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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Amazon CEO Bezos Called to Testify Before Congress
22 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Guy solves over 200 CS exam problems in 4 hours
22 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Show HN: Corona Virus Outbreak Dashboard for United States
22 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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How many jobs do robots really replace?
22 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Notes on Epic Games
22 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Where do HN readers spend their online downtime?
22 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Business: A practical guide to Disruptive Innovation
21 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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8-Bit Spirituals
21 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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iFixit launches world's largest medical equipment repair database
21 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back 19K years
21 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Ask HN: I have 25k users. Now what?
21 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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6ft Is Not Always Enough: How Saliva Droplets Spread Through the Air
21 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Twitter labels Trump tweet as ‘glorifying violence’
21 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Configure Mynewt for SPI Flash on PineTime Smart Watch (NRF52)
21 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Dirac, Penrose, and Wolfram
21 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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TikTok names top Disney streaming exec as new CEO
21 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Eugène Atget's Paris, 100 years later
21 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Anthony Fauci says staying closed too long could cause irreparable damage
21 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Facebook announces first 20 members of Oversight Board
21 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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J. Crew Files for Bankruptcy in Virus’s First Big Retail Casualty
21 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies save 35%+ on their AWS bills
21 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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When Good Waves Go Rogue (2014)
21 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Two Pearls of the Web
21 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Electronic Handheld Game Museum (2017)
21 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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COVIDSafe
21 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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The Rise of the Valkyries
21 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Telegram abandons its TON blockchain platform
21 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Did George Washington Use Ketchup? (2012)
21 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Having a Garden Linked to Better Health and Well-Being
21 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Low-cost passive microwave spectral imaging of radio wave sources
21 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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ML Papers achieve similar results when disregarding hyperparameter tuning
21 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Twitter Deletes Tweet about Censorship on Twitter After Retweet by President
21 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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A sad update about SideQuest – We cannot remain open source
21 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Paypal closes its customer service
21 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Next-Generation Virtual Assistants Will Be Far Sexier Than Alexa and Siri
21 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Virginia Juked Its Covid-19 Data
21 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Nvidia Unifies AI Compute with “Ampere” GPU
21 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Telegram gives up on the Telegram Open Network
21 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Show HN: Brewlet – The Missing Menulet for Brew.sh
21 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Coronavirus: Security flaws found in UK NHS contact-tracing app
21 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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The pieces of the puzzle of Covid-19’s origin are coming to light
21 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Podcasts for Entrepreneurs – Episode Directory
21 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Christopher Alexander
21 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Fact Check
21 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI
21 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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New Windows 10 Update Hides Files Causing Serious Problems for Millions
21 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Show HN: Zapatos, a Postgres Library for TypeScript
21 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Airbnb to lay off between 1k and 2k employees
21 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Compiling Lua 5.2 from 2013 with Turbo C 1.0 from 1990 (2014) [video]
21 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Erlang/OTP 23 Highlights
21 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Responses to Reader Feedback
21 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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What's the worst thing to do with a pressure cooker?
21 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Singapore Just Sentenced a Drug Trafficker to Death via Zoom
20 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Show HN: Grow an ASCII Bonsai Tree
20 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
20 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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SOLID design principles in C++: Open Closed Principle
20 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
20 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Uber has reportedly offered to buy GrubHub
20 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Keybase Joins Zoom
20 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Permanently Beating My Insomnia
20 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Apple’s T2 Security Chip Has Created a Nightmare for MacBook Refurbishers
20 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television
20 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries [pdf]
20 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Basecamp Bans Employee Surveillance Software
20 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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“Apple II Seasons” – A 128-byte Apple II Demo by DESiRE
20 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Box allows all employees to be remote
20 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Are we downvoting comments because we disagree?
20 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Newsom proposes ditching environmental review when converting hotels int housing
20 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Nikon Will No Longer Authorize Anyone to Repair Its Cameras
20 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Wink Subscription
20 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Quarantine Fatigue Is Real
20 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged (2002)
20 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Universe’s ‘missing matter’ finally found in the space between galaxies
20 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Readies First Astronaut Launch by Private Firm
20 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Show HN: OmSave – Safari Extension for OmniFocus on macOS
20 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Ex-Googler Turned Whistleblower and QAnon Fan Made 'Plandemic' Go Viral
20 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy
20 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Astrid Kirchherr, Who Helped Create the Beatles’ Image, Has Died
20 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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William S. Burroughs's Paintings (2015)
20 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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'iOS security is f*****' says exploit broker Zerodium
20 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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U.S. planning to cancel visas of Chinese graduate students
20 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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$2M Home in Palo Alto (CA) vs. Columbus (Oh)
20 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies
20 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Japanese Waltzing Mouse (2014)
20 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Show HN:A Discussion Site for (Pilot)Hindu-Religious Groups Based on Hacker News
20 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Lyft shares rally 15% after revenue of $955.7M for Q1 2020
20 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing (1980)
20 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Raphael, Interrupted
20 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Show HN: Single Python API Client for Google Sheets and MS Excel APIs
20 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Coronavirus: Lockdowns Haven’t Proved They’re Worth the Havoc
19 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Losers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, study finds
19 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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He was part of Amazon’s coronavirus hiring spree. Two weeks later he was dead
19 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the design process like at large tech companies?
19 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Draganfly and ‘pandemic drone’ pilot studies in the U.S.
19 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Coronavirus Hijacks the Body from Head to Toe, Perplexing Doctors
19 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Speed improvements using hash tables
19 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Drawing the Sierpiński Triangle with Recursive SQL and SVG
19 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Introduction to K-nearest neighbour algorithm using Sklear
19 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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California Police Used Military Surveillance Tech at Grad Student Strike
19 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia
19 points • comment • may 10, 2020