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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Hacker News Security

    140 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  2. Moths have 'secret role' as crucial pollinators

    140 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  3. Stoke – A stochastic superoptimizer and program synthesizer

    140 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  4. How to correct a team member: avoid my damaging rookie mistakes

    139 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  5. Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions

    139 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  6. GitHub Satellite Livestream

    139 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  7. Picture Hanging Knot (2017)

    139 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  8. Modern and Cross Platform Stack for WebRTC

    139 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  9. Intel to buy smart urban transit startup Moovit for $1B for its car division

    139 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  10. Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas

    139 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  11. Amazon sellers are moving to alternative ecommerce platforms during Covid-19

    139 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  12. German intelligence can't spy on foreigners outside Germany

    139 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  13. The links between mental disorders

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  14. Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap

    138 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  15. My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390

    138 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  16. India’s contact tracing app is going open source

    138 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  17. Stop trying to make hard work easy

    138 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  18. TempleOS

    138 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  19. Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  20. Random person name generator

    138 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  21. Argon – a clean, responsive, modern template for Dokuwiki

    138 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  22. Ask HN: Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?

    138 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  23. In marginal decisions, favour action over inaction

    138 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  24. In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websocket port scanning

    138 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  25. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th

    138 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  26. Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

    137 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  27. My 2020 desk setup

    137 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  28. Ignition an Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants [pdf]

    137 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  29. Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit

    137 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  30. Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market

    137 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  31. Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)

    137 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  32. What is emergence?

    137 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  33. Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?

    136 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  34. Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”

    136 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  35. EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management system

    136 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  36. Time on Unix

    136 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  37. Scientists find life in dead brain cells

    136 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  38. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  39. Goals and Priorities for C++

    136 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  40. !!Con 2020 Livestream [video]

    136 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  41. Good coders borrow, great coders steal

    136 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  42. San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

    135 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  43. Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts

    135 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  44. Pinebook Pro, First Impressions

    135 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  45. GPT-3: A Disappointing Paper?

    135 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  46. Language Design: Use 'ident: Type' not 'Type ident'

    135 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  47. How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS

    135 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  48. Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts

    134 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  49. We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline

    134 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  50. 2020 Developer Survey Results

    134 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  51. A beginner-friendly introduction to Prometheus

    134 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  52. Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?

    134 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  53. REPL Driven Design

    134 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  54. Better Box Shadows (CSS)

    134 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  55. OpenAutoComplete: Shell-agnostic, cross-platform autocomplete specification

    134 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  56. Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

    133 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  57. Clojure as a dependency

    133 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  58. Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback

    133 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  59. How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018)

    133 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  60. Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group

    133 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  61. Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?

    133 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  62. A Map of the Trees of London

    133 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Your must-read HN post?

    133 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  64. Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive

    133 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  65. The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018)

    133 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  66. Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in

    133 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  67. AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

    132 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  68. Shibuya Pixel Art 2020

    132 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  69. A Short History of Color Theory

    132 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  70. The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  71. MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video]

    132 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  72. Should I Block Ads?

    131 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  73. Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

    131 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  74. FBI serves warrant on Apple to access Senator's iCloud data

    131 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  75. Google rescinds offers to thousands of contract workers

    131 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  76. Running Lisp in Production (2015)

    131 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  77. US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  78. Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS

    131 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  79. Understanding uncertainty: Visualising probabilities

    131 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  80. U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low

    131 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  81. Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]

    131 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  82. Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU

    130 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  83. EA Is Releasing Command and Conquer and Red Alert’s Source Code

    130 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  84. Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications

    130 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  85. AWS EC2 General Price Cut

    130 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  86. Async-GraphQL: A GraphQL server framework

    130 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  87. Functional Programming in Python

    129 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  88. The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature [pdf]

    129 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  89. Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017)

    129 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  90. Hideo Kojima’s Video-Game Worlds

    129 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  91. Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2

    129 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  92. Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)

    128 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  93. Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (1973)

    128 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  94. Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay

    128 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  95. ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

    128 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  96. Show HN: Unity MMORPG Boilerplate – Multiplayer in Unity Made Easy

    128 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  97. Apple Watch detecting coronary ischaemia during chest pain episodes

    128 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  98. Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)

    128 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  99. Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017)

    128 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  100. Orion’s Arm Universe Project: Collaborative Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding

    128 points • comment • may 24, 2020