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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
626 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
625 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Game Programming Patterns (2014)
622 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
620 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS
612 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
610 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
610 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
608 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Software will eat software in a remote-first world
606 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
605 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
597 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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I've collected over 600 pitch decks
596 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
595 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
594 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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What Is Nix?
593 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Google gave our business listing to a competitor
588 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
586 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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An introduction to RabbitMQ
579 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned
577 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
576 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Make LLVM Fast Again
574 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
571 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs
563 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Don't set the language of your website based on user location
562 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
560 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
559 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Tell HN: Call Mom
555 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Pi-hole 5.0
554 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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The Miracle Sudoku [video]
552 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health
550 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
548 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
548 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order
547 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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What would you do if you lost your Google account?
545 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Florian Schneider has died
540 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission
539 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
539 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
537 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S.
537 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
536 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes
536 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Common mistakes using Kubernetes
536 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Making Emacs Popular Again
535 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
526 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
525 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Bitcoin Halving Just Occured
521 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019
517 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
513 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
511 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Idea Generation
511 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
510 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains
508 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets
503 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
501 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
497 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Inkscape 1.0
497 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)
497 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
493 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction
492 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
492 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
492 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
489 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google
489 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition
487 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Whale fall
487 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow
485 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
485 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
483 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
480 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
474 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
471 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
471 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
470 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Speed.cloudflare.com
470 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster
470 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
469 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position
467 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity
467 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life
464 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
462 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Encouraging a culture of written communication
458 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?
458 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
457 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Pricing Your Product
457 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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I trick my well-developed procrastination skills
454 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Surviving Depression
454 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
452 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition [pdf]
452 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU
450 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
450 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse
447 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
446 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Rediscovering the Small Web
445 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Scraping Recipe Websites
443 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Show HN: A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management
442 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
442 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Linux containers in a few lines of code
442 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships
440 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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A look at modern PHP
439 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier
438 points • comment • may 09, 2020