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Hacker News (Aug 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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Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
46 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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New York Times Quietly Scrubs Chinese Propaganda
46 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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How Do You Decode a Hapax? Also, What’s a Hapax? (2017)
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Google Kicks Fortnite Off from play store
46 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Users as people and the participatory economy
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Atmospheric Water Harvesting
46 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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How to give access to AWS resources without creating 100s of IAM Users?
46 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Is your chart a detective story or a police report?
46 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Predatory journal accepts fake story about scooters and hydroxychloroquine
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Covid-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse
46 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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New Pulumi Open Source Projects for Kubernetes
46 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Challenges and Delights of Photographing the Night Sky
46 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Pytov – C-like syntax Python
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road
46 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Secrets of Elite College Admissions
46 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band
46 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Svxlink: Advanced repeater controller and Echolink software for Linux
46 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Google killed a small smart glass maker after acquiring it
46 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Apple confirms cloud gaming services violate App Store guidelines
46 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Third Wave (experiment)
46 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Pioneers of Soviet Computing (2010)
46 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Note to self – never give up on your dreams
45 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Incentivized Guardianship
45 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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A layman's guide to understanding the Cloud
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe
45 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Trump's WeChat ban threatens Apple's smartphone sales in China
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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FDA issues emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Mozilla Is Dead
45 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Researchers in Germany are giving out scholarships in “idleness”
45 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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New analysis method predicts disruptive solar flares
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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GKE’s new dataplane uses the eBPF-based Cilium project
45 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019)
45 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The Magic of Engineered Serendipity
45 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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FDA approves human trial for treatment to cure HIV
45 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Braess' Paradox and the Price of Anarchy (2019)
45 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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NumPy another Iverson Ghost (2018)
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Internet Archive now lets you search through radio transcripts
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts
45 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Using 'this' incorrectly in C#
45 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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ArXiv’s 1.7M+ Research Papers Now Available on Kaggle
45 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Applying tech frameworks to biotech: key differences
45 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983)
45 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Court: No, You May Not Force Your Way into a Home and Strip Search Six Children
45 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Ubuntu VM on macOS with libvirt+QEMU
45 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Tehran skyscraper combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park
45 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Interactive HTML Trees with No JavaScript
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
44 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping
44 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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High-tech tracking reveals ‘secret world of birds’
44 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Win “Active Hours” underscores how you’re not in control of your devices (2016)
44 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
44 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Twingate: New Linux Client & Designing Remote Access for Developers
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Former Apple engineer says US govt turned an iPod into secret geiger counter
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Apparatus with Magnets
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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fpx: easy USB‑C power for all your devices
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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GoldBack – Currency With Actual Gold In Bills That Can Be Used Anywhere
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Micro frontends with Stacker
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Altucher: NYC Is Dead Forever
44 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool
43 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices directly via TCP,UDP
43 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Effectiveness of honey for symptomatic relief in respiratory tract infections
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Hardware Accelerator for Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Neural Networks
43 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Create a fully functioning command line interface with 1.5 lines of code
43 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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DIY Bertin Matrix with 569 Dominoes and No Glue
43 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Building Kind Social Networks (2018)
43 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential therapies for Covid-19
43 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Warren Buffett traded Goldman Sachs for gold
43 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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A Command Line vs. GUI Meeting
43 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Responsible Use of Machine Learning APIs
43 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm library written in JavaScript
43 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Comix-35 Home Computer
43 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Lit: The Language Interpretability Tool
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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40M Americans are at risk of eviction without a stimulus bill
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Japan’s Entry in Flying-Car Race Takes to the Air
43 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in new motion
43 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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1930s Household Refrigerators (2013)
43 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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With Poetry, packaging in Python is a solved problem
43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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An overview of the science on function length
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Show HN: A fast RSS reader I built with a friend
42 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Low adoption of features and the sad realization
42 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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More Than 1k Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work?
42 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The golden age of computer user groups
42 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power (2017)
42 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Show HN: We're building a virtual meetup platform
42 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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AVR support merged into Rust nightly
42 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Geographical Amusement: The rise of the cartographic board game
42 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6
42 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Outrun lets you execute a local command using the power of another Linux machine
42 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs?
42 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The history of economic growth is a tale of cleanliness
42 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer
42 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Principal Component Analysis
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Mancala
42 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Secure Modular Runtimes
42 points • comment • aug 25, 2020