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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Her Cellphone Number Used to Be Elon Musk's. You Can Imagine the Calls She Gets

    8 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  2. Latin America's second-biggest airline, Avianca, driven to bankruptcy by Covid

    8 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  3. Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says

    8 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  4. Telegram abandons $1.7B crypto project

    8 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  5. US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    8 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  6. Big Ideas from Rationality

    8 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  7. Why Busy Is the New Stupid, and What We Can Do About It

    8 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  8. China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

    8 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  9. Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to GrubHub

    8 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  10. Step Chickens and the Rise of TikTok 'Cults'

    8 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  11. Amazon Sent Out a Scripted News Segment, and 11 Stations Aired It

    8 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  12. Dolphin Progress April 2020

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  13. Temporal Understanding of Cybersecurity Threats [pdf]

    8 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  14. The State of the Awk

    8 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  15. Don't be afraid of copying the master

    8 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  16. Show HN: To Listen to Any Page Prefix the URL with Playthis.link

    8 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  17. Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Is Different

    8 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  18. Ask HN: Is reverse engineering a saleable skill?

    8 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  19. Analysis of the Imperial College Epidemiological Model

    8 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  20. Pontiff: A Haskell-style build system for Chicken Scheme

    8 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  21. The Coming Death of Independent Podcasting

    8 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  22. Princeton names its first black valedictorian in the university's history

    8 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  23. Practice Happiness with Yale University

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  24. The harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures

    8 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  25. Some simple tricks in C/C++

    8 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  26. UK and US claim coronavirus labs being attacked by state hackers

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  27. Don’t Close Parks. Open Up Streets

    8 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  28. Roche gets FDA approval for Covid-19 antibody test with 99.8% specificity

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  29. Washington state claws back $300M from unemployment fraud scheme

    8 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  30. Ask HN: How does a JAMstack website like Smashing Magazine get hacked?

    8 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  31. I made my local pub in VR

    8 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  32. The Podcasting World Is Now Spotify versus Everybody Else

    8 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  33. The Cult of Elon Is Cracking

    8 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  34. Announcing Flutter 1.17

    8 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  35. MacBook Pro 13-Inch

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  36. The Coronavirus Epicenter Is Past Peak; It’s Time to End the Shutdowns

    8 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  37. Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 “deaths of despair”

    8 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  38. We Should All Be Preppers

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  39. The Retail Apocalypse Is Here

    8 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  40. Ask HN: Board Games Online?

    8 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  41. Algolia gets a new CEO as founder steps down

    8 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  42. Tell HN: Facebook IC4 Hiring Freeze

    8 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  43. North Dakota Constant (33% of ppl endorse made up conspiracy theory)

    8 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  44. How Facebook became “the most Chinese company In Silicon Valley”

    8 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  45. On the Observability of Pauli Crystals in Lithium

    8 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  46. School board removes famous books from curriculum for 'controversial' content

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  47. Volume control slider for my desk

    8 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  48. Bitcoin Hits $10K

    7 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  49. Tesla shares tank after Elon Musk tweets the stock price is ‘too high’

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  50. ACM: Computing Curriculum Draft for 2020s

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  51. 2600 Magazine: Hope 2020 Update

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  52. Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  53. We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution into a Conspiracy Cult

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  54. Magnet Fisherman Finds 60 Mysterious Cubes with Inscriptions in Coventry River

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  55. Musk dares Alameda county to arrest him

    7 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  56. REPL Driven Design

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  57. Twitter unlocks previously locked SDKMAN account then deletes all 3.5k followers

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  58. Ask HN: When do you think we will be able to regenerate teeth?

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  59. Four-day working week as way to rebuild New Zealand after Covid-19

    7 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  60. George Hotz on Nvidia's Autonomous Driving Strategy

    7 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  61. China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  62. Ask HN: Can I make you a dashboard for your side project?

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  63. Heritable Traits vs. Inherited Traits

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  64. Show HN: Djaq provides a powerful, instant remote API to your Django models data

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  65. House Pulls Surveillance Measure After Trump Tells Republicans to Vote No

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  66. The Surprisingly Cutthroat Business of Communion Crackers

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  67. Do atoms ever touch each other? (2013)

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  68. Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor

    7 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  69. CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit

    7 points • comment • may 16, 2020

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

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  71. Cromemco Computer Corporation

    7 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  72. Glitch lays off ‘substantial number of employees’ to cut costs

    7 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  73. Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  74. Microsoft Offers $100k If You Can Hack This Linux Operating System

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  75. Hate Speech vs Freedom of Speech

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  76. ORNL 3D Printed a Working Nuclear Reactor Core for the First Time

    7 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  77. Ask HN: Where are some good IRC/IM places hackers hang out?

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  78. SpaceX Dragon Docking Started with ISS

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  79. Show HN: GramGram – Send Instagram photos to your Grandma through the mail

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  80. What are some bad UX present in today's popular apps?

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  81. Best Practices for Array Indexing

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  82. Tile Writes to EU Accusing Apple of Abuse of Power

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  83. LaTeX Coffee Stains (2012)

    7 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  84. India is forcing people to use its Covid app, unlike any other democracy

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  85. Show HN: TechStax – create a developer portfolio in 2 minutes

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  86. Taleb and Asness feud on Twitter over tail-risk hedging

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  87. This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  88. Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Skimlinks owe us $6k affiliate revenue and hasn't wire a cent in 2 years

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  90. Researchers Warn of Unfixable DNS DoS NXNS Attack

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  91. Nvidia Researchers Demonstrate New Raytracing Algorithm

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  92. Don’t Build Push Notifications Yourself

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  93. AP count: Over 4,500 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  94. Jamstack is fast only if you make it so

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  95. NASA's head of human spaceflight abruptly resigns, citing 'mistake'

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  96. How AWS Firecracker works: A deep dive (2019)

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  97. Java's 25th birthday – celebrated with 25 Hours of Java

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  98. Construct a standalone COVID19 contact tracing device with a Raspberry Pi

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  99. Folders : a language where programs are encoded as hierarchies of folders

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  100. Hayao Miyazaki's Airships

    7 points • comment • may 11, 2020