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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6

    88 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  2. The Interruptible Programmer (2010)

    88 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  3. Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective

    88 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  4. Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic

    88 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  5. Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels

    88 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  6. The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform

    88 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  7. How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers

    88 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  8. YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

    88 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  9. Seven Bridges of Königsberg

    88 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  10. FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates

    88 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  11. Vibe: Video Human Pose Estimation

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  12. Applied Category Theory (2019) [video]

    87 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  13. Web Application Exploits and Defenses

    87 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  14. NovaStelo: Block-style programming for multi-agent systems, based on MIT Scratch

    87 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  15. The tiniest C sort function? (2008)

    87 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  16. Startups shouldn't raise money

    87 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  17. Tesla’s readying a ‘million mile’ battery that could greatly lower cost of EVs

    87 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  18. Self-Contained Systems

    87 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  19. A Hierarchy of Engineering Values

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  20. Review of New Apple and Google Contact Tracing Protocol

    87 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  21. The Origins of Scandinavian Noir

    87 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  22. Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others

    87 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  23. Scientists Waited Two and a Half Years to See Whether Bacteria Can Eat Rock

    87 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  24. Ask HN: Best practices (and examples) for designing client libraries for APIs?

    87 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  25. What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9?

    86 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  26. Mitch McConnell Moves to Allow Warrantless Collection of Browsing&Search History

    86 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  27. Show HN: Turn your fancy, expensive computer into a stupid typewriter

    86 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  28. ScoutSuite: Multi-cloud security auditing tool

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  29. Chekhov's Gun

    86 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  30. Lessons from Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Aids Disinformation Campaign

    86 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  31. Ask HN: Software for producing terminal-based tutorials?

    86 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  32. Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one

    85 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  33. Shorten the Workweek to Reopen Safely

    85 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  34. 40-60% of the unexposed produce Covid-19 antibodies due to earlier cold exposure [pdf]

    85 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  35. Covariant.ai and applying deep learning to robotics

    85 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  36. Coronavirus: A third of hospital patients develop dangerous blood clots

    85 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  37. Introduce Time Namespace (2019)

    85 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  38. Value-Oriented Programming (2018)

    85 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  39. Tips for rapidly iterating on your product when finding product-market fit

    85 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  40. YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult the CCP

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  41. Framework Benchmarks Round 19

    85 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  42. Setting the story straight on quite a few issues

    85 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  43. Is the Cloud Recession-Proof?

    85 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  44. Ask HN: Do kids drag your career down?

    85 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  45. Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

    85 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  46. SpaceX's Starship became NASA's ace in the hole to get to the moon by 2024

    85 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  47. Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  48. Six Levels of Interaction with a System

    84 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  49. Free Elixir/Phoenix LiveView Course

    84 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  50. Dining Cryptographers Problem

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  51. Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (2017)

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  52. List of companies going full remote after Covid

    84 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  53. PeerTube v3: Progressive Fundraising

    84 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  54. HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff

    84 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  55. Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world (2019)

    84 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  56. A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS

    84 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  57. Designing a functional programming language: Yatta

    84 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  58. What's Intel SGX Good For?

    83 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  59. Work from home is dead, long live work from anywhere

    83 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  60. Comparing Covid-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is Like Comparing Apples to Oranges

    83 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  61. Instant dev environments for cloud-native apps

    83 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  62. Tesla cuts car prices by up to $5k

    83 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  63. Why Does the DICOM Standard Exist?

    83 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  64. Why Marketing Flywheels Work

    82 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  65. China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S

    82 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  66. Proton pump inhibitors (heartburn meds) linked with increased risk of dementia

    82 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  67. In Further Praise of Dependent Types

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  68. BSD Hardware Database

    82 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  69. America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  70. Intelligence Without Reason (1991) [pdf]

    82 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  71. The transformation of the porn industry under coronavirus

    82 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  72. Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand

    82 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  73. Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

    81 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  74. Multipole Methods for the Masses

    81 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  75. Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript

    81 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  76. Interview with the Creator of Max/MSP and Pure Data

    81 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  77. Response to Tim Bray's Departure

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  78. Linux on the Desktop as a Web Developer

    81 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  79. NIST Handbook of Engineering Statistics (2012)

    81 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  80. The Thinnest Paper in the World

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  81. A photo archive hidden inside a limestone mine

    80 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  82. How to use UTM parameters to grow your audience

    80 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  83. The Rise and Fall of Polywater

    80 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  84. Legendary Paris bookshop reveals reading habits of illustrious clientele

    80 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  85. LibrePCB 0.1.4 Released

    80 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  86. Sony Builds AI into a CMOS Image Sensor

    80 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  87. Convos IRC client now supports video chat

    80 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  88. A hand-wired USB and Bluetooth keyboard powered by Python

    80 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  89. Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

    80 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  90. Show HN: Create high resolution GIFs from YouTube

    80 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  91. Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules

    80 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  92. Can QUIC match TCP’s computational efficiency?

    80 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  93. Arab states are embracing solar power

    80 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  94. About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.5

    79 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  95. Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles

    79 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  96. A PostCSS plugin for people who prefer to write English properly

    79 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  97. Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN

    79 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  98. Beekeeper Studio is a free and open source SQL editor and database manager

    79 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  99. Docker Swarm Cluster Complete Guide

    79 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  100. Liquid Cities: Japanese architecture and science fiction

    79 points • comment • may 31, 2020