top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-05-08

Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

https://twitchroulette.net/

5 years ago

732 upvotes – 202 comments

Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com

https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-redesign/

5 years ago

655 upvotes – 470 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23118940

5 years ago

566 upvotes – 522 comments

The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)

https://baekdal.com/thoughts/the-original-cookie-specification-from-1997-was-gdpr-compliant/

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 181 comments

4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020

https://marctenbosch.com/news/2020/05/siggraph-2020-technical-paper-n-dimensional-rigid-body-dynamics/

5 years ago

429 upvotes – 97 comments

There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.virology.ws/2020/05/07/there-is-one-and-only-one-strain-of-sars-cov-2/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 208 comments

Fast or Slow

https://www.fastorslow.com/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 121 comments

U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 526 comments

On responses to “Bye, Amazon”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/05/06/Answers

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 193 comments

OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers

https://aralroca.com/blog/opencv-in-the-web

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 38 comments

Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/intel-accused-by-workers-of-prioritizing-chip-output-over-safety

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 181 comments

Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/orca

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 74 comments

How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61672829/how-does-chrome-decide-what-to-highlight-when-you-double-click-japanese-text/61673028#61673028

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 117 comments

Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/07/the-way-forward/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management

https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 62 comments

Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19

http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 122 comments

April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%

https://www.wsj.com/articles/april-jobs-report-coronavirus-2020-11588888089

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 240 comments

Analysis of dev agencies with hourly rates, team size and tech stack

https://devquarterly.com/report/q2_2020

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 83 comments

Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash-busted-a-broker-s-computers-and-inflicted-huge-losses

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 176 comments

For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 236 comments
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