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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
73 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Florida’s justification for raiding whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking shaky
73 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Hate Your Job
73 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Why scientists are turning to Rust
73 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Converting millions of viewers to millions of Euros with Serverless
73 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (2004)
73 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Show HN: Emacs4CL: 35 line .emacs to turn Emacs into Common Lisp dev environment
73 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State
73 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Android is a truly terrible software development platform
73 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill
73 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Inuttitut, a language shaped by humility, poetry, and the land
73 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Cloudquery: Easily ask questions about your cloud infrastructure
73 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study
73 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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John Le Carré Missed Nothing
72 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Ripple: A wireless token-passing protocol for multi-hop wireless mesh networks
72 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Tillis Pushes Prison Time for Online Streamers After Hollywood Cash Blitz
72 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Urbit Precepts Discussion
72 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50-year-old IBM 1401 mainframe
72 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
72 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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The US has suffered a cyberbreach. It's hard to overstate how bad it is
72 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Tesco removes 20m items of plastic from Christmas range
72 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says
72 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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I Built a Smart Thermostat
72 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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A QR code built from Emoji
72 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Tell HN: Levono won't process orders from ProtonMail addresses
72 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Generating Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers with Coins and a Cup
71 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri
71 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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DNS hijacked on GoDaddy?
71 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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How New York became a metropolis of stoops
71 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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The Kidnapping of the Lunik (1967)
71 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Modifying and running a binary by recompiling a reverse engineered disassembly
71 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Stressed banks: evidence from the largest-ever supervisory review [pdf]
71 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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The Laws of Core Data
71 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Whitewood Under Siege: The front lines of the pallet wars (2013)
71 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer
71 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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The Atari 2600 Webserver
71 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Violence breaks out at Wistron Corp’s iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru
71 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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A mathematical formalisation challenge by Peter Scholze
71 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will
71 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on a less painful intubation tube?
71 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018)
70 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Amazon Wants to Train 29M People to Work in the Cloud
70 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Qualcomm Details The Snapdragon 888: 3rd Gen 5G and Cortex-X1 on 5nm
70 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
70 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing
70 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon
70 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Circulation of Elites
70 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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I've designed Python fantasy cards to learn it easier
70 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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The Philosophy of Anger
70 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Time to get excited about the growing Windows on ARM Ecosystem
70 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient state computer system
69 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Show HN: Free HTML/CSS Landing Page Templates Without JavaScript
69 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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The Secret History of Windows Task Manager from Retired Microsoft Engineer
69 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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17 USC 1201, DMCA Exemptions and Software Freedom
69 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play
69 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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No one can manage projects, especially technology projects
69 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Fractal Architectures: A Software Craftsman's take to Infrastructure as Code
69 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Combinatorial Theory Journal Launches with Innovative Open Access Funding Model
69 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Forbidden Stories – Cartel Project: global network of investigative journalists
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Sin and Siege: The End of the Crusades
69 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Owncast Instances
69 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup
69 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)
69 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your best tips or resources when it comes to marketing?
69 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Vector 0.11 Release: K8s, ARC, and metrics collection
69 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Binary Search Reconsidered (2018)
69 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High
68 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Essentials of Compilation
68 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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What Happened In 2020
68 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads
68 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Who Owns the Stars: The Trouble with Urbit
68 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made with little forethought?
68 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate
68 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things
68 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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PicoLisp Chess
68 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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ReScript 8.4
68 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Unreal Engine 4.26
68 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today
68 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Agents raid home of Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
68 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 VCPUs
68 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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SEC filed an emergency action against Silicon Sage Builders for securities fraud
68 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Kit-Kat Xclock
68 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2
67 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Platforms, bundling and kill zones
67 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Turning vaguely reassuring finite-state machines into regular expressions
67 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (2015)
67 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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An Update on PromQL Compatibility Across Vendors
67 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?
67 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
67 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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WMF Board considering the removal of Jimmy Wales' trustee position
67 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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React's UseRef Deep Dive
67 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Surplus Extraction
66 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January
66 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover
66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Snebu – Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility
66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen
66 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Beowulf: A New Translation
66 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Blabrecs
66 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Orthodox C++
66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020