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Hacker News (Jun 2020)
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Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
336 points • comment • jun 27, 2020
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Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice
334 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture
334 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression
334 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox
333 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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C Internals
332 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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How to write a toy JVM
330 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
329 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections
329 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
328 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
328 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks
326 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes
325 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Apple rejects Hey for second time, threatens removal from App Store
324 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US
324 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
323 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors
321 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
320 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks
320 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?
320 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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ARM Mac Impact on Intel
319 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court
318 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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Turn recipe websites into plain text
318 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
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Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
318 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
318 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
318 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Show HN: PJDL an open alternative to 1-wire with a range of 2000m
317 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Street-Fighting Mathematics
317 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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iPhone 6S getting iOS 14 is like the Galaxy S6 getting Android 11
316 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
316 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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FlexBuffers
315 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
315 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key'
314 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech
314 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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How we use HashiCorp Nomad
313 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
313 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years
313 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
312 points • comment • jun 06, 2020
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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
312 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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$1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn
312 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode
312 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions
312 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins [video]
312 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
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Apple and Facebook
312 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
310 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
310 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15K years old, to expand mine
310 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior
310 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
309 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO
308 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague
308 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’
308 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software
307 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
306 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues
306 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster
306 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Design electronics like it is 70s at CERN
305 points • comment • jun 12, 2020
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Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
305 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
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Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife
305 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department
304 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
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Ghoti
304 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming
303 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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It is as if you were doing work
303 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
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Tiny C Compiler
301 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Gimp 2.10.20
300 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Model S Long Range Plus: Building the First 400-Mile Electric Vehicle
300 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Papers with Code
299 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite
299 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
299 points • comment • jun 14, 2020
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U.S. states accuse 26 drugmakers of generic drug price fixing lawsuit
297 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Big Tech frame the debate
297 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Segway ends production of its original scooter
297 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Behind tech layoffs lay cash flow-negative companies
296 points • comment • jun 01, 2020
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Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers
296 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia
294 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
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How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
293 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps
293 points • comment • jun 20, 2020
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Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
292 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA
291 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)
290 points • comment • jun 08, 2020
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What to write down when you’re reading to learn
289 points • comment • jun 11, 2020
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Is a trillion dollars’ worth of programming lying on the ground?
289 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging
288 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
288 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
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Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page
288 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
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German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
287 points • comment • jun 03, 2020
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Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable
287 points • comment • jun 21, 2020
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Megadesk
287 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
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EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices
287 points • comment • jun 16, 2020
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Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them
286 points • comment • jun 19, 2020
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London tube map made from a working circuit board
286 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Text-Only Websites
286 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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GPT-3
285 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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The social obligation to be bad at things
284 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
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Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
284 points • comment • jun 04, 2020
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The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s
284 points • comment • jun 17, 2020
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Ask HN: How are you holding up?
284 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
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Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
283 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
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Looking Back at Postgres
283 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
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iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps
283 points • comment • jun 22, 2020