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Hacker News (Jun 2020)
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IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
411 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust
407 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness
407 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
406 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since
404 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers (2019)
404 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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You can't tell people anything (2004)
403 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
403 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia
402 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Mental Wealth
401 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Dynamic linking
399 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD
398 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
396 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
395 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean
395 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
395 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
394 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
394 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends
393 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
393 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website
391 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
390 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
389 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
389 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces
388 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
387 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
385 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor
385 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive
383 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Firefox 78
383 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Google Is Not God of the Web
382 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First
382 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
381 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Eastern European Movies
381 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
381 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
381 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
381 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass
379 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores
379 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi
379 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure
379 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
378 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Weirdos in the depression
378 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions
377 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf
376 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
376 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Why Figma Wins
375 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
375 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive
375 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
374 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science
373 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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A photo is crashing some Android phones
373 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
373 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
371 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
371 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
370 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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OpenDiablo2
370 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
370 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Mozilla Common Voice Dataset: More data, more languages
369 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
368 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014
368 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system
368 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password
368 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
367 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Music Grid
366 points • comment • jun 13, 2020
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Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
366 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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The End of OS X
364 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)
362 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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How Did Vim Become So Popular?
361 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
361 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem
361 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing
360 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes
360 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
360 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Krita 4.3.0
360 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic
359 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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We need to do the math, even on “small” projects
359 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
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As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
359 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick
358 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Practical Python Programming
358 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff
356 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table
355 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
354 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Keep Your Stuff, for Life
352 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
352 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Build yourself a weather station
351 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb
350 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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GE Fridge DRM Workaround
349 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
349 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned
346 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
344 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
343 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
341 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
341 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Why Does DARPA Work?
341 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement
340 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
339 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job
339 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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We’ve decided to rename Riot
338 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality
337 points • comment • jun 30, 2020