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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. The Day My Coworkers and I Chose Our Survival over Our Supervisor

    37 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  2. In:Verse – a poetic programming language

    37 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  3. Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team

    37 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  4. Facebook says it will permanently shift tens of thousands of jobs to remote work

    37 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  5. Apache Druid 0.18

    37 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  6. Wall Street heavyweights are sounding alarm about stock prices

    37 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  7. Why Would You Tweet About Your Coup?

    37 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  8. Ask HN: How do you set a goal and stay focused?

    37 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  9. People and jobs? Or wealth? The government has to decide which to prioritise

    37 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  10. DuckDuckGo Billboards

    37 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  11. Building a Crossword Puzzle Generator with JavaScript

    37 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  12. Amphibious Warship USS Portland Shot Down a Drone with Its New High-Power Laser

    37 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  13. Light-induced propulsion of graphene-on-grid sails in microgravity

    37 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  14. Astrology for Mathematicians

    37 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  15. The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3: Guess who wins?

    37 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  16. Fungal Lightning

    37 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  17. Serializable Functions in Clojure

    37 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  18. Hardware Store Elimination

    37 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  19. America is determined to sink Huawei

    37 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  20. Alternative Sources of Advice

    37 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  21. California, Los Angeles see jump in new cases, Bay Area continues down

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  22. The History of Loneliness Can Help Us Through This Pandemic

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  23. The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle

    37 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  24. Show HN: Ratemydorm.com

    37 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  25. Show HN: Create your own mobile ordering app without code, using a Google Sheet

    37 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  26. Trump and Chip Makers Including Intel Seek Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency

    36 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  27. Microsoft’s new fluid office document is Google docs on steroids

    36 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  28. Show HN: Vrmac Graphics, a cross-platform graphics library for .NET

    36 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  29. A fast 100% spec compliant, self-hosted JavaScript parser

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  30. JWT scope claim compression using a bitmap

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  31. What's New with Qt for Android

    36 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  32. Prototyping at Slack

    36 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  33. India's Contract Tracing App, Aarogya Setu, Open Sourced a Different Codebase

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  34. Alameda County agrees to let Tesla reopen if certain conditions are met

    36 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  35. Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  36. Why herd immunity to Covid-19 is reached much earlier than thought

    36 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  37. Show HN: Dark Mode for HN

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  38. Imsai 8080 Computer (2004)

    36 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  39. Fed’s Balance Sheet Exceeds $7T for First Time in History

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  40. Show HN: SBA PPP Loan Forgiveness Calculator

    36 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  41. Missouri penguins enjoy ‘morning of fine art’ at local museum

    36 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  42. The World of Sports Betting in a World Without Sports

    36 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers?

    36 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  44. Just Room Enough Island

    36 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  45. Pricing Psychology

    36 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  46. iPhone MacBook Hybrid (Apple Patent US20170083048, 2017)

    36 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  47. How should LA urbanize? Look to Seoul

    36 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  48. MindSpore WebAssembly Backend

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  49. Reliving the Dial-Up Experience in 2020

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  50. Ask HN: Now we're staying inside with Wi-Fi, have you changed your cell plan?

    36 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  51. McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us

    36 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  52. Show HN: Run VSCode on iPhone and iPad

    36 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  53. Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value

    35 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  54. How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be

    35 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  55. Infrastructure Security Without Slowing Down Developers

    35 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  56. Fed paper says 1918 pandemic led to German austerity and extremism [pdf]

    35 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  57. The first 15″ laptop designed to protect your digital life

    35 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  58. Should I Use Threads?

    35 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  59. Flying: It’s Worse Than You Think

    35 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  60. The front page of The New York Times for May 24, 2020

    35 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  61. Don’t rely on contact-tracing apps

    35 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  62. Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook

    35 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  63. What Is Deno and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?

    35 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  64. Machine Learning Guide for Beginners

    35 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  65. You don’t even know what risk is

    35 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  66. American Air’s $1 Price Target at Evercore Implies 92% Collapse

    35 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  67. The Drudge Report Has Been Linking to a Site That Plagiarizes Stories

    35 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  68. A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories

    35 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Can't focus when writing code in dark mode

    35 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  70. The OpenSSD Project: Open-Source Solid State Drive for Research and Education

    35 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  71. Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row

    35 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  72. Zero to the Power of Zero

    34 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  73. Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard ties were extensive, new report reveals

    34 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  74. J.C. Penney Files for Bankruptcy

    34 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  75. How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter

    34 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  76. Show HN: Radix sort big files in memory

    34 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  77. Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors

    34 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  78. Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Covid-19

    34 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  79. I Criticized My University’s Ties to the Chinese Gov, Now I Face Expulsion

    34 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  80. ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth

    34 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  81. Sourcehut adds continuous integration support for Plan 9

    34 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  82. KLEE: A symbolic virtual machine built on top of LLVM

    34 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  83. A stitch in time: How a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks

    34 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  84. The Strong Museum receives donation of Ralph Baer materials

    34 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  85. A Lesson from the Spanish Flu: Don’t End Restrictions Too Soon

    34 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  86. Resources to Learn Python in 2020

    34 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  87. I don’t want to be patronized and much less by a software vendor

    34 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  88. IKEA Releases Free Design for Garden Sphere That Feeds Entire Neighborhood

    34 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  89. Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules

    34 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  90. The History of Nostalgia

    34 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  91. A Dutchman and his man-made mountain

    34 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  92. How do I prevent Scrum from turning great developers into average developers?

    34 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  93. Where the complex points are (2016)

    34 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  94. Tokyo’s Lion Cafe in Audio Magazine

    34 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  95. Riot.im: Default E2EE for private rooms in v1.6

    34 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  96. Tycoon Xavier Niel says he was spy who hacked ex-French president

    34 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  97. Statement by FCC Commissioner Starks on Section 230 Executive Order

    34 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  98. API Routing Layers in financial services

    34 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  99. TripleByte Public Profiles Response Email

    33 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  100. Vanished into Music

    33 points • comment • may 17, 2020