top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-01

OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

https://obsproject.com/

6 years ago

1518 upvotes – 362 comments

SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/elon-musks-spacex-bans-zoom-over-privacy-concerns-memo-idUSKBN21J71H

6 years ago

879 upvotes – 283 comments

How to SSH Properly

https://gravitational.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/

6 years ago

584 upvotes – 158 comments

Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script

https://twitter.com/DanAmodio/status/1245329512889487361

6 years ago

562 upvotes – 214 comments

How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/how-snes-emulators-got-a-few-pixels-from-complete-perfection/

6 years ago

543 upvotes – 158 comments

1.1.1.1 for Families

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families/

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 294 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749308

6 years ago

413 upvotes – 597 comments

Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time tracking app

https://timecop.app

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 94 comments

PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]

https://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdf

6 years ago

311 upvotes – 106 comments

Ex-NSA hacker drops zero-day for Zoom

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/zoom-doom/

6 years ago

305 upvotes – 134 comments

State Machines in Rust

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/state-machines/

6 years ago

297 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749306

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 504 comments

How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/how-to-resolve-a-conflict-when-both-sides-are-right-1f375bc82f7f

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 163 comments

Swift on Mac OS 9

https://belkadan.com/blog/2020/04/Swift-on-Mac-OS-9/

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 44 comments

A cold outreach strategy that works

https://www.patrickrivera.co/posts/cold-outreach

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 124 comments

Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 119 comments

FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed / Wi-Fi usage [pdf]

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363451A1.pdf

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 120 comments

How many jobs can be done at home? [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI_White-Paper_Dingel_Neiman_3.2020.pdf

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 135 comments

T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/t-mobile-officially-completes-merger-with-sprint-ceo-john-legere-steps-down-ahead-of-schedule/

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 147 comments

Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/hospitals-tell-doctors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 103 comments

SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives

https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 31 comments

The Web is the Next Platform (1995)

https://benslivka.com/2017/08/15/the-web-is-the-next-platform-5271995/

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 56 comments

ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/april/acm-prize-2019

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 22 comments

Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/490523-bill-gates-calls-for-nationwide-shutdown-shutdown-anywhere-means-shutdown

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 381 comments

GoWFH: Find and list verified Work From Home and Remote jobs from top companies

https://gowfh.com

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 25 comments

Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity

https://slab.com/blog/remote-work-productivity/

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

Zoom Windows client could allow credentials to be leaked via UNC path injection

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zoom-client-leaks-windows-login-credentials-to-attackers/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 19 comments

New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer than MRI

https://newatlas.com/medical/first-x-ray-elastography-images/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 77 comments

Restarts in Common Lisp

https://sulami.github.io/posts/common-lisp-restarts/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 75 comments

Tell HN: Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749706

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 113 comments

What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?

https://snarky.ca/what-the-heck-is-pyproject-toml/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 194 comments

Show HN: Toga – Create apps from Google Sheets

https://toga.tech

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 32 comments

I'm building a SaaS for just one person

https://elliotbonneville.com/blog/seven-day-saas-retrospective/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: We've created a visual live-programming environment for .NET

https://visualprogramming.net/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 23 comments

The most expensive typefaces (2019)

https://medium.com/@msilvertant/the-most-expensive-typefaces-in-the-world-d025923084f0

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

https://www.deadmantracker.com/discreet-release-article

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 114 comments

Finite State Machines in Forth (1995)

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/fsm.html

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Computer Spacegames (1982) [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTNlMwTi1PTlVxc2M/view

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 38 comments

April Is Canceled

https://aprilcanceled.com/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 125 comments

Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools

https://blog.garrytan.com/masterclass-on-remote-work-hiring-recruiting-and-essential-tools-part-1-of-2

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749307

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 183 comments

NASA at Home: activities for children home from school

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/nasaathome/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: CloudWright – Build apps in your own cloud

https://medium.com/cloudwright/introducing-cloudwright-23e12bb13ba6

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 43 comments

Alphabet in bid to buy Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

Saudi Arabia ripped off my open-source app and published it on the App Store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752644

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

All my friends are dying

http://www.josiahzayner.com/2020/04/all-my-friends-are-dying.html

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/improving-audio-quality-in-duo-with.html

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

How Bad Antitrust Enforcers Kill People

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bad-antitrust-enforcers-kill

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-01/california-farmworkers-coronavirus

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 126 comments

The Petrucci Music Library

https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Replace GRUB2 with systemd-boot on Ubuntu 18.04 (2018)

https://blobfolio.com/2018/06/replace-grub2-with-systemd-boot-on-ubuntu-18-04/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Capability Myths Demolished (2003)

http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/duals/myths.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

How Dolt stores table data

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-04-01-how-dolt-stores-table-data/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 3 comments

The Opium of the Intellectuals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opium_of_the_Intellectuals

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

‘Dictatorships often start in the face of a threat’: UN privacy chief warns

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/coronavirus-lockdown-surveillance-tracking-dictatorship-authoritarian-united-nations-privacy-a9438561.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Layout-Isolated Components

https://visly.app/blog/layout-isolated-components

6 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Pas6502 – Object Pascal dialect compiler to 6502

https://bitbucket.org/paul_nicholls/pas6502/src/master/

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

A curious phishing attempt

https://htbr.nl/2020/03/30/a-curious-phishing-attempt/

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Flat HTML

https://github.com/samsquire/flat-html

6 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Add doh.nsa.gov – DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers/commit/3f858d836a1d07c5ba682ba327df0711e7ada8fd

6 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments
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