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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Differentiable Control Problems
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old ZIP file
70 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat – The White House
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf]
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016)
70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Former Uber Security Chief Charged with Concealing Hack
70 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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3D Printing Integrated Circuits: What's Possible Now and in the Future?
70 points • comment • aug 11, 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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In Ashgabat
70 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Show HN: Discover shared videos and live broadcasts from Reddit
70 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Investigating the Milk, MIT's Historic Dairy Product (2015)
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects
69 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Florida Current is weaker now than at any point in the past century
69 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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How anti-trust laws are used to stop independent contractors from organizing
69 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Analyzing Python Code with Python
69 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2
69 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The Language of Science
69 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Medical debt collection firm R1 RCM hit in ransomware attack
69 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Excessive phone use linked to problems with productivity, relationships, health
69 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Android 11 is taking away the camera picker, forcing use of the built-in camera
69 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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An Ecology of Mind: A daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson
69 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Mental Model: Second Order Thinking
69 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Facebook trying to position itself as friendlier to small businesses than Apple
68 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Google 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word
68 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Why Uber's business model is doomed
68 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Robots that can walk are now striding to market
68 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: Tunshell – Remote shell into ephemeral environments behind NAT/firewall
68 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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On the problems with automated contact tracing
68 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Named Tensors
68 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open
68 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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What I've learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters
68 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own
68 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Social Media Problem
68 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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The week old Hollywood finally died
68 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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GCD and the magic of subtraction
67 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Technical Debt Doesn’t Exist
67 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Gammo – A pure-Ruby HTML5-compliant parser
67 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages
67 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Tunable Delete Aware LSM Engine
67 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data [pdf]
67 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Web History: Browsers
67 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Has anyone built a SaaS for local municipalities?
67 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Launch HN: Liyfe Clinic (YC S20) – Telemedicine for breast cancer
67 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The Social Fabric of the U.S. Is Fraying Severely, If Not Unravelling
67 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Albanian Civil War
67 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Understanding Memory Fragmentation in Haskell
67 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age
67 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: Japanese Language Learning Forum
67 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Painting a better life through side SaaS hustles
67 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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American Express to Acquire Kabbage
66 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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TikTok to Sue Trump Administration over Ban, as Soon as Tuesday
66 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Coding and drawing
66 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Intends to Step Down
66 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing
66 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance
66 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'
66 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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How to turn off Android TV's homescreen ads, 'staff picks'
66 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Wilford Brimley has died
66 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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The fastest USB storage options for Raspberry Pi
66 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Now you C me, now you don't
66 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Researchers demonstrate the ability to fuse atoms inside room-temperature metals
66 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc
66 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013)
66 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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An Iterative Approach to Notes
66 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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How to Build an Iconic Company – Keith Rabois [audio]
66 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it
66 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the Moon race
66 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The Medieval University Monopoly
66 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011)
66 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Secret Landscape: America's cold war infrastructure
66 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Dozens of Montana USPS drop boxes removed
66 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Stepping away from open source
66 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Epic vs. Apple: Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion for TRO [pdf]
65 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Apple announces Apple Music radio
65 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Huawei CEO: After September 15 No More Kirin Chips
65 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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UC Santa Cruz Reinstates 41 Graduate Students After Months-Long Strike
65 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy
65 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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An interesting mistake with Go's context package
65 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Notes from a Flat Earth Conference
65 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states
65 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors
65 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Lori Loughlin and husband sentenced in college bribery scandal
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood
65 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A newsletter about mental models and rational thinking
65 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How to Vote in the 2020 Election
65 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Effect of Exercise-Related Factors on the Perception of Time
65 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Children’s role in spread of virus bigger than thought
64 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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US DHS seized $2B from travelers between 2000-2016
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface
64 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Not enough foreigners applied for H1B visas this year, govt ran a second lottery
64 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point
64 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
64 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Remains of 17th century bishop support Neolithic emergence of tuberculosis
64 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits
64 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Ask HN: Geopolitical forums similar to HN?
64 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Running a marathon was never crazier than during the 1904 St Louis Olympics
64 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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You may finally use JSHint for evil
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2020