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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Precise Higher-Order Meshing of Curved 2D Domains
64 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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You may finally use JSHint for evil
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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A network of 17th-century female spies (2019)
64 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Self – Fun Through Simplicity
64 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface
64 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Bliss: A language for systems programming (1971) [pdf]
63 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Taylor Series and Accelerometers
63 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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How to Fix Gimbal Lock in N-Dimensions
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Producing Open Source Software (2017)
63 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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BBC Master on Steroids
63 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Tesla 5-1 Stock Split
63 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors
63 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Griffon: a desktop application development platform for the JVM
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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WebAssembly Is Not a Stack Machine (2019)
63 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The Native-American Origins of Gumbo
63 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: Made in India CSS
63 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Self-Contained Development Environments (2018) [pdf]
63 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Rethinking the Science of Skin
63 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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GCC x86 Performance Hints (2012)
63 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Announcement of LibreOffice 7.0
63 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Why Understanding Beats Knowledge
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50M a Year Selling Drivers' Data
63 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Common Mistakes to Avoid in HTML
63 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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How to use the next-gen open-sourced .Avif image format, 50% smaller than JPEG
63 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Ekranoplan Is Stranded Off a Beach
62 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird
62 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night sky
62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Write a mini-Redis in Rust: learn async programming with Tokio
62 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Virtual Machines for Multi-Tenancy in Varnish
62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
62 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Serverless: I'm a Big Kid Now
62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Talk to Your Data: One Model, Any Relational Database
62 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: Orchest – Data Science Pipelines
62 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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S&P 500 Return Attribution: Its 1% economy
62 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?
62 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation, implemented in TensorFlow 2.0
62 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed [pdf]
62 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Show HN: MyDeskTour – Show off your desk setup
62 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor
62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Microsoft Open Source
62 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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.NET Team Survey: Native AOT
62 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs
62 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold
62 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4
62 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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CMDR-DOS: Commodore DOS on FAT32
62 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies
61 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
61 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
61 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Neuroimaging results altered by varying analysis pipelines
61 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted – It’s Why You Feel Awful
61 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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‘DiceKeys’ creates a master password for life with one roll
61 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Instagram Morphs into an Information Powerhouse
60 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Moving from Common-Sense Knowledge About UEFI to Dumping UEFI Firmware
60 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google
60 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Declarative Data Visualization
60 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too
60 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Sled Theoretical Performance Guide
60 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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New planets confirmed in machine learning first
60 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)
60 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)
60 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: Teal – a serverless VM and programming language
60 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Advancing our approach to digital currency
60 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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We Chose a Distributed SQL Database to Complement MySQL
60 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (2012)
60 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Office Life at the Pentagon Is Disconcertingly Retrograde
59 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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No New Categories
59 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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From farm to factory: the unstoppable rise of American chicken
59 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Live View of Hurricane Laura
59 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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92,857 BTC (1,092,603,630 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
59 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Airbnb is offering a sleepover at the last Blockbuster
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?
59 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States
59 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Greenland Ice Sheet has melted to the point of no return
59 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Where the missing middle of housing isn't missing
59 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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ZzFXM – A tiny JavaScript music system
59 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old zip file
59 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials
58 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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How to tokenize Japanese in Python
58 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Tech Companies Want You to Believe America Has a Skills Gap
58 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Bitcoin-collateralized loans coming to Coinbase
58 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Has anyone else seen TCP connection issues in AWS US East this week?
58 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (2012)
58 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Scale-Free Vertical Tracking Microscopy, a.k.a. Gravity Machine
58 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears
58 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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BQN: An APL Variant from Marshall Lochbaum
58 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The Architecture of the Medieval Page (2018)
58 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Medical research director sees light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel
58 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Open Source PCR Thermocycler
58 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Lucid – the origin story
58 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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All publicly available EEG datasets
58 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer
58 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab
58 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol
58 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors
58 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Exercise, eat right, get good sleep: The top ways to prevent so many diseases
58 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Samsung committing to three generations of Android OS upgrades
58 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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MOSEC 2020: Attack Secure Boot of Apple's Secure Enclave Processor [pdf]
58 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Hello “Hello World”
57 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook)
57 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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High bitrate video streaming with GStreamer RTP
57 points • comment • aug 25, 2020