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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Columbus’s Ultimate Goal: Jerusalem (2006) [pdf]
25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Some guy builds a VR time machine that lets them relive their past
25 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Did Einstein say that?: Testing content vs. context in quotations (2017)
25 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility
25 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Don't Tell. Persuade. Here's How
25 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Retrie: Haskell Refactoring Made Easy
25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Persuasion: A Free Society Is Worth Fighting For
25 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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TayPO, a Unifying Framework for Reinforcement Learning
25 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project
25 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Writer Neal Stephenson Thinks We've Gotten Dystopia All Wrong
25 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?
25 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Mountain Beavers and Control of Mountain Beaver Damage (2005)
25 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,would you start using it
25 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Widespread mask wearing could prevent second waves of COVID-19, study says
25 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
25 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Turning Arabian Desert air into bottled water
25 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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The History of the Picnic (2019)
25 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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The Selfie and the Self: In Defence of Duckface (2019)
25 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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SCMP: US Dollar Risk of a Sudden Collapse
25 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Voice, an invite-only social network where everyone is verified
25 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Show HN: Search for ingredients to pair with other ingredients
25 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Plot to Kill the Open Technology Fund
25 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Distributed system definition at DEC SRC bulletin board (1987)
25 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Aiming ultrasound at the brain raises hope of new treatments
25 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Can Archaeology Dogs Smell Ancient Time?
25 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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What's wrong with WhatsApp
25 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Media Continues to Misreport US Unemployment Numbers
25 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Show HN: I built a programming language for beginners
25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat
25 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Mike Pompeo Said the US Is Considering Banning TikTok
25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Global Travel Reopening Tracker
25 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes
25 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Low-tech Covid test costs $1 w results in 1 hour
24 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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The return of the $70 video game has been a long time coming
24 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Richard Stallman's personal site – How I do my computing
24 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Fractally Broken
24 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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New GitHub phishing attack due to missing DMARC
24 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle
24 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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“GitHub is the Instagram of programming”
24 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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What does Microsoft want with Linux and Open Source? [video]
24 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road
24 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan
24 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Wheat = Individualism, Rice = Collectivism? (2018)
24 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Google and Apple Remove Palestine from World Maps, Replace with Israel
24 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Mozilla suspends Firefox Send service while it addresses malware abuse
24 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Severe Covid-19 patients have unique phenotype
24 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Random Strings and Integers That Aren’t
24 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Show HN: Would You Survive the Titanic?
24 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2020 Results
24 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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First Timers Only
24 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity
24 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Building an Offline Page for Theguardian.com
24 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Live Reloading for a Production Next.js App
24 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Ask HN: FB suggests friends after visiting same city, don't use FB phone. How?
24 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'
24 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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The western U.S. is locked in the grips of the first human-caused megadrought
24 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Palantir announces confidential draft S-1
23 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Panasonic aims to boost energy density in Tesla batteries by 20%
23 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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BeerMaps – Search and explore local craft breweries
23 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Foam Concrete
23 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Association of low to moderate alcohol drinking with better cognitive function
23 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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The Arctic Is on Fire Again, and It's Even Worse This Time
23 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Epoxy: Interactive Model Iteration with Weak Supervision
23 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
23 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Show HN: Acquisition Blog Post Generator
23 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Show HN: Oops I deleted my bin/ dir
23 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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JIT Compilers Are Implemented and Fast: Julia, PyPy, LuaJIT, Graal and More
23 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Microsoft’s Edge browser is crashing if you have Google set as default search
23 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of reading books?
23 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne
23 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?
23 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios
23 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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There’s a War Going on over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page
23 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Crooks have acquired proprietary Diebold software to “jackpot” ATMs
23 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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A Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target over His Tweets
23 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Coronavirus in Schools: Teachers Fear for Their Lives
23 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Show HN: I've created a tool to design sequence diagrams with my team
23 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Trump May Attempt to Force Long-Time H-1B Visa Holders Out of U.S.
23 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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The Worst for U.S. Renters and Apartment Owners Is yet to Come
23 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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The Classic Typewriter Page
23 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Nearly one in three children have dangerous amounts of lead in bloodstream
23 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
23 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Show HN: Deploy Scikit and Keras Models with a Simple Drag and Drop
23 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Eye Shapes of the Animal World Hint at Differences in Our Lifestyles (2015)
23 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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D3.js based chart library billboard.js 2.0 is out, more smaller and faster
23 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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App Makers Break Their Apps to Avoid Paying Apple
23 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Show HN: An Actually-Tiny Basic for Arduino
23 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Warning of serious brain disorders in people with mild coronavirus symptoms
23 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Ludum Dare in 48 hours with Rust and WebAssembly
22 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location?
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Climate-Strike License
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Visual Debugging Using Gdbgui
22 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Center for Computational Biology
22 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Supreme Court says generic domains like booking.com can be trademarked
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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On Laughter and Dreaming in Pushkin (2017) [pdf]
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Technology Panic
22 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Mars is, at best, no less risky a place than Earth
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Show HN: DotYouTube – A tiny Chrome extension to block YouTube pre-roll ads
22 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2020