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Hacker News (May 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
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The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp
219 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%
219 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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74% of Startups Have Trimmed Staff, 65% Have Less Than 6 Months of Cash
219 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust
219 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
217 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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StreetComplete asks questions, with answers used to improve OpenStreetMap data
217 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video]
217 points • comment • may 04, 2020
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Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement
217 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch live on Wednesday
217 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Ask HN: I'd like to learn vocals, any suggestion on how I can do this?
217 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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The economics of cheaper batteries
216 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions
216 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Janus WebRTC Server
216 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Swift AWS Lambda Runtime
216 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes
215 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT
214 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
214 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated
214 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it
214 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Psychic Paper: iOS Sandbox Escape
214 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Welcome to C# 9.0
214 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Christo has died
213 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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Analysis of dev agencies with hourly rates, team size and tech stack
213 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
212 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan
212 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Google's top quantum scientist explains why he resigned
212 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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The Fastest Google Fonts
212 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Improve your walking technique
212 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix
211 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)
211 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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Why the Cessna is such a badass plane (2019)
211 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
211 points • comment • may 27, 2020
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Notion encourages busy-work
211 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
211 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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The Linux Kernel FPGA Subsystem
210 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative metaprogramming
210 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?
210 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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The rise of React
210 points • comment • may 31, 2020
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The State of the AWK
209 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
209 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)
209 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Why can't I send faxes from my phone?
209 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Intelligent disobedience
209 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Learn Go: Hand-crafted Go exercises and examples
208 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos
208 points • comment • may 22, 2020
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Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal
207 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen
207 points • comment • may 24, 2020
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We built a new GPS receiver engine
206 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders
206 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs
206 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources
206 points • comment • may 01, 2020
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Well-known web sites that port-scan their visitors
206 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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In Defense of the Modern Web
205 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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A 125-year-old delivery network that feeds Mumbai
205 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments
205 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures
205 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Georgism
204 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal traffic collisions
204 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS
204 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
204 points • comment • may 20, 2020
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1989 California Medfly Attack
203 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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Show HN: Virtual Reality DOS
203 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Snow Crash: HBO Max adaptation of Neal Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk novel
203 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your learning strategy?
203 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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The Success and Failure of Ninja
202 points • comment • may 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?
202 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to shrink deep learning models
202 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches
202 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Why remote work is hard and how it can be fixed
202 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Show HN: A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that made me fall in love with CGI
202 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Bhūribhirbhāribhirbhīrābhūbhārairabhirebhire
201 points • comment • may 17, 2020
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Launch HN: Satchel (YC S18) – Guides to the Best SaaS Tools
201 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Show HN: Multi-room audio with Snapcast and Raspberry Pi
201 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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Bad times in corporate wireless networks
201 points • comment • may 02, 2020
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ESLint 7.0
201 points • comment • may 11, 2020
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Getting Back to Work
200 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses
200 points • comment • may 08, 2020
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Oxidizing the Technical Interview
200 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby
200 points • comment • may 14, 2020
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Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones
199 points • comment • may 19, 2020
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Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips
199 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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X-37b space plane’s microwave power beam experiment
199 points • comment • may 09, 2020
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Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code
199 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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Zork source code, 1977
198 points • comment • may 07, 2020
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Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
198 points • comment • may 26, 2020
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An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains
198 points • comment • may 15, 2020
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Show HN: This Fursona Does Not Exist
198 points • comment • may 06, 2020
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The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People
198 points • comment • may 23, 2020
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California sues Uber and Lyft, claiming workers are misclassified
197 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Show HN: Margin – A lightweight, flexible markup language for structured thought
197 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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An analysis of the Lego City deep space rocket
197 points • comment • may 10, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?
196 points • comment • may 16, 2020
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We are complicit in our employer’s deeds
196 points • comment • may 05, 2020
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Automattic invests in Matrix
196 points • comment • may 21, 2020
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New fuzzing tool finds USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD
196 points • comment • may 28, 2020
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Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police Department
196 points • comment • may 29, 2020
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The Vanishing Of Ashlar: 4kb demo using GPU for sound and pathtracing
196 points • comment • may 25, 2020
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Frameworkless Movement
195 points • comment • may 30, 2020
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GitHub Insights
195 points • comment • may 06, 2020