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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Rats are infecting humans with hepatitis, and nobody knows how

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  2. The hard parts about making it look easy

    5 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  3. How Many People Will Patent Monopolies Kill in This Pandemic?

    5 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  4. The work-from-home trader who shook global markets

    5 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  5. Israel Isolates Coronavirus Antibody

    5 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  6. Ask HN: How do you get support from Google?

    5 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  7. Show HN: An opinionated markdown-to-HTML tutorial publisher

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  8. An hour long conversation with the creators behind BigQuery

    5 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  9. Single List of HOWTOS

    5 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  10. Under-the-hood of type systems (e.g. TypeScript)

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  11. Open source targeted scraping API

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  12. Members – For Managing Associations and Clubs

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  13. Two mysterious web font bugs that no one seems to be talking about (2018)

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  14. The Law of Supply and Demand Isn’t Fair By Richard Thaler

    5 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  15. Let SOcket CAT Be Thy Glue over Serial

    5 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  16. Why NetNewsWire Is Fast

    5 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  17. 'All-out combat' feared as India, China engage in border standoff

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  18. The Fundamental Theories Behind Artificial Intelligence

    5 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  19. INTERCAL was born on May 26, 1972. Happy Birthday, INTERCAL

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  20. A Secret Algorithm Is Deciding Who Will Die in America

    5 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  21. An Incursion into Venezuela, Straight Out of Hollywood

    5 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  22. People don’t want to go back to how things were before coronavirus

    5 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  23. Ask HN: How can I run a program for 1 month against my will?

    5 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  24. Coronavirus pandemic may last 2 years and resurge in fall, study says

    5 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  25. Qanon is more important than you think

    5 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  26. French coronavirus expert REJECTS second wave fears branding warnings a fantasy

    5 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  27. Canada’s Competition Bureau Fines Facebook Millions over Privacy

    5 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  28. Self-Supervised Learning of 3D Human Pose Using Multi-View Geometry

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  29. I Believe Tara Reade. I’m Voting for Joe Biden Anyway

    5 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  30. Deliberate Practice for Knowledge Work

    5 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  31. Healthcare Is Not Ready for Artificial Intelligence. Yet

    5 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  32. Plastic bags were finally being banned. Then came the pandemic

    5 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  33. Car’s Yearly Tune-Up Costs as Much as a Civic

    5 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  34. Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous

    5 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  35. If you remember GeoCities this one is for you

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  36. Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on Coronavirus?

    5 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  37. Young, healthy people are getting sick from Covid-19

    5 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  38. Bend the Curve – Pandemic Response Simulator

    5 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  39. Plan to Save World’s Crops Lives in Norwegian Bunker

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  40. Rant: The DRY Principle Is Bad Advice

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  41. Joe Rogan moving podcast to Spotify, becoming an exclusive

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  42. WHO Praises Sweden for Resisting Lockdown Despite Growing Covid-19 Cases

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  43. Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity

    5 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  44. Yale's the science of well-being course starts today

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  45. Dying to go out to eat? Here's how viruses like Covid-19 spread in a restaurant

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  46. ‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap

    4 points • comment • may 19, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  48. Dear Reader: A Letter from the Author of ‘The Giver’ and ‘Number the Stars’

    4 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  49. Microsoft: We were wrong about open source

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  50. Microsoft launches Surface Go 2 with a bigger display

    4 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  51. Ford Cop Cars Can Now Heat Interiors to over 133 Degrees to Kill Coronavirus

    4 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  52. Hints and Principles for Computer System Design

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  53. ParaLLEl-RDP update (LLE N64 emu) – iGPU/Android dev, Chrome profiler, and more

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  54. Deliveroo was the poster child for venture capitalism. It's not so good now

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  55. Introduction to Libp2p – David Dias

    4 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  56. What Happens Next?

    4 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  57. Artificial Intelligence can't technically invent things, says patent office

    4 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  58. The Panda Language: No Loops, No Ifs, Just Fun

    4 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  59. KubeVirt, LXD, KVM, vSphere, G8 and LDAP/AD updates in Mist v4.3

    4 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  60. NASA, SpaceX to Launch First Astronauts to Space Station from U.S. Since 2011

    4 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  61. A Marketplace for Chatbots

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  62. Ask HN: What NoSQL database do you recommend in 2020?

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  63. These Keys Shouldn't Exist

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  64. Ask HN: Will contact tracing lead to a Chinese style social credit system?

    4 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  65. Dataset for US police departments that allow neck restraints (2013)

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  66. The End of Podcasting’s Innocence

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  67. Uncertainty over who could access NHSX contact tracing app data as pilot starts

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  68. “Shuffle Sharding” technique used by AWS ELB team

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  70. The hard parts about making it look easy

    4 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  71. Sharing global stack data with Terraform

    4 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  72. What is happening in Hong Kong?

    4 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  73. Children Are Hospitalized with Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  74. How to find toilet papers using headless browsers?

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  75. Feminist cartographers are filling in urban design data gaps

    4 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  76. The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  77. Reasonable Education: In Praise of Homeschooling

    4 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  78. Show HN: Wayfind Maps – For Navigating Apartment Complexes in DFW

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  79. High Intensity Interval Training for Devs

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  80. Show HN: Porting a Classic 1970s Chess Program to Modern Hardware

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  81. 17-Year-Old Turned Down $8M to Keep His Viral Coronavirus Tracker Ad-Free

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  82. Show HN: Python convtools library – code generation for data transforms

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  83. Rust concurrency: a streaming workflow, served with a side of back-pressure

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  84. Drone deliveries soar in rural Scotland during coronavirus outbreak

    4 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  85. Widespread Vote-by-Mail Fraud Allegations in Paterson NJ City Council Election

    4 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  86. Watson's Creator Wants to Teach AI a New Trick: Common Sense

    4 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  87. Ask HN: How to Learn Web Design?

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  88. Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  89. Dong Yaoqiong

    4 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  90. One Idea for Speeding a Coronavirus Vaccine: Deliberately Infecting People

    4 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  91. Show HN: Using GitHub as a CMS with Cloudflare Workers Sites

    4 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  92. Secrets, Surveillance and Snowden

    4 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  93. Some Nursing Homes Escaped Covid-19–Here's What They Did Right

    4 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  94. The Power of Good Design

    4 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  95. Navy Releases New UFO Incident Reports

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  96. China put pressure on EU to soften coronavirus disinformation report

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  97. Ask HN: What is your blog stack?

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  98. Foursquare Recovery Index

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  99. Are There Laws of History?

    4 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  100. The Beginner's Guide to Intermittent Fasting

    4 points • comment • may 24, 2020