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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Making a SNES game in 2020 using modern tools

    436 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  2. The death of corporate research labs

    434 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  3. Two capacitor paradox

    433 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  4. Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint

    431 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  5. How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)

    428 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  6. Introducing Facebook Shops

    427 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  7. Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions

    427 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  8. 4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020

    427 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  9. Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days

    427 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  10. GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners

    424 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  11. Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work

    420 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  12. Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere

    420 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  13. Advanced SQL and database books and resources

    420 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  14. Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017)

    419 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  15. Godot Editor running in a web browser

    418 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  16. Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

    416 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  17. Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)

    416 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  18. I won’t buy ebooks anymore

    415 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  19. Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot

    414 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  20. Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?

    413 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  21. Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website

    410 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  22. Habits of High-Functioning Teams

    410 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  23. Firefox 76

    408 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  24. Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry

    407 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  25. I gave away my books and sales increased

    406 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  26. In Praise of AutoHotKey

    405 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  27. GeckoView for Android

    404 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  28. Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

    403 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  29. Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper

    403 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  30. I bought netflix.soy

    402 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  31. FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of net neutrality commenters

    402 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  32. YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments

    400 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  33. Humans Not Invited

    400 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  34. Termux and Android 10

    400 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  35. The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming

    400 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  36. The Big List of Naughty Strings

    399 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  37. Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)

    398 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  38. Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens

    398 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  39. Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

    397 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  40. How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive

    397 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  41. My blog is now generated by Google Docs

    395 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  42. The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days

    395 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  43. The most prized degree in India became the most worthless

    393 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  44. The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions

    392 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  45. Diagram as Code

    392 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  46. Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online

    392 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  47. US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis

    391 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  48. The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret

    389 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  49. Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds

    389 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  50. AWS services to avoid

    389 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  51. WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

    389 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  52. Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?

    389 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  53. I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

    389 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  54. OTP 23

    388 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  55. Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake

    388 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  56. GitHub Codescanning

    387 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  57. Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so

    386 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  58. Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home

    385 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  59. Take care editing bash scripts (2019)

    385 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  60. Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem

    384 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  61. Patriot Act ammendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails

    384 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  62. Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C

    383 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  63. Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text

    383 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  64. How Distortion Works in Music

    383 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  65. Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal

    383 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  66. Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction

    382 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  67. Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen

    382 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  68. Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

    380 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  69. After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media

    380 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  70. Why is AI so useless for business?

    380 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  71. Simplifier

    380 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  72. Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts

    379 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  73. Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself

    379 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  74. Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

    379 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  75. YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

    376 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  76. SSH Agent Explained

    375 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  77. So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

    374 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  78. Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it

    372 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  79. US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home

    371 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  80. ZSH Aliases

    370 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  81. First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

    367 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  82. Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go

    367 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  83. FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge

    367 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  84. Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

    367 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  85. So I reverse engineered two dating apps

    366 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  86. A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)

    365 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  87. Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces

    363 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  88. Ronin – A Lisp-based image processing tool

    362 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  89. SQLite 3.32

    362 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  90. No One Goes There Anymore

    362 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  91. Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel

    362 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  92. Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

    361 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  93. When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

    355 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  94. Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform

    355 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  95. There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2

    355 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  96. Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

    355 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  97. Racket is 25

    354 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  98. Show HN: Python lib for rich text, markdown, tables, etc. in the terminal

    354 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  99. I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”

    353 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  100. What is a control system anyway?

    352 points • comment • may 18, 2020