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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook)
57 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Frustrated? It's not you, it's Rust
57 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Effective Airflow Development
57 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Colorize Old Photos with DeOldify
57 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
57 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Show HN: SpaceVim Release v1.5.0
57 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree
57 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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How Are Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Changes Affecting Workers?
57 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Convert Figma Layouts to Flutter, SwiftUI and Tailwind. OSS and 99% Tested
57 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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A guide to Semantic Segmentation
57 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers?
57 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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FB Executive Supported India’s Modi, Disparaged Opp. In Internal Messages
57 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Winklevoss 500k Bitcoin Argument
57 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Dear Staging: We’re Done
57 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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The Computer Chronicles (1983 – 2002)
57 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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High bitrate video streaming with GStreamer RTP
57 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91
57 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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U.S. government issues travel warning for New Zealand due to '23 active cases'
57 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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“Japanese Lindberghs” Made a 10k Mile-Flight in 1937
57 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Setting out for calls and conferences
56 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Osquery: Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows and macOS infrastructure
56 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The New ‘Gold Rush in Space’
56 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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American Airlines bans masks with exhaust valves and vents
56 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: Google Meet Studio Mini – Change your appearance with a browser script
56 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The Mega-Tsunami of July 9, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska (1999)
56 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The Student-Blaming Has Begun
56 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)
56 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Computerphile: From Algol 60 to Pascal [video]
56 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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American darknet vendor and Costa Rican pharmacist charged
56 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Tesla employee foregoes $1M payment, works with FBI to thwart attack
56 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting
56 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Bootstrap Icons v1.0.0
56 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A Do-It-Yourself paper digital computer (1959)
56 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Tesla Gets Crushed in Germany by EVs from Volkswagen, Renault, and Hyundai Group
56 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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I don't trust Signal (2018)
56 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Shadow traffic: site visits that are not captured by typical analytics providers
56 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, promise
56 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon
55 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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All about Woad
55 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology [pdf]
55 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Overriding C++ virtual functions at run time
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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An Anecdote About ML Type Inference (1994)
55 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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What killed Quayside, Sidewalk Labs’ ambitious smart city in Toronto?
55 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Major Microsoft Outage
55 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Apple to terminate developer account of Epic Games on August 28th
55 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74
55 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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This Is What Your Unsolicited Advice Sounds Like
55 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch
55 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Height Modernization: Recalibrating where the U.S. physically sits on the planet
55 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Show HN: I made a steganography program
55 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing
55 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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SpaceX: Good Splashdown of Dragon Confirmed
55 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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App stores, trust and anti-trust
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Postmaster general reorganizes USPS ahead of November election
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking
55 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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New Particle Collision Math May Offer Quantum Clues
54 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Harry Potter and the Mnemonic Major System
54 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Mighty Buildings (YC W18) can 3D-print houses, even the roof
54 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux
54 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – study
54 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election
54 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Shipshape RenderMan Art Challenge
54 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Two Features of JavaScript that you might not know
54 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Using machine learning to detect deficient coverage in colonoscopy screenings
54 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Germany eyes a four-day week to help prevent mass layoffs
54 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Wellbeing levels fell with the pandemic but improved under lockdown, data shows
54 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years
54 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Ask HN: Is it a good practice to provide open-source version of your paid app?
54 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
54 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Visualizing TSNE Maps with Three.js
54 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Ammonia as a fuel for compression ignition engines
54 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Google accidentally enables home smart speakers to listen in to everyday sounds
53 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder
53 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities
53 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Bletchley Park: New crisis for code-breaking hub
53 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Kiruna, Forever Changing
53 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Windows new feature: Access your Android phone’s apps directly from your PC
53 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
53 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Smaug, the brand new OVHcloud backbone network infrastructure
53 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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HBO Max cranks up the Widevine DRM, leaves Linux users in the cold
53 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Negotiating My Hourly Rate
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Agrivoltaics: Save solar plant land costs with sheep and agriculture
53 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch (2013)
53 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The Sail ISA specification language
53 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How SHRDLU got its name (2003)
53 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Risk BowTie Method
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Inline CSS works better in a component world
53 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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On Blockchain Commit Times: How miners choose Bitcoin transactions [pdf]
52 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Run for Your Life
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Allowing CMake functions to return(value)
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Star Citizen Alpha 3.10
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Dnjs: A pure subset of JavaScript that wants to replace configuration languages
52 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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AI Assistants Have Poor Usability: Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri (2018)
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Managing Teams Through Interfaces
52 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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On the Delaware, a promising new era in cleanup of an urban river
52 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone
52 points • comment • aug 14, 2020