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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
106 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?
105 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks
105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi
105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries
105 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting
105 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery health?
105 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Brain Oriented Programming
105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Hyperloop: Pipes of Fancy
105 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Opus Audio Codec – FAQ
105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms
105 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Bits of History, Words of Advice
104 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
104 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition
104 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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A bike shop should choose its customer wisely
104 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Show HN: Use React to build G Suite dialogs and add-ons
104 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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My startup validation process
104 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Why Confidential Computing Is a Game Changer
104 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4
104 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
104 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Jaron Lanier on social media
104 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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PyIDM – Python open-source alternative to Internet Download Manager
104 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation
104 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design
104 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM
104 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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RustConf 2020 Links
103 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)
103 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Understanding How the Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm Works
103 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller
103 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Show HN: Glitterly – Create and share videos of your app
103 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Ts-migrate: tool to automatically migrate JavaScript projects to TS
103 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Kenyan tea workers file UN complaint against Unilever over 2007 ethnic violence
103 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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A website to make 3D geometry shapes out of paper
102 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste
102 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Mosaic HIV Vaccines in Late-Stage Trials
102 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts
102 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish – Microsoft plays their hand
102 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
102 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer
102 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live
102 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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How many pieces can a puzzle have?
101 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)
101 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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FDA urges consumers not use certain hand sanitizer products
101 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Erlang: The New Scalable ETS Ordered_set
101 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Things the most successful people I know struggle with to be happy
101 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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What is a Product Roadmap?
101 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
100 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: Computer Music with Python
100 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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How a $175 covid-19 test led to $2,479 in charges
100 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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MiniFB: Small cross platform library to create framebuffer to draw pixels in
100 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Show HN: Tweek – Fast to-do weekly calendar app
100 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Partying like it’s 1999 – Initial public offerings are back in Silicon Valley
100 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool
100 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015)
99 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath
99 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries
99 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Consortium for Python Data API Standards
99 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
99 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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2020's Existentialist Turn
99 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
99 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here
99 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders
98 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black
98 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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NewLisp
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Boston Dynamics' Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi
98 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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A California wildfire nearly destroyed the historic Lick observatory
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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My Fourier Epicycles
98 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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SourMint Malicious SDK
98 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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BuckleScript Is Rebranding
98 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
98 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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My Custom Payment Implant
98 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Sumo Logic S-1
98 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas
98 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok
98 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Deep Dive into PHP 8's JIT
97 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire
97 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets
97 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks
97 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Cloudflare Network Interconnect
97 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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New ‘Unpatchable’ Exploit Found in Apple’s Secure Enclave Chip
97 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos
97 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
97 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH or Telnet terminal
97 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Codata in action, or how to connect FP and OOP
97 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
97 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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A man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb (2015)
97 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics
97 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
96 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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How close are computers to automating mathematical reasoning?
96 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (2000)
96 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Cloudflare, Google, Bing Destroying the Infrastructure of the Free Web
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes
96 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (2017)
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Guide to Rustc Development
96 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Videos for learning Org Mode
96 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore
96 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US
95 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month
95 points • comment • aug 28, 2020