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Hacker News (May 2020)

  1. The Framing of the Developer

    172 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?

    171 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  3. Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (2014) [pdf]

    171 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  4. The World Is Still Producing More Oil Than It Needs

    171 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  5. Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?

    171 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  6. California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing

    171 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  7. Säkkijärven polkka

    171 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  8. Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance

    171 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  9. Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine

    171 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  10. Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance with ADHD

    171 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  11. Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood, study suggests

    170 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  12. America's Growth Ponzi Scheme

    170 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  13. Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

    170 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  14. AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS

    170 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  15. Ask HN: Learning the business-side of things as a developer?

    170 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  16. This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist

    170 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  17. Happiness is a freshly organized codebase

    169 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  18. TSA compton backscattering exposes body to non-negligible radiation (2010)

    169 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  19. The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)

    169 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  20. Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms

    169 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  21. Loginsrv: JWT login microservice with back ends like OAuth2, Google, GitHub

    168 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  22. TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions

    168 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  23. Announcing TypeScript 3.9

    168 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  24. VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for FPGA

    168 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  25. Getting started with Rust by building a tiny Markdown compiler

    167 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  26. A Gentle Introduction to the Nix Family (2019)

    167 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  27. Stop Watching the News (2019)

    167 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  28. Show HN: A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2

    166 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  29. Game of Life in one Ruby statement inspired by APL

    166 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  30. A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree

    166 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  31. Researchers achieve optical data transmission speed of 44.2 terabits per second

    166 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  32. The mystery of 'hacked' Houseparty users may have been solved

    166 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  33. PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released

    166 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  34. EnTT: Gaming meets Modern C++

    166 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  35. What Peak Hello World Looks Like

    165 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  36. Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol

    165 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  37. Mental models for designers (2019)

    165 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  38. Jetson AGX Xavier

    165 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  39. The deepest ever sighting of an octopus, by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor

    165 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  40. The Great Asshole Fallacy

    165 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  41. Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots

    165 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  42. Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal

    165 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  43. GitHub Actions: Organization secrets

    165 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  44. Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses

    165 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  45. A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers

    164 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  46. Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures

    164 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  47. The case for national paid maternity leave

    164 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  48. Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5

    164 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  49. Thai Database Leaks 8.3B Internet Records

    163 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  50. How to Use Trend Micro's Rootkit Remover to Install a Rootkit

    163 points • comment • may 18, 2020

  51. Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories

    163 points • comment • may 31, 2020

  52. Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa

    163 points • comment • may 14, 2020

  53. An introduction to virtual memory

    162 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  54. Programming Inside a Container

    162 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  55. Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero

    162 points • comment • may 06, 2020

  56. Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability

    162 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  57. A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory

    162 points • comment • may 07, 2020

  58. Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation

    162 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  59. US blocks shipments of semiconductors to Huawei

    162 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  60. Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them

    162 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  61. Retrofuturism

    162 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  62. The Kawaiization of Product Design

    161 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  63. Introduce ZSTD compression to ZFS

    161 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  64. Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company

    161 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  65. Restaurants rebel against delivery apps as cities crack down on fees

    160 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  66. Error messages in Haiku?

    160 points • comment • may 13, 2020

  67. European parliament strongly recommends open source software

    160 points • comment • may 23, 2020

  68. Alterations in glutamate and the experience of ego dissolution with psilocybin

    160 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  69. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

    160 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  70. New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible

    160 points • comment • may 15, 2020

  71. WeChat Surveillance Explained

    160 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  72. Finland to abandon school subjects in favour of phenomenon-based learning (2016)

    160 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  73. Linux 5.8 Set to Optionally Flush the L1d Cache on Context Switch

    160 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  74. Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site

    159 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  75. How to Detect Business Fraud

    159 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  76. Landlord-friendly, self-install solar and battery kit

    159 points • comment • may 28, 2020

  77. How VC Works – A Beginner's Guide

    159 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  78. Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business

    159 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  79. KH-11 spysat design revealed by NRO’s telescope gift to NASA (2012)

    159 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  80. What a typical serverless architecture looks like in AWS

    158 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  81. Time Traveling Linux Bug Reporting: Coming in Julia 1.5

    158 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  82. Rising CO2 levels may trigger cognitive impairment, says new study

    158 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  83. Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites

    158 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  84. Best CPUs for Workstations

    158 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  85. Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery apps thrive?

    158 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  86. I wrote a beginners guide to Kubernetes

    158 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  87. eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs

    158 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  88. Show HN: Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them

    158 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  89. A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video]

    158 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  90. One-pass Compiler

    157 points • comment • may 22, 2020

  91. What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (2000)

    157 points • comment • may 04, 2020

  92. Text exceeding maxlength will no longer be truncated when pasted in Firefox 77

    157 points • comment • may 16, 2020

  93. Bandcamp is waiving fees today in support of artists

    157 points • comment • may 02, 2020

  94. An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  95. Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'historic' space mission

    156 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  96. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

    156 points • comment • may 01, 2020

  97. Black hole paradoxes reveal a fundamental link between energy and order

    156 points • comment • may 30, 2020

  98. 0xF Rules

    156 points • comment • may 08, 2020

  99. Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini

    156 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  100. Farm in SE Australia is growing native grains for flour and bread

    155 points • comment • may 13, 2020