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Hacker News (Apr 2020)
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Rust in Blockchain 10
7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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How Claude Shannon’s information theory built the foundation for the digital era
7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Shop – A new shopping assistant by Shopify
7 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Stephen Wolfram:Cellular Automata, Computation, Physics with Lex Fridman [video]
7 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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She got a forgivable Covid stimulus loan. Her employees hate her for it
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Fire Method: Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant
7 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Y Combinator officially shifts its next accelerator class to fully remote format
7 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Nozomi – The API suite for data polling, storage, and aggregation
7 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Einstein wins again: Star orbits black hole just like GR predicts
7 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Archaeologists now have a handy new tool for analyzing paleo poop
7 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Build a Microscope Using Lego, 3D Printing, Arduinos, and a Raspberry Pi
7 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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There’s an Intel Inside Your Computer – But for How Much Longer?
7 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Serverless Fullstack Application Template
7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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A Tale of Two Talebs
7 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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Free (and Legal) Science Fiction/Fantasy Reading for the Coronapocalypse
7 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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New study: Software teams with more women communicate better
7 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the hottest OSS software I should contribute to
7 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Slow Time and Broad Horizons
7 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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Google Engineers Mutate AI to Make Systems Evolve Faster Than We Can Code Them
7 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
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Experiment finds that gravity still works down to 50 micrometers
7 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Evidence from the London Underground (2015) [pdf]
7 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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Alastair Morgan talks to Anthony Burgess (1983)
7 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Insomnia Designer
7 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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DARPA is pouring millions into a new AI defense program
7 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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The U.S. Is Almost Out of Its Stockpile of N95 Masks, Face Shields, and Gowns
7 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis
7 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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AI Transforms RGB-D Images into 3D Format
7 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Fake News, Fake Money, and Living in a World Without Authority – A. Antonopoulos
7 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Sexual partner selection is shaped by your opposite-sex parent in childhood
7 points • comment • apr 07, 2020
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Ask HN: How does a car company pivot to producing ventilators so quickly?
6 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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That's not what the law says: the coronavirus regulations (United Kingdom)
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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Amazon Announces AWS Data Center in Cape Town, South Africa
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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How to (and Why) Build a Brand for Your B2B SaaS Startup
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Quick and Dirty Static Sites
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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Something About the Covid-19 Pandemic Feels Off Kilter
6 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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Abandoned Athens Olympic 2004 venues, 10 years on – in pictures (2014)
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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CFOs: Covid-19 Work-from-Home Plans May Be Permanent
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Ask HN: What's a cool internal tool you've built for your company?
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Sweden prepares for possible tighter coronavirus measures as deaths rise
6 points • comment • apr 05, 2020
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The internet is built to handle Covid-19 traffic spikes
6 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Screw the economy; stop fudging numbers to suit it
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Background Matting: The World Is Your Green Screen
6 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Organic SaaS Growth: A Medium Series
6 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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Don’t Like What the Virus Models Say? Try Building Your Own
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Should we treat incels as terrorists? (2019)
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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36,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis
6 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Coronavirus Crisis: Case Against Lockdown Absurd
6 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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An upcoming authentication solution for Phoenix
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Show HN: Docker.hostip.dev – Access localhost from Docker on Mac, Linux, windows
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Run you own ECS cluster with zero config
6 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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The Avenger (2015)
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Trump-Backed Drug to Be Tested on Thousands in Mumbai Slums
6 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
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Show HN: Recreation of Shrek's DVD menu as an SPA with routes (desktop only)
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Making Illegal States Unrepresentable
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
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How to under-complicate your product
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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The Ubuntu AWS Rolling Kernel
6 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you think we will see a rise in remote jobs now?
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Show HN: Leader Election Using Apache Kafka
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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One of Norway's richest men, arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife
6 points • comment • apr 29, 2020
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Antibody surveys suggesting big undercount of Covid infections may be unreliable
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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If you used sba.com instead of sba.gov
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Alphabet revenue climbs 13%, but company warns of slowing ad sales
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Grimes posted the music stems and video files for her single so anyone can remix
6 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
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In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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Half of China's Infections on Saturday Came from an International Flight
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Why are people certain a vaccine with be found for Coronavirus?
6 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
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Show HN: Goodnight Zoom - Connecting with isolated seniors via remote storytime
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Markov Brains: A Technical Introduction (2017)
6 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
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TSMC Starts 2nm Process Development for Fast, Efficient Chips
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you implement “user impersonation” support?
6 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Ask HN: How to connect with experts outside of the tech domain?
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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iPhone 12 chipmaker TSMC on track for A-series chip production
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Web Animations in Safari 13.1
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
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San Francisco responds to the coronavirus with an experiment in lawlessness
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
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Conway's Lesser-Known Results
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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How America's rich have turned pandemic into profit
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
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Write Cross-Platform GUI in Swift Like It Is 1998
6 points • comment • apr 16, 2020
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World war 3 has begun and we are unaware
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
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Leaders seize new powers to fight coronavirus, fears grow for democracy
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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NASA Satellite Data Show 30 Percent Drop in Air Pollution over Northeast U.S.
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
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Show HN: Catch'Em All – frameworkless app from JSON to PWA
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
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14% of women considered quitting their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2020
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Covid-19 exposes American philanthropy’s strengths and weaknesses
6 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
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An overview of Greek/Hebrew/Latin-based symbols in mathematics
6 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Imagine a Post Pandemic World, How Internet Use Will Evolve?
6 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Training and Implementing Bert on iOS with Swift,and Hugging Face’s Transformers
6 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
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Frontier prepares for bankruptcy, regrets failure to install enough fiber
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Scooter Company Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar
6 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
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Shut down smoking. 7M Deaths worldwide per year
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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April fool's day 2020 is canceled, you monsters
6 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
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Ask HN: How much are sales people making at B2B SaaS companies?
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
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How to Start a SaaS Business (In 2020)
6 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
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Fear and Greed Index
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Coronavirus vaccine patch shows promise in mice
6 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
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Rich Americans activate New Zealand pandemic escape plans
6 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
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French regulator says Google must pay news sites to send them traffic
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
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Next Generation of Covid-19 Tests Could Get Faster and Cheaper with CRISPR
6 points • comment • apr 17, 2020