top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-20

Shirt Without Stripes

https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

5 years ago

1676 upvotes – 617 comments

Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge/

5 years ago

988 upvotes – 445 comments

Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

https://boilingsteam.com/proton-brought-about-6000-games-to-linux-so-far/

5 years ago

748 upvotes – 312 comments

Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/denmark-extends-business-aid-to-increase-spending-by-15-billion

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 294 comments

Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/oil-drops-to-18-year-low-on-global-demand-crunch-storage-woes

5 years ago

592 upvotes – 515 comments

Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination

https://davidthorpe.dev/kick-the-shit-out-of-procrastination/

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 157 comments

I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time-i-tried-to-buy-some-crude-oil

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 157 comments

Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2

https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2020/04/python-2718-last-release-of-python-2.html

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 338 comments

AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15708/amds-mobile-revival-redefining-the-notebook-business-with-the-ryzen-9-4900hs-a-review/8

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 226 comments

In Pursuit of PPE

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025?mc_cid=4f9434619c&mc_eid=01d3ed8b19

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 174 comments

Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

https://twitter.com/donie/status/1252220943314927616

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 556 comments

Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 87 comments

Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/22/630866527/mastermind-behind-malta-journalist-killing-remains-a-mystery

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 49 comments

Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-20/coronavirus-serology-testing-la-county

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 362 comments

US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52350082

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 121 comments

Remote Work Report

https://about.gitlab.com/remote-work-report/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 136 comments

Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaws-in-stanford-study-of-coronavirus-prevalence/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 194 comments

It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen

https://blog.coryfoy.com/2020/04/its-time-to-act-a-response-to-marc-andreessen/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 96 comments

Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-carnival-cruise-coronavirus/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 203 comments

Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/whole-foods-tracks-unionization-risk-with-heat-map-2020-1

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 131 comments

Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Apr/20/self-rewriting-readme/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 31 comments

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 45 comments

YC S20 Remote Batch

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-s20-remote-batch/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 78 comments

People may know the best decision and not make it: study

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-people-decisionand.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 68 comments

Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous juries

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/supreme-court-says-criminal-convictions-require-unanimous-juries.html

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 143 comments

Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-gas-prices-20200419-6uvja5pxbvaxtozm4l3372aewy-story.html

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 182 comments

Avatarify: Photorealistic Avatars for Skype and Zoom

https://github.com/alievk/avatarify

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 16 comments

Testing Sync at Dropbox

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-engine

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 25 comments

Go Developer Survey 2019 Results

https://blog.golang.org/survey2019-results

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 122 comments

Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign

https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g3toiz/a_post_by_udr_midnight_collating_information_on/fnv8j69/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 25 comments

iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

http://www.icab.de/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 80 comments

Phelia – React for Slack Apps

https://github.com/maxchehab/phelia

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 12 comments

Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)

https://fs.blog/2009/12/mental-model-greshams-law/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 110 comments

Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-ix-downsizing/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

https://www.spacedtime.com

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 55 comments

OsFree project: OS/2 Replacement

http://osfree.org

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924869

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 23 comments

Homelab: Intel NUC with the ESXi Hypervisor

https://henvic.dev/posts/homelab/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 109 comments

Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 130 comments

A simple browser-based hexapod robot simulator built from first principles

https://github.com/mithi/hexapod-robot-simulator

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 12 comments

My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs

https://www.markusdosch.com/2020/04/my-favorite-shortcuts-for-jetbrains-ides/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 67 comments

What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk? (2019)

https://agfundernews.com/what-happened-to-those-gm-spider-goats-with-the-silky-milk.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 71 comments

Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015)

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-frequencies-end-odd-decimal

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 118 comments

Zoom’s security woes were no secret to business partners like Dropbox

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/zoom-security-dropbox-hackers.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

Libschrift: A lightweight TrueType font rendering library

https://github.com/tomolt/libschrift

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 73 comments

Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches

https://martinfowler.com/articles/branching-patterns.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

Facebook/CMU Covid-19 U.S. county-by-county symptom map

https://covid-survey.dataforgood.fb.com/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 54 comments

$7.5k Google services mix-up (2018)

https://sites.google.com/site/testsitehacking/-7-5k-Google-services-mix-up

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments
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