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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Bye, Amazon

    3733 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  2. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

    2938 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  3. SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

    2851 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  4. Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

    2566 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  5. Deno 1.0

    2037 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  6. MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

    2015 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  7. Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

    1892 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  8. Zoom Acquires Keybase

    1879 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  9. The Day AppGet Died

    1876 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  10. GitHub Codespaces

    1760 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  11. Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

    1733 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  12. A first look at Unreal Engine 5

    1715 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  13. AWS services explained in one line each

    1641 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  14. Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

    1520 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  15. Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content

    1516 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  16. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

    1511 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  17. ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

    1459 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  18. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

    1382 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  19. We Chat, They Watch

    1381 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  20. Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

    1353 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  21. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

    1301 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  22. Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

    1269 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  23. New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

    1233 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  24. Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

    1220 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  25. Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

    1216 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  26. Medium-hard SQL interview questions

    1195 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  27. If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

    1175 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  28. Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down

    1135 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  29. We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology

    1132 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  30. Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

    1115 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  31. No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

    1104 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  32. Zero-day in Sign in with Apple

    1070 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  33. 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people

    1065 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  34. Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

    1064 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  35. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

    1061 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  36. Tools for Better Thinking

    1051 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  37. Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

    1050 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  38. Show HN: SHA-256 Animation

    1041 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  39. Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

    1029 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  40. Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

    1022 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  41. Notion for everyone

    1022 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  42. Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

    1009 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

    1006 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  44. AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor

    1001 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  45. Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

    955 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  46. EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

    953 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  47. Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

    942 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  48. Do not Draw a Penis

    930 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  49. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

    929 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  50. A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub

    924 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  51. New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML

    907 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  52. Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently

    868 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  53. Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?

    838 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  54. X

    832 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  55. A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra

    823 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  56. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

    819 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  57. A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

    816 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  58. I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

    786 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  59. Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

    781 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  60. Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims

    777 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  61. It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

    774 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  62. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms

    773 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  63. A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

    769 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  64. Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

    764 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  65. Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

    764 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  66. Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

    763 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  67. Show HN: Caddy 2

    758 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  68. Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)

    745 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  69. Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS

    738 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

    733 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  71. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

    727 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  72. Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

    727 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  73. Siri, What Time Is It in London?

    720 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  74. Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data

    719 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  75. John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

    716 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  76. Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

    712 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  77. New 13-inch MacBook Pro

    710 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  78. Netflix stops charging customers who never watch

    710 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  79. React Native for Windows and Mac

    705 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  80. Second-Guessing the Modern Web

    700 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  81. Htmx – high power tools for HTML

    699 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  82. Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

    695 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  83. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    694 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  84. MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life

    691 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  85. Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

    689 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  86. Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

    688 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  87. Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

    675 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  88. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

    673 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  89. US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

    671 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  90. Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

    670 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  91. The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)

    670 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  92. Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

    668 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  93. Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

    665 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  94. Product Marketing for Engineers

    661 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  95. I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next

    648 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  96. It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)

    645 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  97. I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

    643 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  98. Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government

    638 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  99. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

    633 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  100. How to sell a B2B product

    630 points • comment • may 02, 2020