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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
2583 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Oppose the Earn IT Act
2223 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Grant Imahara Has Died
1959 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
1756 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Del.icio.us
1644 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
1582 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1481 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
1266 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
1236 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
1104 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
1104 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
1097 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
1093 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
1089 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
1087 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
1066 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
1051 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
1046 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
1023 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
1006 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Websites that look like desktop GUIs
967 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
964 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
953 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
945 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
921 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Cloudflare was down
915 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
910 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
878 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
873 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Things I wish I’d known about CSS
867 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
856 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
853 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
837 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
820 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Abstract Wikipedia
791 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
776 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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How to Understand Things
771 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)
766 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]
762 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations
752 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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On Trouser Pockets
745 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
737 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
735 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
733 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans
726 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive
705 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
697 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Ennio Morricone has died
689 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
684 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Invert, always, invert
672 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
665 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
661 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
652 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
651 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
647 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
645 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
642 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
642 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
640 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
634 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
632 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
627 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
609 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
601 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Apple Lightning
596 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Resignation Letter
593 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
590 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
588 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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The Four Quadrants of Conformism
582 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
578 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Orthodox Privilege
577 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
567 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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De-escalating social media conflict
563 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
559 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs
558 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
556 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays
553 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
550 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
546 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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New Stuff
543 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]
543 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
542 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Just Too Efficient
541 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Medium is not the home for your ideas
539 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Riot is now Element
538 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
537 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
534 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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One hour of slow breathing changed my life
533 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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An update on our security incident
529 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys
527 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
521 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
521 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
520 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
520 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard
520 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
517 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
516 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
511 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress
507 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
506 points • comment • jul 25, 2020