top 20 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

6 years ago

785 upvotes – 603 comments

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

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

6 years ago

★ 282 JavaScript MIT
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

6 years ago

595 upvotes – 300 comments

PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures

https://plantnet.org/en/

6 years ago

394 upvotes – 71 comments

Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

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

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 493 comments

Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

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

6 years ago

353 upvotes – 96 comments

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

https://www.webliero.com/

6 years ago

335 upvotes – 86 comments

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

https://toc.cryptobook.us/

6 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

6 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

6 years ago

297 upvotes – 61 comments

UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/uchicago-medicine-doctors-see-truly-remarkable-success-using-ventilator-alternatives-to-treat-covid19

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 121 comments

Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 354 comments

Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2020/04/coronavirus-reopen-cities-public-transit-car-free-bike-milan/610360/

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 234 comments

ClojureScript 1.10.741

https://clojurescript.org/news/2020-04-24-release

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API

https://exchangerate.host

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 61 comments

Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen

https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/background-matting/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 54 comments

I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower

https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-translated-simple-c-program-to-x8664.html

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 126 comments

Polypane – Browser for Developers

https://polypane.app/

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22981491

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 453 comments

Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

http://helpmedecideplease.com

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 88 comments
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