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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Cluegen – Python Data Classes From Type Clues

    52 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  2. CMU's OpenTPOD: Create Deep Learning Object Detectors Without Coding

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  3. 50,000 deaths so far in the UK's coronavirus epidemic

    51 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  4. America’s Havana: Thousands Say “Ciao” to San Francisco

    51 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  5. Nuxt.js over Vue.js: when should you use it and why

    51 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  6. Enhancing the Terraform Experience: Why We Use Terragrunt

    51 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  7. Qatar Airways demands payment for training from terminated flight crew

    51 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  8. The UK government is paying newspapers for positive COVID-19 coverage

    51 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  9. PGP Signed Tweets

    51 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  10. Hard-Coding Bottom-Up Code Generation Tables to Save Time and Space (1991) [pdf]

    51 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  11. Hot Reloadable Structs: Memory Mapping

    51 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  12. On Iteration and Recursion [pdf]

    51 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  13. Lessons Learnt Failing to Monetize My Ruby Gem

    51 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  14. Samsung Critical Security Vulnerability: 0-click RCE in All Modern Phones

    51 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  15. Solar Orbiter to pass through the tails of Comet ATLAS

    51 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  16. Ask HN: Has anyone been fired because they were job hunting?

    51 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  17. World's Largest Producer of Rubbing Alcohol Can't Manufacturer Hand Sanitizer

    51 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  18. H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act

    51 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  19. Barrier = Single keyboard/mouse solution for controlling multiple machines

    51 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  20. Show HN: Docup – single-page documentation for your open source projects

    51 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  21. Lost and Found: Stopping Bluetooth Finders from Leaking Private Information

    51 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  22. Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and

    50 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  23. Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Kuhn Poker

    50 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  24. In memory Key/Value store in go using gRPC

    50 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  25. No, your FOIA request cannot wait ‘until this emergency is over’

    50 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  26. Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]

    50 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  27. The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray Covid-19

    50 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  28. Good idea bad implementation crosstalk

    50 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  29. ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ launches exclusive partnership with Spotify

    50 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  30. Gitlab.com Is Moving to 13.0

    50 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  31. Google refuses to remove the state-sponsored app used to spy on Russian citizens

    50 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  32. A Layperson's Security Framework

    50 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  33. Why Developers Hate PHP

    50 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  34. New threat to the economy: Americans are saving like it's the 1980s

    50 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  35. Researchers accuse Xiaomi browsers of collecting data, even in Incognito mode

    50 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  36. Show HN: Simple-blogger – blog generated from GitHub project READMEs

    50 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  37. Ask HN: Is YouTube Working Properly?

    50 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  38. SCI Runs OpenVMS on x86-64

    50 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  39. EU-Commissioned Study Proposes European Firewall [pdf]

    49 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  40. Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases

    49 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  41. Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive

    49 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  42. Cracking WordPress passwords with 20 lines of Go

    49 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  43. Group Lasso Regularization

    49 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  44. Native desktop apps are far superior to Web/Electron

    49 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  45. Ask HN: People who rejected a FAANG offer. Why?

    49 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  46. An English Clergyman’s Advice for Quarantine

    49 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  47. Can You Write a Vectorized Reduction Operation? (2016)

    49 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  48. Making a miniature IBM 1401 scale model

    49 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  49. UK’s NHS Covid-19 App

    49 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  50. Windows 10 quietly got a built-in network sniffer, how to use

    49 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  51. Early treatment of Covid-19 with HCQ and AZ:retrospective analysis of 1061 cases

    49 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  52. Breaking a Monopoly

    49 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  53. Bespoke software, and a really simple RSS aggregator

    49 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  54. The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them (COVID-19 infection event case studies)

    48 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  55. Redundancy in Programming Languages

    48 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  56. Event Horizons, Singularities and Other Exotic Spacetime Phenomena

    48 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  57. Many ways where GCP excels over AWS

    48 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  58. Impostor Syndrome in Programming

    48 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  59. Square announces permanent work-from-home policy

    48 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  60. Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests

    48 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  61. Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done

    48 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  62. Skid Row

    48 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  63. IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

    48 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  64. Lost London venues that helped launch Hendrix, Winehouse and punk

    48 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  65. Textpattern CMS 4.8.0

    48 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  66. The Rogue Experimenters

    48 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  67. Left, Right, Above, and Under: Intel 3D Packaging Tech Gains Omnidirectionality

    48 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  68. Six Signs of Scientism (2009) [pdf]

    48 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  69. CDC Suggests Avoiding Open Plan Offices

    48 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  70. Ancient DNA reveals staying power of early people of the Andes

    48 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  71. Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates

    48 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  72. Imre Lakatos and the philosophy of bad science

    47 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  73. San Francisco real estate going to collapse: Angel investor Calacanis

    47 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  74. The new model media star is only famous to you

    47 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  75. Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus Than First Thought

    47 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  76. The Intercept (2012)

    47 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  77. Apple whistleblower goes public over 'lack of action'

    47 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  78. Unpacking HP Printer Firmware Updates, Part 2

    47 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  79. Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “Remote Work”

    47 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  80. Van Gogh's Favorite Books

    47 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  81. New law would let the FBI collect our web-browsing history without a warrant

    47 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  82. Iloveyou

    47 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  83. Elon Musk, Tech’s Cash-Poor Billionaire

    47 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  84. Macropy: Syntactic Macros for Python

    47 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  85. Ask HN: Can you still achieve FIRE if you start planning at 40?

    47 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  86. Retirement Calculators for Engineers

    47 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  87. AC/DC Song Made with a Markov Chain

    47 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  88. Microsoft's Safe Systems Programming Languages Effort (Rust)

    46 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  89. Spike mutation pipeline reveals a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2: study

    46 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  90. An Introduction to Variable Fonts (2019)

    46 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  91. TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag related to GeorgeFloyd

    46 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  92. Arizona sues Google for tracking users' location even when it's turned off

    46 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  93. The Shoulders of Giants [pdf]

    46 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  94. 4chan pretends to be Hacker News

    46 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  95. Parsing Headers

    46 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  96. Uber CEO Says Layoff Decision to Be Announced Within Two Weeks

    46 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  97. Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry

    46 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  98. A bunch of rants about the cloud

    46 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  99. Patterns of Covid-19 Mortality and Vitamin D: An Indonesian Study

    46 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  100. Court rules “Dueling Dinos” belong to landowners

    46 points • comment • may 23, 2020