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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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We've been using the same bricks for over 5,000 years. It's time for a change
28 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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New Stripe Website
28 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Compressed Sensing (2016)
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Oldschool PC fonts, release v2.0
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival apps to develop competitors
28 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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History of Egghead Software Stores
28 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Safe, fast-charging lithium battery handles five times the current
28 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Apple Silicon implements tricky x86 behaviors in hardware for faster emulation
28 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Grace of Manta Rays
28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Don’t shoot the dogs: The growing epidemic of cops shooting family dogs
28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Mmhmm turns your boring Zoom call into a Weekend Update-style TV show
28 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Story Arcs: The Six Shapes of Stories
28 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply (2019)
28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Ex-Uber employees are being surprised by big tax bills
28 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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John Lewis Was an American Founder
27 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Getting depressed about money. How do I make a meaningful amount “fast”?
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Two Beautiful Rust Programs
27 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save a Buck
27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Local TV set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory
27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Show HN: A Simple Search Engine
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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K3d v3.0.0 released: run Kubernetes in your local machine just using Docker
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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A power-hungry CEO drained the light out of General Electric
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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A Python Substitute? I Tried the Best Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
27 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Show HN: Pyrustic – Software suite for developing your next Python desktop app
27 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Amazon announces second quarter results
27 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Hyaluronic acid does not hold a thousand times its weight in water
27 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Iowa reporter who exposed racist tweets fired for own tweets
27 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Vue 3: mid 2020 status update
27 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 111
27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Email Is Not Broken
27 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Scrite: Open-Source Scriptwriting Software
27 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Commodore Nowhere Near the Edge or Commodore Before Commodore (2007)
27 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Astrofox – motion graphics program for turning music visualizations into videos
27 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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New material that cannot be cut
27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Using GPT-3 for Accounting
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
27 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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MS introduces new Edge with full-screen popup that can't be skipped
27 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Doing the Impossible
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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An issue with DuckDuckGo Search may prevent you from getting results
27 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes
27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Scott Belsky’s Elephant List
27 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Almost half of all jobs lost during pandemic may be gone permanently
27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Scent dog identification of samples from Covid-19 patients – a pilot study
27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Meal timings affect your waistline
27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The Wrath of the Killdozer (2009)
27 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Apple, Nike and other major companies implicated in forced labour in China
27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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“They would have said faster horses” – An example of asking wrong questions
27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture
27 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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“Zuck off”: Doctors, nurses, scientists rail against Zuckerberg
27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
27 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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List of important publications in computer science
27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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The Imprisoner’s Dilemma
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Show HN: Midnight.pub – Virtual Speakeasy
26 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Facebook boycott leaders ‘disappointed’ after meeting with Zuckerberg, Sandberg
26 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Important Women in CS Who Aren't Grace Hopper (2018)
26 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Grant Imahara warrant a black bar?
26 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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UCDavis researcher, suspected spying, hiding in consulate now in custody
26 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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The David Peters Problem
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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A collection of free Physics books from Springer
26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Show HN: I self learned to code and built a Slack app for team feedback - Kaapi
26 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Proximal Policy Optimization for Playing Super Mario Bros
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Show HN: FAANG Compensation Calculators
26 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Now Resolved: FB iOS SDK Outage Causing Disruption to 3rd Party iOS Apps
26 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Majority of the world's richest people are self-made, says new report
26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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How the Unix philosophy gave us “web apps” instead of “software”
26 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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If Congress doesn’t act, unemployment and a ruined economy may come soon
26 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Why Do You Downvote?
26 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Ask HN: What's the best piece of software you use every day?
26 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Stock and Flow (2010)
26 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Marine glass sponge that builds silica skeletons
26 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab
26 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Crates.io Security Advisory
26 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison D’Etre for the App Store
26 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Platform Adjacency Theory
26 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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FCC Fines HobbyKing Nearly $3M for Marketing Unauthorized Drone Transmitters
26 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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A hacker is selling details of 142M MGM hotel guests on the dark web
26 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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MP3 Is 25 Years Old
26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Wearable Sensors: A call to action for remote patient monitoring and assessment
26 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Moon's Mark Down (2016)
26 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Show HN: Fw – faster workspace (workspace productivity booster)
26 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)
26 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Leading the World’s Aurora Hunters
26 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Jared Kushner’s Testing Plan “Went Poof into Thin Air”
26 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your Computer
26 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
26 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally
26 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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The Power of Dopey Ideas
26 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What
26 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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UN issues warning to US authorities to stand down against rioters
26 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Show HN: StarCLI – Browse trending repos on GitHub by star, date, and more
26 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Alignment
26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Small Lab Makes Big Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Tech
26 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Lyme disease vaccine found to be safe and effective in clinical trial
25 points • comment • jul 31, 2020