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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. A bunch of rants about cloud-induced damage

    12 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  2. The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  3. U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  4. A 3-Tiered Approach to Securing Your Home Network

    12 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  5. Show HN: The Monty Hall Problem in JavaScript

    12 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  6. The Price of Covid Freedom May Be Eternal Spying

    12 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  7. Do Elevated Viewpoints Increase Risk Taking?

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Simple but modern Python dev set-up?

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  9. Australian Government releases COVIDSafe application source code

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  10. Second Analysis of Ferguson’s Model

    11 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  11. Show HN: Pick a single property from a JSON without parsing it

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  12. COBOL Cowboys: Professionals for Legacy COBOL Systems

    11 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  13. Dragon-ISS Rendezvous in Progress

    11 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  14. The Painting Behind the Door

    11 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  15. Google Pixel’s camera lead quits after the failure of the Pixel 4

    11 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  16. An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries

    11 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  17. California sues Uber, Lyft over misclassifying drivers as contractors

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  18. Two zero day flaws in iOS Mail threaten billions of iPhone and iPad

    11 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  19. Starving rats turning into cannibals as restaurant food supply disappears

    11 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  20. Bookshop.org earns more than $1M for indie bookstores

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  21. How Does Gratitude Improve Your Health?

    11 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  22. A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random (2015)

    11 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  23. NHS Contact Tracing: App and System Architecture Documentation

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  24. History of SQLite in the Browser (2014)

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  25. Taiwan will help fleeing Hongkongers move to island, Tsai Ing-wen says

    11 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  26. The 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory just took a dark turn

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  27. Will China Compensate the World with Trillions of Dollars?

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  28. SpaceX SN4 Explodes during test

    11 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  29. Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  30. Where there's smoke – the cigarettes-and-Covid story is growing harder to ignore

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  31. Show HN: Sendfiles.online – Share, send, or recieve any file up to 2GB for free

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  32. Ask HN: Why you do what you do?

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  33. The extra $600 in unemployment insurance has been effective

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  34. Microsoft acquires Metaswitch in telecom push

    11 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  35. Surprisingly Simple Anti-Dark-Patterns That Build Trust in Ecommerce and SaaS

    11 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  36. Show HN: High quality COVID19 clinical dataset (symptoms/lab results/xrays etc.)

    11 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  37. Who Ultimately Decides What Content Is Removed from Facebook? Now We Do

    11 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  38. Indian Government Open Sources Aarogya Setu – Its COVID19 Tracking App

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  39. The Bailout Is Working – For the Rich

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  40. 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro review: The standard macOS workhorse

    11 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  41. Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  42. Shelter-in-Place Compliance Remains Low, UMD Research Finds

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  43. The Olognion – Exquisite tech news

    11 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  44. Show HN: Ulysses–a writing tool I built to refocus when my mind is too loud

    11 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  45. Volvo bucks the industry, will sell Lidar-equipped self-driving cars by 2022

    11 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  46. $70k for Zoom classes? Virus crisis leaves US students miffed

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  47. Blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients, doctors say

    11 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  48. Facebook will pay millions to content moderators who suffer PTSD at work

    11 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  49. Edward Snowden: Contact Tracing is "The Architecture of Oppression"

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  50. WireGuard Endpoint Discovery and NAT Traversal Using DNS-SD

    11 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  51. Qt 5.15 LTS Released

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  52. Production readiness checklist for back end applications

    11 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  53. Senate Democrats Seek Suspension of TSMC Deal

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  54. Silicon Valley Police Declare Protest an Unlawful Assembly, Fire Tear Gas

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  55. Runtime Polymorphism Without Objects or Virtual Functions

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  56. Ask HN: What is a good business writing course focusing on developers?

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  57. Nothing on HN about the protests is disappointing

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  58. Codepen releases online Flutter editor

    11 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  59. Why Expert Two-Sided Marketplace Startups Rarely Succeed

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  60. Doriella Du Fontaine

    11 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  61. The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Available with 8GB RAM

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  62. Show HN: Kubetap – kubectl plugin to deploy intercepting proxies to K8s Services

    11 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  63. How covid-19 conspiracy theorists are exploiting YouTube culture

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  64. Show HN: HAProxy back end controller/scaler, supports AWS ASG and Consul

    11 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  65. The Unspoken Pain of Cofounder Relationships

    11 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  66. Ask HN: Any current Thiel Fellows here?

    11 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  67. Spike mutation reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 [pdf]

    11 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  68. Tesla Launches Model X-Æ-A-12

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  69. Covid Underdogs: Mongolia

    11 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  70. Ferrari is now worth more than General Motors and Ford

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  71. Show HN: Simple, fast and fun communication over Websockets

    11 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  72. Tiny Differentiable Simulator is a header-only C++ physics library

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  73. Tell HN: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS is man-in-the-middling sites, returning HTTP 403

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  74. Things I Wish I Knew Before University

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  75. Re-purpose a tablet into a “video phone” and mail it to a COVID-isolated elder

    11 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  76. Top AWS engineer Tim Bray quits $1m-plus job over Amazon firing employees

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  77. Exploring the Complexity of Driving Directions(2010)

    11 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  78. A (Not So) Brief but (Very) Accurate History of PL/SQL

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  79. The Mel Lyman Personality Cult Revisited (2011)

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  80. Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Source Code) by Silas Warner

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  81. Health Officials Say 'No Thanks' to Contact-Tracing Tech

    11 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  82. Apple begins selling Amazon's eero mesh routers

    11 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  83. How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  84. Philosopher Is Challenging All of Evolutionary Psychology

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  85. All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization – 2020 Edition

    11 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  86. Box goes remote: “The future of a digital workplace”

    11 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  87. Spain about to bring in basic income scheme, could 'stay forever'

    11 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  88. Ask HN: Can refreshing my advanced math background turn into a related job?

    11 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  89. Linux Desktop Environment Face-Off: Which GUI Is Best

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  90. GitHub Stores Deleted Credit Cards

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  91. Ask HN: How does Clearbit Reveal know who I am?

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  92. Two Coasts. One Virus. New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times Worse Than California

    11 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  93. Rust-Written Redox OS Booting the 128-Thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  94. World Game

    11 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  95. Lowering reading levels in writing strangely increases views

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  96. Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital

    11 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  97. St. Louis and its spirit of rebellion

    10 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  98. The GraphQL Sweet Spot

    10 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  99. Ask HN: Not a startup, what do you think of the craft & techniques?

    10 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  100. Imperial Covid model could be the largest software mistake of all time

    10 points • comment • may 16, 2020