top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-04-15

New iPhone SE

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/iphone-se-a-powerful-new-smartphone-in-a-popular-design/

5 years ago

1539 upvotes – 1459 comments

What Happened to Lee

https://wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/

5 years ago

1298 upvotes – 280 comments

Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage

http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2020/04/15/breakthrough-finland-accepts-demoscene-on-their-national-list-of-intangible-cultural-heritage-of-humanity/

5 years ago

1210 upvotes – 129 comments

Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/

5 years ago

719 upvotes – 305 comments

Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/second-act-former-ceo-of-radioshack-now-an-er-doctor-on-frontlines-of-covid-19-fight

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 194 comments

Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization

https://github.com/plotly/falcon

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 84 comments

Bouncing DVD Logo

https://www.bouncingdvdlogo.com/

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 270 comments

Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876241

5 years ago

472 upvotes – 474 comments

Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20060699v1

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 359 comments

Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32

https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/regex2fat

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 82 comments

Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/google-to-slow-hiring-for-rest-of-2020-ceo-pichai-tells-staff

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 279 comments

Emacs: The most successful malleable system

https://malleable.systems/blog/2020/04/01/the-most-successful-malleable-system-in-history/

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 203 comments

GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM

https://github.blog/2020-04-15-npm-has-joined-github/

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 199 comments

What does a Director of Engineering do?

https://www.hashtagcoder.dev/blog/director-of-engineering

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881808

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 176 comments

My experience with NixOS

https://blog.patchgirl.io/nixos/2020/03/31/nixos.html

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 92 comments

A Taste of GPU Compute [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqkAaplKBc4

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 165 comments

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE&

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 60 comments

Ruby Concurrency Final Report

https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2020-04/ruby-concurrency-final-report/index

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 47 comments

ProtonMail Bridge is now open source

https://protonmail.com/blog/bridge-open-source/

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 25 comments
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