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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Rats are infecting humans with hepatitis, and nobody knows how
5 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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The hard parts about making it look easy
5 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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How Many People Will Patent Monopolies Kill in This Pandemic?
5 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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The work-from-home trader who shook global markets
5 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Israel Isolates Coronavirus Antibody
5 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you get support from Google?
5 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Show HN: An opinionated markdown-to-HTML tutorial publisher
5 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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An hour long conversation with the creators behind BigQuery
5 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Single List of HOWTOS
5 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Under-the-hood of type systems (e.g. TypeScript)
5 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Open source targeted scraping API
5 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Members – For Managing Associations and Clubs
5 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Two mysterious web font bugs that no one seems to be talking about (2018)
5 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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The Law of Supply and Demand Isn’t Fair By Richard Thaler
5 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Let SOcket CAT Be Thy Glue over Serial
5 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Why NetNewsWire Is Fast
5 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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'All-out combat' feared as India, China engage in border standoff
5 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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The Fundamental Theories Behind Artificial Intelligence
5 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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INTERCAL was born on May 26, 1972. Happy Birthday, INTERCAL
5 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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A Secret Algorithm Is Deciding Who Will Die in America
5 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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An Incursion into Venezuela, Straight Out of Hollywood
5 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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People don’t want to go back to how things were before coronavirus
5 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Ask HN: How can I run a program for 1 month against my will?
5 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Coronavirus pandemic may last 2 years and resurge in fall, study says
5 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Qanon is more important than you think
5 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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French coronavirus expert REJECTS second wave fears branding warnings a fantasy
5 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Canada’s Competition Bureau Fines Facebook Millions over Privacy
5 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Self-Supervised Learning of 3D Human Pose Using Multi-View Geometry
5 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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I Believe Tara Reade. I’m Voting for Joe Biden Anyway
5 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Deliberate Practice for Knowledge Work
5 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Healthcare Is Not Ready for Artificial Intelligence. Yet
5 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Plastic bags were finally being banned. Then came the pandemic
5 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Car’s Yearly Tune-Up Costs as Much as a Civic
5 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous
5 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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If you remember GeoCities this one is for you
5 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on Coronavirus?
5 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Young, healthy people are getting sick from Covid-19
5 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Bend the Curve – Pandemic Response Simulator
5 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Plan to Save World’s Crops Lives in Norwegian Bunker
5 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Rant: The DRY Principle Is Bad Advice
5 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Joe Rogan moving podcast to Spotify, becoming an exclusive
5 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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WHO Praises Sweden for Resisting Lockdown Despite Growing Covid-19 Cases
5 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity
5 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Yale's the science of well-being course starts today
4 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Dying to go out to eat? Here's how viruses like Covid-19 spread in a restaurant
4 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap
4 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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The IHME coronavirus model keeps being wrong. Why are we still listening to it?
4 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Dear Reader: A Letter from the Author of ‘The Giver’ and ‘Number the Stars’
4 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Microsoft: We were wrong about open source
4 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Microsoft launches Surface Go 2 with a bigger display
4 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Ford Cop Cars Can Now Heat Interiors to over 133 Degrees to Kill Coronavirus
4 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Hints and Principles for Computer System Design
4 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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ParaLLEl-RDP update (LLE N64 emu) – iGPU/Android dev, Chrome profiler, and more
4 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Deliveroo was the poster child for venture capitalism. It's not so good now
4 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Introduction to Libp2p – David Dias
4 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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What Happens Next?
4 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence can't technically invent things, says patent office
4 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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The Panda Language: No Loops, No Ifs, Just Fun
4 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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KubeVirt, LXD, KVM, vSphere, G8 and LDAP/AD updates in Mist v4.3
4 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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NASA, SpaceX to Launch First Astronauts to Space Station from U.S. Since 2011
4 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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A Marketplace for Chatbots
4 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Ask HN: What NoSQL database do you recommend in 2020?
4 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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These Keys Shouldn't Exist
4 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Will contact tracing lead to a Chinese style social credit system?
4 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Dataset for US police departments that allow neck restraints (2013)
4 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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The End of Podcasting’s Innocence
4 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Uncertainty over who could access NHSX contact tracing app data as pilot starts
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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“Shuffle Sharding” technique used by AWS ELB team
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
4 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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The hard parts about making it look easy
4 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Sharing global stack data with Terraform
4 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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What is happening in Hong Kong?
4 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Children Are Hospitalized with Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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How to find toilet papers using headless browsers?
4 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Feminist cartographers are filling in urban design data gaps
4 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
4 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Reasonable Education: In Praise of Homeschooling
4 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Show HN: Wayfind Maps – For Navigating Apartment Complexes in DFW
4 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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High Intensity Interval Training for Devs
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Show HN: Porting a Classic 1970s Chess Program to Modern Hardware
4 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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17-Year-Old Turned Down $8M to Keep His Viral Coronavirus Tracker Ad-Free
4 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Show HN: Python convtools library – code generation for data transforms
4 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Rust concurrency: a streaming workflow, served with a side of back-pressure
4 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Drone deliveries soar in rural Scotland during coronavirus outbreak
4 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Widespread Vote-by-Mail Fraud Allegations in Paterson NJ City Council Election
4 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Watson's Creator Wants to Teach AI a New Trick: Common Sense
4 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Ask HN: How to Learn Web Design?
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future
4 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Dong Yaoqiong
4 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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One Idea for Speeding a Coronavirus Vaccine: Deliberately Infecting People
4 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: Using GitHub as a CMS with Cloudflare Workers Sites
4 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Secrets, Surveillance and Snowden
4 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Some Nursing Homes Escaped Covid-19–Here's What They Did Right
4 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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The Power of Good Design
4 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Navy Releases New UFO Incident Reports
4 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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China put pressure on EU to soften coronavirus disinformation report
4 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your blog stack?
4 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Foursquare Recovery Index
4 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Are There Laws of History?
4 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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The Beginner's Guide to Intermittent Fasting
4 points • comment • may 24, 2020