The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2020

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Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? zachrip · 19 Apr 2020

3.3k pts 473 comments

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GitHub is now free for teams github.blog · ig0r0 · 14 Apr 2020

2.6k pts 622 comments

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John Conway has died twitter.com · ColinWright · 11 Apr 2020

2.3k pts 178 comments

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It’s Time to Build a16z.com · jger15 · 18 Apr 2020

1.8k pts 1k comments

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Shirt Without Stripes github.com · elsamuko · 20 Apr 2020

1.7k pts 617 comments

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New iPhone SE apple.com · CoachRufus87 · 15 Apr 2020

1.5k pts 1.5k comments

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OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming obsproject.com · open-source-ux · 1 Apr 2020

1.5k pts 362 comments

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New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems landing.google.com · dmazin · 8 Apr 2020

1.4k pts 217 comments

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Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products wsj.com · benryon · 23 Apr 2020

1.4k pts 692 comments

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What Happened to Lee wired.com · jgrahamc · 15 Apr 2020

1.3k pts 280 comments

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Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China citizenlab.ca · gasull · 3 Apr 2020

1.2k pts 302 comments

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Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net · adunk · 15 Apr 2020

1.2k pts 129 comments

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Apple Faceshield support.apple.com · tosh · 7 Apr 2020

1.2k pts 623 comments

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How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? htmldom.dev · velmu · 2 Apr 2020

1.1k pts 515 comments

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Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 21 Apr 2020

1.1k pts 388 comments

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Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer? sureklix · 5 Apr 2020

1.1k pts 280 comments

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Things I wished more developers knew about databases medium.com · zdw · 22 Apr 2020

1k pts 445 comments

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How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin reperiendi.wordpress.com · mathgenius · 3 Apr 2020

998 pts 198 comments

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The Decline of Usability datagubbe.se · arexxbifs · 17 Apr 2020

996 pts 695 comments

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Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge? krebsonsecurity.com · feross · 20 Apr 2020

988 pts 445 comments

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Career advice for people with bad luck chiefofstuff.substack.com · undefined1 · 23 Apr 2020

981 pts 491 comments

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Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video] youtube.com · swighton · 17 Apr 2020

971 pts 162 comments

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Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? jppope · 7 Apr 2020

910 pts 654 comments

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If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right apple.stackexchange.com · CoffeeOnWrite · 23 Apr 2020

895 pts 478 comments

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Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use twitter.com · slg · 27 Apr 2020

888 pts 353 comments

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Google bans Zoom from employees' computers buzzfeednews.com · Lagogarda · 8 Apr 2020

882 pts 437 comments

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SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns reuters.com · mortenjorck · 1 Apr 2020

879 pts 283 comments

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Ask HN: What are you learning? blululu · 5 Apr 2020

865 pts 876 comments

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Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes uk.pcmag.com · tzm · 9 Apr 2020

862 pts 343 comments

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Seinfeld Adventure seinfeldgame.com · tosh · 24 Apr 2020

861 pts 168 comments

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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs jdan.github.io · bennettfeely · 21 Apr 2020

838 pts 207 comments

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Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C rseacord · 14 Apr 2020

829 pts 962 comments

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Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology apple.com · ikarandeep · 10 Apr 2020

823 pts 456 comments

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Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests scopeblog.stanford.edu · dempedempe · 2 Apr 2020

816 pts 178 comments

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After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife npr.org · kyleblarson · 14 Apr 2020

809 pts 237 comments

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In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms reuters.com · throwaway888abc · 25 Apr 2020

785 pts 603 comments

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Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” journal.stuffwithstuff.com · _vbdg · 5 Apr 2020

777 pts 74 comments

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Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad support.apple.com · gtufano · 3 Apr 2020

771 pts 312 comments

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SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers smallstep.com · mxfurman · 29 Apr 2020

770 pts 227 comments

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Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned gitlab.com · linschn · 8 Apr 2020

770 pts 186 comments

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YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice bbc.com · topoftheforts · 23 Apr 2020

768 pts 1k comments

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Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) eloquentjavascript.net · quazar · 26 Apr 2020

767 pts 185 comments

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Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far boilingsteam.com · ekianjo · 20 Apr 2020

748 pts 312 comments

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Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) quora.com · webdva · 22 Apr 2020

734 pts 661 comments

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When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back krebsonsecurity.com · todsacerdoti · 23 Apr 2020

734 pts 347 comments

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Why I’m Leaving Elm lukeplant.me.uk · neillyons · 9 Apr 2020

732 pts 432 comments

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Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company community.atlassian.com · shashanktomar · 15 Apr 2020

731 pts 260 comments

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Rules of thumb for a 1x developer muldoon.cloud · ingve · 30 Apr 2020

727 pts 481 comments

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Coronavirus and Credibility paulgraham.com · Rerarom · 6 Apr 2020

724 pts 917 comments

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Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation axios.com · hhs · 16 Apr 2020

721 pts 444 comments

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Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording blocksandfiles.com · guiambros · 15 Apr 2020

719 pts 305 comments

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A (possible) solution to Covid-19 tillett.info · danieltillett · 10 Apr 2020

716 pts 575 comments

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“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business” sellercentral.amazon.com · hippich · 28 Apr 2020

711 pts 194 comments

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Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker schools.nyc.gov · KoftaBob · 3 Apr 2020

710 pts 454 comments

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Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate inkscape.org · Vinnl · 13 Apr 2020

710 pts 156 comments

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We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir acsh.org · tomstokes · 5 Apr 2020

709 pts 229 comments

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Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it? corecoder · 6 Apr 2020

686 pts 364 comments

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We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day billiontoone.com · dvdt · 7 Apr 2020

684 pts 238 comments

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The Anti-Amazon Alliance stratechery.com · kaboro · 28 Apr 2020

681 pts 398 comments

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Redis 6.0 GA antirez.com · ingve · 30 Apr 2020

680 pts 205 comments