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Hacker News (May 2020)

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

    220 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  2. The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp

    219 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  3. April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%

    219 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  4. 74% of Startups Have Trimmed Staff, 65% Have Less Than 6 Months of Cash

    219 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  5. The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

    219 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  6. Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds

    217 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  7. StreetComplete asks questions, with answers used to improve OpenStreetMap data

    217 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  8. Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video]

    217 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  9. Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement

    217 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  10. SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch live on Wednesday

    217 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  11. Ask HN: I'd like to learn vocals, any suggestion on how I can do this?

    217 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  12. The economics of cheaper batteries

    216 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  13. Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions

    216 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  14. Janus WebRTC Server

    216 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  15. Swift AWS Lambda Runtime

    216 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  16. Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes

    215 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  17. University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT

    214 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  18. Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

    214 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  19. Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated

    214 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  20. The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it

    214 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  21. Psychic Paper: iOS Sandbox Escape

    214 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  22. Welcome to C# 9.0

    214 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  23. Christo has died

    213 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  24. Analysis of dev agencies with hourly rates, team size and tech stack

    213 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  25. Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

    212 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  26. U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

    212 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  27. Google's top quantum scientist explains why he resigned

    212 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  28. The Fastest Google Fonts

    212 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  29. Improve your walking technique

    212 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  30. A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix

    211 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  31. Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

    211 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  32. Why the Cessna is such a badass plane (2019)

    211 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  33. Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China

    211 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  34. Notion encourages busy-work

    211 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  35. The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff

    211 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  36. The Linux Kernel FPGA Subsystem

    210 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  37. Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative metaprogramming

    210 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  38. Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?

    210 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  39. The rise of React

    210 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  40. The State of the AWK

    209 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  41. Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19

    209 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  42. Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)

    209 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Why can't I send faxes from my phone?

    209 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  44. Intelligent disobedience

    209 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  45. Learn Go: Hand-crafted Go exercises and examples

    208 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  46. Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos

    208 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  47. Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal

    207 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  48. Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen

    207 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  49. We built a new GPS receiver engine

    206 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  50. Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders

    206 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  51. Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs

    206 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  52. New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources

    206 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  53. Well-known web sites that port-scan their visitors

    206 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  54. In Defense of the Modern Web

    205 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  55. A 125-year-old delivery network that feeds Mumbai

    205 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  56. Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments

    205 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  57. Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures

    205 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  58. Georgism

    204 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  59. Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal traffic collisions

    204 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  60. Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS

    204 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  61. It's 2020 and I'm using image maps

    204 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  62. 1989 California Medfly Attack

    203 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  63. Show HN: Virtual Reality DOS

    203 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  64. Snow Crash: HBO Max adaptation of Neal Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk novel

    203 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  65. Ask HN: What is your learning strategy?

    203 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  66. The Success and Failure of Ninja

    202 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  67. Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?

    202 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  68. Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to shrink deep learning models

    202 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  69. Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches

    202 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  70. Why remote work is hard and how it can be fixed

    202 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  71. Show HN: A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that made me fall in love with CGI

    202 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  72. Bhūribhirbhāribhirbhīrābhūbhārairabhirebhire

    201 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  73. Launch HN: Satchel (YC S18) – Guides to the Best SaaS Tools

    201 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  74. Show HN: Multi-room audio with Snapcast and Raspberry Pi

    201 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  75. Bad times in corporate wireless networks

    201 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  76. ESLint 7.0

    201 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  77. Getting Back to Work

    200 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  78. Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses

    200 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  79. Oxidizing the Technical Interview

    200 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  80. How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby

    200 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  81. Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones

    199 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  82. Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips

    199 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  83. X-37b space plane’s microwave power beam experiment

    199 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  84. Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code

    199 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  85. Zork source code, 1977

    198 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  86. Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator

    198 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  87. An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains

    198 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  88. Show HN: This Fursona Does Not Exist

    198 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  89. The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People

    198 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  90. California sues Uber and Lyft, claiming workers are misclassified

    197 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  91. Show HN: Margin – A lightweight, flexible markup language for structured thought

    197 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  92. An analysis of the Lego City deep space rocket

    197 points • comment • may 10, 2020

  93. Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?

    196 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  94. We are complicit in our employer’s deeds

    196 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  95. Automattic invests in Matrix

    196 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  96. New fuzzing tool finds USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD

    196 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  97. Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police Department

    196 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  98. The Vanishing Of Ashlar: 4kb demo using GPU for sound and pathtracing

    196 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  99. Frameworkless Movement

    195 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  100. GitHub Insights

    195 points • comment • may 06, 2020