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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
NPM Is Joining GitHub
1829
2
Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
1243
3
Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
1095
4
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
920
5
TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
790
6
4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
770
7
Linux Kernel Teaching
757
8
Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
731
9
Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming
689
10
Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19
670
Top Ask HN
1
Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
527
2
Is UK government insane or genius?
524
3
Was the Y2K crisis real?
465
4
Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
440
5
Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
257
6
Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?
201
7
Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?
198
8
What happens next after a successful lockdown?
189
9
Recommendations for Working from Home?
186
10
Starting over after business failure
157
Top Show HN
1
Fraidycat
807
2
Visual SQL
512
3
Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
494
4
Simulation-based high school physics course notes
295
5
WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
205
6
Counters – GUI for those who don't do GUI
177
7
Assembled – Scale great customer support
137
8
Slower News
133
9
I made a chat roulette for remote workers
123
10
A Simple GPU Hash Table
119
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
641
2
ACLU sues Homeland Security over airport face recognition program secrecy
431
3
Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test
258
4
Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch
250
5
Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B
227
6
Company threatens to sue volunteers who 3D-printed valves for coronavirus aid
209
7
How do we stop people from blinding other drivers with aftermarket LEDs?
203
8
Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
194
9
Comcast and T-Mobile upgrade everyone to unlimited data for next 60 days
185
10
Rocket Lab gets NASA certification for official smallsat launches
180
News [?]
1
Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
1243
2
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
920
3
TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
790
4
Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19
670
5
Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers
530
6
Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1
446
7
Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
421
8
Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in
416
9
Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff
400
10
Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
399
Scientific publications [?]
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Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19
212
2
Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens
164
3
Vitamin D deficiency worsens Respiratory Tract Infections: Meta-analysis
118
4
Potential false-positive rate among the 'asymptomatic infected individuals'
67
5
Coronavirus Susceptibility to the Antiviral Remdesivir (GS-5734) (2018)
37
6
Neural Networks Are Surprisingly Modular
30
7
Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider
28
8
India's Chandrayaan 2 is creating the highest-resolution map we have of the moon
27
9
Solved: The Mystery of the Expansion of the Universe
15
10
How sperm unpack dad's genome so it can merge with mom's
10
Dev Blogs [?]
1
NPM Is Joining GitHub
1829
2
GitHub for mobile is now available
428
3
Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
325
4
WWDC to Be Moved Online
248
5
Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
145
6
A QUIC look at HTTP/3
106
7
The EARN-IT Act-Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S.
90
8
Shadowserver, the web’s bot containment unit, needs help
78
9
WSL2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004
64
10
Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem
45
Tech blogs [?]
1
AMD Details Renoir: The Ryzen Mobile 4000 Series 7nm APU Uncovered
30
2
Measuring high voltage in millimeters and other HV probe tricks
25
3
The Earn IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
16
4
The Earn IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
15
5
The Earn IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
13
6
Getting 1000 FPS Out of the Raspberry Pi Camera
12
7
Apple Employee tests positive for Covid-19 in Sanata Monica
11
8
Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design and Deploy an Open Source Ventilator?
7
9
Let's design and deploy an open source ventilator to prevent COVID19 deaths
4
10
Amazon's Arm-Based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple’s WWDC 2020 kicks off in June with an all-new online format
77
2
Apple’s Covid-19 Response
71
3
Microsoft Surface Duo
41
4
Building faster, lower cost, better APIs – HTTP APIs now generally available
31
5
Project Tuva: Richard Feynman’s Messenger Lecture Series
8
6
Making Microsoft Teams available free for everyone through January 2021
7
7
Amazon Cancels AWS Summit San Francisco 2020
3
8
Ways Microsoft IT is enabling remote work for its employees
3
9
Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore for Redis
3
10
Free Book: Goodbye Office – Make the Most Out of Hiring and Working Remotely
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
263
2
Tesla appears to defy Bay Area shutdown, plans to operate Fremont factory
173
3
Zero Trust Information
167
4
How Soviet science magazines fantasized about life in outer space
150
5
OpenTable Restaurant Performance Data
137
6
Coronavirus Work from Home Model
83
7
Chloroquine: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus
34
8
Supermensch: What does the superhero craze say about our own times?
20
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Coronavirus Outbreak Has Emptied Out Seattle's Hectic Highways
14
10
'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible Are All Forgeries
7
Science News [?]
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What Is the Geometry of the Universe?
289
2
A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
281
3
Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
191
4
Not all young people are ‘digital natives’
157
5
Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize (2019)
99
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Low-cost portable ventilator (2010)
97
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Artificial kidneys and miniaturized dialysis could save millions of lives
82
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The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
82
9
Chance discovery brings quantum computing with standard microchips a step closer
58
10
The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason
43
Social [?]
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Concentrichron: A clock and calendar made of concentric rings
184
2
“I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”
152
3
AlphaGo – The Movie [video]
147
4
AI can detect coronavirus from CT scans in twenty seconds
109
5
Example of a Shakti-powered spreadsheet application [video]
97
6
Riot police called after U of Dayton students take to streets following closure
95
7
Cleaning the Ship's Cargo Hold (2019) [video]
95
8
How to Build a Thrust Vectored Model Rocket [video]
67
9
A JIT Smalltalk VM implemented in itself (2011) [video]
54
10
In a corporate blog yesterday, Oracle attacked 83 computer scientists
43
Github repos and gists [?]
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AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation
473
2
Popcorn Time 4.0
317
3
NsCDE: Not So Common Desktop Environment
214
4
Low-Cost Arduino-Based Ventilator
211
5
AWS Session Manager: less infrastructure, more features
199
6
Open Source Time-of-Flight DIY Lidar
181
7
Self-hosted, super simple photo stream
166
8
Backstage: an open platform for building developer portals
146
9
The Reconstruction of ZZT
141
10
Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux
134
Wikipedia [?]
1
2020 Stock Market Crash
264
2
John Titor
206
3
Mass amateurization
169
4
Socialist Millionaire Problem
75
5
Etymology of tea
67
6
Oligodynamic Effect
62
7
Warren Abstract Machine
55
8
Small-World Experiment
50
9
Herd Immunity
46
10
Oxus Treasure
37
Blogs [?]
1
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
617
2
GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
350
3
How I recorded an album on my own, in my room
283
4
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
196
5
Differential Equations with Transformers: Deep Learning for Symbolic Math
145
6
An equation that takes Pythagoras to a new level
140
7
Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions
138
8
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
134
9
Finding McAfee: a case study on geoprofiling and imagery analysis
121
10
How we launched full-immersion VR arenas and developed our VR games
63
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Absolute value abs(x) using bitwise operators and Boolean logic
2
2
In Lisp, all programs are data but not all data are programs
2
3
This_is_sdparta: An easter egg in FF's WebRTC implementation
1
4
Drunk a.k.a. Horny
1
5
Process Got “Killed” and other OOM Killer stories.
1
6
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
1
7
6/15 most votes questions are related to Git
1
Substack [?]
1
Cyberpunk: Then and Now
216
2
Can economic growth be sustainable – and do we need it anyway?
8
3
Clearview AI Is the Weirdest Company in the World
4
4
How to Structure the Coronavirus Bailout
3
5
The Role of DAOs in Web3
2
6
Why the Coronavirus Spooks Us
2
7
Every End a Beginning: Resetting Society
2
8
Are You Shipping Enough?
2
9
Building relationships as a remote engineering manager
2
10
Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
2