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Hacker News (Jun 2020)
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The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
551 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
547 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Facebook to let users turn off political adverts
542 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
541 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
541 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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On Coding, Ego and Attention
537 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
532 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised
527 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Xi-Editor Retrospective
526 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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How to Become a Hacker
524 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott
523 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
523 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
523 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Flow browser passes the Acid tests
517 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots
510 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Symbian Won
510 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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OpenAI API
510 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
508 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
505 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
504 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat
502 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs
502 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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America is giving up on the pandemic?
496 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
494 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says
491 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Guide to Python Debugging
487 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences
486 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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macOS in QEMU in Docker
486 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns
485 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Quora goes permanently remote-first
484 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business
483 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques
483 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
479 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
479 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Linear – A fast issue tracker
478 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
478 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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The Coming Chip Wars
477 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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AWS Snowcone
473 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
472 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly
471 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
470 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
470 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
468 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests
467 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Anxiety in product development
467 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Async Python is not faster
467 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
464 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads
462 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
461 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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The American Press Is Destroying Itself
460 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
459 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Bye
459 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
459 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
458 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Video Games Are the Future of Education
458 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
455 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Choose Boring Technology (2015)
453 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe
452 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee
450 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff
450 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest
450 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
449 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find
449 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' personal Whois info
448 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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25 Years of PHP
447 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Curl Wttr.in
446 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Apple, ARM, and Intel
444 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
444 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019
443 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
441 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS
441 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do
441 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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No Paint
439 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
438 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
438 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Teaching my MIT classes with only free/libre software
438 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
436 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source
435 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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How to create a video call application with WebRTC
434 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Looking back at how Signal works
434 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
432 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
432 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
432 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
431 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Finishing a side project
430 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea
429 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
424 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Never Hertz to Ask
423 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
421 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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CapRover: Build your own PaaS
419 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Is WebP really better than JPEG?
417 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
417 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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The KDE community is moving to GitLab
414 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Windows98 Running in the Browser
414 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Ideas That Changed My Life
413 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
412 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incident report
411 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries
411 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately
411 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations into Illustrative Diagrams
411 points • comment • jun 05, 2020