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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. A simple way to get more value from tracing

    107 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  2. I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses were opening in Dallas

    107 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  3. When Lightning Strikes Thrice: Breaking Thunderbolt 3 Security

    107 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  4. Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

    107 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  5. Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity

    107 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  6. How failures led to a SaaS [audio]

    106 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  7. Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?

    106 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Did Reddit ever end up giving equity to any of its users?

    106 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  9. Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning

    106 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  10. The Cliqz Story Is Over

    106 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  11. Show HN: Hacker News Dark Mode

    106 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  12. History of Logo

    106 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  13. PineBook Pro (open source ARM laptop)

    106 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  14. Physicists Criticize Stephen Wolfram’s ‘Theory of Everything’

    105 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  15. BLS Reports 14.7% Unemployment Rate

    105 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  16. IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play

    105 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  17. If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience

    105 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  18. SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live collaboration feature

    105 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  19. An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers

    105 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  20. Insider Build of VSCode for Windows/ARM64

    105 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  21. GitHub CLI allows you to close, reopen, and add metadata to issues and PR

    104 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  22. East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near extinction

    104 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  23. Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012)

    104 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  24. Operating Systems Without Systemd

    104 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  25. Show HN: Findyour.blog – Get your blog rated and reviewed by authors/readers

    104 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  26. Leaving Spellcheck Enabled Is a Privacy Risk (2016)

    104 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  27. Reverse engineering the OP-1 drum patch

    104 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  28. Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation

    104 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  29. Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated?

    103 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  30. Negative News Distorts Our Thinking

    103 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  31. CERN publishes instructions for building your own particle detector

    103 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  32. The most successful developers share more than they take

    103 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  33. Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2020 edition

    103 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  34. Performance of Persistent Memory: 300 nanoseconds

    103 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  35. Russian Espionage and Electromagnetic Fields: The Story of the Theremin (2017)

    103 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  36. NSA Cyber Unfetter Project

    103 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  37. The Liskov Substitution Principle (2019)

    103 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  38. Android’s IPv6 Is Still Broken

    103 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  39. Markdown Tutorial

    103 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  40. Rust/WinRT Brings Microsoft Closer to Adopting Rust Internally

    103 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  41. Ask HN: How to be fluent in functional language speak?

    102 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  42. Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

    102 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  43. What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  44. She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird

    102 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  45. Software bug made Bombardier planes turn the wrong way

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  46. A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price

    102 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  47. The Unix Operating System (1982) [video]

    102 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  48. MNT Reform: The Campaign Is Live

    102 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  49. Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end

    102 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  50. CMU Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Bots

    102 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  51. The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

    102 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  52. U.S. Senators Advocate H-1B Freeze for 60 Days or Longer

    102 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  53. Bats in Portuguese Libraries (2018)

    102 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  54. The Secret Lives of Fungi

    101 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  55. How I made a game played in Notepad

    101 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  56. Mocking time and testing event loops in Go

    101 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  57. What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)

    101 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  58. Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz Is Out

    101 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  59. Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’

    101 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  60. Chips and Geopolitics

    101 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  61. Finding new physics will require a new particle collider

    101 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  62. ‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive

    101 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  63. Show HN: I scraped local court records to find dirty cops

    100 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  64. Variolation

    100 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  65. What Color Is Your Function? (2015)

    100 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  66. Show HN: AvionDB: A Decentralised Database with MongoDB-like Developer Interface

    100 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  67. Show HN: kutty, jQuery-free intercooler.js

    100 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  68. NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine

    100 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  69. Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself

    100 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  70. Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly

    100 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  71. Show HN: Bolt: A research language with finer-grained concurrency than Rust

    100 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  72. Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) 64 bit beta

    100 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  73. In Defense of Inclusionism (2009-18)

    99 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  74. Walking the Clojure source history: a talk not given

    99 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  75. A commit history of BERT and its forks

    99 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  76. Ask HN: My mother has shaky hands – guidance on iPhone accessibility settings?

    99 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  77. Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights (2018)

    99 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  78. The unintended consequences of working from home

    99 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  79. Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

    99 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  80. Instrumentation in Go

    99 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  81. When bad UX is good

    99 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  82. Tell HN: Shutterstock is changing its commission structure

    99 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  83. The Concurnas Programming Language

    99 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  84. Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data

    99 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  85. The silence of the owls

    98 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  86. How do I learn to think better? (2019)

    98 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  87. History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]

    98 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  88. A Developer Culture Test

    98 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  89. Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

    98 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  90. Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

    98 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  91. The Chiral Puzzle of Life

    98 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  92. TikTok has recently traded at valuations of $105-110B on private markets

    98 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  93. Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)

    97 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  94. Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012)

    97 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  95. Reverse-engineering the audio chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color

    97 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  96. Tour of My Roof

    97 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  97. Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World

    97 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  98. AVX-512 Mask Registers, Again

    97 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  99. ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits

    97 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  100. Bumblebees’ ‘clever trick’ fools plants into flowering

    97 points • comment • may 22, 2020