top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-04-19

Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980

5 years ago

3270 upvotes – 473 comments

Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22919697

5 years ago

618 upvotes – 262 comments

OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

494 upvotes – 165 comments

Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood

https://www.unclepaul.io/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 235 comments

Hands-on Scala Programming

https://www.handsonscala.com

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 103 comments

When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time

https://redandblack.io/blog/2020/bash-prompt-with-updating-time/

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 77 comments

Covid-19’s impact on Tor

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

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 193 comments

OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web

https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 109 comments

A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/ender

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 89 comments

The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices

https://medium.com/@seandexter1/the-baymard-institute-a-glorious-evidence-based-trove-of-ux-best-practices-189d839b1176

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 39 comments

Forecasting s-curves is hard

https://constancecrozier.com/2020/04/16/forecasting-s-curves-is-hard/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: A programmable tooltip on Mac OS

https://tanin.nanakorn.com/main/2020/04/19/use-tooltip-to-speed-up-your-workflow.html

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 45 comments

I built a amp+cab+effects simulator for guitar on a Raspberry Pi 4B

https://thingamagig.com/story.html

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 66 comments

Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?

https://blog.xot.nl/2020/04/19/google-apple-contact-tracing-gact-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothes/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 172 comments

Build a Team that Ships (2012)

https://nav.al/build-a-team-that-ships

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 102 comments

Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients

https://fastgrants.org/#recipients

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust

https://github.com/Dalamar42/rayt

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 33 comments

Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00333

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 42 comments

“May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (1956)

https://lettersofnote.com/2011/06/01/may-i-suggest-that-mr-bond-be-armed-with-a-revolver/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 85 comments

How does the coronavirus kill?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 62 comments
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