top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-04-16

Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

https://www.axios.com/stripe-fundraising-600-million-1f1f38b6-fde6-4316-b111-2f3b0e868ab7.html

5 years ago

721 upvotes – 444 comments

For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 225 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887346

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 558 comments

Phoenix LiveDashboard

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 92 comments

Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

https://workstream.paperspace.com/

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 252 comments

Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt/coronavirus-clue-most-cases-aboard-u-s-aircraft-carrier-are-symptom-free-idUSKCN21Y2GB

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 527 comments

Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/04/apple-battery-health-management/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 372 comments

Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/changing-policy-y-combinator-cuts-its-pro-rata-stake-and-makes-investments-case-by-case/

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 167 comments

SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1250803209871847426

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 152 comments

Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-now-support-cobol/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 84 comments
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