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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?

    626 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  2. Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io

    625 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  3. Game Programming Patterns (2014)

    622 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  4. Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com

    620 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  5. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

    612 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  6. Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

    610 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  7. How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users

    610 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  8. Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default

    608 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  9. Software will eat software in a remote-first world

    606 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  10. Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

    605 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  11. Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

    597 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  12. I've collected over 600 pitch decks

    596 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  13. Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

    595 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  14. Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6

    594 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  15. What Is Nix?

    593 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  16. Google gave our business listing to a competitor

    588 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  17. What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka

    586 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  18. An introduction to RabbitMQ

    579 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  19. Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

    577 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  20. Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus

    576 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  21. Make LLVM Fast Again

    574 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  22. A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

    571 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  23. Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs

    563 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  24. Don't set the language of your website based on user location

    562 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  25. Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data

    560 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  26. Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

    559 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  27. Tell HN: Call Mom

    555 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  28. Pi-hole 5.0

    554 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  29. The Miracle Sudoku [video]

    552 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  30. Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health

    550 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  31. Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers

    548 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  32. Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms

    548 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  33. Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order

    547 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  34. What would you do if you lost your Google account?

    545 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  35. Florian Schneider has died

    540 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  36. Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission

    539 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  37. The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

    539 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  38. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

    537 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  39. TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S.

    537 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  40. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

    536 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  41. Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes

    536 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  42. Common mistakes using Kubernetes

    536 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  43. Making Emacs Popular Again

    535 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  44. Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better

    526 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  45. Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app

    525 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  46. Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

    521 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  47. SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019

    517 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  48. The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

    513 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  49. Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

    511 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  50. Idea Generation

    511 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  51. Crew Dragon Docks with ISS

    510 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  52. The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains

    508 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  53. Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets

    503 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  54. Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document

    501 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  55. Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19

    497 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  56. Inkscape 1.0

    497 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  57. The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)

    497 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  58. Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown

    493 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  59. Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction

    492 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  60. GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code

    492 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  61. Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?

    492 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  62. Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies

    489 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  63. Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google

    489 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  64. Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition

    487 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  65. Whale fall

    487 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  66. Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

    485 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  67. A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

    485 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  68. Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe

    483 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  69. CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

    480 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  70. Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free

    474 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  71. Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

    471 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  72. Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income

    471 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  73. Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?

    470 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  74. Speed.cloudflare.com

    470 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  75. Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster

    470 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  76. Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

    469 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  77. Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position

    467 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  78. New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity

    467 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  79. Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

    464 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  80. I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves

    462 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  81. Encouraging a culture of written communication

    458 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  82. How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

    458 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  83. Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

    457 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  84. Pricing Your Product

    457 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  85. I trick my well-developed procrastination skills

    454 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  86. Surviving Depression

    454 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?

    452 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  88. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition [pdf]

    452 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  89. Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

    450 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  90. Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

    450 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  91. Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse

    447 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  92. Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems

    446 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  93. Rediscovering the Small Web

    445 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  94. Scraping Recipe Websites

    443 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  95. Show HN: A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management

    442 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  96. Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion

    442 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  97. Linux containers in a few lines of code

    442 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  98. SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships

    440 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  99. A look at modern PHP

    439 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  100. First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier

    438 points • comment • may 09, 2020