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Hacker News (May 2020)
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PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers
70 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Dotscience is shutting down
70 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Blood of recovered Covid-19 patients is becoming a hot commodity
70 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s
70 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Show HN: Link-lock – Distributed app to password-protect URLs
70 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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My Summer of Snowden
70 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Zerodium expects iOS exploit prices to drop as it announces surplus
70 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Online Jamming and Concert Technology
70 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
70 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Show HN: Memgraph – Transactional, in-memory, cypher-compatible graph database
70 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Howell Torpedo 1896 [video]
70 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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My Messy Analytics Breakup
70 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Apple’s abandonment of Intel chips is inevitable (2018)
70 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread (2017)
69 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Criticism of paper-and-fax coronavirus infection reports spark change in Japan
69 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Shrinking my static site
69 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Typing 共匪 (communist bandit) in YouTube comments will automatically be deleted
69 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997
69 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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New – M6g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
69 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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The Shareware Scene, Part 2: The Question of Games
69 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Rose-8 on Mac OS 9
69 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? (2019)
69 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Single Writer Principle (2011)
69 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Unpacking HP Firmware Updates
69 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
69 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers
69 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Death of the Office
69 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)
69 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
69 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Librem Mini: A mini-PC that puts freedom, privacy and security first
68 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Government to urge us all to walk and cycle more
68 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (2006)
68 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Mortgage delinquencies will exceed Great Recession levels
68 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acyclic Graph
68 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Qt 5.15 LTS
68 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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PwdHash (2009)
68 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Programming Steve Reich’s Piano Phase in SuperCollider
68 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Bionic eye boosted by hemispherical retina
68 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously
68 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Forensic Investigation – The Shocking State of Privacy in Safety Apps
68 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor (2015)
68 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Bill Gates Has Regrets
68 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Astronomers find 'missing matter', solving decades-long mystery of outer space
68 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy (2019)
68 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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How a “Rope Lighter” Works
67 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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How We Built SELinux Support for Kubernetes
67 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Leviathan in Lockdown
67 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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C64 Memory Map
67 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Founder's Syndrome
67 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Dinosaur Footprints on a Cave Ceiling
67 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
67 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Waiting in Asyncio
67 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Against pandemic research exceptionalism
67 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Tell HN: My permanently deleted Facebook account reactivated without my consent
67 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Twitter restricts new Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’
67 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Cahokia's rise parallels onset of corn agriculture
67 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive
67 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere
67 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic
67 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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‘It’s gone haywire’: When Covid-19 arrived in rural America
66 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down
66 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%
66 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Beekeeper Studio 1.4 – SSH Tunnels, SQL Server, and Clicking
66 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?
66 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required
66 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash
66 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth [pdf] (2000)
66 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Try Linux
66 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Color Tool
66 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Show HN: Python on iOS Native Apps
66 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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“Maxwell's equations of software” examined (2008)
66 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Static Hoisting
66 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function is about to die in SSH
66 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings on Some Linux Systems
66 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Reverse Engineered Nintendo Switch App REST API
66 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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How to fight back against Google AMP
65 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
65 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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McLibel Case
65 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Behavioral Immune System
65 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Enabling E-Textile Microinteractions
65 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Poi: Pragmatic point-free theorem prover assistant in Rust
65 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Updating STM32 Over-The-Air using ESP32
65 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Show HN: Push-to-Talk for Pulseaudio
65 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: CState – open-source Hugo powered status page
65 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Practical Python Programming: A course by dabeaz
65 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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WebTorrent Workshop
65 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Parsing Series of Integers with SIMD (2018)
65 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Captured Warplanes
65 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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If landlords get wiped out, Wall Street wins, not renters
64 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language? [pdf]
64 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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“Indie” doesn't mean “bootstrapped” anymore
64 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Racket News – Issue 31
64 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Stripe's API was down
64 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Gnome removed solid-color backgrounds based on what developer's friends use
64 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Amazon.com Is Down
64 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Mystery 'poison plot' sends Czech mayors into hiding
64 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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SEC loosens crowdfunding regulations for small businesses financing in pandemic
64 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Save Internet Privacy
64 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Sort of handy
64 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Show HN: Plopdown – HTML5 Video Annotator
64 points • comment • may 22, 2020