top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-04-12

Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208

5 years ago

629 upvotes – 516 comments

Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nasty-macos-flaw-is-bricking-macbooks-dont-install-this-update

5 years ago

607 upvotes – 424 comments

How to Speak (2018) [video]

https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-tll-005-how-to-speak-january-iap-2018/how-to-speak/index.htm

5 years ago

531 upvotes – 43 comments

Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/11/pengrun/

5 years ago

495 upvotes – 279 comments

Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go

https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 54 comments

Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding

https://abitawake.com/news/articles/enemy-ai-chasing-a-player-without-navigation2d-or-a-star-pathfinding

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 118 comments

New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity

https://www.city-journal.org/next-generation-nuclear-power

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 467 comments

China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/china-clamping-down-on-coronavirus-research-deleted-pages-suggest

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 331 comments

Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drive-in-theaters-adapt-to-coronavirus

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 208 comments

Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/12/21217060/foxconn-wisconsin-innovation-centers-empty-buildings

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 130 comments

So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016)

https://belkadan.com/blog/2016/05/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Compiler-Wizard/

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 61 comments

Fastmail Labels Beta

https://beta.fastmail.com/help/receive/labels-beta.html

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/insidertrading

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 80 comments

You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/youre-a-slave-to-money-then-you-die/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 223 comments

Rediscovering CardDAV

https://jpmens.net/2020/04/12/rediscovering-carddav/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 28 comments

I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual

https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1249090752983912448

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 73 comments

Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform

https://blog.xot.nl/2020/04/11/stop-the-apple-and-google-contact-tracing-platform-or-be-ready-to-ditch-your-smartphone/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 108 comments

California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers

https://harvardlawreview.org/2020/04/white-v-square/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 86 comments

Blog of Inigo Quilez, Creator of Shadertoy

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 14 comments

Computers Can Be Understood

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 57 comments
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