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Hacker News (Jun 2020)
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Specific ways to write better Python (2017)
150 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]
150 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm
150 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons
149 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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5G and Shannon’s Law
149 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Fountain pen ink properties
149 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Editors (Vim)
149 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Micromort
149 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong
149 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Guide to Linux System Calls (2016)
149 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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C performance mystery: delete unused string constant
149 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Mounting clues suggest the coronavirus might trigger diabetes
149 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Show HN: Code Notes – A Gatsby theme for publishing code-related notes
149 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
149 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Logistic regression from scratch
148 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Amazon Announces $2B Fund to Invest in Climate Tech Companies
148 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
148 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Facebook Novi and Surveillance Finance
148 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
148 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once
147 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Paper Airplane Designs
147 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Stitch Fix to Lay off About 1,400 Employees in California
147 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Gated Linear Networks
147 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life
147 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams
147 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Tons of microplastic rain onto western US
147 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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How to use FIDO2 USB keys with SSH
146 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Free Software in Jeopardy
146 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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The Rise of Platform Engineering
146 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Why Sleep Deprivation Kills
145 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword Syntax
145 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Minimizing Rust Binary Size
145 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Show HN: Offset – Credit card powered by trust between people
145 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation
145 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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The case for declaring armed and fully autonomous drone swarms as WMD
145 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Show HN: Random Roads
144 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you divide time between engaging with users and development?
144 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Putin's People – a groundbreaking study that follows the money
144 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Procedural Lake Village
144 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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PHP Insights: Analyze the code quality of PHP projects
144 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon
144 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML
143 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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New technology for aluminum production promises zero CO2 emission
143 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Unker Non-Linear Writing System
143 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Solar storm risk and EMP attacks
142 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Larder.io – Bookmarking for Developers
142 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
142 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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12 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
142 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS (2018)
142 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
142 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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NRF52 Firmware Readout and Reverse-Engineering Now Possible
141 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'
141 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Reducing search indexing latency to one second
141 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX
141 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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The Problem with Git Flow
141 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money?
140 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? Rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur (2019)
140 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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GoPlus – The Go+ language for data science
140 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider
140 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 and Today
140 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
140 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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The Shareware Scene, Part 4: Doom
140 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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New system76 laptop: Oryx Pro
140 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Big Sur on Unsupported Macs
139 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Speeding up a Git monorepo
139 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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On Systemic Debt
139 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
139 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)
139 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick
139 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Seeing Theory (2017)
139 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
139 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Show HN: Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises
138 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Getting Hands-on with io_uring using Go
138 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach?
138 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, landmark gene study finds
138 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Ansible Alternatives in Python
138 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in the brain
137 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
137 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
137 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Wirecard Scandal Puts Spotlight on Auditor Ernst and Young
137 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
137 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Deep Chernoff Faces
137 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Covid-19: The T Cell Story
136 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?
136 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg
136 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy
136 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah
136 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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The Early History of F# [pdf]
136 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year
136 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video]
136 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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IRS programming mystery continues
135 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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GnuTLS: TLS 1.3 session resumption works without master key, allowing MITM
135 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets
135 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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You might as well be a great copy editor
135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Basics of Pneumatic Logic
135 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads
135 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Werner Herzog: ‘Film-making is always some sort of risk-taking’
135 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Show HN: Flatend – Quickly build microservices using P2P networking in Node/Go
135 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Apple Safari to Block Google Analytics from Collecting Data
135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Bypass kernel lockdown/UEFI secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 with ACPI SSDT injection
134 points • comment • jun 15, 2020