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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go
380 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript
380 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing
379 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
379 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities
379 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD
378 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone
378 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Google’s top search result is Google
377 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
377 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Ron Graham has died
377 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
377 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
376 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
375 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Sampler for Mac Touchbars
374 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Atlas of Surveillance
374 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions
374 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]
374 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?
373 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data
373 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
372 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Firefox 79
370 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Wiki.js
370 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
370 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away
370 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds
367 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Lights and Shadows
366 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
366 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Bible API
364 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
363 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)
363 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
363 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire
361 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
360 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater
360 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood
360 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Apache Arrow 1.0
358 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
358 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel
358 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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2+1=4, by quinoa
357 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts
357 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Low-Background Steel
355 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide
355 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
353 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
352 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case
352 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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A researcher on how to live a happy life
351 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works
347 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen
346 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will now be a crime in Mexico
346 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users
346 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Not a Wheelchair [video]
346 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads
346 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Ways to make a web component
345 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
345 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
345 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year
344 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
344 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]
342 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Mars images rendered in 4K [video]
342 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less
342 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle
341 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The personal info of what could be Instacart customers is being sold online
340 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
340 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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A new funding model for open source software
340 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust
339 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)
339 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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The saddest “Just Ship It” story
339 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
336 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
334 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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I Don't Want to Be a Founder
334 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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I made a simple geolocation service
333 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database
333 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
331 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste
331 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
328 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago
328 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Cracking down on research fraud
327 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)
327 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
327 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Apple Security Research Device Program
325 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Svelte and TypeScript
324 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked
323 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Rust explained using easy English
323 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes
323 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust
323 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
322 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps
322 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests
320 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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The Fourth of July
319 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains
319 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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The TikTok War
318 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls
318 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
317 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'
317 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
316 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
316 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Tour of Rust
315 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Video Vectorization
315 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
315 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense
314 points • comment • jul 29, 2020