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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Japan ends state of emergency with no lockdown
13 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Show HN: Tasky – Flow diagram task management
13 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Open Problems in Robotics
13 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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July 15 Twitter Attacks
13 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Npmjs reducing salaries for employees up to 50% post acquisition by GitHub
13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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FB execs quietly remove fact check from a piece of climate change denial
13 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say
13 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Ongoing Meow attack has nuked 1k databases without telling anyone why
13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Should we treat data as labor? (2018)
13 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Why Most LED Headlight Upgrades Don't Really Work: An Expert Explains
13 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Attention without awareness in blindsight (1999) [pdf]
13 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Prospektor – Running customer validation on autopilot
13 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Signal Reflection
13 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Show HN: I collected 500 python & SQL questions from data science interviews
13 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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European Police Hacked Secret Phone Network, Used AI for Major Bust
13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Emojicode – full-blown programming language consisting of emojis
13 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Show HN: Spending GCloud for startups credits on a free demo
13 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked (BBC)
13 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Canada's Covid Alert Mobile App
13 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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YouTube will opt-in all existing videos (over 8mins) for mid-roll ads
13 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Ultra-Black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes [pdf]
13 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Differences of OT/CRDT: General Transformation Frameworks, Co-Editor Consistency
13 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader
13 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Nazis in our classes: 50-year-old lesson about fascism still terrifying us today
13 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Police Clear Seattle’s Protest ‘Autonomous Zone’
13 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Sweeping climate-crisis plan would bring US to zero emissions in 30 years
13 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Senate says no to reporting foreign aid to politicians
13 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Henrietta Lacks
13 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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What if you abandon your smartphone?
13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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European Court of Justice invalidates US-EU privacy agreement [pdf]
13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Show HN: Mathematico – A mathematics tutorial every day for the whole summer
13 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
13 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Becoming a Coder
13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Where Will Everyone Go? Modeling How Climate Refugees Move Across Continents
13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Quantum interference of currents in an atomtronic SQUID
13 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Hackers Are Finding Footage on Police Body Cams They Bought on eBay
13 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016) [pdf]
12 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What seeds you sowed years ago that you are reaping fruits of now?
12 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Exotic “Blinking” Crystals May Convert CO2 into Fuels, Power Quantum Computers
12 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Police called to IKEA after thousands sign up for hide and seek (2019)
12 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Leonardo da Vinci had ADHD
12 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Paradise lost or found?
12 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Zuckerberg Never Fails to Disappoint
12 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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The socioeconomics of sewage: Analysing waste may assist census takers
12 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers
12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Tesco coupons easily faked to save £750 on Hotels.com bookings worldwide
12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Show HN: HN Mail – Topic-based HN newsletter service
12 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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ICBMs Still Matter
12 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Alphabet announces second quarter 2020 results
12 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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The Security Value of Inefficiency – Schneier on Security
12 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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The First Best Seller: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
12 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Almost 30M in U.S. Didn’t Have Enough to Eat Last Week
12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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I Got a Job Two Weeks After My Coding Bootcamp
12 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Tired of Leetcode style interviews. What to do?
12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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German police can access any WhatsApp message without any malware
12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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The disturbing and under-researched legacy of depleted uranium weapons
12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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A new default Referrer-Policy for Chrome: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Eric Weinstein: The Mathematician Turned Physicist and Economist
12 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Why companies struggle with recalcitrant IT
12 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Apple Privacy Changes
12 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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NYT Reporter Taylor Lorenz Bullied by Tech VCs
12 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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jklp: a 36-key ergonomic keyboard
12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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A journalist does not deserve to be harassed by VCs for doing her job
12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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How the Evolution of Porn Changed Adolescence – Megan Maas – TEDxMSU
12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Influencer culture should be burnt to the ground
12 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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The forehead-slappingly stupid attempt to cancel Steven Pinker
12 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Earth's Population Will Begin Shrinking Within 50 Years, Scientists Predict
12 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Open Source Sustainability
12 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Ask HN: When do you think?
12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Don't buy a duck, Debug with Duck
12 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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A new study unveils the mechanism of the nanoparticle gelation transition
12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Top user-made games on ROBLOX played as much as top company-made games on Steam
12 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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From Siberia to Tibet: Life on a Train
12 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Ask HN: CS book club material recommendations
12 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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A Modest Proposal for Hourly Billing
12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Is There a Manual for Babies?
12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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The Gimmick of the Novel of Ideas
12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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How to STOP everything being so critical and urgent
12 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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MessagePack vs. CBOR (RFC7049)
12 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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An elite group of scientists tried to warn Trump against lockdowns in March
12 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Fuck PayPal SDK, Developer Support and all their business
12 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Show HN: A book recommendation engine backed by 7 million book ratings
12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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The Internet Is Multilingual but You Need to Learn Mandarin
12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Thread: Why deep reading clubs are fucking rad
12 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Why is infrastructure as code such a big deal?
12 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Ask HN: I want to make school more afforadable
12 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Doom II Programming Quirk Can Take 12 Years to Spawn a Demon
12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Don't Talk to the Police
12 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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The Eurozone’s grappling with crisis, class war and the North-South divide
12 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
12 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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The Palatino FAQ (1998)
12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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How Wong Kar-wai inspired filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Barry Jenkin
12 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Open-endedness: The last grand challenge (2017)
12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Is “Ownership Vacuum” a Thing?
12 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Evidence is growing that peopling of Americas began more than 20k years ago
12 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]
12 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Ten Paradoxes of Technology – great essay for all technologists [pdf]
12 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Jesus Christ was also misunderstood, Masayoshi Son tells investors
12 points • comment • jul 06, 2020