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Hacker News (Jun 2020)
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MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat
134 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Launch HN: Mighty Health (YC S19) – Health coaching for people over 50
134 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)
134 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Dems pitch $100B broadband plan
134 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Pseudonymity as a Trivial Concession to Genius
134 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Even if you’re asymptomatic, the coronavirus can do damage
134 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low
134 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
134 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Working Group Last Call: QUIC protocol drafts
134 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)
133 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards
133 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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F-117s had an air-to-air capability with secondary mission to shoot Soviet AWACS
133 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Building a high performance JSON parser
133 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?
133 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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The Art of Prolog (1994)
133 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Take control over your feeds to regain mindfulness
133 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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NSA Exposes Tool Used by Russian Hackers
133 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People?
133 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Show HN: Math to Code – Interactive NumPy tutorial for engineers
132 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Tolkien’s Mythic Plan for England
132 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How to develop a growth mindset?
132 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Pycopy – a minimalist and memory-efficient Python implementation
132 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Repetition and Learning – misconceptions about effective studying
131 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Unilever is latest brand to boycott Facebook
131 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017)
131 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (1975) [pdf]
131 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Self-Hosted Homelab Website
131 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Spark joy by running fewer tests
131 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Firefox 77
131 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections
131 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Snabb: 100 Gbit/s pure software switching using Lua (2019)
131 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
131 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Questions to help people decide what to learn
131 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Formal Systems in Biology
130 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (2015)
130 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal
130 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed
129 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?
129 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Way to keep your cool running a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
129 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
129 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Fix Your Timestep
128 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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nCino S-1
128 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy
128 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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The Sickness in Our Food Supply
128 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Trying something again
127 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board
127 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation
127 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Ethics in Geo
127 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration
127 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
127 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage
127 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Show HN: Watch what files any Linux process accesses
127 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Show HN: Global sailing navigation simulator using real weather/ocean data
127 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Michael Hawley of MIT's Media Lab has died
127 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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The Hamler Programming Language
126 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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No Code
126 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Show HN: Program “Greppy”, a 2-wheeled robot, using a new robotics language
126 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Community open letter against renaming Wikimedia to Wikipedia
126 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet
126 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More
126 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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A Graphical Introduction to Lattices
126 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
126 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?
126 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro
126 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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The rise of embarrassingly parallel serverless compute
126 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14
125 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites
125 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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LibreSSL 3.2.0 – TLS 1.3
125 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers
125 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Show HN: FontEdit – A desktop app to develop fonts for embedded systems displays
125 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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How to sell open source software: Guacamole case study
124 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
124 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month
124 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming
124 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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The death of the private citizen?
124 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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I Cannot Remain Silent
124 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Relax for the Same Result (2015)
124 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey
124 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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“Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?
123 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Announce bad news without lying to your team
123 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Science without Validation in a World without Meaning
123 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence
123 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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FF Sandbox Escape
123 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
123 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Autopen
123 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Show HN: Collection of animated algorithms and data structures
123 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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DeepMind introduces ‘EATS’: adversarial, end-to-end approach to text-to-speech
123 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Linux to begin tightening up ability to write to CPU MSRs from user-space
122 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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The history that James Baldwin wanted America to see
122 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)
122 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit
122 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]
122 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Show HN: GIF Directions
122 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Why I left Substack and the Email Renaissance
122 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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The FDA's perpetual process machine
122 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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IMAP Email Backup
122 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Scientists have lost their jobs after NIH probe into foreign ties
122 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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The War on Drugs Is Far More Immoral Than Most Drug Use (2013)
122 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
121 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Returning from a Year of Isolation in Antarctica
121 points • comment • jun 29, 2020