The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2020

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Bye, Amazon tbray.org · grey-area · 4 May 2020

3.8k pts 1.1k comments

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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever buzzfeednews.com · minimaxir · 12 May 2020

3k pts 1.3k comments

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SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit nasa.gov · tosh · 30 May 2020

2.9k pts 798 comments

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Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting? genedangelo · 31 May 2020

2.6k pts 531 comments

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Deno 1.0 deno.land · 0xedb · 13 May 2020

2.1k pts 583 comments

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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? sigpipe.macromates.com · jrk · 22 May 2020

2k pts 998 comments

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The Day AppGet Died keivan.io · lostmsu · 27 May 2020

1.9k pts 535 comments

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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension blog.pushbullet.com · cimnine · 13 May 2020

1.9k pts 788 comments

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Zoom Acquires Keybase keybase.io · vikram7 · 7 May 2020

1.9k pts 712 comments

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Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube support.google.com · zaggynl · 18 May 2020

1.8k pts 1.2k comments

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GitHub Codespaces github.com · CraftThatBlock · 6 May 2020

1.8k pts 601 comments

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A first look at Unreal Engine 5 unrealengine.com · HammadB · 13 May 2020

1.7k pts 676 comments

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AWS services explained in one line each adayinthelifeof.nl · jaytaph · 26 May 2020

1.7k pts 344 comments

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Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public winston_smith · 23 May 2020

1.5k pts 574 comments

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Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help gist.github.com · throwaway839246 · 4 May 2020

1.5k pts 714 comments

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Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content reclaimthenet.org · garyclarke27 · 18 May 2020

1.5k pts 546 comments

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ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry icann.org · cjbprime · 1 May 2020

1.5k pts 247 comments

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We Chat, They Watch citizenlab.ca · hardmaru · 8 May 2020

1.4k pts 512 comments

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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage themargins.substack.com · lunchbreak · 18 May 2020

1.4k pts 514 comments

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Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results twitter.com · zenexer · 27 May 2020

1.4k pts 542 comments

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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? dhr · 13 May 2020

1.3k pts 2.2k comments

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Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? nullsweep.com · BCharlie · 20 May 2020

1.3k pts 430 comments

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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] usenix.org · ketanmaheshwari · 18 May 2020

1.2k pts 269 comments

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New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data axios.com · jbegley · 19 May 2020

1.2k pts 549 comments

25

Medium-hard SQL interview questions quip.com · thomzi12 · 2 May 2020

1.2k pts 287 comments

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Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive wsj.com · longdefeat · 26 May 2020

1.2k pts 977 comments

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We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology saagarjha.com · gok · 11 May 2020

1.2k pts 200 comments

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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs tttthis.com · TTTThis · 16 May 2020

1.2k pts 615 comments

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Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down kodfabrik.com · _fwu1 · 23 May 2020

1.2k pts 513 comments

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Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative supabase.io · vira28 · 27 May 2020

1.1k pts 366 comments

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No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body techcrunch.com · sohkamyung · 6 May 2020

1.1k pts 974 comments

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Tools for Better Thinking untools.co · mmoez · 28 May 2020

1.1k pts 135 comments

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Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files obsidian.md · ericax · 27 May 2020

1.1k pts 477 comments

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Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life yarapavan · 6 May 2020

1.1k pts 815 comments

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92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people reddit.com · DeusExMachina · 13 May 2020

1.1k pts 626 comments

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Zero-day in Sign in with Apple bhavukjain.com · masnick · 30 May 2020

1.1k pts 267 comments

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Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices wsj.com · WFHRenaissance · 18 May 2020

1.1k pts 652 comments

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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” twitter.com · danso · 29 May 2020

1.1k pts 1.5k comments

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Show HN: SHA-256 Animation github.com · inersha · 13 May 2020

1.1k pts 102 comments

40

Notion for everyone notion.so · FireBeyond · 19 May 2020

1k pts 454 comments

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Write Libraries, Not Frameworks brandons.me · brundolf · 9 May 2020

1k pts 327 comments

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Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think secondbreakfast.co · secondbreakfast · 13 May 2020

1k pts 422 comments

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Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology trianx · 25 May 2020

1k pts 649 comments

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AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor audiomass.co · zaiste · 28 May 2020

1k pts 181 comments

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Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? iameoghan · 22 May 2020

1k pts 669 comments

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EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3 reddit.com · haunter · 20 May 2020

993 pts 247 comments

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A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub saddlebackbbq.com · rmason · 15 May 2020

975 pts 420 comments

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Do not Draw a Penis donotdrawapenis.com · dvt · 14 May 2020

969 pts 367 comments

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Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? behnamoh · 12 May 2020

961 pts 719 comments

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Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M axios.com · coloneltcb · 15 May 2020

957 pts 507 comments

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Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist thisworddoesnotexist.com · turtlesoup · 13 May 2020

956 pts 342 comments

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New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML newcss.net · sdan · 18 May 2020

925 pts 182 comments

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X xkcd.com · boffinism · 21 May 2020

896 pts 128 comments

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Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently rekken.github.io · feross · 14 May 2020

871 pts 418 comments

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A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra ocw.mit.edu · organicfigs · 12 May 2020

835 pts 200 comments

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I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something old.reddit.com · notRobot · 25 May 2020

827 pts 102 comments

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Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More github.com · MCKapur · 6 May 2020

824 pts 356 comments

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A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket bps.space · pmorici · 31 May 2020

820 pts 94 comments

59

It’s Time to Get Back to RSS danielmiessler.com · danielrm26 · 17 May 2020

798 pts 365 comments

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Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce techcrunch.com · dancric · 5 May 2020

791 pts 901 comments