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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Hacker News Security
140 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Moths have 'secret role' as crucial pollinators
140 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Stoke – A stochastic superoptimizer and program synthesizer
140 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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How to correct a team member: avoid my damaging rookie mistakes
139 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions
139 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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GitHub Satellite Livestream
139 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Picture Hanging Knot (2017)
139 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Modern and Cross Platform Stack for WebRTC
139 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Intel to buy smart urban transit startup Moovit for $1B for its car division
139 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
139 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Amazon sellers are moving to alternative ecommerce platforms during Covid-19
139 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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German intelligence can't spy on foreigners outside Germany
139 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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The links between mental disorders
138 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap
138 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390
138 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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India’s contact tracing app is going open source
138 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Stop trying to make hard work easy
138 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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TempleOS
138 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
138 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Random person name generator
138 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Argon – a clean, responsive, modern template for Dokuwiki
138 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?
138 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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In marginal decisions, favour action over inaction
138 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websocket port scanning
138 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th
138 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes
137 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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My 2020 desk setup
137 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Ignition an Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants [pdf]
137 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit
137 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
137 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)
137 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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What is emergence?
137 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?
136 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
136 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management system
136 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Time on Unix
136 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Scientists find life in dead brain cells
136 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake
136 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Goals and Priorities for C++
136 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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!!Con 2020 Livestream [video]
136 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Good coders borrow, great coders steal
136 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate
135 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts
135 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Pinebook Pro, First Impressions
135 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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GPT-3: A Disappointing Paper?
135 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Language Design: Use 'ident: Type' not 'Type ident'
135 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS
135 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts
134 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
134 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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2020 Developer Survey Results
134 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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A beginner-friendly introduction to Prometheus
134 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?
134 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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REPL Driven Design
134 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Better Box Shadows (CSS)
134 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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OpenAutoComplete: Shell-agnostic, cross-platform autocomplete specification
134 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns
133 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Clojure as a dependency
133 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback
133 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018)
133 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group
133 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?
133 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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A Map of the Trees of London
133 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Your must-read HN post?
133 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
133 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018)
133 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
133 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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AI-Powered JavaScript Completions
132 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Shibuya Pixel Art 2020
132 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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A Short History of Color Theory
132 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
132 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video]
132 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Should I Block Ads?
131 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building
131 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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FBI serves warrant on Apple to access Senator's iCloud data
131 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Google rescinds offers to thousands of contract workers
131 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Running Lisp in Production (2015)
131 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor
131 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
131 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Understanding uncertainty: Visualising probabilities
131 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low
131 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]
131 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU
130 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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EA Is Releasing Command and Conquer and Red Alert’s Source Code
130 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications
130 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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AWS EC2 General Price Cut
130 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Async-GraphQL: A GraphQL server framework
130 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Functional Programming in Python
129 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature [pdf]
129 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017)
129 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Hideo Kojima’s Video-Game Worlds
129 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2
129 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)
128 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (1973)
128 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
128 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth
128 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Show HN: Unity MMORPG Boilerplate – Multiplayer in Unity Made Easy
128 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Apple Watch detecting coronary ischaemia during chest pain episodes
128 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)
128 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017)
128 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Orion’s Arm Universe Project: Collaborative Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding
128 points • comment • may 24, 2020