823
456
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/
6 years ago
716
575
A (possible) solution to Covid-19
https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/05/a-solution-to-covid-19/
677
239
Senate Stock Watcher
https://senatestockwatcher.com
652
332
A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32869/this-man-owns-the-worlds-most-advanced-private-air-force-after-buying-46-f-a-18-hornets
597
300
E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall
https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494
542
576
The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring
506
78
Convert Markdown to a Mind Map
https://markmap.js.org/
391
211
The Global Dollar Short Squeeze
https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/
390
340
Firefox 75.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/
368
314
Make Linux Fast Again (2019)
https://make-linux-fast-again.com/
320
238
COBOL programmers answer call
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/cobol-programmers-answer-call-unemployment-benefits-systems
306
24
Show HN: Write generative fine art in Rust
https://paytonturnage.gitbook.io/valora/
299
195
What's Next for Scala
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/TheDeathofHypeWhatsNextforScala.html
285
122
FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
https://www.freerdp.com/
278
60
Systems that defy detailed understanding
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understanding/
223
59
3D photographic inpainting from a single source image
https://shihmengli.github.io/3D-Photo-Inpainting/
222
36
Pointless
https://ptls.dev/
221
183
How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-coronavirus-and-how-the-united-states-ended-up-with-nurses-wearing-garbage-bags
213
163
Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases
208
109
First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1248707315626201088
185
57
Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter
http://readastorytome.com/
182
311
A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-long-time-until-the-economic-new-normal/
172
266
SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from confirmed cases
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20051540v1
Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations
https://github.com/braidchat/braid
169
12
Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)
http://www.neilconway.org/talks/hacking/
164
“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain
96
Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/04/some-shirts-hide-you-from-cameras-but-will-anyone-wear-them/
85
Ode to J
https://zserge.com/posts/j/
162
119
Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system
https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/04/10/leaky.html
158
135
Map of usage of intensive care beds in Germany
https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/corona-deutschland-intensiv-betten-monitor-krankenhaus-auslastung/
156
69
Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems
https://vladikk.com/2020/04/09/untangling-microservices
153
55
Show HN: Git-bug – Distributed bug tracker, or what to do when GitHub is down
https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
146
Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad interviews
https://andrewrondeau.com/blog/2020/04/take-home-vs-whiteboard-coding-the-problem-is-bad-interviews
143
65
Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations (2015)
https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393
138
23
Mort Drucker has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/arts/mort-drucker-dead.html
133
81
IDA Home is coming
https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida-home-is-coming/
Ride down into JavaScript dependency hell
https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/09/ride-down-the-javascript-dependency-hell.html
130
Fed should pay every American, let hedge funds and billionaires ‘get wiped out’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-should-pay-every-american-more-let-hedge-funds-and-billionaires-get-wiped-out-says-social-capital-ceo-2020-04-09
129
121
SIMD instructions
https://opensourceweekly.org/issues/7
127
4
There Is No Plan to Return to Normalcy in 2020
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment
125
64
We need to talk about AirPods Pro
https://medium.com/macoclock/we-need-to-talk-about-airpods-pro-4bbd2533e031
120
46
CuPy Accelerates NumPy on the GPU? Hold My Cider, Here's Clojure
https://dragan.rocks/articles/20/Clojure-Numpy-Cupy-CPU-GPU
110
219
Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52236936
101
40
Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test general relativity
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-scientists-tokyo-skytree-einstein-theory.html
98
22
A survey of testing techniques we've found useful
https://vector.dev/blog/how-we-test-vector/
97
26
Introduction to Cybernetics (1957)
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
93
The Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was
https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/04/10/remembering-the-nucleon-fords-1958-nuclear-powered-concept-car-that-never-was/
91
7
Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification
https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
90
3
https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/apple-and-google-partner-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/
84
How to Avoid the Assignment Statement (2010)
http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/avoid-assignment
11
The Print Book Trade, and Money
https://mwl.io/archives/6210
83
Why Is the Stock Market Booming?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/virus-stock-market-booming.html
48
Mental models around Ok-Wrapping
https://vorner.github.io/2020/04/09/wrapping-mental-models.html
18
Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981)
https://books.google.nl/books?id=JT0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA33&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
How to Win a Currency War
https://www.lynalden.com/currency-war/
82
27
Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?
https://www.planetscale.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-at-planetscale-engineering-why-is-multi-cloud-a-hard-problem
94
Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/why-coronavirus-vaccine-could-take-way-longer-than-a-year/
79
Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices
https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences
14
Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/ge-moore-philosophy-books-analytic-ray-monk-biography
“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos