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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Fed Report Shows Magical Thinking on Safety of Wall Street’s Banks
16 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Robert Louis Stevenson and His Friends
16 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
16 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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CDC: Coronavirus antibody tests may be wrong 50% of the time
16 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Ontop – A Virtual Knowledge Graph System
16 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Cruz calls for criminal investigation of Twitter
16 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Google Authenticator Now Supports Transfer of 2-Step Verification Codes
16 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, causing satellites to malfunction
16 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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The district court ruled that brown recluse spiders are insects [pdf]
16 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Gas stoves may routinely generate unsafe levels of indoor air pollution
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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There's a fake Dark Sky app on the Play Store–and people are paying real money
16 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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The Big China Short
16 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide
16 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still on the Loose, but We Can Reopen Jurassic Park
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Updating our approach to misleading information
16 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Files Discredit Accusation That Democrats Tried to Hack the Georgia Election
16 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Which companies have great software engineering practices?
16 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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The SNOBOL4 Programming Language [pdf]
16 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (2011)
16 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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YouTube Is Down
16 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Spyware inside Unity is trying to phone home to a website with an expired SSL
16 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Paul Tudor Jones Buys Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Don't Go to College This Fall
16 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released with Its Skia and Vulkan Rendering
16 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
16 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Android hidden API restriction bypass (= API 30)
16 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Our approach to the future relationship with the EU [pdf]
16 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Should an emoji come before or after a full-stop?
16 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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3.5-inch SBC offers Ryzen V1000 and up to four GbE ports
16 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Build Your Own ‘Google Translate’-Quality Machine Translation System
16 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Patches to Run Erlang in the Nanos Unikernel
16 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Lua's Multi-Values
16 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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VCVRack – open-source Virtual Eurorack DAW
16 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Trump Threatens to Designate Antifa as Terrorist Organization
15 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Elon Musk going to sell all physical possessions
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Deepfakes Are Going to Wreak Havoc on Society. We Are Not Prepared
15 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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The Trouble with Comparisons
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Sweden’s coronavirus experiment has well and truly failed
15 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Viva Las Vegas?
15 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Second-System Effect
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Startup turns 19k under-utilised gaming cafes into ML servers during COVID-19
15 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Seattle's new hygiene shower trailers cost the city $475 per shower
15 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper
15 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Xiaomi is stealing your search history
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you keep notes of things you learn
15 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Generalists vs. specialists – which one should you strive for as a developer?
15 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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The birth of CLR (2006)
15 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Show HN: Make a QR code with your domain spelled out in the code pattern
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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The WoW rule: A formula for growth for SaaS Startups
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Show HN: Notebag – A keyboard-focused note taking app
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
15 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking
15 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Docker in a Day: Beginner to Advanced with Hands-On Examples
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Evidence Suggests Those With Severe Covid-19 Have Same Pre-existing Ponditions
15 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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The Epidemiology of Misinformation
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Accelerated discovery of CO2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning
15 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Xerox copier could be replacing numbers in your documents (2013)
15 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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The IHME coronavirus model keeps being wrong. Why are we still listening to it?
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple
15 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
15 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Work for ICE [video]
15 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How likely is a US revolution?
15 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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How assembly language loops work [video]
15 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Samsung Announces New 50MP Dual-Pixel and Quad-Bayer Isocell Sensor
15 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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How a Misquotation Is Born (2017)
15 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Underwater Basket Weaving
15 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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PewDiePie signs exclusive live-streaming deal with YouTube
15 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Analysis of how Covid-19 impacted product analytics usage
15 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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High level privacy and security design for NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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A collection of essays about why online communities end up the way they do
15 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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The Artist of the Future
15 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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The White House Is Trying to Shut Down NASA’s Last Mars Rover
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Why do we find comfort in terrifying stories?
15 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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The coronavirus is outlasting the stimulus
15 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Are you hiring IT professionals over 35s? Leave the details below
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Goodbye Webpack: Building Vue.js Applications Without Webpack
15 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Agile Scrum is not working
15 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Inkscape 1.0
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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White House organizes harassment of Twitter employee as Trump threatens company
15 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
15 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Show HN: Little Ball of Fur – A NetworkX extension library for graph sampling
15 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Social Media Usage at All-Time High. That Could Mean a Nightmare for Democracy
15 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Apple Photos app don't accept photo downloaded from iPhone because it's not JPEG
15 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Ask HN: What's the greatest lie of open source?
15 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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The Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning
15 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Trump administration yanks approval for homeless shelters across California
15 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Lyft ends electric scooter operations in Oakland, Austin and San Jose
15 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump
15 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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'Plague, Inc.’ developer never expected reality to look like its video game
15 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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CS 538: Theory and Design of Programming Languages (Spring 2020)
15 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Solo living in a camper 727 as architecture of collapse – Kirsten Dirksen
15 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Scientists find brain center that 'profoundly' shuts down pain
14 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger
14 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Ex-Green Beret pitched Venezuela coup plot to Colorado investors last year
14 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Postmortem of a Scaleway related not-too-critical downtime
14 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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This rare AMD chip is the cheapest 16 core CPU
14 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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From punch cutters to number crunchers (2017)
14 points • comment • may 27, 2020