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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
128 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation
128 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Anti-piracy outfit hires VPN expert to help track down The Pirate Bay
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
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Idris 2 version 0.2.1
128 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
127 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Former Chief Security Officer for Uber Charged with Obstruction of Justice
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly
127 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
127 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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US plans to produce ‘Iberian’ ham in Texas and Georgia
127 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995)
126 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Motherboard Specifications on MotherboardDB
126 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore
126 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB
126 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
126 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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I just lost 1,400 BTC
126 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Go 1.15 Released
126 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Uber and Lyft competitors ready if service is suspended in California
125 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Nitrokey
125 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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How to Read a Log Scale
125 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The machines USPS is removing can sort more than 36,000 pieces of mail per hour
125 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers
125 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk
124 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Generative Art with CSS (2019)
124 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor
124 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs
124 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses
124 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The Dark Core of Personality (2018)
124 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, has died
124 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video]
124 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Unicornify
124 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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DIY Single-Chip 2D Retro Game Console
124 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT
124 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced
124 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Parents, what are you doing for school this fall?
124 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness
124 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Launch HN: Depict.ai (YC S20) – Product recommendations for any e-commerce store
123 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization
123 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?
123 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?
123 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Tesla Fremont to Soon Activate World’s Largest Unibody Casting Machine
123 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Alacritty v0.5
123 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?
123 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018)
123 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs
122 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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“Cold Tube” cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner
122 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs
122 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters
122 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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AWS Tagging Best Practices
122 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC
122 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
122 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes
122 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory
122 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Artificial brains may need sleep too
121 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Inventing Monads
121 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US
121 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The mesmerizing geometry of Malaysia’s most complex cakes
121 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking
121 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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A step towards new nitrogen products
121 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Pumas AI: A platform for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation
121 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network
121 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Vertigo – a public domain 3D flight simulator (2003)
120 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: JavaScript-free personal bio hosting
120 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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StackExchange Performance Stats
120 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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A-Levels: The Model is not the Student
120 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Who to ignore – bullshit filters
120 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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IBM Is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning
120 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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How to build great products (2013)
120 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app
120 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Cheap FPGA Development Boards
120 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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TypeScript 4.0
120 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Sum Types in Julia and Rust
119 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
119 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data
119 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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ZipPy: fast and lightweight Python 3 implementation using the Truffle framework
119 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Slate, create beautiful, responsive API documentation
119 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001
119 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Spacetime wave packets: New class of laser defies laws of light physics
119 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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You don’t need reproducible builds
119 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
119 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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PCI Express Retimers vs. Redrivers: An Eye-Popping Difference (2019)
119 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)
119 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
118 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Why facial recognition has led to false arrests
118 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls With ReVoLTE
118 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]
118 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
118 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (2018)
118 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
118 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly
117 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
117 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Non-obvious remote work techniques
117 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area
117 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Why I’m Willing to Pay a Premium for Security, Privacy, and Peace of Mind
117 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement
117 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving
117 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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ANSI Z535 Compliant Safety Sign Generator
117 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Haskell In New Clothes
117 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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How to delete all your files
117 points • comment • aug 23, 2020