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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

    297 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  2. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?

    296 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  3. Simplifying Board Games

    295 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  4. The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017

    295 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  5. 2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]

    294 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  6. Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update

    294 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  7. Xfce switches to GitLab

    294 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  8. YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

    293 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  9. Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs

    293 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  10. Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment

    293 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  11. Implementing simple cooperative threads in C

    293 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  12. TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona

    293 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  13. This has to stop now. Website which aims to build library of police brutality

    293 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  14. The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch

    292 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  15. Why NetNewsWire Is Fast

    292 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  16. Little Richard has died

    292 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  17. Slack was down

    291 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  18. Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?

    290 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  19. A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles

    290 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  20. Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment

    289 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  21. Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules

    289 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  22. Three bugs in the Go MySQL driver

    289 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  23. Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration

    288 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  24. Show HN: r/hnblogs, Blogging is not Dead

    287 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  25. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

    287 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  26. Remote work means anyone can take your job

    287 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  27. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

    286 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  28. Reading habits that changed my life

    285 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  29. Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

    285 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  30. Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California

    284 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  31. US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M

    283 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  32. Unofficial APIs

    283 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  33. Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents

    283 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  34. Lomuto's Comeback

    282 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  35. What Was TON And Why It Is Over

    281 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  36. Show HN: Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at the shell

    281 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  37. Popcorn Linux

    281 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  38. Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

    280 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  39. Can AI Become Conscious?

    280 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  40. Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

    280 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  41. Signs that a business idea will probably fail

    279 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  42. Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

    279 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  43. GraphBLAS – Graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra

    278 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  44. Fuchsia overview

    277 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  45. DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics

    277 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  46. Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost

    276 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  47. Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?

    276 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  48. Every software system used at Gitlab

    276 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  49. Pretending OOP Never Happened

    276 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  50. Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software

    276 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  51. Apache NiFi

    275 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  52. Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment

    274 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  53. GitLab 13.0

    273 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  54. Windows Package Manager Preview

    272 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  55. Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD

    272 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  56. Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months

    272 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  57. Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)

    272 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  58. Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files

    271 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  59. A simple way to get more value from metrics

    271 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  60. New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile

    271 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  61. Serve Videos Instead of GIFs

    270 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  62. Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

    270 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  63. Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

    269 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  64. Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day

    269 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  65. Ask HN: How to stop anxiety from too many choices?

    269 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  66. Five Years of Rust

    268 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  67. Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog

    268 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  68. Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Tampering of Mortgage Funds

    268 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  69. Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?

    268 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  70. How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?

    268 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  71. Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (2000)

    266 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  72. Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres

    266 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  73. Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum

    266 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  74. Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks

    265 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  75. Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS

    264 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  76. Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting

    263 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  77. Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?

    262 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  78. Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation

    262 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  79. What Happens Next? Covid-19 Futures, Explained with Playable Simulations

    262 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  80. Lord of the io_uring: io_uring tutorial, examples and reference

    262 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  81. An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015)

    262 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  82. Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X

    261 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  83. Physics Today is temporarily making its archive freely available

    261 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  84. Fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched pipes kill productivity

    261 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  85. Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed

    261 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  86. 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners

    261 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  87. Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support

    260 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  88. JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges

    260 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  89. Why we have so many problems with our teeth

    259 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  90. Make Writing a Habit

    259 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  91. Bash IRC Quote Database

    259 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  92. Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures

    259 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  93. Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security

    258 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  94. Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds

    257 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  95. Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech

    257 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  96. The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos

    256 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  97. How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs

    256 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  98. Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)

    256 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  99. Secessio plebis

    256 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  100. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020

    256 points • comment • may 12, 2020