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Hacker News (Aug 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
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If nearly 40% of Americans aren’t working, what are they doing? (2015)
52 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Are apps even that relevant anymore?
52 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics; visualize your data (2016)
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Implementing Traceroute in Go – Blog
51 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs
51 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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DeGoogle My Life
51 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Permanently Flipped Workplace
51 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Apple's App Store Polices Mean Xbox Game Streaming Not Allowed
51 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
51 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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A Neural-Based Program Decompiler (2019)
51 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Microsoft joins App Store backlash after xCloud game streaming blocked
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Millions of Americans could lose their electricity as shutoff moratoriums expire
51 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Lightmatter's Mars SoC Bends Light to Process Data
51 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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U.S. Stocks Rise After S&P 500’s Record Close
51 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Cracking Phobos UUID
51 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process
51 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019)
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Origins of Venmo (2014)
51 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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New Jersey police are pressing felony charges for retweeting an officer’s photo
51 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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YouTube Alternatives at a Glance
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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2500x: Convert Your Images to HTML tags
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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‘Oumuamua: A Hydrogen Iceberg?
50 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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New type of taste cell discovered in taste buds
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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People on SO have been working together on a single polyglot program for 4 years
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Researchers discover the microbiome's role in attacking cancerous tumors
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Abstracting Abstract Machines (2010) [pdf]
50 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom
50 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Music for Plants
50 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Why is my Nest Thermostat talking to Facebook?
50 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Do Not Trust Google
50 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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OneLook – Dictionary Search with Wildcards
50 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Oral History of Sophie Wilson (2012) [pdf]
50 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Atomic Tank? (2018)
50 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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University Endowment Sued for Under performing the S&P 500
50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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How to Start A Niche Content Site
50 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Spectrum Analyzer Software for OpenRAMAN
50 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup, can't turn them off
50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems
50 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Music: A Mathematical Offering (2008)
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Simple Bacteria Offer Clues to the Origins of Photosynthesis
50 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The World’s Richest Families 2020
50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View
50 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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IoT Smart Lock Vulnerability Spotlights Bigger Issues
49 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Building FunctionTrace, a graphical Python profiler
49 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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FuzzCon – European Online Conference About Fuzzing
49 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
49 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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New and improved Workers Docs
49 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text
49 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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GPT-3 writing tool that generates surprisingly compelling characters/plot twists
49 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Connecting the Atari ST to the Internet with an ESP8266 (2017)
49 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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California court: Amazon liable for defective products sold by 3rd parties
49 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The magic of ion channels in the neurons
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Ex-NSA Hacker Finds a Way to Hack Mac Users via Microsoft Office
49 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Show HN: Mys – an attempt to create a statically typed Python-like language
48 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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VC bias in viewing pitch decks can affect fundraising success
48 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network
48 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Galileo's Proposed Authentication Algorithm: Part 1
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Archaeologist discovers rare items under the floor of Oxburgh Hall
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Do Human crowds during protests resemble animal swarming behavior?
48 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Picking Locks with Audio Technology
48 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Terminating a Frozen SSH Session
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Product Activity Coefficient: A single metric to drive customer success teams
48 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
48 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Duality of Vector Spaces (2017)
48 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Implementing UFCS for C++ in Clang
48 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Photon – a live demo of a natural language interface to databases
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Losses at Revolut more than triple to £106m
48 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Signal Reflection
48 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Bletchley Park Trust to undergo organisational restructure
48 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database [pdf]
48 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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One year of automatic DB migrations from Git
48 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Intel Xe-LP GPU Architecture Deep Dive
48 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Prosopagnosia: The artist in search of her face
47 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Hk Apple Daily Owner Arrested, Company Raided Under New National Security Law
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Twelve years later, Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses
47 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability
47 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source
47 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Why I don't give .edu discounts
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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DNA Methylation Clocks' Predictive Capacity for Aging Phenotypes and Healthspan
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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One-Page Chess [video]
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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America might wield its ultimate weapon of mass disruption
47 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Weboob
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Christopher Alexander: A Primer [video]
47 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Pi-KVM: easy and cheap DIY KVM over IP with mouse, virtual drive, VNC and IPMI
47 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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OpenAI API
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Cheri C/C++ Programming Guide: Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions [pdf]
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Micro-Optimizing .tar.gz Archives by Changing File Order
47 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Sharing Knowledge in a Remote team, across Timezones
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Self-Classifying MNIST Digits Using Neural Cellular Automata
47 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Stock Market: What Happens If Tesla Enters S&P 500
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Bill Gates calls Microsoft’s TikTok deal a poisoned chalice
47 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
47 points • comment • aug 26, 2020