top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-04-25

In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX

5 years ago

785 upvotes – 603 comments

A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`

https://github.com/then/is-promise/issues/13

5 years ago

599 upvotes – 459 comments

Time is the only real currency we have

https://blog.theboringtech.io/2020/04/16/time_is_the_real_currency.html

5 years ago

595 upvotes – 300 comments

PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures

https://plantnet.org/en/

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 71 comments

Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/realpenalty.pdf

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 493 comments

Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/shell-productivity-tips-and-tricks.html

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 96 comments

Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember

https://www.webliero.com/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 86 comments

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

https://toc.cryptobook.us/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 36 comments

Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-two-spaces-period-error-correction-great-space-debate

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 259 comments

What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?

https://superuser.com/questions/173165/what-does-the-rc-in-bashrc-etc-mean

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 61 comments
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