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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Spike mutation pipeline reveals a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2: study
46 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Check for borrows in bitwise operations
46 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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The Shoulders of Giants [pdf]
46 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Court rules “Dueling Dinos” belong to landowners
46 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation
46 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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The Collapsing Leviathan
46 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Tesla vs Alameda County [pdf]
46 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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JCPenney Paid Top Execs Huge Bonuses Before Firing Workers
46 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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The First Bar Code Was Round (2014)
46 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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FBI arrests Michael Taylor on charges of helping former Nissan CEO escape Japan
46 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Show HN: Lockdown.sh Simple shell script for locking down new linux installs
46 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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A bug in macOS 10.15.5 impacts bootable backups
46 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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CDC recommends sweeping changes to American offices
46 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Parsing Headers
46 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.04 Released: Phase Out Python 2, GCC7 as Base Compiler
46 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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What Is the Stock Market Even for Anymore?
46 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry
46 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good and Bad Government
46 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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A feud in wolf-kink erotica raises a deep legal question
46 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2017)
46 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Kinvolk Labs: Investigating Kubernetes Performance Issues with BPF
45 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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GitHub issue calling for retraction of Imperial College study for codebase flaws
45 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)
45 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number? (1960) [pdf]
45 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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A free tool to plan deliveries during the Covid-19 pandemic
45 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Mini PCs in 2020
45 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Brave Zoom Competitor
45 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Coinbase Making WFH Permanent
45 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Parks and Houses for the People
45 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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The Nitty Gritty of “Hello World” on macOS (2014)
45 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Review: Lamy Safari (2008)
44 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Show HN: Bosconian (1981), in 3-D
44 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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My Famicase Exhibition 2020
44 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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All About Polymorphics (1960) [video]
44 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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A happy ending for Seattle’s Bop Street Records: a nonprofit buys the collection
44 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Into the Tar Pit
44 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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China to impose sweeping security law in Hong Kong, ends city’s autonomy
44 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Indian farmers to get direct cash benefits
44 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Covid vaccine passes phase 1 human trial
44 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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No free view? No review.
44 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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IKEA switches from Verdana to Noto (Google, Monotype) for 2020 catalogue
44 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Tesla workers’ unemployment may be suspended if they don't return, emails show
44 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)
44 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller
44 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Spain approves national minimum income scheme
44 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Common Sense Comes to Computers
44 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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VC firms can be liable if startups wrongly claim stimulus funds
44 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Did the Italians Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?
44 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs (2015)
44 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Submit k3s for inclusion to CNCF as a sandbox project
43 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Polywater
43 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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How-to normalize home volume levels with Node-RED
43 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Bootstrap 4.5.0
43 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Grab Asks Staff to Take No-Pay Leave to Cut Costs
43 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Show HN: InvaderZ is now available to play on itch.io
43 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Ask HN: How will more corporate acceptance of remote work play out?
43 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer
43 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Reduced Vitamin K Status as a Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in Covid-19
43 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)
43 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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The housing market faces its next crisis as May rent and mortgages come due
43 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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The production functions of smart and successful people
43 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Don’t Fear the Robot
43 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)
43 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real
43 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Plastics pile up as coronavirus hits Asia recyclers
43 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Show HN: Connect customer feedback to your roadmap
43 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Privilege escalation via the unintended UnattendedUtilities
43 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Hunt: A high-level D Programming Language Web framework
43 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Ex-Grubhub exec calls delivery apps “payday lenders for restaurants and drivers”
43 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Can electric cars on the highway emulate plane-to-plane refueling?
43 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been infected already
42 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
42 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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US workers seeking jobless aid near 40M
42 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Fmt – A Modern Formatting Library
42 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’
42 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Show HN: MongoDB analytics to track changes in your site's performance
42 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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IBM confirms layoffs are happening, but won’t provide details
42 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Destroyed by Rockefellers, Mural Trespassed on Political Vision (2014)
42 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Learning Git from Novice to Expert
42 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: SheetHub – Your notes and gists all in one place
42 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Rust is not a good C replacement
42 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Python script to download all Springer books released for free during Covid
42 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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A16Z struggles to earn passing grade in crypto fund II investor letter
42 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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List of Common Misconceptions
42 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Which product/design blogs do you follow?
42 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Ask HN: I found out the hacker's phone number. Now what?
42 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Talking about white privilege causes major reduction in support for politicians
42 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Learn WebTorrent and WebRTC
42 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Those litigious men in their flying machines
42 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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How Do Insurance Companies Make Money
42 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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A Lightning-Fast Introduction to Deep Learning and TensorFlow 2.0
42 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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How to Read UTF-8 Passwords on the Windows Console
42 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Alan L. Hart
41 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Centralized video conference WebRTC server available for testing
41 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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China Hid Severity of Virus to Hoard Supplies, AP Reports
41 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How often do you go over them?
41 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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More than 800 languages in a single typeface: creating Noto for Google
41 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Becoming Addiction-Free
41 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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OpenSourceWeekly #10: Federated social networks (The Fediverse)
41 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Apple News hits 125M monthly active users
41 points • comment • may 01, 2020