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Hacker News (Mar 2020)
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Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?
259 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
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Full third-party cookie blocking and more
259 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
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How do Unix pipes work?
258 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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The Warby Parker clones are imploding
258 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
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Giving Americans Money to Offset Coronavirus Impact Gains Support in Congress
258 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
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'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
258 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
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Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers
258 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold
257 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
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Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready
257 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
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Better Business Bureau rejects Molekule’s air purifier claims
257 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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Millions of Tiny Databases
256 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
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A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (2018)
256 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
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Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface
256 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolution
255 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
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How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
255 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country
255 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
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Risky hack could double access to ventilators
254 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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Jack Welch has died
254 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
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Please re-add original author to docs and license
254 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
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Two Years with Rust
254 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
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Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete
254 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
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AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch
253 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
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Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans
252 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
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A quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers
252 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
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GTA V – The Wormy Fountain
251 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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Why do color TVs make black and white snow?
250 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
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Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?
250 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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Chloroquine, past and present
250 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses
250 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
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Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly
249 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
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HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation
248 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
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Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
248 points • comment • mar 05, 2020
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Data-Oriented Architecture
248 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
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Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve
247 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
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Cognitive Biases in Software Development
247 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
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Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch
246 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
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How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]
246 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers
246 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
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‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang
246 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
245 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
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Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
244 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
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Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
244 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
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Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
244 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
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Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling
244 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
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Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)
244 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
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Knowledge Graphs
243 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
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Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?
243 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
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The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years
243 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
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Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets
242 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
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The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
242 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
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25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
242 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
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The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present
241 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
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Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week
241 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
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Costco will not allow returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water
241 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
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Talkyard: Open-Source forum software – a StackOverflow, Reddit, Disqus hybrid
240 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
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Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures
240 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
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Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)
240 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
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YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day
240 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
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GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse
240 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
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WWDC to Be Moved Online
240 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
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NASA reveals what the final X-57 all-electric X-plane will look like
239 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
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A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
238 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
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Text Processing in the Shell
238 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
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How I Teach Classes Remotely
238 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
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Learn Awk by Example (2019)
238 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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The Polygons of Doom: PSX
237 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
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Julia 1.4
237 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
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Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering
237 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
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Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
237 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
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What If Andrew Yang Was Right?
236 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
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Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings [pdf]
236 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
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State projections for Covid-19
236 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]
236 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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Show HN: SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password manager
235 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
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Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test
235 points • comment • mar 17, 2020
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The untold origin story of eBay that I lived (2018)
235 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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Erlang LS – The Erlang Language Server
235 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
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Lagrangian Neural Networks
234 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
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Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live
234 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
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Get Static
233 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
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Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators
233 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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Melbourne professor quits after government pressure about reporting data breach
233 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
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AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs
233 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
233 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
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FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
233 points • comment • mar 28, 2020
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How Apple Is Working From Home
233 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
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Containment gets harder every day we delay
232 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
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Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook
232 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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Krzysztof Penderecki has died
231 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
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NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis
230 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
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2020 Stock Market Crash
230 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
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Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN)
230 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
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Saudis suspected of phone spying campaign in US
230 points • comment • mar 29, 2020
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days
230 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
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Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)
230 points • comment • mar 01, 2020
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P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017)
230 points • comment • mar 12, 2020
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Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets
230 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
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How Tailscale Works
229 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
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The Word from Wuhan
229 points • comment • mar 08, 2020
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AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to cloud report
229 points • comment • mar 12, 2020