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Hacker News (May 2020)

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

    128 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  2. Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server (EC2 vs. Bare Metal)

    128 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  3. Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)

    128 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  4. Apple Watch detecting coronary ischaemia during chest pain episodes

    128 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  5. Build Your Own Weasley Location Clock

    127 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  6. Launch HN: Data Mechanics (YC S19) – The Simplest Way to Run Apache Spark

    127 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  7. If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distribution

    127 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  8. Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables

    127 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  9. Ask HN: No formal software education – is there hope for me?

    127 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  10. House cancels vote to renew surveillance powers after Trump threatened veto

    127 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  11. Simulacra and Simulation

    127 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  12. NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program

    127 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  13. Empty studio sets: BBC backgrounds for your video calls

    127 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  14. New math proves that a special kind of space-time is unstable

    127 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  15. Ginger milk curd (2014)

    127 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  16. Learning Rust in 2020

    127 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  17. The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Critical Thinking

    126 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  18. A unusual keyboard key switch

    126 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  19. How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?

    126 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  20. GitHub is experimenting with personal READMEs

    126 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  21. YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

    126 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  22. Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers

    126 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  23. Blind people ‘read’ letters that are traced on their brains with electricity

    126 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  24. Apache Drill's Future

    126 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  25. How do you measure nuclear warhead yield with a PDP-11?

    126 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  26. They redesigned PubMed

    126 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  27. Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

    126 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  28. Linux touchpad like a MacBook: April 2020 update

    125 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  29. Highly available Kubernetes with batteries for small business

    125 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  30. Small farms in New York are experiencing a surprising boom

    125 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  31. Singing is the most accessible stress reliever

    125 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  32. Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies

    125 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  33. Jet propulsion by microwave air plasma in the atmosphere

    125 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  34. OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

    125 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  35. Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement

    125 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  36. The nightmare that colleges face this fall

    125 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  37. “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance

    125 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  38. In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proactive policing’ (2017)

    124 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  39. The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism

    124 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  40. Show HN: Blunt – A CSS Layout Framework for Minimalists

    124 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  41. Removing old, obsolete dams restores life to creeks and streams

    124 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  42. Is APL Dead? Not anymore

    124 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  43. My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390

    124 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  44. Debunking that C++ is faster and safer than Rust

    123 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  45. We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second

    123 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  46. The Power of Prolog [video]

    123 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  47. To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

    123 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  48. Concurrent Hash Tables: Fast and General? (2019)

    123 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  49. Self Supervised Learning in NLP

    123 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  50. GoDaddy hack: Miscreant steals SSH login creds after vandalizing server file

    123 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  51. Navajo Nation and Other Native American Reservations Hit Hard by Covid-19

    123 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  52. Police act like laws don't apply to them because of Qualified Immunity

    123 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  53. Symbolic Logic (1897)

    123 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  54. Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power (2013)

    123 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  55. Quick-Thinking Cop Captures Runaway Peacock

    123 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  56. The Economics of ASICs: At What Point Does a Custom SoC Become Viable? (2019)

    122 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  57. LTUI – A cross platform terminal UI library based on Lua

    122 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  58. CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

    122 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  59. OCaml is Pretty Great (2019)

    122 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  60. Show HN: New UI pattern for file manager type apps

    122 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  61. Peer-to-peer canvas app for Urbit

    122 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  62. Ask HN: Production Prolog in 2020?

    122 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  63. Tesla restarting production defying local order

    121 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  64. The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)

    121 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  65. OFFSystem

    121 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  66. How Nextdoor courts police and public officials

    121 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  67. A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality

    121 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  68. Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

    121 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  69. Show HN: I built a tool to remove news articles from HN

    121 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  70. Rootless Containers

    121 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  71. Welcome to Auroville

    121 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  72. ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm

    121 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  73. Debian 10.4

    120 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  74. Things I wish I knew before making a paid extension (2019)

    120 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  75. Rethinking of CGI as a selfhosted lambda server

    120 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  76. JWT (JSON Web Token) debugger

    120 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  77. Facebook's ‘oversight board’ is proof that it wants to be regulated by itself

    120 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  78. Quadratic Voting

    120 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  79. Goircd: Minimalistic simple IRC server written on Go

    120 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  80. AMD Ryzen 9 3900x price drop could take the wind out of Intel comet lake sales

    119 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  81. For $39, Frontier Air Will Let Passengers Keep Their Distance

    119 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  82. How Recursion Got into Programming (2014)

    119 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  83. Power Bends Light (2019)

    119 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  84. Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates

    118 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  85. SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf]

    118 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  86. Supreme Court of the United States to Live Stream Oral Arguments

    118 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  87. Prototype of a rotating detonation engine, previously thought impossible

    118 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  88. Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab

    118 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  89. Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)

    118 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  90. CockroachDB 20.1

    118 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  91. How to get stock fundamentals data with Python

    118 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  92. Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity [pdf]

    118 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  93. Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage

    118 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  94. Working remotely crossed the chasm today

    117 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  95. Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks

    117 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  96. Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing

    117 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  97. Python Generated Sequence Diagrams

    117 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  98. Sam's Laser Repair FAQ

    117 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  99. Don’t Be Afraid of RAID

    117 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  100. Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital

    117 points • comment • may 18, 2020