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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel
311 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code
311 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Why OKRs might not work at your company
308 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Yoloface-500k: ultra-light real-time face detection model, 500kb
307 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
305 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time
305 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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I Got My Attention Back (2017)
305 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?
304 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out
304 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
304 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
303 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings
303 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
303 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
302 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned
301 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat
300 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know
300 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language
299 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
299 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
299 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Moldova Shuts Down Bootleg Helicopter Factory
299 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]
299 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Regional Air Mobility: Why we don’t plan to operate flights under 20km
299 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)
298 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Designing a New Old Home: Part 1
297 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Amazon Ion
297 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C
297 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location
296 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets
296 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
296 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49
295 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless
295 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking
294 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
294 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial
293 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?
293 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Krita, OpenGL and Qt
293 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
293 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition
292 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Dark Web Price Index 2020
291 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune
290 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
289 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence
287 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses
287 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK
286 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
286 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Rich Tables in the Terminal
286 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation
285 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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EU’s Top Court Restricts Personal-Data Transfers to U.S., Citing Surveillance
285 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
284 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)
284 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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How much your computer can do in a second (2015)
283 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well
283 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
282 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)
282 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Should I Use a Carousel?
281 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google
281 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars
281 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0
279 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast
278 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer
278 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Did a Chinese Hack Kill Nortel?
278 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Philosophers on GPT-3
278 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Python malware on the rise
277 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds
276 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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The Whimsical Website Club
276 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Building a Developer Cult
276 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS
275 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Neural programmer better than Quicksort
275 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
274 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
274 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems
273 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)
272 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning
271 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
270 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (2016)
270 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?
270 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
270 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet
269 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog
269 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
269 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say
268 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban
268 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol
267 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with
266 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)
265 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Best Data Science Books According to the Experts
265 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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The stock market and economy have parted ways
265 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Nvidia is now worth more than Intel
265 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries
265 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?
264 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
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Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open
264 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy
264 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized
264 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb's vibrations
264 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China
264 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
264 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
264 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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It's Time to Start Writing (2019)
263 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking
263 points • comment • jul 18, 2020