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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The wild economy of tabletop board game funding
130 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media
130 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Who is the greatest knife steel metallurgist of all time?
130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]
130 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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First manufactured non-cuttable material
129 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
129 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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GitHub Audio (2016)
129 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Ozymandias
129 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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GitHub Readme Templates
129 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Pharo Smalltalk Overview
128 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Remark42: Self-Hosted, Lightweight Comment Engine
128 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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How to Build a Biotech
128 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Haproxy 2.2
128 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings
128 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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The United Nations of Uniqlo
128 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Machu Picchu was purposely built on intersecting fault lines: research (2019)
128 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Speculation in JavaScriptCore
128 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
128 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function
127 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil
127 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine
127 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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‘Excited delirium’, used by police to justify brutality, is junk science
127 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking 2TB of user data
127 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
127 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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A crash course in just-in-time compilers (2017)
127 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Migrating Away from Google Analytics
126 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
126 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Venice test brings up floodgates for first time
126 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10B deal
126 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Cronk: Long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years
126 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances
126 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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CoreBGP – Plugging in to BGP
126 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
126 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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The Floppy Disk of Floating Point
125 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
125 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Things You Should Never Do (2000)
125 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Vue v3.0.0-RC.1
125 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Linus Torvalds on 'Linux kernel in-tree Rust support'
125 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption
125 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
125 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you
124 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
124 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Q2 2020 Update
124 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]
124 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
123 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Windows on Raspberry
123 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Pope pulls speech on Hong Kong freedom, raising questions over Beijing pressure
123 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)
123 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Oura Ring 2 Teardown
123 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell
123 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Langcraft: Compile LLVM IR to Minecraft data packs
123 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Elements C++ GUI Library
123 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present
122 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic
122 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Germany to meet EU guidelines to ban single-use plastics by 2021
122 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Bullshit Jobs (2018)
122 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Volcanoes on Venus are still active
121 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence
121 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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MariaDB Temporal Data Tables
121 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations
121 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Show HN: Emergency Remote – Actions to win remote work
121 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Linus Torvalds on AVX512
121 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Import – A Simple and Fast Module System for Bash and Other Unix Shells
121 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers in mice
121 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Explaining RNNs without neural networks
121 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
121 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Re-Frame: Build web apps in ClojureScript and React
121 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
121 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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M60 – Open-Source USB&BLE, Hot-Swappable Mechanical Keyboard Powered by Python
121 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states
120 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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The Secret Origin of the Action RPG
120 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America
120 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas
120 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents
119 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Mail for Good
119 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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How companies became addicted to debt
119 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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The growing short case on Facebook and Google
119 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Bread, How Did They Make It?
119 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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A dying teenager who wanted world peace (and love)
119 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines
119 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Magic hat leaves behind a transformed craft beer industry in Vermont
119 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Web Monetization
119 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
118 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app
118 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Skypack – A new kind of JavaScript delivery network
118 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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A REST View of GraphQL
118 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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GPT-3 Examples
118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)
118 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Seven Sets Venn Diagram
118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]
118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
117 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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A man who grows fields full of tables and chairs (2015)
117 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea
117 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in
117 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money – a.k.a. “FU, Money”
117 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
117 points • comment • jul 29, 2020