top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-02

How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

https://htmldom.dev/

6 years ago

Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/03/30/lyme-disease-bacteria-eradicated-by-new-drug-in-early-tests/

6 years ago

‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/war-dialing-tool-exposes-zooms-password-problems/

6 years ago

Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758217

6 years ago

A crash course in compilers (2018)

https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-compilers/

6 years ago

What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/04/02/whats-a-virus-anyway-part-1-the-bare-bones-basics/

6 years ago

Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate

6 years ago

Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty

https://physicstravelguide.com

6 years ago

ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3335772

6 years ago

All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April

https://www.pluralsight.com

6 years ago

Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]

https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

6 years ago

Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22763656

6 years ago

Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)

https://webrtchacks.com/sfu-cascading/

6 years ago

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data'

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/

6 years ago

Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-masks-e/exclusive-amazon-to-deploy-masks-and-temperature-checks-for-workers-by-next-week-idUSKBN21K1Y6

6 years ago

A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past

https://www.outsideonline.com/2411125/lynx-vilden-stone-age-life

6 years ago

Tailscale has reached general availability

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-launch/

6 years ago

GitHub Is Down

https://www.githubstatus.com/

6 years ago

Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/02/cloudflare-ceo-pledges-to-double-2020-internship-class/

6 years ago

'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of Humvees

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/call-duty-wins-first-amendment-victory-use-humvees-1287882

6 years ago

Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/reiki-cant-possibly-work-so-why-does-it/606808/

6 years ago

Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus

https://quill.chat

6 years ago

CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation

https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/02/cortex-v1.0-released-the-highly-scalable-fast-prometheus-implementation-is-generally-available-for-production-use/

6 years ago

The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/facts-around-zoom-encryption-for-meetings-webinars/

6 years ago

Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/palantir-in-talks-with-germany-france-for-virus-fighting-tool

6 years ago

Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud

https://interconnected.blog/covid-19-stress-tests-cloud-azure-aws/

6 years ago

The Invention of the AeroPress (2014)

https://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/

6 years ago

Show HN: A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency

https://github.com/TimeToogo/ff-proxy

6 years ago

★ 705 C MIT

Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix

https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/04/01/slopic.html

6 years ago

“Good Enough” Architecture [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEox3szeRc

6 years ago

History of Erlang and Elixir

https://medium.com/@Serokell/history-of-erlang-and-elixir-ab54415dbf9a

6 years ago

Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-physical-spurs-gene-reveals.html

6 years ago

CO2meter: A Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices

https://github.com/vfilimonov/co2meter

6 years ago

★ 255 Python MIT

Python for Non-Programmers

https://PythonForNonProgrammers.com/

6 years ago

QUIC – Will It Replace TCP/IP?

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/382768

6 years ago

Notes on the M4 Macro Language (2008)

https://mbreen.com/m4.html

6 years ago

Using Twilio to make a call forwarding and voice messaging system

https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/how%20to/2020/04/01/twilio-how-tocall-forwarding-and-voice-messaging.html

6 years ago

Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

https://www.pepp-pt.org/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Are we looking at a recession ahead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759320

6 years ago

Performance, Protection, and Sterilization of Face Mask Materials

https://utrf.tennessee.edu/information-faqs-performance-protection-sterilization-of-face-mask-materials/

6 years ago

What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage

https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0

6 years ago

React Mental Models: Working with Input

https://learnreact.design/2020/03/31/react-mental-models-working-with-input

6 years ago

Mediasoup – WebRTC Video Conferencing

https://mediasoup.org/

6 years ago