top stories
Hacker News (May 2020)
-
A bunch of rants about cloud-induced damage
12 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
12 points • comment • may 02, 2020
-
U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF
12 points • comment • may 27, 2020
-
A 3-Tiered Approach to Securing Your Home Network
12 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
Show HN: The Monty Hall Problem in JavaScript
12 points • comment • may 12, 2020
-
The Price of Covid Freedom May Be Eternal Spying
12 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
Do Elevated Viewpoints Increase Risk Taking?
12 points • comment • may 24, 2020
-
Ask HN: Simple but modern Python dev set-up?
12 points • comment • may 27, 2020
-
Australian Government releases COVIDSafe application source code
12 points • comment • may 08, 2020
-
Second Analysis of Ferguson’s Model
11 points • comment • may 09, 2020
-
Show HN: Pick a single property from a JSON without parsing it
11 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
COBOL Cowboys: Professionals for Legacy COBOL Systems
11 points • comment • may 25, 2020
-
Dragon-ISS Rendezvous in Progress
11 points • comment • may 31, 2020
-
The Painting Behind the Door
11 points • comment • may 17, 2020
-
Google Pixel’s camera lead quits after the failure of the Pixel 4
11 points • comment • may 14, 2020
-
An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries
11 points • comment • may 16, 2020
-
California sues Uber, Lyft over misclassifying drivers as contractors
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
Two zero day flaws in iOS Mail threaten billions of iPhone and iPad
11 points • comment • may 27, 2020
-
Starving rats turning into cannibals as restaurant food supply disappears
11 points • comment • may 24, 2020
-
Bookshop.org earns more than $1M for indie bookstores
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
-
How Does Gratitude Improve Your Health?
11 points • comment • may 06, 2020
-
A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random (2015)
11 points • comment • may 12, 2020
-
NHS Contact Tracing: App and System Architecture Documentation
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
History of SQLite in the Browser (2014)
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
Taiwan will help fleeing Hongkongers move to island, Tsai Ing-wen says
11 points • comment • may 27, 2020
-
The 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory just took a dark turn
11 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
Will China Compensate the World with Trillions of Dollars?
11 points • comment • may 02, 2020
-
SpaceX SN4 Explodes during test
11 points • comment • may 29, 2020
-
Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020
11 points • comment • may 15, 2020
-
Where there's smoke – the cigarettes-and-Covid story is growing harder to ignore
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
-
Show HN: Sendfiles.online – Share, send, or recieve any file up to 2GB for free
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
Ask HN: Why you do what you do?
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
The extra $600 in unemployment insurance has been effective
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
Microsoft acquires Metaswitch in telecom push
11 points • comment • may 14, 2020
-
Surprisingly Simple Anti-Dark-Patterns That Build Trust in Ecommerce and SaaS
11 points • comment • may 01, 2020
-
Show HN: High quality COVID19 clinical dataset (symptoms/lab results/xrays etc.)
11 points • comment • may 01, 2020
-
Who Ultimately Decides What Content Is Removed from Facebook? Now We Do
11 points • comment • may 06, 2020
-
Indian Government Open Sources Aarogya Setu – Its COVID19 Tracking App
11 points • comment • may 26, 2020
-
The Bailout Is Working – For the Rich
11 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
2020 13-inch MacBook Pro review: The standard macOS workhorse
11 points • comment • may 12, 2020
-
Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
Shelter-in-Place Compliance Remains Low, UMD Research Finds
11 points • comment • may 05, 2020
-
The Olognion – Exquisite tech news
11 points • comment • may 17, 2020
-
Show HN: Ulysses–a writing tool I built to refocus when my mind is too loud
11 points • comment • may 21, 2020
-
Volvo bucks the industry, will sell Lidar-equipped self-driving cars by 2022
11 points • comment • may 06, 2020
-
$70k for Zoom classes? Virus crisis leaves US students miffed
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
-
Blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients, doctors say
11 points • comment • may 03, 2020
-
Facebook will pay millions to content moderators who suffer PTSD at work
11 points • comment • may 13, 2020
-
Edward Snowden: Contact Tracing is "The Architecture of Oppression"
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
WireGuard Endpoint Discovery and NAT Traversal Using DNS-SD
11 points • comment • may 21, 2020
-
Qt 5.15 LTS Released
11 points • comment • may 26, 2020
-
Production readiness checklist for back end applications
11 points • comment • may 22, 2020
-
Senate Democrats Seek Suspension of TSMC Deal
11 points • comment • may 26, 2020
-
Silicon Valley Police Declare Protest an Unlawful Assembly, Fire Tear Gas
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
Runtime Polymorphism Without Objects or Virtual Functions
11 points • comment • may 15, 2020
-
Ask HN: What is a good business writing course focusing on developers?
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
-
Nothing on HN about the protests is disappointing
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
Codepen releases online Flutter editor
11 points • comment • may 08, 2020
-
Why Expert Two-Sided Marketplace Startups Rarely Succeed
11 points • comment • may 04, 2020
-
Doriella Du Fontaine
11 points • comment • may 29, 2020
-
The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Available with 8GB RAM
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
Show HN: Kubetap – kubectl plugin to deploy intercepting proxies to K8s Services
11 points • comment • may 24, 2020
-
How covid-19 conspiracy theorists are exploiting YouTube culture
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
Show HN: HAProxy back end controller/scaler, supports AWS ASG and Consul
11 points • comment • may 25, 2020
-
The Unspoken Pain of Cofounder Relationships
11 points • comment • may 20, 2020
-
Ask HN: Any current Thiel Fellows here?
11 points • comment • may 29, 2020
-
Spike mutation reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 [pdf]
11 points • comment • may 03, 2020
-
Tesla Launches Model X-Æ-A-12
11 points • comment • may 05, 2020
-
Covid Underdogs: Mongolia
11 points • comment • may 22, 2020
-
Ferrari is now worth more than General Motors and Ford
11 points • comment • may 05, 2020
-
Show HN: Simple, fast and fun communication over Websockets
11 points • comment • may 14, 2020
-
Tiny Differentiable Simulator is a header-only C++ physics library
11 points • comment • may 15, 2020
-
Tell HN: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS is man-in-the-middling sites, returning HTTP 403
11 points • comment • may 26, 2020
-
Things I Wish I Knew Before University
11 points • comment • may 26, 2020
-
Re-purpose a tablet into a “video phone” and mail it to a COVID-isolated elder
11 points • comment • may 27, 2020
-
Top AWS engineer Tim Bray quits $1m-plus job over Amazon firing employees
11 points • comment • may 04, 2020
-
Exploring the Complexity of Driving Directions(2010)
11 points • comment • may 09, 2020
-
A (Not So) Brief but (Very) Accurate History of PL/SQL
11 points • comment • may 05, 2020
-
The Mel Lyman Personality Cult Revisited (2011)
11 points • comment • may 04, 2020
-
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Source Code) by Silas Warner
11 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
Health Officials Say 'No Thanks' to Contact-Tracing Tech
11 points • comment • may 08, 2020
-
Apple begins selling Amazon's eero mesh routers
11 points • comment • may 14, 2020
-
How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it
11 points • comment • may 07, 2020
-
Philosopher Is Challenging All of Evolutionary Psychology
11 points • comment • may 15, 2020
-
All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization – 2020 Edition
11 points • comment • may 28, 2020
-
Box goes remote: “The future of a digital workplace”
11 points • comment • may 22, 2020
-
Spain about to bring in basic income scheme, could 'stay forever'
11 points • comment • may 18, 2020
-
Ask HN: Can refreshing my advanced math background turn into a related job?
11 points • comment • may 13, 2020
-
Linux Desktop Environment Face-Off: Which GUI Is Best
11 points • comment • may 10, 2020
-
GitHub Stores Deleted Credit Cards
11 points • comment • may 11, 2020
-
Ask HN: How does Clearbit Reveal know who I am?
11 points • comment • may 30, 2020
-
Two Coasts. One Virus. New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times Worse Than California
11 points • comment • may 18, 2020
-
Rust-Written Redox OS Booting the 128-Thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
11 points • comment • may 02, 2020
-
World Game
11 points • comment • may 08, 2020
-
Lowering reading levels in writing strangely increases views
11 points • comment • may 26, 2020
-
Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital
11 points • comment • may 16, 2020
-
St. Louis and its spirit of rebellion
10 points • comment • may 11, 2020
-
The GraphQL Sweet Spot
10 points • comment • may 15, 2020
-
Ask HN: Not a startup, what do you think of the craft & techniques?
10 points • comment • may 09, 2020
-
Imperial Covid model could be the largest software mistake of all time
10 points • comment • may 16, 2020