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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Clover: An all-in-one notebook
117 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management
116 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Implementing a Type-safe printf in Rust
116 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished
116 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice
116 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Dropshipping: Hustlers making millions from goods they never handle
116 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Launch HN: Virtually (YC S20) – Build live online trainings
116 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Can we do better than our C compiler?
116 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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AtomVM: Erlang on Microcontrollers
116 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Ask HN: There are 5 S-1 posts on the front page, what explains the rush?
116 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Conventions for Command Line Options
116 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D
116 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: I've built self-opening trash bin, I relax myself feeding garbage to it
116 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
116 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management
116 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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A Clean Start for the Web
115 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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FBI release a report on Russian Linux Malware called Drovorub [pdf]
115 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster
115 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Discrete Cosine Transform in Video Compression – Explain Like I'm Five
115 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand
115 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended
114 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Firefox 80 and my confusion over its hardware accelerated video on Linux
114 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)
114 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations
114 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
114 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Apple Removes Epic Games Account from App Store
114 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Hotel in Tokyo installs flight simulator in room (2019)
114 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Syntax changes from C++11 to C++20
114 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt enemies they can't see
114 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: NeuralCam Live – Using ML to Turn iPhones into Smart Webcams
113 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
113 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A
113 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon
113 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast
112 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
112 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence
112 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail
112 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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SSH Keygen – RSA, DSA, Ecdsa, EdDSA
112 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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GPT-3 Explorer
112 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable
112 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating
112 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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My One Day at Recurse Center
112 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How does your organisation train programmers?
112 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’
112 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Kapton: Miracle Material with a Tragic History
111 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine
111 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets
111 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
111 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch
111 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
111 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Development of Warajevo: ZX Spectrum Emulator Made During the Bosnian War
111 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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$250k books sold, to save lives
111 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ data’ vs Facebook, Google
111 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Apple blocked Facebook's attempt to tell users about 30% App Store 'tax'
111 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
111 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Kubernetes 1.19
111 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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How the ARM32 Linux kernel decompresses
111 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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How Taiwan’s Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Atlas: End-to-End 3D Scene Reconstruction from Posed Images
110 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended
110 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Significant JavaScript projects from 2006 to 2020
110 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions
110 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
110 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk
110 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model
109 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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i8080 precise replica in Verilog, based on reverse engineering of real die
109 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
109 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The World of Competitive Lockpicking
109 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Teletext Bad Apple
109 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Elastic 7.9
108 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]
108 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
108 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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μPlot v1.1 – now with log scales support
108 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money [pdf]
108 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man
108 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%
108 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Gold price rises above $2k for first time
108 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006)
108 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel
108 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types
108 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Touch Typing on a Gamepad
107 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Is the US about to split the internet?
107 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
107 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks
107 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Ordeal by Title IX
107 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
107 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
106 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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SS7 cellular network flaw being exploited to drain bank accounts
106 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)
106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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DEF Con 28: Safe Mode
106 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Bill English has died
106 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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What Shell Am I Using?
106 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Planning for My Kidnapping
106 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas
106 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Realtime California Air Quality
106 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment
106 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox
106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world
106 points • comment • aug 16, 2020