1248
302
Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/
6 years ago
998
198
How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
https://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/how-i-recovered-over-300k-of-bitcoin/
771
312
Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/1/web/1
710
454
Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker
http://schools.nyc.gov/freemeals
591
355
PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-is-the-worlds-best-database/
537
82
Secret iPad
https://thinkfractional.blog/secret-ipad/
430
163
How We reduced our Google Maps API cost
https://blog.cityflo.com/how-we-reduced-our-google-maps-api-cost/
419
114
OpenTTD 1.10
https://www.openttd.org/news/2020/04/01/openttd-1-10-0.html
391
320
Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22770643
385
106
Tell HN: Launch HN Test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767151
368
47
Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22773810
358
128
Nim 1.2
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/04/03/version-120-released.html
328
141
Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/os-x-server/id883878097
287
69
Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/twitter-direct-message-caching-and-firefox/
275
124
Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/
237
Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
https://amitness.com/2020/03/fixmatch-semi-supervised/
224
87
Free software tools for staying in touch
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch
221
57
Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users
217
176
How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom
https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html
216
309
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769789
210
120
Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
https://netflixtechblog.com/bringing-4k-and-hdr-to-anime-at-netflix-with-sol-levante-fa68105067cd
203
139
How I lost control of our bank accounts to a phone scammer
https://robservatory.com/how-i-lost-control-of-our-bank-accounts-to-a-phone-scammer/
197
58
Introduction to Permaculture (1994)
https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00moll/mode/2up
196
96
Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)
http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/spacex-loses-its-third-starship-prototype-during-a-cryogenic-test/
190
99
Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/04/03/does-zoom-use-end-to-end-encryption/
174
132
Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/02/dear-jeff-bezos-amazon-instead-of-firing-me-protect-your-workers-from-coronavirus
168
109
Windows 10 Hosted App Model
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/03/19/hosted-app-model/
165
83
Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
68
Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
https://github.com/jethrokuan/org-roam
★ 5.9k Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
162
43
Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet
https://github.com/capnmidnight/lozya
★ 1k JavaScript MIT– 6 years ago
152
Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon
https://www.insidehook.com/article/bookshop-independent-bookstores-amazon
148
49
Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/03/zoom-waiting-rooms-default/
146
48
Iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust
https://github.com/hecrj/iced
★ 30.3k Rust MIT– 6 years ago
144
30
The Object Model of Self
https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/articles/tree/master/SelfObjectModel
★ 81 – 6 years ago
131
Private Equity Wants in on the Bailout? Spare Me
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-02/coronavirus-private-equity-wants-in-on-small-business-bailout
The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-anarchist-abstractionist-who-was-alexander-grothendieck-cc396083d94e
44
Rust docs team is no more
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/03/27/goodbye-docs-team.html
34
Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/solutions-journalism/2019/09/05/gainesville-florida-put-its-internal-emails-online-making-residents-angry-frustrating-journalists/2196171001/
138
110
Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-01/tracking-coronavirus-by-smell-test-is-risk-manager-s-project-now
21
Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/homo-erectrus-australopithecus-saranthropus-south-africa-180974571/
136
439
Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/03/americans-are-underestimating-how-long-coronavirus-disruptions-will-last-health-experts-say/
130
11
Deep Molecular Programming
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13720
25
Nvidia Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR
★ 1.7k C++ Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
193
Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/bank-of-americas-small-business-loan-portal-is-up-making-it-the-first-bank-to-accept-applications.html
126
Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler
https://github.com/cxxxr/valtan
★ 269 Common Lisp – 6 years ago
122
65
How to flash an LED: writing ARM assembly for an STM32 microcontroller
https://mcla.ug/blog/how-to-flash-an-led.html
121
Apple Store leaks 4.7-inch ‘iPhone SE’ name
https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/exclusive-iphone-9-launch-imminent-2020-iphone-se-in-red-white-and-black/
119
45
Bug bounty platforms buy researcher silence, violate labor laws, critics say
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3535888/bug-bounty-platforms-buy-researcher-silence-violate-labor-laws-critics-say.html
115
53
“farewell outline. we have all been laid off.”
https://twitter.com/leahfinnegan/status/1246070831807188993
29
Zoom Has a Dark Side – and an FBI Warning
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826129520/a-must-for-millions-zoom-has-a-dark-side-and-an-fbi-warning
102
17
Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/04/temporarily-rolling-back-samesite.html
91
New WebKit Features in Safari 13.1
https://webkit.org/blog/10247/new-webkit-features-in-safari-13-1/
88
22
Most-recommended programming books
https://www.daolf.com/posts/best-programming-books/
86
28
When debugging, attitude matters
https://jvns.ca/blog/debugging-attitude-matters/
1
Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform
https://jcs.org/2019/05/03/mailstation
Show HN: KCP: a new low-latency, secure network stack
https://improbable.io/blog/kcp-a-new-low-latency-secure-network-stack
80
13
Electricity as Power (1880) [pdf]
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/os-1/1/5.full.pdf
