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Hacker News (Aug 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
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Nim – version 1.2.6 and 1.0.8 released
78 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Ask HN: How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age?
78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Mon Valley communities test “time credits”, a new form of currency
77 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Language
77 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19
77 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
77 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
77 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle
77 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Pavel Durov on the TikTok Sale to U.S. company
77 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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'Music is as good as gold or oil': A man spending billions on old hits
77 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Searx instances
76 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008)
76 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Microsoft Surface Duo – Dual-screen Android phone
76 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Shakuntala Devi – The Human Computer (2016)
76 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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A more detailed, colorful map
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Door Problem (2014)
76 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Epic Games is also suing Google over Fortnites removal from the Play Store
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Fox Two: The Story of the Aim-9 Sidewinder (2014)
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Debian turns 27
76 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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San Francisco exodus is real, and historic, report shows
76 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Benign data races considered harmful
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Hard Problem of Breakfast
76 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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What's Going On with Intel?
75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms
75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Brexit fuels brain drain as skilled Britons head to the EU
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air energy facility (2019)
75 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating
75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Metaplane – A metadata catalog for modern data teams
75 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The Market for Discontinued Photographic Film
75 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
75 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Most common mistakes during interviews
75 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid
75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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A new company promises a 5G keyboarded BlackBerry in 2021
75 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Fossilised 429-million-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision
75 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 blasts through Kickstarter goal
75 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app
75 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Zin Boats reinvents the electric boat in a bid to become the Tesla of the sea
75 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions
75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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“Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure”
74 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal
74 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How the world’s largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis
74 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management
74 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it
74 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Why does the government let a company like Herbalife stay in business?
74 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Melancholy of obsolete futures: on Soviet Brutalism
74 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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System on Chip wrapping the SERV RISC-V soft processor
74 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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The World of Legacy IT Systems
74 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Horcrux Encrypted Messaging
74 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Auden on No-Platforming Pound (2019)
74 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators
74 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding
74 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy
73 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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How to update U-Boot for PostmarketOS on the Pine Phone
73 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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100 years to solve an integral: The history of the Mercator map
73 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Child sexual abuse material could be going undetected because of ‘false reports’
73 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Don't Get Stuck
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World
73 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Solaris 10 Zones on Illumos Tribblix
73 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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The Mozilla Manifesto
73 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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But I was helping the compiler
72 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
72 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Former VW Executive Is Arrested in Croatia in Emissions Case
72 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Bcrypt Step-by-Step
72 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
72 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Retrobatch – flexible batch image processing for Mac
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (2019)
72 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Expert overclockers successfully push DOOM Eternal past 1k frames per second
72 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network
72 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Karate: Test Automation Made Simple
72 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Ecommerce Surge
72 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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China uses Hong Kong security law against US and UK-based activists
72 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives (2019)
72 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Writing a Lisp to x86-64 compiler
71 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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EBS Storage Improvements
71 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card
71 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory
71 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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ZX Spectrum Next – Issue 2
71 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Yet another tool for making copy/paste/run experience better (Windows)
71 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a
71 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients
71 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Darwin, Machines, and the Future: A conversation with George Dyson
70 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks
70 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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PHP 8.0.0 beta 2
70 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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OPDS – Easy to Use, Open and Decentralized Content Distribution
70 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Upcoming changes to Cortana
70 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Constant Time LFU
70 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
70 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Amazon Music attempted to forbid podcasters from disparaging Amazon
70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Leveraging machine learning to fuel new discoveries with the ArXiv dataset
70 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound
70 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml
70 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020