785
603
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
599
459
A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
https://github.com/then/is-promise/issues/13
★ 282 JavaScript MIT– 6 years ago
595
300
Time is the only real currency we have
https://blog.theboringtech.io/2020/04/16/time_is_the_real_currency.html
394
71
PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures
https://plantnet.org/en/
376
493
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/realpenalty.pdf
353
96
Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/shell-productivity-tips-and-tricks.html
335
86
Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember
https://www.webliero.com/
331
36
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
https://toc.cryptobook.us/
302
259
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
297
61
What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?
https://superuser.com/questions/173165/what-does-the-rc-in-bashrc-etc-mean
293
121
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
288
354
Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html
277
234
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/
265
67
ClojureScript 1.10.741
https://clojurescript.org/news/2020-04-24-release
249
Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API
https://exchangerate.host
217
54
Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/background-matting/
214
126
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
197
49
Polypane – Browser for Developers
https://polypane.app/
196
453
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22981491
194
88
Show HN: Help Me Decide Please
http://helpmedecideplease.com
167
169
Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1
https://victorleungtw.com/2020/04/24/install-ubuntu-macbook-pro.html
158
391
Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
https://www.wsj.com/articles/millions-of-credit-card-customers-cant-pay-their-bills-lenders-are-bracing-for-impact-11587807001
143
43
Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2
https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2-music#generating-midi-with-10k30k-context-windows
136
149
Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not
https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/maybe-visual-programming-is-answer.html
132
68
SmileBASIC 4 for Nintendo Switch
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/smilebasic-4-switch/
130
97
Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
https://ahungry.com/blog/2020-04-24-Puny-GUI-Puppy-Finder.html
127
34
Software Development: Mistakes I Made
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/the-secret-of-software-success/
124
93
Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality
https://www.iswatersafetodrink.in/map
118
59
Myths about USB NKRO and how USB HID works
https://www.devever.net/~hl/usbnkro
113
The Changing World Order
https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#introduction
108
60
An audio app that has consumed my life
https://divinations.substack.com/p/inside-the-clubhouse
107
51
Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/contact-apps-wont-end-lockdown-but-they-might-kill-off-democracy
103
173
Python 2 Is Dead
https://www.enricozini.org/blog/2020/python/python-2-is-dead/
102
109
Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (2016)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/formal-verification-creates-hacker-proof-code-20160920/
98
56
Pointermove event latency in web browsers
https://rsms.me/pointer-latency/
95
37
Tesla escalates battle over alleged theft of robocar secrets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-25/tesla-escalates-battle-over-alleged-theft-of-robocar-secrets
89
117
A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Million Kegs Are Going Stale
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-problem-is-brewing-in-the-beer-industry-one-million-kegs-are-going-stale-11587733224
85
66
Perfect UX Is Impossible (2019)
https://erik.itland.no/perfect-ux-is-impossible
84
48
The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017)
https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments
120
iPhone SE and the Commodification of the Pocket Computer
https://nadim.computer/posts/2020-04-25-iphonese.html
83
Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions
https://filecoin.io/blog/filecoin-cryptoeconomic-constructions/
80
Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps/showdown-looms-between-silicon-valley-u-s-states-over-contact-tracing-apps-idUSKCN22702F
72
Git wishlist: aggregate changes across non-contiguous commits (2019)
https://blog.plover.com/prog/git-wishlist.html
