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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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A review of Bel, Eve, and a silly VR rant
85 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]
85 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Nasal vaccine against Covid-19 prevents infection in mice
85 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)
85 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Luminar Plans $3.4B Reverse-Merger IPO
85 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Turkish Lira Rates Blow Out to 1000% After Currency Intervention
85 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have changed lifestyles for good
85 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole in the blade
85 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Implement an emulator for a fantasy CPU in JavaScript
85 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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World's First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform
85 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Why did the A-level algorithm say no?
85 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool
85 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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JFrog S-1
85 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs
85 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans
84 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct
84 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: Kvak.io – Online Notepad
84 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Coronavirus ravages California’s Central Valley, following a cruel familiar path
84 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Albatrosses who catch pirates on the high seas
84 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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MIT Drake
84 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above
84 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The semver trick (2019)
84 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors
84 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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New fitness habits being created during Covid?
84 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Puzzle Toad
84 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Validating Kubernetes YAML for best practice and policies
83 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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‘CSS X’
83 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Apple to start requiring written consent for third party API usage in apps
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming
83 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite
83 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How the ARM32 Kernel Starts
83 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Solr 8.6.1
83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults
83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China
83 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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What Is the Small Web?
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Supercapacitors from Standard Bricks
83 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features
83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
83 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings
83 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
83 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP
82 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Drogon – C++14/17-based rapid HTTP and web application framework
82 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)
82 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon
82 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Parabola on ReMarkable: A Guide [pdf]
82 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Bayes Theorem: A Framework for Critical Thinking
82 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor
82 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Behaviors resembling ADHD may be linked to increased entrepreneurial behavior
82 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Reckoning with Our Mistakes
82 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is
82 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
82 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Show HN: Boook.link – Share a book with links to all stores
82 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System
82 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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SpaceX raises $1.9B
82 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Software bug causes YAM cryptocurrency to implode two days after launch
82 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The entire Mozilla MDN team is laid off
81 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Breaking the D-Link DIR3060 Firmware Encryption – Recon – Part 1
81 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Casio FX-880P Personal Computer Teardown
81 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Inside A £30 Record Player
81 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Python Hash Tables: understanding dictionaries
81 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How Drakeo the Ruler recorded an album from jail
81 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Cardboard theft
81 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit
81 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Freedom is not simple
81 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Riots and Political Theory: A Reading List
81 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Clear Channel’s billboards will start tracking consumers in Europe
81 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Malaria No More
81 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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On-Device Supermarket Product Recognition
80 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Launch HN: SuperTokens (YC S20) – Securely manage session tokens
80 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
80 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks
80 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Facebook agrees to pay France €106M in back taxes
80 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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How real are real numbers? (2004)
80 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Predictions as a Substitute for Reviews
80 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How to make a bee hotel [pdf]
80 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984)
80 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics
79 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem
79 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Blissymbols
79 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI
79 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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On Using Twitter
79 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The mine that built the atomic bomb
79 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Why did a hedge fund manager worth $700M take a $630k job managing an oil fund?
79 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Python Textbook as a Jupyter Notebook
79 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh
79 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How does your data science or machine learning team handle DevOps?
79 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics
79 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Large explosion in Beirut
79 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf]
79 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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A flutter in time: Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect
79 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Unraveling the linothorax mystery (2013)
78 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language
78 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace
78 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Show HN: A simple FOSS and self-hosted budgeting app
78 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Intel Progress on Their “MOS” Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels
78 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)
78 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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OpenRCT2 0.3
78 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf]
78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II
78 points • comment • aug 27, 2020