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Don’t believe Zoom: Its video calls are not encrypted end-to-end

Lens – open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters

4 things I learned about innovation by working under Intuit’s Scott Cook

A startup is building computer chips using real neurons

Writing HTML with Racket and X-Expressions (2019)

Beyond Intelligent Machines: Just Do It (1993)

US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster

The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux

Simdjson 0.3: the fastest JSON parser in the world is even better

Omni Group Layoffs

Oil selling below $10/barrel at key American hubs

Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than in Other Countries

Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A

Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters

Google's AR emoji are still fun to play with while we're all stuck inside

Planning and Managing Layoffs

[ASAP] Intrinsic Kinetic Limitations in Substituted Lithium-Layered Transition-Metal Oxide Electrodes

[ASAP] Perylene Diimide-Embedded Double [8]Helicenes

[ASAP] Biosynthesis of a New Benzazepine Alkaloid Nanangelenin A from Involves an Unusual -Kynurenine-Incorporating NRPS Catalyzing Regioselective Lactamization

Grupeer Suspends Payments to Investors

Italy extends lockdown amid hopes of turning corner

I turned my entrepreneur journey into a game

I'm calling Bullshit on Medtronic's Open Sourcing of a ventilator design

Microsoft takes on Grammarly with new Editor extension for Chrome and Edge

OpenAI Is Hiring for Supercomputing

CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public

Cognitive Biases in Software Development

Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan: The Anxious Emperor

On “Armchair Epidemiology”

Google has stopped selling the Pixel 3 and 3 XL

Philip Anderson 1923-2020

Dolt is Git for data

A song that was constructed to reduce anxiety

Von Neumann Universal Constructor

[ASAP] Reversible Solid-State Isomerism of Azobenzene-Loaded Large-Pore Isoreticular Mg-CUK-1

[ASAP] Fabricating Covalent Organic Framework Capsules with Commodious Microenvironment for Enzymes

[ASAP] Quantitative Control of Gene-Engineered T-Cell Activity through the Covalent Attachment of Targeting Ligands to a Universal Immune Receptor

[ASAP] Thiol–Ene Networks from Sequence-Defined Polyurethane Macromers

Report: Nintendo to release several remastered Mario games this year

You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask If You Can

Show HN: Use-sound, a React hook for sound effects on the web

Mars Could Have at Least Two Ancient Reservoirs of Water Deep Underground

Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20+ are $200 off at Amazon, starting at $800 (Update: More stores)

In Singapore, Quarantine Comes with Sea View, Room Service

Ask HN: Best Office Chair?

The untold origin story of the N95 mask

Show HN: RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for Python

Covid-19 Sanity: All COVID19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv searchable and sortable

HQ Trivia is making a comeback, thanks to an unnamed investor

Neanderthals Feasted on Seafood, Seabirds, Perhaps Even Dolphins

Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells

Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You

Return to Nib’s Knoll (2014)

Some Megachurches Are Still Packing in Crowds

Determining an Election in K

Cellular Automata: Rule 30 fed as input to Conway’s Game of Life (2019) [video]

An Ancient Ballcourt in Oaxaca Expands a Sport’s Footprint

Ask HN: Is now a good time to invest in ETFs?

Dr. has treated 699 Covid-19 patients with 100% success using Hydroxychloroquine

Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick

The bits of wire that can devastate lion populations

Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

Israeli doctor in Italy says innovative treatments offering hopes of recovery

The death toll for Covid-19 is at least 4 times the official numbers

Chromatron Wi-Fi Pixel Controller

Visual CSS Editor – Grab'n Go

Free course from Yale University teaches happiness and positivity

The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers (2017)

The U.S.'s $13B Aircraft Carrier Has a Toilet Problem

Show HN: Understanding the Monty Hall paradox through code

Smell helps the brain form memories during sleep

Retina: A regex-based recreational programming language

Delivery workers are keeping California fed. They say no one’s keeping them safe

Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country

Guidance against wearing masks for the coronavirus is wrong – cover your face

Who's Freezing Hiring from Coronavirus

Some call Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts receiving unemployment checks a ‘bailout’

JITs Are Un-Ergonomic

Declarative Configuration for Gmail Filters

Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week

I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries

National Emergency Library – Free 1.4M ebooks

California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpile but dismantled them

New Google account switcher and gesture show up on the Play Store (Update: Wide rollout)

Building a Raspberry Pi GPS Speedometer

CVE-2020-8816: Pi-hole Remote Code Execution

Maltego – open-source intelligence and graphical link analysis tool

An international comparison of the second derivative of Covid-19 deaths [pdf]

Two Minute Papers: Everybody Can Make DeepFakes Now

A Visual Debugger for Jupyter

Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 10 – Polymorphism

The Ungainly History of Nascar’s Wing Era

Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a Tech Lead Back end to scale mobility tech infra

Revisiting Voyager 2 data, a new finding about Uranus's magnetic environment

Robinhood accused of offering $75 credit to wipe out class action lawsuit claims

Programming Models for Distributed Computation

Effect of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in 80 Covid-19 patients [pdf]

Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test

Abbott Launches 5-Minute Covid-19 Test for Use Almost Anywhere

Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook

Ask HN: Unemployed. What on earth should I do with my life?

Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount

Slack wants to let you call Microsoft Teams users (yes, you read that right)

Sony Spins Off Camera Business into Separate Company

The Chapel Parallel Programming Language

Bokehlicious Selfies

[ASAP] Concerning Elusive Crystal Forms: The Case of Paracetamol

Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Nationwide Strike

Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call with prerecorded message

Banham avec Ballard: On style and violence (2019)

Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount

Zoom’s iOS app is sending your data to Facebook, because privacy is a myth

Scientists monitor brains replaying memories in real time

Retroshare: Secure Communication for Everyone

UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data

Darling – run macOS software on Linux

Pardon the Intrusion #14: There is some honor among thieves