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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
953
2
Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
897
3
Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang
831
4
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
831
5
Things you can do with a browser in 2020
698
6
Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
652
7
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
638
8
Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
626
9
Learn D3
621
10
Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
601
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring right now?
1083
2
What projects are you working on now?
809
3
Have you been laid off?
800
4
Who wants to be hired right now?
340
5
How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be?
196
6
What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?
169
7
How can a intermediate-beginner learn Unix/Linux and programming?
147
8
Are we overreacting to coronavirus?
115
9
What work can be done quarantined with a toddler?
102
10
How do you guys deal with laziness?
75
Top Show HN
1
Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero
406
2
A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building
305
3
Covid-19 Interactive Model
291
4
Zoom Redirector
279
5
An experimental, keyboard-first user interface
263
6
Excel-like table editing for Markdown
246
7
Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors
211
8
Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
196
9
RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)
123
10
Zectl – ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux
119
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races
550
2
Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns
490
3
Don’t bail out the cruise industry
370
4
Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month
308
5
Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?
272
6
Risky hack could double access to ventilators
257
7
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
243
8
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
215
9
New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services
213
10
A history of roguelike games
180
News [?]
1
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
953
2
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
831
3
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award
424
4
California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order
398
5
Albert Uderzo has died
370
6
Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls
367
7
India announces nationwide lockdown to stop spread of coronavirus
353
8
Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business
336
9
Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus
331
10
Grief in Ethiopia as trailblazing Australian doctor dies
309
Scientific publications [?]
1
Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips
284
2
Stanza: A Python natural language processing toolkit for many human languages
186
3
One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher
127
4
Ancestor of animals identified in Australian fossils
106
5
Liquid metal renaissance points to wearables, soft robots, and new materials
91
6
Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum
71
7
Geologists find lost fragment of ancient continent in Canada's North
61
8
A Ray Tracing Technique for the Navigation on a Non-Convex Pareto Front
49
9
Jets of bacteria carry microscopic cargo
45
10
Proteins team up to repair DNA
37
Dev Blogs [?]
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We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
399
2
Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
187
3
Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?
91
4
Marvell Cranks Up Cores and Clocks with “Triton” ThunderX3
65
5
Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers
54
6
Facebook announces public NTP service
39
7
Firefox for a Better Web offering privacy and faster access to great content
25
8
We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory
16
9
Using Cloudflare Gateway to Stay Productive (Turn Off Distractions) While WFH
15
10
Emergency Surveillance During Covid-19 Crisis
13
Tech blogs [?]
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Google Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits Your Data Without 'Selling' It
62
2
Governments Haven’t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain Covid-19
36
3
Enough is Enough–Let it Expire
35
4
Intel Video Shows How It Makes a 10nm Processor
33
5
Folding At Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top Supercomputers, Combined
28
6
Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the Covid-19 Crisis
15
7
Positive Pressure DIY Mask
13
8
Study Claims Using CarPlay While Driving Is More Dangerous Than Texting
9
9
Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the Covid-19 Crisis
7
10
Cali Public Records Act Is an Essential Right, Even During a State of Emergency
6
FAANG+ [?]
1
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
638
2
New MacBook Air
574
3
Mac mini
283
4
New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
153
5
Pro Display XDR
26
6
A Book About Software Engineering at Google Is Out Today
14
7
Coyote – making asynchronous software easier to design, develop and test
11
8
Now Available: Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore for Redis
4
9
Macbook Pro 13“
4
10
iPad Keyboards
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
362
2
Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]
295
3
Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in North America
153
4
An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin
131
5
Compaq and Coronavirus
129
6
An Oregon creamery making vodka from milk
99
7
Into the Unknown: Mawson's Antarctic Trek (2013)
22
8
Whose limb is it anyway?
18
9
A collaborative spreadsheet of “Coronavirus stocks”
17
10
Bogus stories of wild animals flourishing in quarantined cities gives false hope
16
Science News [?]
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WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments
452
2
25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
243
3
Study suggests daily meditation slows brain aging
182
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I built a dumb cell phone with a rotary dial
134
5
How the brain encodes landmarks that help us navigate
126
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past 40 years
105
7
Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
94
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Furstenberg and Margulis awarded 2020 Abel Prize
64
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The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty
54
10
Rational Math Catches Slippery Irrational Numbers
51
Social [?]
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GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
508
2
If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
431
3
Zoom monitors activity on your computer
405
4
How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]
250
5
Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rental market were right
241
6
First hydroxychloroquine randomized controlled trial: results disappointing
199
7
Current Wuhan Situation
154
8
Containers Are Not the Future
146
9
Turn a snorkeling mask into a respiratory mask for assisted ventilation [video]
122
10
I’m Bill Gates. AMA about Covid-19
118
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Things you can do with a browser in 2020
698
2
MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons
398
3
GreenTunnel: anti-censorship utility designed to bypass deep packet inspection
280
4
Julia 1.4
243
5
Stanford CS248: Implement an SVG Rasterizer
208
6
It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Haskell (2019)
171
7
PgSync: Sync Postgres data between databases
166
8
Fund-my-project: Earn grants/funding for your project
153
9
BOLT: Binary Optimization and Layout Tool
140
10
Bashible: An Ansible-inspired deployment/automation tool written in Bash DSL
132
Wikipedia [?]
1
1% rule
465
2
Kateryna Yushchenko
328
3
Beer distribution game
229
4
Münchhausen Trilemma
138
5
Shibori
129
6
Rai Stones
95
7
God Helmet
93
8
Cabin Fever
76
9
Strauss–Howe Generational Theory
33
10
Flow Chemistry
25
Blogs [?]
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The End of Starsky Robotics
357
2
The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)
203
3
Playboy magazine will stop producing a print version
93
4
Reducing UDP Latency
64
5
Counterintuitive things that helped me fix my insomnia
56
6
Coronavirus: Hammer and the Dance
50
7
Evidence over Hysteria – Covid-19
31
8
Review My Node.js Crypto RPG?
28
9
McKinsey’s Century Old Brand Name at Risk
23
10
Promoting simple DIY masks for Covid-19: an evidence-based call to action
18
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is the smallest possible valid PDF?
176
2
How much data can be stored in a QR code?
2
3
Wireshark vs. Firebug vs. Fiddler – pros and cons?
2
4
Why in Windows is the system drive C
1
Substack [?]
1
Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
125
2
Blanking Out
48
3
Don't Be Alone
6
4
The technical challenges of building an online marketplace
4
5
AI Ethics #2: Toxic feedback loops, AI regulations, ethics checklists
3
6
Post-Covid-19: What Will Be Normal Five Years from Now?
3
7
Reality Vs Your perception of reality (Rock 'n' Roll yuppies, not hippies)
3
8
Immune Systems / Antifragility, Part 2 – TTT S2E9
3
9
Kapwing- the Startup Building Adobe for Meme Generation
2
10
Build a Box to Disinfect Deliveries (and N95s)
2