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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray
64 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Adventures in Beam Optimization for MQTT
64 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Podcast Stats
64 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Flaring from Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale
64 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (2011)
64 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging [pdf]
64 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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White House tells hospitals to bypass CDC on Covid-19 data reporting
64 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Neural supersampling for real-time rendering
64 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Regulating Technology
64 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Howland Will Forgery Trial
64 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations
64 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Tiny Tiny RSS
64 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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MTG Hivemind: Artificial Intelligence Designing Magic the Gathering Cards
63 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Local-First Software (2019)
63 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Ancient microbial arms race sharpened our immune system but left us vulnerable
63 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Java Optimized Processor (2005)
63 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
63 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Come for the network, pay for the tool
63 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Show HN: Screenshot.rocks – Create browser mockups from screenshots
63 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Low-income housing has no impact on nearby home values (2016)
63 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Einstein’s Thought Experiments
63 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
63 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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What Was the Beast of Gévaudan?
63 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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A Need to Walk (2014)
63 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Charlie Chaplin Was Almost Assassinated in Japan to Start a War
63 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The problem might not be COBOL
62 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Australia is doubling fees for arts degrees
62 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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How to Gradually Exit Twitter
62 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters
62 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Linear Logic Flavoured Composition of Petri Nets
62 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
62 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Why does a new Rails app need 106 MB of JavaScript?
62 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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XNect: Real-Time Multi-Person 3D Motion Capture with a Single RGB Camera
62 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Launch HN: Charityvest (YC S20) – Employee charitable funds and gift matching
62 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Pickle’s Nine Flaws
61 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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It's Talos all the way down
61 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise
61 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in dolphins
61 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported (1977)
61 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine
61 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Twitter Got Hacked, Is Mastodon Immune?
61 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Success Compared to Intelligence
61 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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The Scourge of Hygiene Theater
61 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language
61 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Show HN: Free API service for crypto and foreign exchange rates
61 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
61 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?
61 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease?
61 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Compact forwarding information for the Z Garbage Collector in the OpenJDK
61 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Anyons: Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought 2D structures
61 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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The promising results of Stockton’s basic income experiment
61 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Signing .jars is not worth the effort
61 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Beware the Google Password Manager
61 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Help HN: Laid off due to Covid, almost out of runway
61 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Target’s gig workers will strike to protest switch to algorithmic pay model
61 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Extremal Combinatorics With Applications in Computer Science
60 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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No one is safe in Hong Kong anymore. Leave when you still can
60 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Networked games: Playing in the past or future
60 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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European communications startup Infobip raises $200M for over $1B valuation
60 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Fake Cisco – Hunting for Backdoors in Counterfeit Cisco Devices [pdf]
60 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Is it possible to get PhD without completing bachelors
60 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Patent No. 1 – July 31, 1790
60 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands
60 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Tech CEOs Invoke the American Dream to Obscure the Nightmare They Created
60 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
60 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Decentralized Reinforcement Learning
60 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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In October 1953, I coined the word 'software' (1995)
59 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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The Car, Reinvented
59 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief
59 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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The Stutterer's Song: Remembering Bill Withers
59 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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No-reply emails from businesses shouldn’t be allowed
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation with Torch Mathematical Toolkit
59 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Mega Tiny Time Watch: a minimalist watch based on an ATtiny414 and 12 LEDs
59 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Infosec community disagrees with changing 'black hat' term
59 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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The tricky math of Covid-19 herd immunity
59 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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The Null Process (2015)
59 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
59 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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A Look at Early Japanese Typewriters (2016)
59 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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AES67 resources – Audio over IP protocol
59 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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I Got Rejected by Y Combinator So I’m building my own Incubator
58 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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The Design of Scalar AES Instruction Set Extensions for RISC-V
58 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Digital Audio on VHS – The Technics SV-P100 [video]
58 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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The Art of the Interpreter (1978) [pdf]
58 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
58 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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How to Tell a Real 1959 Gibson Les Paul Guitar From a Fake
58 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Tax hike on California millionaires would create 54% tax rate
58 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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NetLogo: A multi-agent programmable modeling environment
58 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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19th-century female husbands
58 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!"
58 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System
58 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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JP-7
58 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during lockdown
58 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Twitter: Hackers Accessed Private Messages for Elite Accounts
58 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Blind speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts: study (2016)
58 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Assasination attempt on judge of the Epstein/Deutsche Bank case
58 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Split any song into its stems – vocals, instrumentals, bass, drums, piano
58 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Founder-driven life sciences companies
58 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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China on highest flood alert as 38M people evacuated
58 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Build an arcade machine at home
58 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook
58 points • comment • jul 20, 2020