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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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‘Altered Carbon’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Netflix
37 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The Hatpin Peril (2014)
37 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Beirut Explosion
37 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Show HN: Create diagrams stitching images on a grid using HCL (like Terraform)
37 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Dutch minister of health makes a GitHub commit
37 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Your mind will not be uploaded (2014)
37 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem
37 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Nine in ten Americans view data privacy as a human right according to new report
37 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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EtherOops – packet-in-packet attacks on Ethernet cables to bypass firewalls
37 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers
37 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The TikTok ban and the openness trap
37 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities – IN the U.S.
37 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Fortnite Removed from App Store
37 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Backbone Cabal
37 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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'How to destroy surveillance capitalism,' a book-length rebuttal to S. Zuboff
37 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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A14X Bionic to Be ‘Nearly on Par’ with 8-Core Intel Core I9-9880H
37 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Belly of the Beast: Illicit Photos from Inside the Soviet GEV Plane “Ekranoplan”
37 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Baby boomers show concerning decline in cognitive functioning
37 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Creators Should Move to Their Own Domains and Set Up Direct Monetization
37 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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How we used Postgres extended statistics to achieve a 3000x speedup
37 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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California: Tell Your Senators Ill-Conceived “Immunity Passports” Won’t Help Us
36 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Status as a Service (2019)
36 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Teaching quantum information science to high-school students
36 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Revolution in Belarus People are demanding Lukashenko to go home
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Beyond Bitswap
36 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers
36 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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UK officially in recession for first time in 11 years
36 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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The Unraveling of America
36 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Carl Bergstrom on data manipulation, fake news,& using science as a lie detector
36 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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The ELIZA Effect (2019)
36 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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A Seed Stage Mental Framework to Limit Failure as a Startup Founder
36 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Easily replicate/clone your Linux install
36 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Defunctionalization and Freyd’s Theorem
36 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Bernard Bailyn, Eminent Historian of Early America, Dies at 97
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Cachy: Out of tree Linux scheduler improving CPU cache usage
36 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013)
36 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Best Consumer Hard Drives: August 2020
36 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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San Francisco will put ‘CEO tax’ on the ballot this November
35 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Apple News+ in iOS 14 opens articles in Apple News, intercepting website traffic
35 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Mass arrests after BlackBerry cracked five years after seizure
35 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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House Costs Just $20k-But It’s Nicer Than Yours
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Chadwick Boseman Is Dead
35 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (2017) [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
35 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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LA Mayor Shuts Off Power at Hollywood Hills House That Hosted Large Parties
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Failure by WHO team to visit Wuhan sparks concerns over virus probe
35 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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We hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issue
35 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security
35 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Best Package Manager for C
35 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
35 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
35 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Tackling open challenges in offline reinforcement learning
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The West Is Becoming More Like China
35 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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A picture of change for a world in constant motion
35 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs
35 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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What Programmers Can Learn from Modular Synthesis and Unix
35 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Ten countries kept out Covid, but did they win?
35 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Reading is good. Reading in order to discuss is better
35 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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US companies grant execs big bonuses before declaring bankruptcy
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Conventional Commits
35 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
35 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Kim Jong Un's sister now said to control North Korea party nerve center
35 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Speaking Knots
35 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it doesn't hurt you
35 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Wirecard’s Boon is shutting down
35 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload
35 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?
35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Herman Cain's verified twitter account shares posthumous attack on Biden/Harris
34 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Alarm as FDA willing to issue Covid-19 vaccine before stringent safety testing
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Instagram Reels
34 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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You May Finally Use JSHint for Evil
34 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Spotify hit with outage after forgetting to renew a certificate
34 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Nagara Rimba Nusa: A Take on Indonesia's New Capital City
34 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Mesosphere (open-source Nintendo Switch kernel) now boots most commercial games
34 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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China will not accept U.S. 'theft' of TikTok: China Daily
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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“Time of the Magicians” – philosophy's great decade?
34 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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First Lenovo laptop with Fedora now available
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Microsoft .NET SDK is violating the GDPR, object now
34 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Ancient Beads Point to Far-Flung Relationships in Southern Africa
34 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Ask HN: How do I “make the switch” towards becoming a director or VP
34 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Same laptop, different CPUs, Ryzen is faster, has better battery and cheaper
34 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Can modern software be snappy? (2008)
34 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies into Existence
34 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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On Tolerating Complexity
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Mail-in ballots were part of a plot to deny Lincoln reelection in 1864
34 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you have a daily cash stream?
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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As Epic attacks Apple and Google, it ignores the same problems on consoles
34 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Functional SARS-CoV-2-specific immune memory persists after mild Covid-19
34 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do many sites now put username+password entry on different pages?
34 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Salmonella outbreak linked to onions in 43 US states
34 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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The Prophecies of Q
34 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Optical Tweezers
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)
34 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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“Dark” Personalities Are More Likely to Signal Victimhood
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Edalize: An abstraction library for interfacing EDA tools
34 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?
34 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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What coronavirus will do to our offices and homes
34 points • comment • aug 24, 2020