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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN

    79 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  2. New Zealand PM: No open borders for 'a long time'

    78 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  3. Catching It Early: New Ways of Detecting Coronavirus

    78 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  4. Tesla media units are full of owner's private data even after a factory reset

    78 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  5. Comparing Software Engineer Salaries Across Cities

    78 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  6. Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression

    78 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  7. Systems smart enough to know when they're not smart enough (2017)

    78 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  8. The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review

    78 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  9. U.S. Should Open America’s Doors to Hong Kong’s Citizens

    78 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  10. Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump’s false voting claims

    78 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  11. Zoom CEO sold all of his common shares

    77 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  12. U.S. FTC indicates it is looking at Zoom privacy woes

    77 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  13. Using regmaps to make Linux drivers more generic

    77 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  14. Git Branch Naming Conventions

    77 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  15. Suicides on the rise amid stay-at-home order, Bay Area medical professionals say

    77 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  16. Accretor Cellular Automata (2018)

    77 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  17. A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as Covid-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks

    77 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  18. Dev Degree: Behind the Scenes

    76 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  19. The problem with third-party delivery platforms

    76 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  20. I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world

    76 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  21. Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom

    76 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  22. Common *nix commands written in Rust

    76 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  23. I Can't Breathe

    76 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  24. YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of China to auto-delete

    76 points • comment • may 26, 2020

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

    76 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  26. Juul Is Moving Base From San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

    76 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  27. The Day the Pirates Came

    76 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  28. Lighting controlled by a OralB Bluetooth toothbrush

    76 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  29. Web Audio API: Musically-aware scheduling and Dynamic looping (2016)

    76 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  30. The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

    76 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  31. Saudi stocks slump as minister warns of ‘painful’ measures ahead

    76 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  32. Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era Interconnect

    76 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  33. Tesla's batteries aim to rework the math for electric cars and the grid

    76 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  34. A List of Free Networking courses that offer free certification

    75 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  35. Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision and Machine Learning Tiny C Library

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  36. “Tsugaru” – FM Towns Emulator Project

    75 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  37. PostgreSQL Adds Fetch First with Ties.. Just Like Top N with Ties in SQL Server

    75 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  38. The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.

    75 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  39. Animals killed since opening this page

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  40. What we get wrong about Machiavelli

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  41. Tesla employees who don’t return to work could lose unemployment benefits

    75 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  42. How I Turned an Idea into $7K by Teaching Online

    75 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  43. The Mount St. Helens Eruption Was the Volcanic Warning We Needed

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  44. PepsiCo cuts out grocery stores and sells directly to consumers

    75 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  45. Zoom fatigue is real

    75 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  46. JetBlue Funded a Stanford Study That Said the Coronavirus Wasn’t That Deadly

    75 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  47. Show HN: Rssfs – An RSS reader written as a file system

    75 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  48. Connected, but at what cost?

    75 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  49. Embedding Objective-Smalltalk

    75 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  50. Every tech downturn has a silver lining

    75 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  51. Private key of DigiCert Certificate Transparency log compromised

    74 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  52. The Trolley Problem Problem

    74 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  53. OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight

    74 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  54. FBI accidentally reveals Saudi official suspected of supporting 9/11 hijackers

    74 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  55. Xbox and Windows NT 3.5 source code leaks online

    74 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  56. $14M in ETH stolen from Upbit were laundered in May through well-known exchanges

    74 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  57. To software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson’s epidemics simulation code

    74 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  58. Research on the benefits of “weak ties” – connecting with casual acquaintances

    74 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  59. Code to Write to Start a SaaS

    73 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  60. I deploy, therefore I am

    73 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  61. Python goto implemented with system trace function (2017)

    73 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  62. Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join

    73 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  63. Comfortable with Uncomfortable

    73 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  64. TileDB 2.0 and the Future of Data Science

    73 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  65. State Machine in Real Life

    73 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  66. Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter

    73 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  67. Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions

    73 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  68. Why our economy may be headed for a decade of depression

    73 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  69. Arm is offering early-stage startups free access to its chip designs

    73 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  70. Let SOcket CAT Be Thy Glue over Serial

    73 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  71. Making game engines is a waste of time – I probably won’t stop making them

    73 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  72. Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10%

    73 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  73. Policymakers must consider the harms of pandemic policies, not just benefits

    73 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  74. Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf]

    73 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  75. Rules for Writers

    73 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  76. The Most Dangerous Dams (2019) [video]

    72 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  77. People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features

    72 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  78. Linux Sucks 2020

    72 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  79. Avantek's Arm Workstation: Ampere EMAG 8180 32-Core Arm64 Review

    72 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  80. The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US

    72 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  81. Simple Homemade TEA Laser (2007)

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  82. Show HN: Discohash – Fast Hash

    72 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  83. Risk Assessment and Prioritization for Startups

    71 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  84. How Payments Providers Screw You (2015)

    71 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  85. A non-moral dilemma about cheating, but it brings up some points (2019)

    71 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  86. Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor market rigged?

    71 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  87. I learned 1500 Chinese Characters in a Month

    71 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  88. How to Run Algorithmic Information Theory on a Computer (1995)

    71 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  89. Latency in Asynchronous Python

    71 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  90. Doctors are tweeting about coronavirus to make facts go viral

    71 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  91. Adventures of Porting MUSL to PS4

    71 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  92. Static Sites with Elasticsearch

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  93. Google expects its staff to work from home until 2021

    71 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  94. Show HN: Raspberry Pi garage door opener

    71 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  95. Google Cloud earns defense contract win for Anthos multi-cloud management tool

    71 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  96. The Epic Games Primer

    71 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  97. The coming disruption of colleges and universities

    71 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  98. When James Baldwin wrote about the Atlanta child murders

    71 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  99. A Critique of React Hooks Addendum

    71 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  100. Ask HN: How to Study Mathematics?

    71 points • comment • may 04, 2020