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Hacker News (May 2020)

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

    46 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  2. Check for borrows in bitwise operations

    46 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  3. The Shoulders of Giants [pdf]

    46 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  4. Court rules “Dueling Dinos” belong to landowners

    46 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  5. Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation

    46 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  6. The Collapsing Leviathan

    46 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  7. Tesla vs Alameda County [pdf]

    46 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  8. JCPenney Paid Top Execs Huge Bonuses Before Firing Workers

    46 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  9. The First Bar Code Was Round (2014)

    46 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  10. FBI arrests Michael Taylor on charges of helping former Nissan CEO escape Japan

    46 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  11. Show HN: Lockdown.sh Simple shell script for locking down new linux installs

    46 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  12. A bug in macOS 10.15.5 impacts bootable backups

    46 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  13. CDC recommends sweeping changes to American offices

    46 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  14. Parsing Headers

    46 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  15. OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.04 Released: Phase Out Python 2, GCC7 as Base Compiler

    46 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  16. What Is the Stock Market Even for Anymore?

    46 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  17. Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry

    46 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  18. Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good and Bad Government

    46 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  19. A feud in wolf-kink erotica raises a deep legal question

    46 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  20. How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2017)

    46 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  21. Kinvolk Labs: Investigating Kubernetes Performance Issues with BPF

    45 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  22. GitHub issue calling for retraction of Imperial College study for codebase flaws

    45 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  23. Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)

    45 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  24. What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number? (1960) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  25. A free tool to plan deliveries during the Covid-19 pandemic

    45 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  26. Mini PCs in 2020

    45 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  27. Brave Zoom Competitor

    45 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  28. Coinbase Making WFH Permanent

    45 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  29. Parks and Houses for the People

    45 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  30. The Nitty Gritty of “Hello World” on macOS (2014)

    45 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  31. Review: Lamy Safari (2008)

    44 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  32. Show HN: Bosconian (1981), in 3-D

    44 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  33. My Famicase Exhibition 2020

    44 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  34. All About Polymorphics (1960) [video]

    44 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  35. A happy ending for Seattle’s Bop Street Records: a nonprofit buys the collection

    44 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  36. Into the Tar Pit

    44 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  37. China to impose sweeping security law in Hong Kong, ends city’s autonomy

    44 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  38. Indian farmers to get direct cash benefits

    44 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  39. Covid vaccine passes phase 1 human trial

    44 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  40. No free view? No review.

    44 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  41. IKEA switches from Verdana to Noto (Google, Monotype) for 2020 catalogue

    44 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  42. Tesla workers’ unemployment may be suspended if they don't return, emails show

    44 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)

    44 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  44. Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller

    44 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  45. Spain approves national minimum income scheme

    44 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  46. Common Sense Comes to Computers

    44 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  47. VC firms can be liable if startups wrongly claim stimulus funds

    44 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  48. Did the Italians Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

    44 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  49. The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs (2015)

    44 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  50. Submit k3s for inclusion to CNCF as a sandbox project

    43 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  51. Polywater

    43 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  52. How-to normalize home volume levels with Node-RED

    43 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  53. Bootstrap 4.5.0

    43 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  54. Grab Asks Staff to Take No-Pay Leave to Cut Costs

    43 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  55. Show HN: InvaderZ is now available to play on itch.io

    43 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  56. Ask HN: How will more corporate acceptance of remote work play out?

    43 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  57. I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  58. Reduced Vitamin K Status as a Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in Covid-19

    43 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  59. 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)

    43 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  60. The housing market faces its next crisis as May rent and mortgages come due

    43 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  61. The production functions of smart and successful people

    43 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  62. Don’t Fear the Robot

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  63. What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)

    43 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  64. The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real

    43 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  65. Plastics pile up as coronavirus hits Asia recyclers

    43 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  66. Show HN: Connect customer feedback to your roadmap

    43 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  67. Privilege escalation via the unintended UnattendedUtilities

    43 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  68. Hunt: A high-level D Programming Language Web framework

    43 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  69. Ex-Grubhub exec calls delivery apps “payday lenders for restaurants and drivers”

    43 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  70. Can electric cars on the highway emulate plane-to-plane refueling?

    43 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  71. Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been infected already

    42 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  72. The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

    42 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  73. US workers seeking jobless aid near 40M

    42 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  74. Fmt – A Modern Formatting Library

    42 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  75. NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’

    42 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  76. Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance

    42 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  77. IBM confirms layoffs are happening, but won’t provide details

    42 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  78. Destroyed by Rockefellers, Mural Trespassed on Political Vision (2014)

    42 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  79. Learning Git from Novice to Expert

    42 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  80. Show HN: SheetHub – Your notes and gists all in one place

    42 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  81. Rust is not a good C replacement

    42 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  82. Python script to download all Springer books released for free during Covid

    42 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  83. A16Z struggles to earn passing grade in crypto fund II investor letter

    42 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  84. List of Common Misconceptions

    42 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  85. Ask HN: Which product/design blogs do you follow?

    42 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  86. Ask HN: I found out the hacker's phone number. Now what?

    42 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  87. Talking about white privilege causes major reduction in support for politicians

    42 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  88. Learn WebTorrent and WebRTC

    42 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  89. Those litigious men in their flying machines

    42 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  90. How Do Insurance Companies Make Money

    42 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  91. A Lightning-Fast Introduction to Deep Learning and TensorFlow 2.0

    42 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  92. How to Read UTF-8 Passwords on the Windows Console

    42 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  93. Alan L. Hart

    41 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  94. Centralized video conference WebRTC server available for testing

    41 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  95. China Hid Severity of Virus to Hoard Supplies, AP Reports

    41 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  96. Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How often do you go over them?

    41 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  97. More than 800 languages in a single typeface: creating Noto for Google

    41 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  98. Becoming Addiction-Free

    41 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  99. OpenSourceWeekly #10: Federated social networks (The Fediverse)

    41 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  100. Apple News hits 125M monthly active users

    41 points • comment • may 01, 2020