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Hacker News (May 2020)
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On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted
255 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack
255 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Show HN: Writing for Software Developers
255 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China
254 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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15 years later: remote code execution in qmail
254 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Deno Is a Browser for Code
253 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
252 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch
251 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display
251 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Real time image animation in opencv using first order model
250 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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Lovely Week with Elixir
250 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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CA Root expired on 30 May 2020
249 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters following Jump sale
249 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Android Studio 4.0
248 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Why Restaurants Are So Fucked
248 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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The Hard Part of Learning a Language
248 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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A casino card shark’s first time getting caught
247 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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James Damore and three others end Google suit
247 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)
246 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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What the heck happened with .org?
246 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014)
246 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s
245 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Coinbase will be a remote-first company
245 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles
244 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019)
243 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Carbon: Create and share images of source code
243 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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New species of fungus identified via Twitter
243 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine
242 points • comment • may 18, 2020
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The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
242 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video]
242 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents
242 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard
241 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
241 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right
241 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Featherweight Go
241 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
241 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Prowords
240 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)
240 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs
240 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly
240 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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The PEPs of Python 3.9
240 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
240 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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OpenSSL 3.0
240 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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We Are Trying Out PeerTube
239 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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When Parallel: Pull, Don't Push
238 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
237 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
237 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
237 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
236 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
236 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers
236 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
236 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy
235 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
234 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
234 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management
233 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Lit: A ridiculously small responsive CSS framework
233 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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RISC-V OS using Rust: Filesystems
233 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Learn Genetics
233 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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Port knocking
232 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’
232 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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OpenBSD 6.7
232 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App
231 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Analyzing pitches to find what gets VCs interested in a meeting
231 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB
231 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?
231 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Make your 404s into 302s
230 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you
229 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package
229 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video]
228 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise
227 points • comment • may 03, 2020
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If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question
227 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Back of the envelope estimation hacks
227 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Swarm satellites probe weakening of Earth’s magnetic field
227 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Employers are rethinking open-plan office design
227 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (2019)
226 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness
226 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole
226 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line
226 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies still struggle to profit
226 points • comment • may 13, 2020
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I got my first $50/mo customer
225 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
225 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Electrons May Well Be Conscious
225 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose itemized cost breakdown
224 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Why does writing matter in remote work?
224 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice
223 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Julia library for fast machine learning
223 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
223 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Show HN: FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB
223 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Signal PINs
222 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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$100M in bounties paid via HackerOne to ethical hackers
222 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
222 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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macOS Catalina 10.15.5
222 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Rand Paul says no-knock warrants 'should be forbidden' in wake of shooting
221 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Rust in an Instant
221 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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John Peel Sessions
221 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5
221 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients
220 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting
220 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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I/O library 6x faster than fmt, 10x faster than stdio.h and iostream
220 points • comment • may 25, 2020