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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Fed Report Shows Magical Thinking on Safety of Wall Street’s Banks

    16 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  2. Robert Louis Stevenson and His Friends

    16 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  3. Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots

    16 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  4. CDC: Coronavirus antibody tests may be wrong 50% of the time

    16 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  5. Ontop – A Virtual Knowledge Graph System

    16 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  6. Cruz calls for criminal investigation of Twitter

    16 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  7. Google Authenticator Now Supports Transfer of 2-Step Verification Codes

    16 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  8. Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, causing satellites to malfunction

    16 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  9. The district court ruled that brown recluse spiders are insects [pdf]

    16 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  10. Gas stoves may routinely generate unsafe levels of indoor air pollution

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  11. There's a fake Dark Sky app on the Play Store–and people are paying real money

    16 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  12. The Big China Short

    16 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  13. The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide

    16 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  14. Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still on the Loose, but We Can Reopen Jurassic Park

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  15. Updating our approach to misleading information

    16 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  16. Files Discredit Accusation That Democrats Tried to Hack the Georgia Election

    16 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  17. Ask HN: Which companies have great software engineering practices?

    16 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  18. The SNOBOL4 Programming Language [pdf]

    16 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  19. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (2011)

    16 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  20. YouTube Is Down

    16 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  21. Spyware inside Unity is trying to phone home to a website with an expired SSL

    16 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  22. Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  23. Paul Tudor Jones Buys Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  24. Don't Go to College This Fall

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  25. LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released with Its Skia and Vulkan Rendering

    16 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  26. We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

    16 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  27. Android hidden API restriction bypass (= API 30)

    16 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  28. Our approach to the future relationship with the EU [pdf]

    16 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  29. Should an emoji come before or after a full-stop?

    16 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  30. 3.5-inch SBC offers Ryzen V1000 and up to four GbE ports

    16 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  31. Build Your Own ‘Google Translate’-Quality Machine Translation System

    16 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  32. Patches to Run Erlang in the Nanos Unikernel

    16 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  33. Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Lua's Multi-Values

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  34. VCVRack – open-source Virtual Eurorack DAW

    16 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  35. Trump Threatens to Designate Antifa as Terrorist Organization

    15 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  36. Elon Musk going to sell all physical possessions

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  37. Deepfakes Are Going to Wreak Havoc on Society. We Are Not Prepared

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  38. The Trouble with Comparisons

    15 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  39. Sweden’s coronavirus experiment has well and truly failed

    15 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  40. Viva Las Vegas?

    15 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  41. Second-System Effect

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  42. Startup turns 19k under-utilised gaming cafes into ML servers during COVID-19

    15 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  43. Seattle's new hygiene shower trailers cost the city $475 per shower

    15 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  44. Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper

    15 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  45. Xiaomi is stealing your search history

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  46. One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  47. Ask HN: How do you keep notes of things you learn

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  48. Generalists vs. specialists – which one should you strive for as a developer?

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  49. The birth of CLR (2006)

    15 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  50. Show HN: Make a QR code with your domain spelled out in the code pattern

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  51. The WoW rule: A formula for growth for SaaS Startups

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  52. Show HN: Notebag – A keyboard-focused note taking app

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  53. Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities

    15 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  54. Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  55. Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  56. Docker in a Day: Beginner to Advanced with Hands-On Examples

    15 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  57. Evidence Suggests Those With Severe Covid-19 Have Same Pre-existing Ponditions

    15 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  58. The Epidemiology of Misinformation

    15 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  59. Accelerated discovery of CO2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning

    15 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  60. Xerox copier could be replacing numbers in your documents (2013)

    15 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  61. The IHME coronavirus model keeps being wrong. Why are we still listening to it?

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  62. Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  63. Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country

    15 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  64. Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Work for ICE [video]

    15 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  65. Ask HN: How likely is a US revolution?

    15 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  66. How assembly language loops work [video]

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  67. Samsung Announces New 50MP Dual-Pixel and Quad-Bayer Isocell Sensor

    15 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  68. How a Misquotation Is Born (2017)

    15 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  69. Underwater Basket Weaving

    15 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  70. PewDiePie signs exclusive live-streaming deal with YouTube

    15 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  71. Analysis of how Covid-19 impacted product analytics usage

    15 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  72. High level privacy and security design for NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  73. A collection of essays about why online communities end up the way they do

    15 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  74. The Artist of the Future

    15 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  75. The White House Is Trying to Shut Down NASA’s Last Mars Rover

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  76. Why do we find comfort in terrifying stories?

    15 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  77. The coronavirus is outlasting the stimulus

    15 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  78. Ask HN: Are you hiring IT professionals over 35s? Leave the details below

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  79. Goodbye Webpack: Building Vue.js Applications Without Webpack

    15 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  80. Agile Scrum is not working

    15 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  81. Inkscape 1.0

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  82. White House organizes harassment of Twitter employee as Trump threatens company

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  83. Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling

    15 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  84. Show HN: Little Ball of Fur – A NetworkX extension library for graph sampling

    15 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  85. Social Media Usage at All-Time High. That Could Mean a Nightmare for Democracy

    15 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  86. Apple Photos app don't accept photo downloaded from iPhone because it's not JPEG

    15 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  87. Ask HN: What's the greatest lie of open source?

    15 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  88. The Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning

    15 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  89. Trump administration yanks approval for homeless shelters across California

    15 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  90. Lyft ends electric scooter operations in Oakland, Austin and San Jose

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  91. Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  92. 'Plague, Inc.’ developer never expected reality to look like its video game

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  93. CS 538: Theory and Design of Programming Languages (Spring 2020)

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  94. Solo living in a camper 727 as architecture of collapse – Kirsten Dirksen

    15 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  95. Scientists find brain center that 'profoundly' shuts down pain

    14 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  96. Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger

    14 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  97. Ex-Green Beret pitched Venezuela coup plot to Colorado investors last year

    14 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  98. Postmortem of a Scaleway related not-too-critical downtime

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  99. This rare AMD chip is the cheapest 16 core CPU

    14 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  100. From punch cutters to number crunchers (2017)

    14 points • comment • may 27, 2020