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Top of Month - Apr 2020

1. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
   (19 Apr 2020 | 3270 points | Comments)

2. GitHub is now free for teams
   (14 Apr 2020 | 2589 points | Comments)

3. John Conway has died
   (11 Apr 2020 | 2305 points | Comments)

4. It’s Time to Build
   (18 Apr 2020 | 1820 points | Comments)

5. Shirt Without Stripes
   (20 Apr 2020 | 1676 points | Comments)

6. New iPhone SE
   (15 Apr 2020 | 1539 points | Comments)

7. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
   (1 Apr 2020 | 1518 points | Comments)

8. New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
   (8 Apr 2020 | 1429 points | Comments)

9. Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
   (23 Apr 2020 | 1350 points | Comments)

10. What Happened to Lee
    (15 Apr 2020 | 1298 points | Comments)

11. Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
    (3 Apr 2020 | 1248 points | Comments)

12. Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
    (15 Apr 2020 | 1210 points | Comments)

13. Apple Faceshield
    (7 Apr 2020 | 1170 points | Comments)

14. How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
    (2 Apr 2020 | 1149 points | Comments)

15. Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
    (21 Apr 2020 | 1134 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
    (5 Apr 2020 | 1081 points | Comments)

17. Things I wished more developers knew about databases
    (22 Apr 2020 | 1011 points | Comments)

18. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
    (3 Apr 2020 | 998 points | Comments)

19. The Decline of Usability
    (17 Apr 2020 | 996 points | Comments)

20. Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
    (20 Apr 2020 | 988 points | Comments)

21. Career advice for people with bad luck
    (23 Apr 2020 | 981 points | Comments)

22. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
    (17 Apr 2020 | 971 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
    (7 Apr 2020 | 910 points | Comments)

24. If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
    (23 Apr 2020 | 895 points | Comments)

25. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
    (27 Apr 2020 | 888 points | Comments)

26. Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
    (8 Apr 2020 | 882 points | Comments)

27. SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
    (1 Apr 2020 | 879 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: What are you learning?
    (5 Apr 2020 | 865 points | Comments)

29. Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
    (9 Apr 2020 | 862 points | Comments)

30. Seinfeld Adventure
    (24 Apr 2020 | 861 points | Comments)

31. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
    (21 Apr 2020 | 838 points | Comments)

32. Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
    (14 Apr 2020 | 829 points | Comments)

33. Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
    (10 Apr 2020 | 823 points | Comments)

34. Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
    (2 Apr 2020 | 816 points | Comments)

35. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife
    (14 Apr 2020 | 809 points | Comments)

36. In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms
    (25 Apr 2020 | 785 points | Comments)

37. Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”
    (5 Apr 2020 | 777 points | Comments)

38. Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
    (3 Apr 2020 | 771 points | Comments)

39. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
    (8 Apr 2020 | 770 points | Comments)

40. SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
    (29 Apr 2020 | 770 points | Comments)

41. YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
    (23 Apr 2020 | 768 points | Comments)

42. Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)
    (26 Apr 2020 | 767 points | Comments)

43. Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
    (20 Apr 2020 | 748 points | Comments)

44. Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
    (22 Apr 2020 | 734 points | Comments)

45. When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
    (23 Apr 2020 | 734 points | Comments)

46. Why I’m Leaving Elm
    (9 Apr 2020 | 732 points | Comments)

47. Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
    (15 Apr 2020 | 731 points | Comments)

48. Rules of thumb for a 1x developer
    (30 Apr 2020 | 727 points | Comments)

49. Coronavirus and Credibility
    (6 Apr 2020 | 724 points | Comments)

50. Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
    (16 Apr 2020 | 721 points | Comments)

51. Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording
    (15 Apr 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

52. A (possible) solution to Covid-19
    (10 Apr 2020 | 716 points | Comments)

53. “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”
    (28 Apr 2020 | 711 points | Comments)

54. Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker
    (3 Apr 2020 | 710 points | Comments)

55. Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate
    (13 Apr 2020 | 710 points | Comments)

56. We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir
    (5 Apr 2020 | 709 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
    (6 Apr 2020 | 686 points | Comments)

58. We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
    (7 Apr 2020 | 684 points | Comments)

59. The Anti-Amazon Alliance
    (28 Apr 2020 | 681 points | Comments)

60. Redis 6.0 GA
    (30 Apr 2020 | 680 points | Comments)

61. Senate Stock Watcher
    (10 Apr 2020 | 677 points | Comments)

62. Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
    (9 Apr 2020 | 675 points | Comments)

63. YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
    (11 Apr 2020 | 674 points | Comments)

64. Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
    (8 Apr 2020 | 673 points | Comments)

65. A Third Solution
    (24 Apr 2020 | 673 points | Comments)

66. Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
    (13 Apr 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

67. For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
    (16 Apr 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

68. textfiles.com
    (27 Apr 2020 | 653 points | Comments)

69. A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
    (10 Apr 2020 | 652 points | Comments)

70. Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
    (17 Apr 2020 | 645 points | Comments)

71. The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution
    (2 Apr 2020 | 644 points | Comments)

72. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
    (5 Apr 2020 | 640 points | Comments)

73. WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
    (29 Apr 2020 | 636 points | Comments)

74. Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
    (20 Apr 2020 | 632 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
    (12 Apr 2020 | 629 points | Comments)

76. Jitsi Meet features update
    (8 Apr 2020 | 628 points | Comments)

77. Rust/WinRT Public Preview
    (30 Apr 2020 | 628 points | Comments)

78. John Conway
    (14 Apr 2020 | 627 points | Comments)

79. British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
    (28 Apr 2020 | 624 points | Comments)

80. Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
    (27 Apr 2020 | 619 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
    (19 Apr 2020 | 618 points | Comments)

82. Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet
    (13 Apr 2020 | 617 points | Comments)

83. Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
    (24 Apr 2020 | 616 points | Comments)

84. Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
    (12 Apr 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
    (26 Apr 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

86. Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
    (29 Apr 2020 | 606 points | Comments)

87. Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
    (15 Apr 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

88. Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
    (15 Apr 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
    (16 Apr 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

90. Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
    (29 Apr 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
    (9 Apr 2020 | 603 points | Comments)

92. Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04
    (24 Apr 2020 | 599 points | Comments)

93. A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
    (25 Apr 2020 | 599 points | Comments)

94. E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall
    (10 Apr 2020 | 597 points | Comments)

95. Time is the only real currency we have
    (25 Apr 2020 | 595 points | Comments)

96. Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
    (20 Apr 2020 | 592 points | Comments)

97. PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
    (3 Apr 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

98. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    (23 Apr 2020 | 589 points | Comments)

99. The Wolfram Physics Project
    (14 Apr 2020 | 588 points | Comments)

100. Tmux for Mere Mortals
     (28 Apr 2020 | 586 points | Comments)