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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers

    70 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  2. Dotscience is shutting down

    70 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  3. Blood of recovered Covid-19 patients is becoming a hot commodity

    70 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  4. Think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s

    70 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  5. Show HN: Link-lock – Distributed app to password-protect URLs

    70 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  6. My Summer of Snowden

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  7. Zerodium expects iOS exploit prices to drop as it announces surplus

    70 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  8. Online Jamming and Concert Technology

    70 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  9. Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler

    70 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  10. Show HN: Memgraph – Transactional, in-memory, cypher-compatible graph database

    70 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  11. Howell Torpedo 1896 [video]

    70 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  12. My Messy Analytics Breakup

    70 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  13. Apple’s abandonment of Intel chips is inevitable (2018)

    70 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  14. The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread (2017)

    69 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  15. Criticism of paper-and-fax coronavirus infection reports spark change in Japan

    69 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  16. Shrinking my static site

    69 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  17. Typing 共匪 (communist bandit) in YouTube comments will automatically be deleted

    69 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  18. Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997

    69 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  19. New – M6g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2

    69 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  20. The Shareware Scene, Part 2: The Question of Games

    69 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  21. Rose-8 on Mac OS 9

    69 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  22. Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? (2019)

    69 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  23. Single Writer Principle (2011)

    69 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  24. Unpacking HP Firmware Updates

    69 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  25. Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel

    69 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  26. China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers

    69 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  27. Death of the Office

    69 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  28. Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)

    69 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  29. In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]

    69 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  30. Librem Mini: A mini-PC that puts freedom, privacy and security first

    68 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  31. Government to urge us all to walk and cycle more

    68 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  32. Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (2006)

    68 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  33. Mortgage delinquencies will exceed Great Recession levels

    68 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  34. Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acyclic Graph

    68 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  35. Qt 5.15 LTS

    68 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  36. PwdHash (2009)

    68 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  37. Programming Steve Reich’s Piano Phase in SuperCollider

    68 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  38. Bionic eye boosted by hemispherical retina

    68 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  39. Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously

    68 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  40. Forensic Investigation – The Shocking State of Privacy in Safety Apps

    68 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  41. Scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor (2015)

    68 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  42. Bill Gates Has Regrets

    68 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  43. Astronomers find 'missing matter', solving decades-long mystery of outer space

    68 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  44. The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy (2019)

    68 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  45. How a “Rope Lighter” Works

    67 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  46. How We Built SELinux Support for Kubernetes

    67 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  47. Leviathan in Lockdown

    67 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  48. C64 Memory Map

    67 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  49. Founder's Syndrome

    67 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  50. Dinosaur Footprints on a Cave Ceiling

    67 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  51. Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)

    67 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  52. Waiting in Asyncio

    67 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  53. Against pandemic research exceptionalism

    67 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  54. Tell HN: My permanently deleted Facebook account reactivated without my consent

    67 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  55. Twitter restricts new Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

    67 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  56. Cahokia's rise parallels onset of corn agriculture

    67 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  57. Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive

    67 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  58. A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere

    67 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  59. Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic

    67 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  60. ‘It’s gone haywire’: When Covid-19 arrived in rural America

    66 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  61. Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down

    66 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  62. Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%

    66 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  63. Beekeeper Studio 1.4 – SSH Tunnels, SQL Server, and Clicking

    66 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  64. Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?

    66 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  65. Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

    66 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  66. Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash

    66 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  67. Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth [pdf] (2000)

    66 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  68. Try Linux

    66 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  69. Color Tool

    66 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  70. Show HN: Python on iOS Native Apps

    66 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  71. “Maxwell's equations of software” examined (2008)

    66 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  72. Static Hoisting

    66 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  73. Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function is about to die in SSH

    66 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  74. Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings on Some Linux Systems

    66 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  75. Reverse Engineered Nintendo Switch App REST API

    66 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  76. How to fight back against Google AMP

    65 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  77. Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10

    65 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  78. McLibel Case

    65 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  79. Behavioral Immune System

    65 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  80. Enabling E-Textile Microinteractions

    65 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  81. Poi: Pragmatic point-free theorem prover assistant in Rust

    65 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  82. Updating STM32 Over-The-Air using ESP32

    65 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  83. Show HN: Push-to-Talk for Pulseaudio

    65 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  84. Show HN: CState – open-source Hugo powered status page

    65 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  85. Practical Python Programming: A course by dabeaz

    65 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  86. WebTorrent Workshop

    65 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  87. Parsing Series of Integers with SIMD (2018)

    65 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  88. Captured Warplanes

    65 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  89. If landlords get wiped out, Wall Street wins, not renters

    64 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  90. Why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language? [pdf]

    64 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  91. “Indie” doesn't mean “bootstrapped” anymore

    64 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  92. Racket News – Issue 31

    64 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  93. Stripe's API was down

    64 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  94. Gnome removed solid-color backgrounds based on what developer's friends use

    64 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  95. Amazon.com Is Down

    64 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  96. Mystery 'poison plot' sends Czech mayors into hiding

    64 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  97. SEC loosens crowdfunding regulations for small businesses financing in pandemic

    64 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  98. Save Internet Privacy

    64 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  99. Sort of handy

    64 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  100. Show HN: Plopdown – HTML5 Video Annotator

    64 points • comment • may 22, 2020