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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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How cameras helped and sometimes harmed black people
22 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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How Remote Work Could Destroy Silicon Valley
22 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Show HN: Create beautiful mockups and graphics for your app in a few clicks
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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The Venus of Laussel – La Femme à La Corne
22 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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UBC quietly changes references to Taiwan amid sensitive political climate
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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The dirty secret behind Ben Shapiro's extraordinary success on Facebook
22 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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If Apple cares so much about privacy, why does it approve clipboard snoopers?
22 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowards Who Let It Happen
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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N.Y.P.D. Says It Used Restraint During Protests. Here’s What the Videos Show
22 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Proteus: Underwater research lab worthy of a Bond villain
22 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Starting your fundraising pitch deck
22 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Abraham Wald's Work on Airplane Survivability (1984) [pdf]
22 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Show HN: Open-source online speech recognition
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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The Edge Computing opportunity is not what you think
22 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery
22 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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SUVs Are Worse for the Climate Than You Ever Imagined (2019)
22 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Bacteria That Turns to Stone
22 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Treasury to acquire 30% of company for $700M. Company is worth $120M
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Triputer
22 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?
22 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Judgments of Henry David Thoreau (2015)
22 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Hackers Broke into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories
22 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice
22 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Enhance your TensorFlow Lite deployment with Firebase
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Damn Cool Illusion
22 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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'cancel culture' is about old elites losing power in the social media age
22 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Python pattern matching: Guards and or-patterns might just not compose well
22 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Why the US’ response to Covid-19 is terrible
22 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Cancel culture takes the fun out of life, says comedian John Cleese
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Richard Feynman cut straight to the heart of complex ideas
22 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Why is the NY Times threatening to reveal blogger Scott Alexander’s identity?
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Building personal moats and killer features
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families
21 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Virginia Woolf kept her brother alive in letters
21 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by temblors, study suggests
21 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Microsoft Lays Off Employees from Azure Team
21 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Microsoft’s new x86 DataCenter class machines running Windows (2018)
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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U.S. Orders China to Close Its Houston Consulate in 72 Hours
21 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Why should we all wear face masks?
21 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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An insomniac's journey to regular sleep
21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Goodbye
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Show HN: Non-grid-based path finder
21 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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China's Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users
21 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Amazon has 10k employees dedicated to Alexa
21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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An injection may block Covid-19, but feds have failed to act
21 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The Desolate Visions of Andy Warhol
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App
21 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Sydney now runs on 100% renewable energy
21 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Micosoft moving Windows desktop to cloud
21 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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SPAC Man Begins
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Did Mexico just make it *illegal* to install Linux?
21 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton (2009)
21 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public
21 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Jordan Pier's vintage electronics repair YouTube channel deleted
21 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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You don’t need SMS-2FA
21 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Big Tech Funds a Think Tank Pushing for Fewer Rules. For Big Tech
21 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Tesla becomes manufacturing partner for biotech firm working on C-19 vaccine
21 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion
21 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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BuzzFeed starts selling products directly to consumers
21 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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The key points of Software Design X-Rays
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Assessing Abstractions
21 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Opinion – I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing
21 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones? (2013)
21 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Every officer-involved shooting in the United States since 2015
21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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“Ok Google” Only Giving Progressive Words
21 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Tunnels and Trolls
21 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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CERN engineers use FreeCAD app
21 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Jeff Dean on Inclusiveness
21 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Handshakes are silent, but hash rates on the HNS protocol just made some noise
21 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Choosing words to clearly describe data
21 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Greatest Mistake of Our Time
21 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Show HN: Learn How to Build, Launch and Run a Shopify App
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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InfraMap: Open-source tool generates human-readable graph from Terraform files
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Sorry New York Times, I decline to be interviewed
20 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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A Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workbench for FreeCAD
20 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Yakhchāl
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Why Repair Techs Are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Lecture on Mediation and Subjectivity/Objectivity in Art [video]
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Defund Facial Recognition Before It's Too Late
20 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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I was jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in America
20 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Airbnb asks for donations to their hosts
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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The First American Restaurants’ Culinary Concoctions
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Quaternions: The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra
20 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Show HN: I compiled book recommendations from 1300+ leaders
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm
20 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Solar farm in Australia could power Singapore via 4,500km undersea cable
20 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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High-performance self-supervised image classification
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Twitter is now restricting posts that contain cryptocurrency addresses
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone in Case He Long Denounced
20 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Why are we anchored often?
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest
20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Changing the way you sit could add years to your life
20 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Red Hat to remove contentious terms like master and slave from its source code
20 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Apple Wins Fight over $14.9B Tax Bill in Blow to EU
20 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave'
20 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Go vs. C#: Compiler, Runtime, Type System, Modules
20 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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The Week America Lost Control of the Pandemic
20 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: Cloudflare Workers Security Model
20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020