top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-07

Apple Faceshield

https://support.apple.com/faceshield

6 years ago

1170 upvotes – 623 comments

We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day

https://www.billiontoone.com/covid-19

6 years ago

684 upvotes – 238 comments

Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-communication-service-with-matrix-and-jitsi

6 years ago

518 upvotes – 137 comments

Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-so-bad-guys-cant/

6 years ago

477 upvotes – 183 comments

Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations

https://dfrieds.com/articles/data-science-reality-vs-expectations.html

6 years ago

462 upvotes – 163 comments

A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/stanford-researchers-devise-treatment-that-relieved-depression-i.html

6 years ago

430 upvotes – 253 comments

A humble guide to database schema design

https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/a-humble-guide-to-database-schema-design

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 245 comments

Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/30377

6 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT
408 upvotes – 201 comments

Lossless Image Compression Through Super-Resolution

https://github.com/caoscott/SReC

6 years ago

★ 1k Python MIT
384 upvotes – 125 comments

We abused Slack's TURN servers to gain access to internal services

https://www.rtcsec.com/2020/04/01-slack-webrtc-turn-compromise/

6 years ago

381 upvotes – 78 comments

The Power of Prolog

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

6 years ago

381 upvotes – 82 comments

Jack Dorsey gives $1B to fund global Covid-19 relief

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1247616214769086465

6 years ago

347 upvotes – 105 comments

“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/always-day-one-exclusive-excerpt-apple

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 174 comments

The Docker Compose Specification

https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-the-compose-specification/

6 years ago

251 upvotes – 119 comments

Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/firefox-75-ambitions-for-april/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 91 comments

Nippon Colors

https://nipponcolors.com

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 91 comments

Landlord service Naborly makes blacklist of tenants who missed 4/1 rent (YC '18)

https://www.qpbriefing.com/2020/04/06/unconscionable-landlord-service-naborly-draws-criticism-for-creating-blacklist-of-tenants-who-missed-april-1-rent/

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 190 comments

Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-suspend-delivery-service-that-competes-with-ups-fedex-11586296112

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 145 comments

Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/07/829091394/airlines-want-to-cancel-rule-requiring-them-to-refund-fares-for-canceled-flights

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 232 comments

Show HN: Fast Anomaly Detection in Graphs [pdf]

https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~sbhatia/assets/pdf/midas.pdf

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

https://wpodns.adtac.in/

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 47 comments

Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday

https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-paying-more-than-10-interest-on-1-billion-financing-announced-monday-11586297484

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 248 comments

WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/07/wework-sues-softbank-in-intensifying-crisis-over-canceled-3b-tender-offer/

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 117 comments

Using SIMD to aggregate billions of values per second

https://www.questdb.io/blog/2020/04/02/using-simd-to-aggregate-billions-of-rows-per-second

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 70 comments

Cofactor Explained: Clearing Elliptic Curves' dirty little secret

http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/cofactor

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 36 comments

Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly

https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth

6 years ago

★ 1.1k Assembly
161 upvotes – 32 comments

Hours

https://cutebouncingbunnies.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/hours/

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 38 comments

Mobius – .NET runtime running on .NET Core

https://tooslowexception.com/mobius-net-runtime-running-on-net-core/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 42 comments

SyncPlay: Synchronize VLC with remote friends to watch together

https://syncplay.pl/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 15 comments

Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239854-soil-gets-its-smell-from-bacteria-trying-to-attract-invertebrates/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What is a must read for a developer without a computer science degree?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22803780

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 43 comments

Lessons in Managing Haskell Memory

https://tech.channable.com/posts/2020-04-07-lessons-in-managing-haskell-memory.html

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 15 comments

Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies

https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-amazon-and-common-enemies/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 46 comments

YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52198946

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 223 comments

The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web

https://www.obsessivefacts.com/blog/2020-04-04-the-javascript-black-hole.html

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

The SeL4 Foundation: What and Why

https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/the-sel4-foundation-what-and-why/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: KarateClub a Python library for unsupervised machine learning on graphs

https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/karatecluB

6 years ago

★ 2.2k Python GPL-3.0
102 upvotes – 9 comments

Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve

http://phrack.org/papers/escaping_from_freebsd_bhyve.html

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: A curated set of colour combinations

https://duo.alexpate.uk/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

In Depth: The Game Boy Printer

https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art2.html

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc

https://lukespear.co.uk/blog/share-desktop-as-webcam-in-obs-loopback/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

Public Books Database

https://www.publicbooks.org/public-books-database/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

State of Software Engineering in 2020

https://quanticdev.com/articles/software-engineering-in-2020

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

SAP Graph: API Sandbox on preview

https://beta.graph.sap

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

U.S. airlines want a $50B bailout. They spent $45B buying back their stock

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/U-S-airlines-want-a-50-billion-bailout-They-15182769.php

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: Get a Hand LA

http://getahandla.com/

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

No, I Won't Link to Your Spammy Article

https://www.troyhunt.com/no-i-wont-link-to-your-spammy-article/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

The Man Who Got No Whammies (2015)

http://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-got-no-whammies/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

Taiwan’s government bars its agencies from using Zoom over security concerns

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/07/taiwans-government-bars-its-agencies-from-using-zoom-over-security-concerns/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Natural number game

https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_game/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments
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