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Hacker News (May 2020)
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The Day My Coworkers and I Chose Our Survival over Our Supervisor
37 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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In:Verse – a poetic programming language
37 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team
37 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Facebook says it will permanently shift tens of thousands of jobs to remote work
37 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Apache Druid 0.18
37 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Wall Street heavyweights are sounding alarm about stock prices
37 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Why Would You Tweet About Your Coup?
37 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you set a goal and stay focused?
37 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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People and jobs? Or wealth? The government has to decide which to prioritise
37 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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DuckDuckGo Billboards
37 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Building a Crossword Puzzle Generator with JavaScript
37 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Amphibious Warship USS Portland Shot Down a Drone with Its New High-Power Laser
37 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Light-induced propulsion of graphene-on-grid sails in microgravity
37 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Astrology for Mathematicians
37 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3: Guess who wins?
37 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Fungal Lightning
37 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Serializable Functions in Clojure
37 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Hardware Store Elimination
37 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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America is determined to sink Huawei
37 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Alternative Sources of Advice
37 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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California, Los Angeles see jump in new cases, Bay Area continues down
37 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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The History of Loneliness Can Help Us Through This Pandemic
37 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle
37 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Show HN: Ratemydorm.com
37 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Show HN: Create your own mobile ordering app without code, using a Google Sheet
37 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Trump and Chip Makers Including Intel Seek Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency
36 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Microsoft’s new fluid office document is Google docs on steroids
36 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Show HN: Vrmac Graphics, a cross-platform graphics library for .NET
36 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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A fast 100% spec compliant, self-hosted JavaScript parser
36 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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JWT scope claim compression using a bitmap
36 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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What's New with Qt for Android
36 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Prototyping at Slack
36 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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India's Contract Tracing App, Aarogya Setu, Open Sourced a Different Codebase
36 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Alameda County agrees to let Tesla reopen if certain conditions are met
36 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Under the Sea
36 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Why herd immunity to Covid-19 is reached much earlier than thought
36 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: Dark Mode for HN
36 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Imsai 8080 Computer (2004)
36 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Fed’s Balance Sheet Exceeds $7T for First Time in History
36 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Show HN: SBA PPP Loan Forgiveness Calculator
36 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Missouri penguins enjoy ‘morning of fine art’ at local museum
36 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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The World of Sports Betting in a World Without Sports
36 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers?
36 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Just Room Enough Island
36 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Pricing Psychology
36 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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iPhone MacBook Hybrid (Apple Patent US20170083048, 2017)
36 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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How should LA urbanize? Look to Seoul
36 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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MindSpore WebAssembly Backend
36 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Reliving the Dial-Up Experience in 2020
36 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Now we're staying inside with Wi-Fi, have you changed your cell plan?
36 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us
36 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Show HN: Run VSCode on iPhone and iPad
36 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value
35 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be
35 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Infrastructure Security Without Slowing Down Developers
35 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Fed paper says 1918 pandemic led to German austerity and extremism [pdf]
35 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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The first 15″ laptop designed to protect your digital life
35 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Should I Use Threads?
35 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Flying: It’s Worse Than You Think
35 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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The front page of The New York Times for May 24, 2020
35 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Don’t rely on contact-tracing apps
35 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook
35 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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What Is Deno and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?
35 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Machine Learning Guide for Beginners
35 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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You don’t even know what risk is
35 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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American Air’s $1 Price Target at Evercore Implies 92% Collapse
35 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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The Drudge Report Has Been Linking to a Site That Plagiarizes Stories
35 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories
35 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Can't focus when writing code in dark mode
35 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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The OpenSSD Project: Open-Source Solid State Drive for Research and Education
35 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row
35 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Zero to the Power of Zero
34 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard ties were extensive, new report reveals
34 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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J.C. Penney Files for Bankruptcy
34 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter
34 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Show HN: Radix sort big files in memory
34 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors
34 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Covid-19
34 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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I Criticized My University’s Ties to the Chinese Gov, Now I Face Expulsion
34 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth
34 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Sourcehut adds continuous integration support for Plan 9
34 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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KLEE: A symbolic virtual machine built on top of LLVM
34 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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A stitch in time: How a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks
34 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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The Strong Museum receives donation of Ralph Baer materials
34 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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A Lesson from the Spanish Flu: Don’t End Restrictions Too Soon
34 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Resources to Learn Python in 2020
34 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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I don’t want to be patronized and much less by a software vendor
34 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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IKEA Releases Free Design for Garden Sphere That Feeds Entire Neighborhood
34 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules
34 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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The History of Nostalgia
34 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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A Dutchman and his man-made mountain
34 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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How do I prevent Scrum from turning great developers into average developers?
34 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Where the complex points are (2016)
34 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Tokyo’s Lion Cafe in Audio Magazine
34 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Riot.im: Default E2EE for private rooms in v1.6
34 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Tycoon Xavier Niel says he was spy who hacked ex-French president
34 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Statement by FCC Commissioner Starks on Section 230 Executive Order
34 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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API Routing Layers in financial services
34 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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TripleByte Public Profiles Response Email
33 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Vanished into Music
33 points • comment • may 17, 2020