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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Her Cellphone Number Used to Be Elon Musk's. You Can Imagine the Calls She Gets
8 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Latin America's second-biggest airline, Avianca, driven to bankruptcy by Covid
8 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says
8 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Telegram abandons $1.7B crypto project
8 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests
8 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Big Ideas from Rationality
8 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Why Busy Is the New Stupid, and What We Can Do About It
8 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong
8 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to GrubHub
8 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Step Chickens and the Rise of TikTok 'Cults'
8 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Amazon Sent Out a Scripted News Segment, and 11 Stations Aired It
8 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Dolphin Progress April 2020
8 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Temporal Understanding of Cybersecurity Threats [pdf]
8 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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The State of the Awk
8 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Don't be afraid of copying the master
8 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Show HN: To Listen to Any Page Prefix the URL with Playthis.link
8 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Is Different
8 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Ask HN: Is reverse engineering a saleable skill?
8 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Analysis of the Imperial College Epidemiological Model
8 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Pontiff: A Haskell-style build system for Chicken Scheme
8 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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The Coming Death of Independent Podcasting
8 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Princeton names its first black valedictorian in the university's history
8 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Practice Happiness with Yale University
8 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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The harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures
8 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Some simple tricks in C/C++
8 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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UK and US claim coronavirus labs being attacked by state hackers
8 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Don’t Close Parks. Open Up Streets
8 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Roche gets FDA approval for Covid-19 antibody test with 99.8% specificity
8 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Washington state claws back $300M from unemployment fraud scheme
8 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Ask HN: How does a JAMstack website like Smashing Magazine get hacked?
8 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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I made my local pub in VR
8 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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The Podcasting World Is Now Spotify versus Everybody Else
8 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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The Cult of Elon Is Cracking
8 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Announcing Flutter 1.17
8 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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MacBook Pro 13-Inch
8 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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The Coronavirus Epicenter Is Past Peak; It’s Time to End the Shutdowns
8 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 “deaths of despair”
8 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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We Should All Be Preppers
8 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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The Retail Apocalypse Is Here
8 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Board Games Online?
8 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Algolia gets a new CEO as founder steps down
8 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Tell HN: Facebook IC4 Hiring Freeze
8 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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North Dakota Constant (33% of ppl endorse made up conspiracy theory)
8 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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How Facebook became “the most Chinese company In Silicon Valley”
8 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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On the Observability of Pauli Crystals in Lithium
8 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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School board removes famous books from curriculum for 'controversial' content
8 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Volume control slider for my desk
8 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Bitcoin Hits $10K
7 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Tesla shares tank after Elon Musk tweets the stock price is ‘too high’
7 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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ACM: Computing Curriculum Draft for 2020s
7 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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2600 Magazine: Hope 2020 Update
7 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years
7 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution into a Conspiracy Cult
7 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Magnet Fisherman Finds 60 Mysterious Cubes with Inscriptions in Coventry River
7 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Musk dares Alameda county to arrest him
7 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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REPL Driven Design
7 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Twitter unlocks previously locked SDKMAN account then deletes all 3.5k followers
7 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Ask HN: When do you think we will be able to regenerate teeth?
7 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Four-day working week as way to rebuild New Zealand after Covid-19
7 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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George Hotz on Nvidia's Autonomous Driving Strategy
7 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak
7 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Can I make you a dashboard for your side project?
7 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Heritable Traits vs. Inherited Traits
7 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Show HN: Djaq provides a powerful, instant remote API to your Django models data
7 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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House Pulls Surveillance Measure After Trump Tells Republicans to Vote No
7 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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The Surprisingly Cutthroat Business of Communion Crackers
7 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Do atoms ever touch each other? (2013)
7 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor
7 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit
7 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Docker in a Day: Beginner to Advanced with Hands-On Examples
7 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Cromemco Computer Corporation
7 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Glitch lays off ‘substantial number of employees’ to cut costs
7 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential
7 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Microsoft Offers $100k If You Can Hack This Linux Operating System
7 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Hate Speech vs Freedom of Speech
7 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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ORNL 3D Printed a Working Nuclear Reactor Core for the First Time
7 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Where are some good IRC/IM places hackers hang out?
7 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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SpaceX Dragon Docking Started with ISS
7 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Show HN: GramGram – Send Instagram photos to your Grandma through the mail
7 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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What are some bad UX present in today's popular apps?
7 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Best Practices for Array Indexing
7 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Tile Writes to EU Accusing Apple of Abuse of Power
7 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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LaTeX Coffee Stains (2012)
7 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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India is forcing people to use its Covid app, unlike any other democracy
7 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: TechStax – create a developer portfolio in 2 minutes
7 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Taleb and Asness feud on Twitter over tail-risk hedging
7 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
7 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
7 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Skimlinks owe us $6k affiliate revenue and hasn't wire a cent in 2 years
7 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Researchers Warn of Unfixable DNS DoS NXNS Attack
7 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Nvidia Researchers Demonstrate New Raytracing Algorithm
7 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Don’t Build Push Notifications Yourself
7 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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AP count: Over 4,500 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes
7 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Jamstack is fast only if you make it so
7 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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NASA's head of human spaceflight abruptly resigns, citing 'mistake'
7 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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How AWS Firecracker works: A deep dive (2019)
7 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Java's 25th birthday – celebrated with 25 Hours of Java
7 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Construct a standalone COVID19 contact tracing device with a Raspberry Pi
7 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Folders : a language where programs are encoded as hierarchies of folders
7 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Hayao Miyazaki's Airships
7 points • comment • may 11, 2020