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Stories from April 23, 2020
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1. Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products (wsj.com)
1350 points by benryon on April 23, 2020 | 692 comments
2. If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right (apple.stackexchange.com)
895 points by CoffeeOnWrite on April 23, 2020 | 478 comments
3. Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021 (bloomberg.com)
482 points by blopeur on April 23, 2020 | 533 comments
4. YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice (bbc.com)
768 points by topoftheforts on April 23, 2020 | 1000 comments
5. Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies (6sqft.com)
364 points by kgwgk on April 23, 2020 | 651 comments
6. Ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived millenia because it worked (2018) (howstuffworks.com)
194 points by vezycash on April 23, 2020 | 92 comments
7. The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford (bbc.co.uk)
242 points by dustinmoris on April 23, 2020 | 210 comments
8. Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification (blog.google)
200 points by NicoJuicy on April 23, 2020 | 92 comments
9. A primer on some C obfuscation tricks (github.com/colinianking)
223 points by simonpure on April 23, 2020 | 88 comments
10. Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available (cloud.google.com)
189 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on April 23, 2020 | 113 comments
11. The 2020 iPhone SE (daringfireball.net)
298 points by FabHK on April 23, 2020 | 302 comments
12. A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
226 points by feross on April 23, 2020 | 77 comments
13. 75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011) (ieee.org)
169 points by EndXA on April 23, 2020 | 97 comments
14. When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016) (thestar.com)
273 points by elorant on April 23, 2020 | 112 comments
15. Wgpu-rs on the web (gfx-rs.github.io)
232 points by grovesNL on April 22, 2020 | 59 comments
16. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) (ubuntu.com)
589 points by dragonsh on April 23, 2020 | 385 comments
17. How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law (ieee.org)
166 points by matt_d on April 22, 2020 | 28 comments
18. Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers (capnproto.org)
259 points by kentonv on April 23, 2020 | 72 comments
19. IRC Logger with fluid web interface, search function, and live streaming (2019) (github.com/whitequark)
90 points by luu on April 22, 2020 | 31 comments
20. Two Months with Powershell on a Unix (joejag.com)
142 points by joejag on April 22, 2020 | 108 comments
21. An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
101 points by zdw on April 21, 2020 | 30 comments
22. Show HN: Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM (github.com/sipkab)
107 points by sipkab on April 22, 2020 | 38 comments
23. Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids (haskellforall.com)
144 points by lelf on April 22, 2020 | 40 comments
24. Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon (businessinsider.com)
196 points by garraeth on April 23, 2020 | 264 comments
25. Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers (techcrunch.com)
134 points by rafaelc on April 23, 2020 | 166 comments
26. Amazon AppFlow (amazon.com)
161 points by beninada on April 23, 2020 | 109 comments
27. EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel (docs.google.com)
194 points by yoquan on April 23, 2020 | 89 comments
28. Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers (manualdousuario.net)
396 points by rpgbr on April 23, 2020 | 301 comments
29. When Tailwinds Vanish (luttig.substack.com)
104 points by sethbannon on April 23, 2020 | 35 comments
30. What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
160 points by jbredeche on April 22, 2020 | 62 comments

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