top 20 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

6 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/

6 years ago

669 upvotes – 225 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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

6 years ago

604 upvotes – 558 comments

Phoenix LiveDashboard

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard

6 years ago

★ 2.1k Elixir MIT
419 upvotes – 92 comments

Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

https://workstream.paperspace.com/

6 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

6 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/

6 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/

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 167 comments

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

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

6 years ago

348 upvotes – 152 comments

Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL

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

6 years ago

276 upvotes – 84 comments

Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cultivating-subtropical-plants-in-freezing-temperatures.html

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 102 comments

Embedding Binary Objects in C

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/embedding-binary-objects-in-c

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 136 comments

Goat2Meeting

https://www.sweetfarm.org/goat-2-meeting

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 27 comments

Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/encrypted-email.html

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 216 comments

Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets

https://deepomatic.com/en/how-we-improved-computer-vision-metrics-by-more-than-5-percent-only-by-cleaning-labelling-errors/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 72 comments

Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro

https://blog.halide.cam/lidar-peek-into-the-future-with-ipad-pro-11d38910e9f8

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 70 comments

EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times

https://github.com/pubkey/event-reduce/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 753 TypeScript MIT
208 upvotes – 85 comments

10-core i9-10900F desktop CPU lags behind 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile APU

https://www.notebookcheck.net/10-core-Intel-Core-i9-10900F-desktop-CPU-does-well-in-Geekbench-multi-core-test-but-then-gets-put-to-shame-by-8-core-AMD-Ryzen-9-4900HS-mobile-APU.461162.0.html

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 141 comments

Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)

https://qz.com/quartzy/1728767/why-editorial-illustrations-look-so-similar-these-days/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 77 comments

Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful

https://insomniasec.com/blog/auth0-jwt-validation-bypass

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 92 comments
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