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Hacker News (May 2020)
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Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
297 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
296 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Simplifying Board Games
295 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
295 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
294 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
294 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Xfce switches to GitLab
294 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
293 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
293 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
293 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Implementing simple cooperative threads in C
293 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
293 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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This has to stop now. Website which aims to build library of police brutality
293 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch
292 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Why NetNewsWire Is Fast
292 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Little Richard has died
292 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Slack was down
291 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
290 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles
290 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
289 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules
289 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Three bugs in the Go MySQL driver
289 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration
288 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Show HN: r/hnblogs, Blogging is not Dead
287 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
287 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Remote work means anyone can take your job
287 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
286 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Reading habits that changed my life
285 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
285 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California
284 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
283 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Unofficial APIs
283 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents
283 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Lomuto's Comeback
282 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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What Was TON And Why It Is Over
281 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at the shell
281 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Popcorn Linux
281 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas
280 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Can AI Become Conscious?
280 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating
280 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Signs that a business idea will probably fail
279 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
279 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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GraphBLAS – Graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra
278 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Fuchsia overview
277 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics
277 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost
276 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?
276 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Every software system used at Gitlab
276 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Pretending OOP Never Happened
276 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software
276 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Apache NiFi
275 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment
274 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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GitLab 13.0
273 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Windows Package Manager Preview
272 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD
272 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months
272 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)
272 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
271 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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A simple way to get more value from metrics
271 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile
271 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
270 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]
270 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo
269 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day
269 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Ask HN: How to stop anxiety from too many choices?
269 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Five Years of Rust
268 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog
268 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Tampering of Mortgage Funds
268 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?
268 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?
268 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (2000)
266 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres
266 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum
266 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
265 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS
264 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting
263 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?
262 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation
262 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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What Happens Next? Covid-19 Futures, Explained with Playable Simulations
262 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Lord of the io_uring: io_uring tutorial, examples and reference
262 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015)
262 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X
261 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Physics Today is temporarily making its archive freely available
261 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched pipes kill productivity
261 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed
261 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners
261 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support
260 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges
260 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Why we have so many problems with our teeth
259 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Make Writing a Habit
259 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Bash IRC Quote Database
259 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures
259 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security
258 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds
257 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech
257 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos
256 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs
256 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)
256 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Secessio plebis
256 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
256 points • comment • may 12, 2020