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April 2020 discussion archive

Browse 174 retained Hacker News discussion records from April 2020, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. Pop OS 20.04 LTS30 Apr 2020 · 269 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Rust/WinRT Public Preview30 Apr 2020 · 628 points · 211 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Selfie 2 Waifu30 Apr 2020 · 270 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Redis 6.0 GA30 Apr 2020 · 680 points · 205 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Rules of thumb for a 1x developer30 Apr 2020 · 727 points · 481 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life30 Apr 2020 · 565 points · 86 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers29 Apr 2020 · 770 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC29 Apr 2020 · 636 points · 159 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard29 Apr 2020 · 290 points · 89 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem29 Apr 2020 · 288 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more29 Apr 2020 · 606 points · 558 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith29 Apr 2020 · 604 points · 316 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]28 Apr 2020 · 272 points · 142 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free28 Apr 2020 · 624 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”28 Apr 2020 · 711 points · 194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine28 Apr 2020 · 270 points · 679 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth28 Apr 2020 · 275 points · 257 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. The Anti-Amazon Alliance28 Apr 2020 · 681 points · 398 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Tmux for Mere Mortals28 Apr 2020 · 586 points · 166 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?28 Apr 2020 · 281 points · 286 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 202028 Apr 2020 · 574 points · 119 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use27 Apr 2020 · 888 points · 353 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan27 Apr 2020 · 276 points · 233 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust27 Apr 2020 · 619 points · 112 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. textfiles.com27 Apr 2020 · 653 points · 189 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (2014)27 Apr 2020 · 272 points · 72 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)26 Apr 2020 · 767 points · 185 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?26 Apr 2020 · 607 points · 813 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer26 Apr 2020 · 572 points · 132 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files26 Apr 2020 · 290 points · 57 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board26 Apr 2020 · 271 points · 97 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)26 Apr 2020 · 277 points · 431 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. My NixOS Desktop Flow26 Apr 2020 · 280 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus25 Apr 2020 · 277 points · 234 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms25 Apr 2020 · 785 points · 603 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`25 Apr 2020 · 599 points · 459 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Time is the only real currency we have25 Apr 2020 · 595 points · 300 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)25 Apr 2020 · 288 points · 354 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. A Third Solution24 Apr 2020 · 673 points · 516 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Seinfeld Adventure24 Apr 2020 · 861 points · 168 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.0424 Apr 2020 · 599 points · 422 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)24 Apr 2020 · 286 points · 43 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die24 Apr 2020 · 616 points · 466 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. Nicomachean Ethics24 Apr 2020 · 282 points · 158 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Career advice for people with bad luck23 Apr 2020 · 981 points · 491 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back23 Apr 2020 · 734 points · 347 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right23 Apr 2020 · 895 points · 478 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)23 Apr 2020 · 273 points · 112 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products23 Apr 2020 · 1,350 points · 692 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice23 Apr 2020 · 768 points · 1,000 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)23 Apr 2020 · 589 points · 385 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild22 Apr 2020 · 273 points · 128 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)22 Apr 2020 · 580 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Things I wished more developers knew about databases22 Apr 2020 · 1,011 points · 445 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)22 Apr 2020 · 734 points · 661 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs21 Apr 2020 · 838 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites21 Apr 2020 · 1,134 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events20 Apr 2020 · 280 points · 556 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?20 Apr 2020 · 988 points · 445 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)20 Apr 2020 · 268 points · 49 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Shirt Without Stripes20 Apr 2020 · 1,676 points · 617 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens20 Apr 2020 · 632 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending20 Apr 2020 · 592 points · 515 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far20 Apr 2020 · 748 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)20 Apr 2020 · 271 points · 87 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. The SF Anti-Mask League of 191920 Apr 2020 · 281 points · 201 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?19 Apr 2020 · 618 points · 262 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?19 Apr 2020 · 3,270 points · 473 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web19 Apr 2020 · 290 points · 109 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices19 Apr 2020 · 273 points · 39 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs19 Apr 2020 · 277 points · 89 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. It’s Time to Build18 Apr 2020 · 1,820 points · 1,008 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. We've Built Cities We Can't Afford18 Apr 2020 · 275 points · 335 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management18 Apr 2020 · 562 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Psilocybin Produced in Yeast18 Apr 2020 · 282 points · 205 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. The Decline of Usability17 Apr 2020 · 996 points · 695 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Learning to See in the Dark (2018)17 Apr 2020 · 645 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch17 Apr 2020 · 288 points · 33 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]17 Apr 2020 · 971 points · 162 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]17 Apr 2020 · 286 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. A Guide to Pricing Plans17 Apr 2020 · 282 points · 75 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation16 Apr 2020 · 721 points · 444 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression16 Apr 2020 · 669 points · 225 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL16 Apr 2020 · 276 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?16 Apr 2020 · 604 points · 558 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban16 Apr 2020 · 278 points · 86 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization15 Apr 2020 · 604 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?15 Apr 2020 · 292 points · 176 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight15 Apr 2020 · 604 points · 194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. A Taste of GPU Compute [video]15 Apr 2020 · 280 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. New iPhone SE15 Apr 2020 · 1,539 points · 1,459 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. What Happened to Lee15 Apr 2020 · 1,298 points · 280 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. My experience with NixOS15 Apr 2020 · 289 points · 92 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage15 Apr 2020 · 1,210 points · 129 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording15 Apr 2020 · 719 points · 305 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company15 Apr 2020 · 731 points · 260 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’14 Apr 2020 · 282 points · 541 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. GitHub is now free for teams14 Apr 2020 · 2,589 points · 622 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife14 Apr 2020 · 809 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. The Wolfram Physics Project14 Apr 2020 · 588 points · 323 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C14 Apr 2020 · 829 points · 962 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions14 Apr 2020 · 287 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. A TCP/IP Tutorial (1991)14 Apr 2020 · 290 points · 33 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. John Conway14 Apr 2020 · 627 points · 52 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times13 Apr 2020 · 669 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. “Sequel” to the million dollar homepage using WebGL13 Apr 2020 · 273 points · 134 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie13 Apr 2020 · 279 points · 46 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet13 Apr 2020 · 617 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate13 Apr 2020 · 710 points · 156 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later12 Apr 2020 · 268 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?12 Apr 2020 · 629 points · 516 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update12 Apr 2020 · 607 points · 424 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Don't Make Students Use Eclipse11 Apr 2020 · 276 points · 249 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. John Conway has died11 Apr 2020 · 2,305 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account11 Apr 2020 · 674 points · 263 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell11 Apr 2020 · 286 points · 143 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology10 Apr 2020 · 823 points · 456 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Senate Stock Watcher10 Apr 2020 · 677 points · 239 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation10 Apr 2020 · 285 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s10 Apr 2020 · 652 points · 332 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Systems that defy detailed understanding10 Apr 2020 · 278 points · 60 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall10 Apr 2020 · 597 points · 300 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. A (possible) solution to Covid-1910 Apr 2020 · 716 points · 575 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera09 Apr 2020 · 603 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Attack Matrix for Kubernetes09 Apr 2020 · 272 points · 27 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes09 Apr 2020 · 862 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Why I’m Leaving Elm09 Apr 2020 · 732 points · 432 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming09 Apr 2020 · 675 points · 539 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Google bans Zoom from employees' computers08 Apr 2020 · 882 points · 437 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom08 Apr 2020 · 673 points · 180 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems08 Apr 2020 · 1,429 points · 217 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. 230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question08 Apr 2020 · 275 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. How to Edit Your Own Writing08 Apr 2020 · 272 points · 65 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. Jitsi Meet features update08 Apr 2020 · 628 points · 196 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned08 Apr 2020 · 770 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]08 Apr 2020 · 292 points · 144 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day07 Apr 2020 · 684 points · 238 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Apple Faceshield07 Apr 2020 · 1,170 points · 623 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?07 Apr 2020 · 910 points · 655 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?06 Apr 2020 · 686 points · 364 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Coronavirus and Credibility06 Apr 2020 · 724 points · 917 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. IKEA Frekvens LED box hack06 Apr 2020 · 574 points · 82 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)06 Apr 2020 · 274 points · 174 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”05 Apr 2020 · 777 points · 74 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Configs suck? Try a real programming language05 Apr 2020 · 289 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?05 Apr 2020 · 1,081 points · 280 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. Ask HN: What are you learning?05 Apr 2020 · 865 points · 876 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology05 Apr 2020 · 290 points · 205 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. A scheduling tool for bread baking05 Apr 2020 · 276 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir05 Apr 2020 · 709 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report05 Apr 2020 · 640 points · 321 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t04 Apr 2020 · 292 points · 284 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping?04 Apr 2020 · 270 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding04 Apr 2020 · 277 points · 111 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox03 Apr 2020 · 287 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin03 Apr 2020 · 998 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker03 Apr 2020 · 710 points · 454 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China03 Apr 2020 · 1,248 points · 302 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad03 Apr 2020 · 771 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover03 Apr 2020 · 275 points · 124 commentsPartial reading withheld
  161. PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database03 Apr 2020 · 591 points · 355 commentsPartial reading withheld
  162. Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests02 Apr 2020 · 816 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  163. ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems02 Apr 2020 · 585 points · 234 commentsPartial reading withheld
  164. How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?02 Apr 2020 · 1,149 points · 515 commentsPartial reading withheld
  165. The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution02 Apr 2020 · 644 points · 131 commentsPartial reading withheld
  166. Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi02 Apr 2020 · 286 points · 75 commentsPartial reading withheld
  167. Swift on Mac OS 901 Apr 2020 · 272 points · 44 commentsPartial reading withheld
  168. SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns01 Apr 2020 · 879 points · 283 commentsPartial reading withheld
  169. How to SSH Properly01 Apr 2020 · 584 points · 158 commentsPartial reading withheld
  170. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming01 Apr 2020 · 1,518 points · 362 commentsPartial reading withheld
  171. A cold outreach strategy that works01 Apr 2020 · 271 points · 124 commentsPartial reading withheld
  172. How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right01 Apr 2020 · 275 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  173. Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script01 Apr 2020 · 562 points · 214 commentsPartial reading withheld
  174. Omni Group Layoffs01 Apr 2020 · 286 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld