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Hacker News (Jun 2020)
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The Pentagon’s hand-me-downs helped militarize police
36 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means
36 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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The Art of Being Alone
36 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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The first intuitive programming language for quantum computers
36 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Coronavirus protective immunity is short-lasting [pdf]
36 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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The Case Is Building That Covid-19 Had a Lab Origin
35 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System
35 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Bankrupt Hertz targets Robinhood traders in plot to dump $1B in stock
35 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Truth in Advertising (2016)
35 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Sightbit deploys AI on beaches to help lifeguards spot distressed swimmers
35 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Show HN: Funny, Human-Memorable SHA-256 Fingerprints
35 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Controversies and Challenges in fMRI (2018)
35 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Reyes Rendering on the GPU [pdf]
35 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Perspective: Streaming Analytics via WebAssembly
35 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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The Restlessness of Gerhard Richter
35 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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A Wave of Student Loan Defaults Is Coming
35 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Kronecker Product in Circuits
35 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Google Support: Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results
35 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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How effective communication can be achieved in a digital work environment
35 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator
35 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Apple Rejects Appeal of Email App That Blasted Store Rules
35 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds
35 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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ZFS Removes References to Slavery
35 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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All 3 major telecoms in Canada will be working with Ericsson instead of Huawei
35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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New recordings and personal stories with AI expert systems pioneers
35 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Court overturns EPA approval of popular herbicide made by Monsanto
35 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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US to ban passenger flights from China
35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Imec Demonstrates FinFET Devices with Integrated Tungsten Buried Power Rails
35 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Scale as a Design Input, Not an Output
35 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Show HN: Jumpfiles – get more done with fewer keystrokes
35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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May sees biggest jobs increase ever
34 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Cell service outage spike in US
34 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Why Full-Time 9 to 5 Jobs are Risky
34 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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What Are Optotypes? (2015)
34 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Chronic treatment with hydroxychloroquine and SARS-CoV-2 infection
34 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Journalists are arrested injured by police while trying to cover protests
34 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Amazon will no longer support the Echo Look, encourages owners to recycle theirs
34 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Estimating pitch with SPICE and Tensorflow Hub
34 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
34 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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New executive order allows federal agencies to bypass environmental laws
34 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds
34 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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$1T. That's How Much Workers Are Losing to Owners Each Year
34 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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What is the most dangerous drug? (2019)
34 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Time of maximum intersection of two moving polygons
34 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment
34 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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No to .io, Yes to .xyz
34 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Gamow’s cyclist: a new look at relativistic measurements for binocular observer
34 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Featherweight Java: A Minimal Core Calculus for Java and GJ (2002) [pdf]
34 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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How Does Git Know What a Python Function/Class Definition Looks Like?
34 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Show HN: An assembler for the LC-3 fictitious computer
34 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Never-Ending Niches
34 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Ask HN: I want to quit coding professionally but keep it as hobby. What now?
34 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Tesla included in J.D. Power survey for the first time, and it’s bad
34 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Twitter account tweeting same as U.S. President gets suspended
34 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Italian company exposed as a front for malware operations
34 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Trump to sign EO suspending work visas through 2020 (H1B, H2B, H4, L1, J1)
34 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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U.S. announces end of Hong Kong's special status
34 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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‘Collapse of Civilisation Is the Most Likely Outcome’: Top Climate Scientists
34 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Forward Transformer TTS – a non-autoregressive Transformer for text to speech
34 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Ingredients for life appear in stellar nurseries long before stars are born
34 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds
34 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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A lightweight, customizable omnibox in JavaScript
33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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I Quit Academia
33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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Bastions on demand in an AWS VPC
33 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development
33 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing
33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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SCP – Familiar, Simple, Insecure, and Slow
33 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Let's Say You Wanted to Back Up the Internet Archive
33 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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1/4 Covid Deaths Are in Nursing Homes
33 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Widespread mask-wearing could prevent Covid-19 second waves, study shows
33 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Warmest May on record, Siberia 10C hotter
33 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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WhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results
33 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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India Debates Skin-Tone Bias as Beauty Companies Alter Ads
33 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Reddit slammed by former CEO Ellen Pao for 'amplifying' racism and hate
33 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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E/O: Suspending Entry of Aliens Presenting a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market
33 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Memory Consistency Models (2016)
33 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers
33 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
33 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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All Roads Lead from Prague
33 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Jonathan Dowling (1955-2020)
33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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How Gorillaz could dominate a post-Covid world
33 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Wirecard offices searched as prosecutors probe management board
33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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'Did I miss anything?': A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat
33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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America Is Giving Up on Coronavirus – and the Consequences Will Be Devastating
33 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Value Investing in Life Sciences
33 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Universal Virus Detection Platform to Expedite Viral Diagnosis
33 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Where Does My Main Battery Go?
33 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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The New Old Boys from the ARPAnet (1985)
33 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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FPBase: The Fluorescent Protein Database
33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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New monkey species found hiding in plain sight
33 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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The Contentious History of the Passport (2017)
32 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Ask HN: I find writing difficult, how do I make it easy?
32 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler
32 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Show HN: Model Zoo: Deploy your machine learning model in a single line of code
32 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Reasoning by Lego: The wrong way to think about cryptography
32 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
32 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Wine 5.10 Release
32 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
32 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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We should not defund the Terminator program
32 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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The Next Step for Mixer
32 points • comment • jun 22, 2020