HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics (scopeblog.stanford.edu)

469 points by chmaynard on Apr 2, 2020 | 194 comments

152.

U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession (bloomberg.com)

468 points by chollida1 on Apr 29, 2020 | 837 comments

153.

Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators (airbreak.dev)

463 points by yarapavan on Apr 14, 2020 | 186 comments

154.

An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website (plausible.io)

462 points by markosaric on Apr 8, 2020 | 301 comments

155.

With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube (waxy.org)

462 points by minimaxir on Apr 28, 2020 | 210 comments

156.

Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations (dfrieds.com)

462 points by danielfriedman on Apr 7, 2020 | 163 comments

157.

SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb (techcrunch.com)

460 points by JumpCrisscross on Apr 14, 2020 | 289 comments

158.

KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly language (kolibrios.org)

459 points by xvilka on Apr 15, 2020 | 219 comments

159.

Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees (theinformation.com)

458 points by ceohockey60 on Apr 28, 2020 | 430 comments

160.

Keycloak: Open-source identity and access management (keycloak.org)

455 points by fanf2 on Apr 14, 2020 | 122 comments

161.

Good writing is a business advantage (adaged.blogspot.com)

449 points by kervokian on Apr 28, 2020 | 198 comments

162.

Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination (davidthorpe.dev)

448 points by davzie on Apr 20, 2020 | 157 comments

163.

Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers (github.com)

448 points by peter_d_sherman on Apr 6, 2020 | 100 comments

164.

New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system (twitter.com)

447 points by enraged_camel on Apr 4, 2020 | 295 comments

165.

Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients (medrxiv.org)

444 points by Cantbekhan on Apr 15, 2020 | 359 comments

166.

Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops (fedoramagazine.org)

444 points by caution on Apr 24, 2020 | 233 comments

167.

Your statement is correct but misses the point (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

442 points by notRobot on Apr 13, 2020 | 257 comments

168.

Lamest Edit Wars (en.wikipedia.org)

441 points by ag8 on Apr 27, 2020 | 318 comments

169.

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability (infoq.com)

439 points by msolujic on Apr 15, 2020 | 411 comments

170.

Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha (blog.cloudflare.com)

438 points by migueldemoura on Apr 8, 2020 | 189 comments

171.

A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study (med.stanford.edu)

430 points by doener on Apr 7, 2020 | 253 comments

172.

How We reduced our Google Maps API cost (blog.cityflo.com)

430 points by haybanusa on Apr 3, 2020 | 163 comments

173.

Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go (notes.eatonphil.com)

430 points by v3gas on Apr 12, 2020 | 54 comments

174.

Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer (vice.com)

429 points by minimaxir on Apr 2, 2020 | 131 comments

175.

Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing (github.com)

429 points by mifino on Apr 28, 2020 | 75 comments

176.

Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding (abitawake.com)

428 points by atomlib on Apr 12, 2020 | 118 comments

177.

First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz (ei7gl.blogspot.com)

424 points by lightlyused on Apr 9, 2020 | 127 comments

178.

Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS (ryanpickren.com)

424 points by notRobot on Apr 3, 2020 | 100 comments

179.

Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim (keleshev.com)

423 points by halst on Apr 13, 2020 | 60 comments

180.

Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty (physicstravelguide.com)

422 points by karlicoss on Apr 2, 2020 | 36 comments