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Hacker News (Jul 2020)
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Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking
263 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
262 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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Basics of Haskell – Code and exercises
261 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?
261 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
260 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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How McKinsey helps companies avoid responsibility
260 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps
259 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python
259 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices
259 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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It’s easier to manage four people than one person
258 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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We thought it was just a respiratory virus
257 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet
257 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
256 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams
256 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
256 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
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SlateStarCodex Is Back Up
256 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)
255 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image
255 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
255 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Are we in an AI Overhang?
254 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines
253 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
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Machine Learning Research at Apple
252 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list
252 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
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Bitwarden second security audit report
251 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
251 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Robinhood and How to Lose Money
251 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
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MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
250 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)
250 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states
249 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'
248 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories
248 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law
248 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues
246 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
246 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia
245 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Announcing The Zig Software Foundation
245 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
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Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
245 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64
245 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
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IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
244 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
244 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment
244 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Firefox Picture-in-Picture
244 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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Int. students may need to leave US if classes are 100% Remote
244 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
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Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
243 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
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Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
243 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)
243 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Scuba diver accidentally discovers prehistoric industrial complex in Mexico
243 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
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Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites
243 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
242 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS
242 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)
242 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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Debubble
241 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel
241 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64
241 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
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TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?
240 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
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The anti-privacy EARN IT Act could change the internet as we know it
240 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Writing a software book and making over $100k
239 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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Beginner's Guide to Abstraction
239 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
239 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released
239 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system
238 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh
238 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet
238 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Open-Source Music Production Tools
238 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Build a toy quantum computer at home
238 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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How do I design a game from scratch? A primer on core loops
237 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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The Incredibly Stupid One
236 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Go is boring, and that’s fantastic
236 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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The stable marriage problem and modern dating
236 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
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A Surprise AWS Bill
236 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments
236 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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Colorize Your CLI
236 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)
236 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
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Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker
235 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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How Best Buy saved itself (2019)
235 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography
235 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
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No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker
235 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
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Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
235 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
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I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects
234 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”
234 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Show HN: React Guitar – A guitar component for React
234 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
234 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
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Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built
233 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
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Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
233 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
233 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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What is the core of the Python programming language?
232 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time
232 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
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Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?
231 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux
230 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
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A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
230 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
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Publishing thousands of police discipline records that New York kept secret
230 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers
229 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
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The BEAM Book (2017)
229 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
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Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
229 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
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Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library
228 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
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How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA
228 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
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GPT-3 Creative Fiction
227 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
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Nano 5.0
227 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
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Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power
227 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
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ProcMon for Linux
227 points • comment • jul 17, 2020