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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted

    255 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  2. Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack

    255 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  3. Show HN: Writing for Software Developers

    255 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  4. U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China

    254 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  5. 15 years later: remote code execution in qmail

    254 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  6. Deno Is a Browser for Code

    253 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  7. Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?

    252 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  8. SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch

    251 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  9. Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display

    251 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  10. Real time image animation in opencv using first order model

    250 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  11. Lovely Week with Elixir

    250 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  12. CA Root expired on 30 May 2020

    249 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  13. Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters following Jump sale

    249 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  14. Android Studio 4.0

    248 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  15. Why Restaurants Are So Fucked

    248 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  16. The Hard Part of Learning a Language

    248 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  17. A casino card shark’s first time getting caught

    247 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  18. James Damore and three others end Google suit

    247 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  19. Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)

    246 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  20. What the heck happened with .org?

    246 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  21. The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014)

    246 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  22. Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

    245 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  23. Coinbase will be a remote-first company

    245 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  24. An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

    244 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  25. Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019)

    243 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  26. Carbon: Create and share images of source code

    243 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  27. New species of fungus identified via Twitter

    243 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  28. Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

    242 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  29. The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning

    242 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  30. My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video]

    242 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  31. Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents

    242 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  32. Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard

    241 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  33. GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

    241 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  34. Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right

    241 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  35. Featherweight Go

    241 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  36. Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)

    241 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  37. Prowords

    240 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  38. 110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)

    240 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  39. Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs

    240 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  40. A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly

    240 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  41. The PEPs of Python 3.9

    240 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  42. The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe

    240 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  43. OpenSSL 3.0

    240 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  44. We Are Trying Out PeerTube

    239 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  45. When Parallel: Pull, Don't Push

    238 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  46. Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?

    237 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  47. What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)

    237 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  48. Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence

    237 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  49. The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

    236 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  50. The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)

    236 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  51. India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers

    236 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  52. Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?

    236 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  53. Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy

    235 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  54. Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker

    234 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  55. Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%

    234 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  56. Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management

    233 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  57. Lit: A ridiculously small responsive CSS framework

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  58. RISC-V OS using Rust: Filesystems

    233 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  59. Learn Genetics

    233 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  60. Port knocking

    232 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  61. ‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’

    232 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  62. OpenBSD 6.7

    232 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  63. Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App

    231 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  64. Analyzing pitches to find what gets VCs interested in a meeting

    231 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  65. The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB

    231 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  66. Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?

    231 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  67. Make your 404s into 302s

    230 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  68. The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you

    229 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  69. Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

    229 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  70. Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video]

    228 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  71. Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise

    227 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  72. If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question

    227 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  73. Back of the envelope estimation hacks

    227 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  74. Swarm satellites probe weakening of Earth’s magnetic field

    227 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  75. Employers are rethinking open-plan office design

    227 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  76. The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (2019)

    226 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  77. Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness

    226 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  78. Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole

    226 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  79. Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line

    226 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  80. America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies still struggle to profit

    226 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  81. I got my first $50/mo customer

    225 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  82. If Rockets Were Transparent [video]

    225 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  83. Electrons May Well Be Conscious

    225 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  84. Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose itemized cost breakdown

    224 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  85. Why does writing matter in remote work?

    224 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  86. OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice

    223 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  87. Julia library for fast machine learning

    223 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  88. America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

    223 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  89. Show HN: FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB

    223 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  90. Signal PINs

    222 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  91. $100M in bounties paid via HackerOne to ethical hackers

    222 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  92. UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

    222 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  93. macOS Catalina 10.15.5

    222 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  94. Rand Paul says no-knock warrants 'should be forbidden' in wake of shooting

    221 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  95. Rust in an Instant

    221 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  96. John Peel Sessions

    221 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  97. Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5

    221 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  98. Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients

    220 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  99. Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting

    220 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  100. I/O library 6x faster than fmt, 10x faster than stdio.h and iostream

    220 points • comment • may 25, 2020