NET Core

    151 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  61. Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports

    151 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  62. How does the coronavirus kill?

    151 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  63. Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dangerous

    151 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  64. I Spent Seven Weeks in a Wuhan ICU

    151 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  65. Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild

    151 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  66. Build a Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)

    150 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  67. Tesla Ventilator

    150 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  68. How coronavirus infected my brain: anxiety, the internet, and keeping up to date

    150 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  69. Play social games with friends over Zoom

    150 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  70. Gadgets That Refuse to Die

    150 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  71. Google Pixel Buds

    149 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  72. The Illusion of Certainty

    149 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  73. Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math

    149 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  74. Heat Pump Water Heaters

    149 points • comment • apr 27, 2020

  75. GoWFH: Find and list verified Work From Home and Remote jobs from top companies

    149 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  76. Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative

    149 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  77. Why it’s so hard to make a good Covid-19 model

    149 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  78. Hours

    149 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  79. Opt out of Clearview.ai

    148 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  80. Clues to Covid-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from antibody against SARS

    148 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  81. Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations

    148 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  82. Tips for Founders Sales: Lessons from Starting Two B2B Startups

    148 points • comment • apr 06, 2020

  83. Two Chainsaw Secrets – Turning a Tree into Perfect Boards (2019) [video]

    148 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  84. Guitar Chord Voicings with Prolog

    148 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  85. Working from home on the //c+

    148 points • comment • apr 18, 2020

  86. The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018)

    147 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  87. How to break everything by fuzz testing

    147 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  88. Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?

    147 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  89. PyTorch 1.5

    147 points • comment • apr 22, 2020

  90. Tiers of answers to half-baked questions

    147 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  91. Hunting a Linux kernel bug

    147 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  92. Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic self-bootstrapping language

    147 points • comment • apr 21, 2020

  93. Show HN: Layer – Get a dozen staging servers per developer

    147 points • comment • apr 30, 2020

  94. Show HN: Subreddit Finder - Trained on 4M Reddit Posts from 4K Subreddits

    146 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  95. New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer than MRI

    146 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  96. Write your own Virtual CPU in C++ (2014)

    146 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  97. Accidentally Turing-Complete

    146 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  98. Rust Dataframe: Update 1

    146 points • comment • apr 04, 2020

  99. Conventional Comments

    146 points • comment • apr 28, 2020

  100. MsQuic – QUIC Implementation from Microsoft

    145 points • comment • apr 29, 2020