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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Making a SNES game in 2020 using modern tools
436 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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The death of corporate research labs
434 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Two capacitor paradox
433 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint
431 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
428 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Introducing Facebook Shops
427 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
427 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020
427 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days
427 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
424 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work
420 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
420 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Advanced SQL and database books and resources
420 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017)
419 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Godot Editor running in a web browser
418 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
416 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)
416 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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I won’t buy ebooks anymore
415 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot
414 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?
413 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
410 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Habits of High-Functioning Teams
410 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Firefox 76
408 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
407 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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I gave away my books and sales increased
406 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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In Praise of AutoHotKey
405 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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GeckoView for Android
404 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
403 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
403 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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I bought netflix.soy
402 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of net neutrality commenters
402 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments
400 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Humans Not Invited
400 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Termux and Android 10
400 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming
400 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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The Big List of Naughty Strings
399 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)
398 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
398 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp
397 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
397 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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My blog is now generated by Google Docs
395 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
395 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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The most prized degree in India became the most worthless
393 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions
392 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Diagram as Code
392 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online
392 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis
391 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
389 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds
389 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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AWS services to avoid
389 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
389 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
389 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
389 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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OTP 23
388 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake
388 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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GitHub Codescanning
387 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so
386 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home
385 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Take care editing bash scripts (2019)
385 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
384 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Patriot Act ammendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
384 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C
383 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text
383 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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How Distortion Works in Music
383 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal
383 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction
382 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
382 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments
380 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media
380 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Why is AI so useless for business?
380 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Simplifier
380 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts
379 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
379 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966
379 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy
376 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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SSH Agent Explained
375 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering
374 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it
372 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home
371 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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ZSH Aliases
370 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store
367 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go
367 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge
367 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
367 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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So I reverse engineered two dating apps
366 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)
365 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces
363 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Ronin – A Lisp-based image processing tool
362 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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SQLite 3.32
362 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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No One Goes There Anymore
362 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel
362 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
361 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
355 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform
355 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2
355 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
355 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Racket is 25
354 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Show HN: Python lib for rich text, markdown, tables, etc. in the terminal
354 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”
353 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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What is a control system anyway?
352 points • comment • may 18, 2020