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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Show HN: ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML
142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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How NAT Traversal Works
142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm
142 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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KeePassXC 2.6.1
142 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab
142 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Our World in Data: Suicide
141 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)
141 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Google Update Tanks Traffic
141 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO
141 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game
141 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums
141 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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How malicious Tor relays are exploiting users in 2020
141 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Django Async: What's new and what's next?
141 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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PNG and Hidden Pixels
140 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences
140 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's
140 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Intel MKL on AMD Zen
140 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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3D face: fast, accurate and stable reconstruction
140 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Civilization VI UI, but made in WebFlow (a no-code tool)
140 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji
139 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now
139 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Psychedelic drugs reduce depressive symptoms by helping people accept emotions
139 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Do NLP Beyond English
139 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response
139 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust
138 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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GoodRx S-1
138 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
138 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Parsing S-expressions in C (2019)
138 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS
138 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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LFE: Lisp Flavored Erlang
138 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?
138 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam
138 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study
138 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes
137 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark”
137 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The Case of the Top Secret iPod
137 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)
137 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash
136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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PHP Built-In Web Server
136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You
136 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Show HN: Visualize Graph Theory
136 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested
136 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The French Army Is Building Renaissance-Style Fortresses in Africa
136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease
136 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
136 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Understanding DNS: Anatomy of a BIND zone file
136 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Professional sporting events increase seasonal influenza mortality in US cities
136 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies
135 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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PlayCanvas, the Web-first game engine
135 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Landmark math proof clears hurdle in top Erdős conjecture
135 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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A gentle intro to assembly with Rust
134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)
134 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks
134 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library
134 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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When Should You Not Use Rails?
134 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes
134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Don't trust default timeouts
134 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members
134 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++
134 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Why Every City Feels the Same Now
134 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic
133 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Lost Advanced Civilizations
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Reviewing the worst piece of code ever
133 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors warn
133 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Don't Be a Sucker
133 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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APL386 Unicode – An APL Font
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015)
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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They Just Don’t Listen': SF Kimchi Maker Saw 'Food Tech' Practices Up Close
132 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Every Day 10k People Die Due to Air Pollution from Fossil Fuels
132 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Willscott/go-NFS: Golang NFSv3 server
132 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily
132 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)
132 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids
132 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds: study
132 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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WebAssembly without the browser
132 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Jensen Huang’s vision for data center dominance may destroy the Arm ecosystem
132 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?
131 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
131 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels
131 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?
131 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service
131 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
131 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
131 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
130 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report
130 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
130 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory
130 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones
130 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Examples of ImageMagick Usage (2016)
130 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window
130 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Madhya Pradesh man cycles 105km to ferry son to Class X exam centre
129 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Bootstrap Icons
129 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps
129 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online
129 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Illustrated TLS Connection
129 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)
129 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform
129 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
129 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Today is Earth Overshoot Day – (08/22)
128 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal
128 points • comment • aug 29, 2020