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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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A Roundtable on Covid-19 and the Attention Economy
34 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Research database explores racial bias in police shootings (2019)
34 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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An Anonymous 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle
34 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Son of Federal Judge overseeing Deutsche Bank lawsuits killed in NJ shooting
34 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?
34 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos,Sundar Pichai Testify Before House
34 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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GifCities
34 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Breaking Down Lululemon's $500M Mirror Acquisition
34 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Amazon Has Too Much Power
34 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Living with Your Desk Mates
34 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Everyone’s a Day Trader Now
34 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Copywriting 101
34 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ – and don't like what they see
34 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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How the Black Death made the rich richer
33 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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How to Become Convincing
33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Khan Academy’s Transition to React Native
33 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Habits of Highly Focused People
33 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Dutch city redraws its layout to prepare for global heating effects
33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857
33 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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A Wizard of Ultrasharp Imaging
33 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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“AI bookkeeper” startup that raised $100M and failed used humans instead of AI
33 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Covid Risk Chart
33 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security (2014)
33 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Bugs and Battleships (2011)
33 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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What if aviation doesn’t recover?
33 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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You don’t need SMS-2FA
33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents
33 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How can we get people to read submissions before commenting on them?
33 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The Essential Bradbury (2018)
33 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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HK man arrested for possession of flag
33 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Ask HN: What are you using new programming languages for?
33 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Nostalgia Reimagined
33 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Three artists on the future of the gallery system
33 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Jeffrey Epstein court documents are improperly redacted; many names visible
33 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Show HN: Noteless - A Markdown-based note-taking app for Android
33 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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I built a deep learning-powered emoji Slackbot
33 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Epigrams on Programming (1982)
33 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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PostgreSQL’s New Join Type: LATERAL (2014)
33 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Are “reversible” computers more energy efficient, faster? (2004)
33 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Decades
33 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Ask HN: How do I get out of the procrastination abyss?
32 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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NYU professor Scott Galloway predicts hundreds of universities will shutter
32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Linux Hardware Database
32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Steve Wozniak sues Google over YouTube Bitcoin scam
32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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A dev, designer, and a PM are asked the same question: What is UX?
32 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?
32 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Instant access to your shell init files
32 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Goodbye to Grommet
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Bidi Brackets for Dummies
32 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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EU Court: YouTube Not Required to Share Email and IP-Addresses of Movie Pirates
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not
32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Chronicles of Charnia
32 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Ceasefire – Where cooler heads prevail. App launched today
32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Why’s Beijing So Worried About Western Values Infecting China’s Youth? (2017)
32 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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GPT-3 can nearly pass a phone screen
32 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service
32 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Uzbl – Web Interface Tools Which Adhere to the Unix Philosophy
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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First new “The Far Side” cartoons from Gary Larson since 1995
32 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking
32 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Summary: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
32 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Kodak surges 1,900% in 2 days after securing a $765M loan to make drugs
32 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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The prison email company charging millions
32 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardware?
32 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Using neural-network soundscapes to protect natural environments
32 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Consulting in tech. How to start?
32 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Apple Removing Support for AMD GPUs in macOS Arm64
32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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How to Create a Software Engineer Resume Hiring Managers Will Love
32 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Reinforcement Learning Under Moral Uncertainty
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, angering Beijing
32 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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The long history of drinking games
32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Show HN: Maildown – super simple email API
32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Zoom announces a $599 touchscreen device for remote workers
32 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Programming with Punched Cards (2005) [pdf]
32 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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On how Flash games shaped the video game industry
32 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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GitHub Successor Settings
32 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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New York Times word usage frequency, 1970-2018
32 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering aimed at VFX creators
32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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A Number Theorist Who Solves the Hardest Easy Problems
32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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New Microsoft Edge
32 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Foundations of Computational Linguistics
31 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Fanouts and Percentiles: Visualizing Latency in Distributed Systems
31 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework (1998)
31 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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People with hidden immunity against Covid-19
31 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Intel Plunges as It Weighs Exit from Manufacturing Chips
31 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Legal Support for Substack Writers
31 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Why the next Olympics should include Fortnite
31 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Dog able to verbally communicate with people
31 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Launching Docs.github.com
31 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Meet the Mozarts
31 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC
31 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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NYC Has Its First Day in Months with No Covid-19 Deaths
31 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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This Website Is Killing the Planet
31 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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A Silk Road Renaissance
31 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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How the digital camera transformed our concept of history
31 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Be More Unlikeable
31 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987)
31 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States
31 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Coronavirus pandemic pushes U.S. economy to worst-ever contraction
31 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Latency and the Quest for Interactivity (1996) [pdf]
31 points • comment • jul 25, 2020