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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Al Alcorn, creator of Pong, explains the NTSC color graphics trick
86 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Show HN: Midas, a Streaming Anomaly Detector. Now Implemented in Go
86 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately
85 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Pydeps: A Useful Program
85 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Learn to code by creating working applications
85 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Doing Python Configuration Right (2019)
85 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review
85 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Metaprogramming in Flat Assembler
85 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS
85 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
85 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Anton (Computer)
85 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Towards an ImageNet Moment for Speech-to-Text
84 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
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Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator
84 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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When debugging, attitude matters
84 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Writing HTML with Racket and X-Expressions (2019)
84 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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C program proofs with Frama-C and its weakest-precondition plugin [pdf]
84 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
84 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies
84 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Charlatans sell bogus treatment exposing blood to UV light (2016)
84 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
84 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Perfect UX Is Impossible (2019)
83 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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The Birth of Calculus (1986) [video]
83 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries
83 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager
83 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Introduction to Flat-File CMS
83 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs
83 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Monitor your web page's total memory usage with `performance.measureMemory()`
83 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Million Kegs Are Going Stale
83 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System
83 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing
82 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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The Print Book Trade, and Money
82 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Most-recommended programming books
82 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines
82 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates
82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels
82 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates attention?
82 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Show HN: Vuln Cost – immersive VS Code extension to surface vulnerabilities
82 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Show HN: Get a Hand LA
82 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt sues Atari for failure to pay for VCS console design
82 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
82 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A
82 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Using Twilio to make a call forwarding and voice messaging system
81 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore (2018)
81 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Fear of an impending car-price collapse grips auto industry
81 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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The Man Who Got No Whammies (2015)
81 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Hacking website like HN in French
81 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Ask HN: What is a must read for a developer without a computer science degree?
81 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Economic Growth Is Incompatible with Biodiversity Conservation
81 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Show HN: Live Program Notes for Schubert Sonata in B-Flat
81 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work
81 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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The first two years of my PhD
81 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
81 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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How to build a darkroom for £100 or less
81 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Time-restricted feeding can reset disrupted clock rhythm, protect against cancer
81 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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New Air Force One instruction manuals cost $84M
81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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How to Avoid the Assignment Statement (2010)
81 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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GitLand: A Multiplayer game controlled using GitHub
81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Feynman: making the extraordinary look easy
81 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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The messy secret reality behind OpenAI
80 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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The Petrucci Music Library
80 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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January 2018 US diplomatic cables warned of coronavirus leaking from Wuhan lab
80 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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iPhone SE and the Commodification of the Pocket Computer
80 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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New Yorkers consider relocating post coronavirus
80 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’
80 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, Second Edition
80 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions
80 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0
80 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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AMD vs. Intel 2020: Who Makes the Best CPUs?
80 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Towards Sequoia OpenPGP v1.0
80 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform
80 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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A long view of globalisation in short: The agricultural revolution (2018)
80 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Mental models around Ok-Wrapping
80 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps
80 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Get started with computer science papers
80 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Crystal 0.34
79 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Software Is Polluting the World
79 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018)
79 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981)
79 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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What Are Spomeniks?
79 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Forecasting with uncertainty
79 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal
79 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says
79 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?
79 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Lambda Store: Serverless Redis
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Even Faster Math Functions
78 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
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Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More
78 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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From Zero to Zero Trust
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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5G Virus Conspiracy Theory Fueled by Coordinated Effort
78 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Some landlords say only 25% of retail tenants paid April rent
78 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)
78 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world
78 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec
78 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Replace GRUB2 with systemd-boot on Ubuntu 18.04 (2018)
78 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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The Marvel of Mozart’s Letters
78 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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What Is a Game? (2018)
78 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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April Is Canceled
78 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017)
78 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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New Guinea villagers unearth evidence of the island’s Neolithic past
77 points • comment • apr 09, 2020