top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-18

It’s Time to Build

https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

6 years ago

TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

https://tableplus.com/

6 years ago

I've been writing TILs for 5 years

https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 14k Vim Script MIT

Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/open-source-program-will-let-you-run-deepfakes-on-live-video-calls

6 years ago

X410 – X Server for Windows 10

https://x410.dev

6 years ago

U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS

6 years ago

Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system

http://scuttlebot.io/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907211

6 years ago

Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/16/running-postmarketos-on-iphone-7/

6 years ago

Psilocybin Produced in Yeast

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-psychedelic-compound-magic-mushrooms-yeast.html

6 years ago

We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/4/8/weve-built-cities-we-cant-afford

6 years ago

Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-made-by-institutions-companies-and-government-agencies/

6 years ago

Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/sport/alireza-firouzja-beat-magnus-carlsen-iran-chess-spt-intl/

6 years ago

Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness

https://gentle.app/

6 years ago

Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sneaky-marketing-toshiba-seagate-wd-smr-drives-without-disclosure

6 years ago

The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyvIHYn2zk

6 years ago

Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/seoul-s-full-cafes-apple-store-lines-show-mass-testing-success

6 years ago

Micro C, Part 3: Generating LLVM

https://blog.josephmorag.com/posts/mcc3/

6 years ago

Our Long Bets and Predictions about 02020

https://blog.longnow.org/02020/02/26/12-long-bets-and-predictions-about-02020/

6 years ago

Rt: Effective Reproduction Number of Covid-19

https://rt.live

6 years ago

Working from home on the //c+

https://gtia.com/2020/04/01/working-from-home-on-the-c-/

6 years ago

Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations

https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-steal-data-from-air-gapped-systems-using-pc-fan-vibrations/

6 years ago

Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with malicious packages

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/725-bitcoin-stealing-apps-snuck-into-ruby-repository/

6 years ago

Dat: A P2P hypermedia protocol with public-key-addressed file archives

https://www.datprotocol.com/

6 years ago

House cats have more impact on local wildlife than wild predators

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/820953617/the-killer-at-home-house-cats-have-more-impact-on-local-wildlife-than-wild-preda

6 years ago

Raku vs. Perl

https://p6steve.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/raku-vs-perl-save-70/

6 years ago

Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native Performance

https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/

6 years ago

Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce

https://www.eejournal.com/article/ultimate-guide-to-switch-debounce-part-1/

6 years ago

Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project

https://blog.torproject.org/covid19-impact-tor/#body

6 years ago

Employers who use software to take screenshots of workers’ computers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/youre-working-from-home-but-your-company-is-still-watching-you-11587202201

6 years ago

BGP and RPKI

https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/bgp-and-rpki/

6 years ago

Special K: an interactive K compiler that generates GLSL

http://beyondloom.com/tools/specialk.html

6 years ago

Downturns are accounting crooks’ worst enemy

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/04/18/the-economic-crisis-will-expose-a-decades-worth-of-corporate-fraud

6 years ago

Macintosh Y2020

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2020/4/5_Macintosh_Y2020.html

6 years ago

The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-is-giving-people-vivid-unusual-dreams-here-is-why/

6 years ago

Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator

https://espadrine.github.io/blog/posts/shishua-the-fastest-prng-in-the-world.html

6 years ago

Mystery of two-million-year-old stone balls solved

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-stone-balls-bone-marrow.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904442

6 years ago

Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglehart%E2%80%93Welzel_cultural_map_of_the_world

6 years ago

Uber says Levandowski on his own for $180M to Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/uber-says-guilty-engineer-on-his-own-for-180-million-to-google

6 years ago

Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

6 years ago

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The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support

https://mobilerank.co/post/apple-homepage-webp-irony

6 years ago

Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor

http://www.righto.com/2020/04/inside-am2901-amds-1970s-bit-slice.html?m=1

6 years ago