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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors
143 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Claude Shannon Documentatry, “Bit Player”, Released Today
143 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insights for open-source packages
143 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Ray Tracing in Nim
143 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it
143 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (2014)
143 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up
142 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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In Bangladesh, the majority of e-commerce now happens on Facebook
142 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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The German Problem with Tor
142 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The frustration of trying to invest in my hometown
142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml
142 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Laziness Impatience Hubris
142 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated
142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Json-Base – Database built as JSON files
142 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
141 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]
141 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Show HN: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book
141 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Nikon Issues Small Recall for a 16-Year-Old Film Camera
141 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
141 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine
141 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy
141 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
141 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
140 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
140 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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NASA Just Launched Its New Perseverance Rover to Mars
140 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever
139 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective (2013)
139 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers
139 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Fake Cisco
139 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Experts recommend Machine Learning books
139 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Z80 Explorer – a Zilog Z80 netlist-level simulator
138 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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MI6 tried to intervene independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers
138 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
138 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Exciting Days for ARM Processors
138 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
138 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Cryptography is not magic
138 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?
138 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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The gap between learning code and producing usable software
138 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops
138 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
137 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)
137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M
137 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Ansible-Defined Homelab
137 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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The Faces of Microsoft (2017)
137 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
137 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Cirque Du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection
137 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them
137 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Göbekli Tepe
137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data
137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content
136 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Programming at the REPL (2018)
136 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
136 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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The international student bait-and-switch
136 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
136 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok
135 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Photo Requests from Solitary
135 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser
135 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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HotSpot compiler: Stack allocation prototype for C2
135 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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What's New in Lua 5.4
135 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them
135 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components
135 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect
135 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Shelly – a programming language to draw in the browser
134 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline
134 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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The machine learning community has a toxicity problem
134 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Show HN: Cookie Recipe Generator
134 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Tin Can Phone Modem
134 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city
134 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS
134 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook
133 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’
133 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Healthy Self-Doubt
133 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Commander X16 8 bit computer now has its own website
133 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
133 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
133 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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India’s daunting challenge: There’s water everywhere, and nowhere
132 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions
132 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Harmful Workload Generator for PostgreSQL
132 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Apps for Bicycle Directions
132 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternative Care’ Ads
132 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies
132 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365
132 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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The Magic of Math in Modern Cryptography [video]
132 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta
131 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors
131 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Optimizing 128-bit Division
131 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people remaining ill for so long?
131 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982
131 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437k
131 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Grub2 security update renders system unbootable
131 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS
131 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Launch HN: ElectroNeek (YC W20) – Automatically find and automate routine work
131 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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How to list all the targets on a Makefile
131 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Rust on the ESP32 (2019)
131 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Simple Made Easy (2011)
131 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
131 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only
131 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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The wild economy of tabletop board game funding
130 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization
130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]
130 points • comment • jul 15, 2020