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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use (2014)
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Standard Space Habitats
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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DHS had access to messages from Portland protesters, document shows
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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AdoptOpenJDK 8u265 Available
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The Renaissance of the Shell?
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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The Enigma of Gloom: On George Scialabba’s “How to Be Depressed”
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Show HN: WebAssembly Calling Card – visual creativity with WASM
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Converting Boolean-Logic Decision Trees to Finite State Machines
41 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Finding Linux Compatible Printers
41 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of 280 Crypto Addresses
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A Darker View of the Renaissance
41 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars
41 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Simon's Algorithm
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Writing math papers in pre-LaTeX era (2010)
41 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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MS Paint IDE
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming
41 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Amazon can be held liable for products sold on Marketplace, appeals court rules
41 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Apple Is Taking Legal Action Against a Small Company Because of Its Logo
41 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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MetaMask replaces MIT License, claims ownership of all forks
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Sketching Realistic Graphs (2005)
41 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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“Hiding” network latency for fast memory in data centers
41 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome
41 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A massive fractal in days, not years [pdf]
41 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Why professors are writing crap that nobody reads
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Jabra: We know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops. Sorry, no refunds
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Five charged with felonies for tweeting or retweeting a cop’s photo
41 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Data Structures Cheat Sheet
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Ways to fetch financial data for algo trading
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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America's window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing
40 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Breaking into ASOS
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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“What color is the Sun?” An example of science education pathology (2012)
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: GA Insights – Never Log into Google Analytics Again
40 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Promised Land: Religious ideology and solarpunk science fiction
40 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (2008) [pdf]
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How airplanes counteract St. Elmo's Fire during thunderstorms
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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What it means to be a developer is changing
40 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Peter Thiel: The Education Bubble Is Becoming Dangerous (2018) [video]
40 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Editor Overload
40 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Imaging Edge Webcam
40 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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A fleet of computers helps settle a 90-year-old math problem
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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The Jellyfish Problem
40 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Why most doctors don't wash their hands
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Cornell Notes: Take Effective Notes
40 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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A super quick rundown on SEO
40 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Titan in Depth: Security in Plaintext
40 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Cube Rule of Food Identification
40 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Amazon Renames Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming
40 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Tell HN: YC's First Lightning Tech Talk and Hiring Event Is on September 10th
40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Belgian experts 'shocked' as AstraZeneca seeks liability waiver for vaccine
39 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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World of Warcraft Source Code Turns One Million
39 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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No handshakes. A bad economy. These car salesmen shifted tactics– and succeeded
39 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Building storage-first serverless apps with HTTP APIs service integrations
39 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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I Was a Useful Idiot for Capitalism
39 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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DragonFly LDM – Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing System (3D Electronics Printer)
39 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the most interesting things in tech lately?
39 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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TriFinger: An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity
39 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Anti-Racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart
39 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Apple Judge ‘Inclined’ to Unblock Epic’s Unreal Engine but Not Fortnite
39 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Why I started GigoBooks, and how I got the idea for a startup
39 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Writing a simple Python to C compiler: hello, fibonacci
39 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Alberta government gives green light to Calgary-Edmonton Hyperloop project
39 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Steve Crocker on the History of RFCs
39 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Your calendar should be an allowlist, not a blocklist
39 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Nvidia datacentre revenues surpasses gaming for first time
39 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Testing a $1300 120,000lm water-cooled LED
39 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Mimicking Boston Dynamics with Raspberry Pi
39 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
39 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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A guide to DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps
39 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Three Ways to Hack a Printed Circuit Board
39 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Frank Ramsey: A more human philosophy
39 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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A Honeybee’s Tongue Is More Swiss Army Knife Than Ladle
38 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Tesla Blown Away as Renault Dominates Europe’s July EV Sales Party
38 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Monads and Intensionality – Lucid is not an aberration
38 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck
38 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa with Plastic
38 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The Anti-Capitalist Software License
38 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Do-it-Yourself Vaccines for Covid-19
38 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Belarus president: “Until you kill me, there will be no other elections”
38 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs
38 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Huawei says it’s running out of chips for smartphones because of US sanctions
38 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Waking Life: Johan Varendonck had to study what was available: his daydreams
38 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Apple's new iPhone operating system will decimate part of Facebook's business
38 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The Difficulties of Tracking Running Processes on Linux
38 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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NSCAI Eric Schmidt says Mass Surveillance killer tool/opportunity pg 88-99 [PDF] (2019)
38 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
38 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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How to Pretend That You Are Smart
38 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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EUtility Electric Tractor is powered by a battery, not diesel
38 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs
38 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Half of US adults say dating has gotten harder in the last 10 years
38 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Stealing Money from People Around the World
38 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Securing Lasting Freedoms for All
38 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Software Can Recreate 3D Spaces from Random Internet Photos
37 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December
37 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Lynn Conway's Career Retrospective
37 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Fortnite Removed from App Store
37 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Show HN: A searchable list of VC jobs
37 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The pesticide that caused bee colonies to collapse is killing birds now
37 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Anthony Thyssen's Homepage (1994)
37 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Programmers say Uber Eats is systematically underpaying their workers
37 points • comment • aug 21, 2020