496
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Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/technology/virus-start-ups-pummeled-layoffs-unwinding.html
6 years ago
447
295
New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792
418
156
Show HN: 33 line React
https://leontrolski.github.io/33-line-react.html
353
347
What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)
https://likewise.am/2014/12/26/what-armenians-should-know-about-life-in-america/
343
115
Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
https://treendly.com
331
134
PostgreSQL's Imperfections
https://medium.com/@rbranson/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791
315
245
Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22778123
304
169
Yet another novel I will no longer write
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/reality-keeps-stealing-my-line.html
292
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Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206400/apple-tax-amazon-tv-prime-30-percent-developers
277
111
How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding
https://bernd.dev/2020/04/trim-videos-instantly/
270
107
Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22778089
264
92
How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/03/how-gov-uk-notify-reliably-sends-text-messages-to-users/
253
89
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
240
151
The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/18/the-highest-paid-athlete-of-all-time-was-a-roman-charioteer-if-he-had-lived-today-he-would-have-been-worth-15-billion/
221
27
Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbAafKLqC8
193
Things Markdown got wrong
https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/
184
58
Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-sewage-could-reveal-true-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak/
182
45
Show HN: A site to keep track of critters you can catch in Animal Crossing
https://ac-catch.com/
173
110
Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/
165
85
Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
https://whatsinstock.app/
163
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Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society
https://newrepublic.com/article/156800/hollow-politics-minimalism
62
Clues to Covid-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from antibody against SARS
https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20200403-wilson-covid19.html
149
70
FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development
https://www.fortressone.org
147
75
Rust Dataframe: Update 1
https://github.com/nevi-me/rust-dataframe/blob/master/notes/update-01__04-04-2020.md
★ 280 Rust Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
144
191
What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/strategic-petroleum-reserve1.htm
143
34
Show HN: VS Code extension that fades out the colors until you take a break
https://github.com/schneefux/vscode-winddown
★ 322 TypeScript GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
141
17
Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/04/mi6_personnel_bletchley/
132
Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-flights/russia-to-halt-all-flights-at-midnight-on-friday-including-for-repatriation-idUSKBN21L1ZM
127
48
A secretive group trying to bring down North Korea’s regime
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-the-secretive-group-trying-to-bring-down-north-koreas-regime/ar-BB128HXF
124
54
IETF Response to “LS on New IP, Shaping Future Network”
https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1677/
116
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Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-york-city-schools-due-to-privacy-and-security-flaws
86
Mochizuki's proof of the ABC conjecture accepted for publication
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00998-2
113
29
Jitsi Meet Security and Privacy
https://jitsi.org/news/security/
6
The Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-frogs-xenopus.html
22
Show HN: A map of the world's virtual museums
https://virtualmuseums.io/
104
36
Git commands to know just after you get the basics
https://codersbible.com/5-git-commands-to-know-just-after-you-get-the-basics/
102
11
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html
90
79
Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russia-fears-sweden%E2%80%99s-deadly-submarines-25896
133
How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200219-why-monopoly-is-such-a-bad-game
84
57
Three questions that keep me up at night
https://blog.evjang.com/2020/04/three-questions-that-keep-me-up-at-night.html
82
19
Show HN: Live Program Notes for Schubert Sonata in B-Flat
https://liveprogramnotes.com/demo.html
81
3
Even Faster Math Functions
https://basesandframes.wordpress.com/2020/04/04/even-faster-math-functions/
78
8
General Transit Feed Specification and Clojure
https://grison.me/2020/04/03/fun-with-gtfs-and-clojure/
74
26
Cloudflare Stops Using ReCAPTCHA
https://twitter.com/muellermartin/status/1246108409486852103
73
46
On Surviving Screens and Social Media in Isolation
https://www.gq.com/story/cal-newport-screen-time-coronavirus
71
Physics of Cricket (2005)
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/cricket.html
14
Making an invertible function out of non-invertible parts
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/04/04/feistel-networks/
3M Response to Defense Production Act Order
https://news.3m.com/press-release/company-english/3m-response-defense-production-act-order
59
Customers say Getaround has been slow to pay repair bills
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-03/they-rented-their-cars-out-online-then-things-fell-apart
68
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We're in for 2 Months
https://foobuzz.github.io/covid19/
66
42
What Will the World Be Like After Coronavirus? Four Possible Futures
https://theconversation.com/what-will-the-world-be-like-after-coronavirus-four-possible-futures-134085
