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April 2020 Archive
991.
Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates (newscientist.com)
140 points by caution on Apr 7, 2020 | 37 comments
992.
Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour (venturebeat.com)
139 points by pcshah1996 on Apr 17, 2020 | 172 comments
993.
U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
139 points by anarbadalov on Apr 13, 2020 | 144 comments
994.
A Little Clojure (blog.cleancoder.com)
139 points by ingve on Apr 6, 2020 | 114 comments
995.
Restarts in Common Lisp (sulami.github.io)
139 points by sulami on Apr 1, 2020 | 75 comments
996.
FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller (deviceside.com)
139 points by zaxcellent on Apr 24, 2020 | 74 comments
997.
An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE (insinuator.net)
139 points by faebi on Apr 24, 2020 | 61 comments
998.
New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns (techcrunch.com)
139 points by fyrefoxboy12 on Apr 6, 2020 | 59 comments
999.
Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
139 points by selimthegrim on Apr 11, 2020 | 52 comments
1000.
Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test (bloomberg.com)
138 points by lordmax on Apr 3, 2020 | 110 comments
1001.
Surprisingly Turing-Complete (gwern.net)
138 points by telekid on Apr 11, 2020 | 49 comments
1002.
MySQL Sharding at Quora (quora.com)
138 points by jinqueeny on Apr 26, 2020 | 39 comments
1003.
Libcsp: a fast C concurrency library influenced by the CSP model (github.com)
138 points by lime66 on Apr 6, 2020 | 24 comments
1004.
Mort Drucker has died (nytimes.com)
138 points by jdhzzz on Apr 10, 2020 | 23 comments
1005.
Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa (smithsonianmag.com)
138 points by reedwolf on Apr 3, 2020 | 21 comments
1006.
We’re Testing the Wrong People (theatlantic.com)
137 points by elorant on Apr 23, 2020 | 150 comments
1007.
Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos (github.com)
137 points by deepaksurti on Apr 26, 2020 | 102 comments
1008.
Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say (statnews.com)
136 points by hhs on Apr 3, 2020 | 439 comments
1009.
Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not (blog.metaobject.com)
136 points by mpweiher on Apr 25, 2020 | 149 comments
1010.
PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms (pcem-emulator.co.uk)
136 points by peter_d_sherman on Apr 13, 2020 | 52 comments
1011.
Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software (kanboard.org)
136 points by BerislavLopac on Apr 16, 2020 | 34 comments
1012.
Nebula Graph: A Linearly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database Written in C++ (nebula-graph.io)
136 points by jamie-vesoft on Apr 27, 2020 | 21 comments
1013.
Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video] (youtube.com)
136 points by mpweiher on Apr 9, 2020 | 17 comments
1014.
Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research (theconversation.com)
135 points by grecy on Apr 5, 2020 | 191 comments
1015.
California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining (ucdavis.edu)
135 points by dsr12 on Apr 19, 2020 | 185 comments
1016.
Is the world's best butter worth 50 dollars a pound? (2017) (saveur.com)
135 points by emptybits on Apr 19, 2020 | 171 comments
1017.
Oil is selling for less than $10 across key North American hubs (worldoil.com)
135 points by toomuchtodo on Apr 1, 2020 | 153 comments
1018.
Tell HN: Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars
135 points by saimiam on Apr 1, 2020 | 113 comments
1019.
Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs (chrome.google.com)
135 points by slymax on Apr 11, 2020 | 79 comments
1020.
Lambda School lays off 19 employees (lambdaschool.com)
135 points by dsr12 on Apr 21, 2020 | 78 comments