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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
96 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate phone calls
96 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Blackbaud hack: More UK universities confirm breach
96 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness (2017)
96 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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The Eastland disaster killed more passengers than the Titanic and the Lusitania
96 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)
95 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Running DOS Apps on Windows
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Weird Constants in Math Problems
95 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students
95 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines
95 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Markets, Rent and WFH
95 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Building DIY LED strips for fun
95 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Hundreds of Botswana elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
95 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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The Fed now owns Walmart debt
95 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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XMPP works – 1 July 2020
95 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Life without line numbers for 6% smaller Go binaries
94 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Views on Error Handling
94 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Head asleep, body awake
94 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money
94 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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ELF Statifier, self-contained dynamically linked executables
94 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
94 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Cassette tape-based navigation system from 1971
94 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Show HN: I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture
94 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Differential privacy tools from MS Research and Harvard
94 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions
94 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Local area network push notifications
94 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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A Closer Look at the Super NES Doom Source Code Release [video]
94 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley
93 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors
93 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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The myth of “joins don't scale”
93 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Iran dumps Flight 752 investigator, airspace open to conceal 'imminent' attack
93 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Facebook reports second quarter results
93 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
93 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Work on Unimportant Problems (2012)
93 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics
93 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Understanding null safety in Dart
93 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Robot Game: Comparing 6502 C, Assembly, and Forth
93 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Parallel ray tracing benchmark for functional programming languages
93 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Member, for Xinjiang Abuses
93 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Questions that changed my life (2016)
93 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Peppering (Password Storage)
93 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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No More Coffee
93 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Fast Vue SSR with Rust and QuickJS
93 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Cars and hygiene killed the middle-class hat
93 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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The mysterious life of birds who never come down
93 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words
93 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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ARM64 Popcount in Golang and Assembler
93 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine
92 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019)
92 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Group brainstorming is a waste of time (2015)
92 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution
92 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine
92 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Show HN: Ward – Minimalistic Server Dashboard
92 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Mcfly – neural-network powered directory and context-aware shell history search
92 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation
92 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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FPGA Softcore SoC Shootout
92 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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SEC charges YouPlus and CEO with defrauding investors
92 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The Millennium Falcon (2016)
92 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem
92 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Olivia de Havilland, sophisticated star of Hollywood's golden age, dies at 104
92 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images
92 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Where $521B in U.S. Small-Business Aid Went
92 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Show HN: Gomp – a tool for comparing Git branches
91 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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A Tour of Acme (2012)
91 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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U.S. prosecutors seek 27 months imprisonment for former Uber self-driving head
91 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Queues are Databases (1995)
91 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio [pdf]
91 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Garmin Outage Persists After 24 Hours Downtime
91 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins
91 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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How to use math input in GIMP
91 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Show HN: I made an elegant SwiftUI timeline
91 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis
91 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone
91 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Demo of OpenAI's GPT-3 generating tweets given a word
91 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Tracking App
91 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Learnings from a Year of Being Indie
91 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2
91 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Turing and Wittgenstein on Logic and Mathematics [pdf]
90 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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All-you-can-eat study shows body copes well with one-off calorie indulgence
90 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Who Needs an Architect? (2003) [pdf]
90 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
90 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Don't Create Chaos
90 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Terminal Server on a Budget
90 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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A man who saved a generation of premature babies (2016)
90 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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A new way to control experimentation with dreams
90 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Contrarian view on closing files
90 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Microsoft Engineer Proposes “Trampfd” for Improving Linux Security
90 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Erythrocyte omega-3 index, ambient fine particle exposure and brain aging
90 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
89 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer
89 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work
89 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees?
89 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change
89 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower
89 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Single-use JIT Performance on x86 Processors
89 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids
89 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Electronic Whole Earth Catalog
88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Soup.io Will Be Discontinued
88 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization
88 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Ask HN: How to take notes?
88 points • comment • jul 15, 2020