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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Amazon CEO Bezos Called to Testify Before Congress

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  2. Guy solves over 200 CS exam problems in 4 hours

    22 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  3. Show HN: Corona Virus Outbreak Dashboard for United States

    22 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  4. How many jobs do robots really replace?

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  5. Notes on Epic Games

    22 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  6. Ask HN: Where do HN readers spend their online downtime?

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  7. Business: A practical guide to Disruptive Innovation

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  8. 8-Bit Spirituals

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  9. iFixit launches world's largest medical equipment repair database

    21 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  10. Evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back 19K years

    21 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  11. Ask HN: I have 25k users. Now what?

    21 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  12. 6ft Is Not Always Enough: How Saliva Droplets Spread Through the Air

    21 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  13. Twitter labels Trump tweet as ‘glorifying violence’

    21 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  14. Configure Mynewt for SPI Flash on PineTime Smart Watch (NRF52)

    21 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  15. Dirac, Penrose, and Wolfram

    21 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  16. TikTok names top Disney streaming exec as new CEO

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  17. Eugène Atget's Paris, 100 years later

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  18. Anthony Fauci says staying closed too long could cause irreparable damage

    21 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  19. Facebook announces first 20 members of Oversight Board

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  20. J. Crew Files for Bankruptcy in Virus’s First Big Retail Casualty

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  21. Show HN: I built a service to help companies save 35%+ on their AWS bills

    21 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  22. When Good Waves Go Rogue (2014)

    21 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  23. Two Pearls of the Web

    21 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  24. Electronic Handheld Game Museum (2017)

    21 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  25. COVIDSafe

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  26. The Rise of the Valkyries

    21 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  27. Telegram abandons its TON blockchain platform

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  28. Did George Washington Use Ketchup? (2012)

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  29. Having a Garden Linked to Better Health and Well-Being

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  30. Low-cost passive microwave spectral imaging of radio wave sources

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  31. ML Papers achieve similar results when disregarding hyperparameter tuning

    21 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  32. Twitter Deletes Tweet about Censorship on Twitter After Retweet by President

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  33. A sad update about SideQuest – We cannot remain open source

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  34. Paypal closes its customer service

    21 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  35. Next-Generation Virtual Assistants Will Be Far Sexier Than Alexa and Siri

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  36. Virginia Juked Its Covid-19 Data

    21 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  37. Nvidia Unifies AI Compute with “Ampere” GPU

    21 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  38. Telegram gives up on the Telegram Open Network

    21 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  39. Show HN: Brewlet – The Missing Menulet for Brew.sh

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  40. Coronavirus: Security flaws found in UK NHS contact-tracing app

    21 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  41. The pieces of the puzzle of Covid-19’s origin are coming to light

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  42. Podcasts for Entrepreneurs – Episode Directory

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  43. Christopher Alexander

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  44. Fact Check

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  45. Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  46. New Windows 10 Update Hides Files Causing Serious Problems for Millions

    21 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  47. Show HN: Zapatos, a Postgres Library for TypeScript

    21 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  48. Airbnb to lay off between 1k and 2k employees

    21 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  49. Compiling Lua 5.2 from 2013 with Turbo C 1.0 from 1990 (2014) [video]

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  50. Erlang/OTP 23 Highlights

    21 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  51. Responses to Reader Feedback

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  52. What's the worst thing to do with a pressure cooker?

    21 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  53. Singapore Just Sentenced a Drug Trafficker to Death via Zoom

    20 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  54. Show HN: Grow an ASCII Bonsai Tree

    20 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  55. Ask HN: Where do you get your news?

    20 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  56. SOLID design principles in C++: Open Closed Principle

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  57. US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding

    20 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  58. Uber has reportedly offered to buy GrubHub

    20 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  59. Keybase Joins Zoom

    20 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  60. Permanently Beating My Insomnia

    20 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  61. Apple’s T2 Security Chip Has Created a Nightmare for MacBook Refurbishers

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  62. CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  63. Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries [pdf]

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  64. Basecamp Bans Employee Surveillance Software

    20 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  65. “Apple II Seasons” – A 128-byte Apple II Demo by DESiRE

    20 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  66. Box allows all employees to be remote

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  67. Ask HN: Are we downvoting comments because we disagree?

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  68. Newsom proposes ditching environmental review when converting hotels int housing

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  69. Nikon Will No Longer Authorize Anyone to Repair Its Cameras

    20 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  70. Wink Subscription

    20 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  71. Quarantine Fatigue Is Real

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  72. At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged (2002)

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  73. Universe’s ‘missing matter’ finally found in the space between galaxies

    20 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  74. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Readies First Astronaut Launch by Private Firm

    20 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  75. Show HN: OmSave – Safari Extension for OmniFocus on macOS

    20 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  76. Ex-Googler Turned Whistleblower and QAnon Fan Made 'Plandemic' Go Viral

    20 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  77. Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy

    20 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  78. Astrid Kirchherr, Who Helped Create the Beatles’ Image, Has Died

    20 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  79. William S. Burroughs's Paintings (2015)

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  80. 'iOS security is f*****' says exploit broker Zerodium

    20 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  81. U.S. planning to cancel visas of Chinese graduate students

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  82. $2M Home in Palo Alto (CA) vs. Columbus (Oh)

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  83. Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies

    20 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  84. Japanese Waltzing Mouse (2014)

    20 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  85. Show HN:A Discussion Site for (Pilot)Hindu-Religious Groups Based on Hacker News

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  86. Lyft shares rally 15% after revenue of $955.7M for Q1 2020

    20 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  87. Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing (1980)

    20 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  88. Raphael, Interrupted

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  89. Show HN: Single Python API Client for Google Sheets and MS Excel APIs

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  90. Coronavirus: Lockdowns Haven’t Proved They’re Worth the Havoc

    19 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  91. Losers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, study finds

    19 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  92. He was part of Amazon’s coronavirus hiring spree. Two weeks later he was dead

    19 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  93. Ask HN: What is the design process like at large tech companies?

    19 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  94. Draganfly and ‘pandemic drone’ pilot studies in the U.S.

    19 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  95. Coronavirus Hijacks the Body from Head to Toe, Perplexing Doctors

    19 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  96. Speed improvements using hash tables

    19 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  97. Drawing the Sierpiński Triangle with Recursive SQL and SVG

    19 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  98. Introduction to K-nearest neighbour algorithm using Sklear

    19 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  99. California Police Used Military Surveillance Tech at Grad Student Strike

    19 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  100. Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia

    19 points • comment • may 10, 2020