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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Mozilla made $436M from search deals in 2018
30 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Respawn point: The inevitable reincarnation of the corporate office
30 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Dark Triad traits predict political correctness and alt-right attitudes [pdf]
30 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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TikTok’s potential $588 per user valuation in Microsoft deal
30 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Show HN: Zesture – Control Mac/Windows Apps Using Hand Gestures
30 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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ProtonMail founder: Apple uses monopoly to “hold all of us hostage”
30 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Lightroom App Update Wipes Users’ Photos and Presets
30 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Grafana raises $50M in Series B funding
30 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Viola Web Browser (2009)
30 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Alaska that never was: Seward's Success (2011)
30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency
30 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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How can Wall Street be so healthy when Main Street isn’t?
30 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Over 54,000 scanned Australian driver's licences found in open cloud storage
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Gone Phishing
30 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Silicon Valley investor tries to create 'microschool' in yard, backlash ensues
30 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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A Guide to the IBM 3033 Processor Complex (1979) [pdf]
30 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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BespokeSynth: Software Modular Synth
30 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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A Star Went Supernova in 1987. Where Is It Now?
30 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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A general ink formulation of 2D crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing
30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Originality is not the only way
30 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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My favorite product management templates
30 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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An Interview with Simon Kelley, the author of dnsmasq
30 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Coronavirus crisis has made Brazil an ideal vaccine laboratory
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Despoiling a Tiny Coastal Village. The State Invited Him
29 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Prime Numbers for the Win (2009)
29 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Last of the Hedgehogs: René Girard
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Foxconn, other Asian firms consider Mexico factories as China risks grow
29 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem
29 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Two more restaurants in Toronto just got rid of tipping
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Wall Street Is Looting the American Retirement System
29 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Show HN: An animated graphing calculator implemented in a pixel shader
29 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Founder's Journey: SaaS vs. Marketplace Revenue Models
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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America Was Ripe for Humiliation
29 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Test-First Machine Learning
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Reverse-engineering the adder inside the Intel 8086
29 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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FBI worried doorbell cameras could tip owners off to police searches
29 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011)
29 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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New York incubator requires participants to grant IP rights
29 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Lawyer Explains How Meat and Dairy Industries Cost U.S. Taxpayer $414B a Year
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Richard Feynman's Perspective of Life
29 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Why did the atomic spy do it?
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you build up your first career close to age 40?
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Epic Games files lawsuit against Apple
29 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Big Sur: “Warning: PHP is not recommended”
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Bug in OpenSSH / Config Checker
29 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: Phuslu/Log – Structured Logging for Humans
29 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) [pdf]
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Black babies more likely to survive when cared for by black doctors – US study
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Apple Approved Malware: malicious code now notarized?
29 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The Messy Mediterranean
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Should a Startup in the messy middle change TOS on every turn?
28 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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What Would Happen If Trump Used Facebook to Dispute Election Results
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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How the US government built a top-secret iPod right under Steve Jobs’ nose
28 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Canva – How SEO, Outreach and Content Led to a $6B Valuation
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you protect your Mailserver from DDoS Attacks?
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: Seamless head tracking for games using the TrueDepth camera (iOS)
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’
28 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Show HN: MP3 to Text
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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The Everyday Inspiration for Anna Karenina
28 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world
28 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (2009)
28 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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A joke about the difference between mathematicians and physicists
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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How to Start Using Microservices
28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Humans evolved to be cooperative breeders
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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FAQs regarding Scots Wikipedia controversy
28 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Tesla Driver Watching Movie While Using Autopilot Crashes into Cop Car
28 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Great Courses, Great Profits – A Curriculum in Human Thought
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Make the best of bad reviews by leveraging consumer empathy
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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OpenMath
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Google CTF 2020
28 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
28 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Show HN: Tableau-like Data Visualization library (free), powered by WebAssembly
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Why desktop apps are moving to browser but mobile apps to native?
28 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Google finances Fake News ecosystem
28 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Waiting for Gödel (2016)
28 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Utah and Georgia install tech that lets roads talk
28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company into Literal Garbage
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Tell HN: the word "Niger" (the country) seems blocked in Venmo memos
28 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule Has a Scale Length of 24m
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Ask HN: What was the best project management style you have been a part of?
28 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Show HN: A zero effort social image generator for your website
28 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Postal Service Warns Mail-In Ballots in 46 States May Not Be Delivered in Time
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Microsoft now lets you run Android apps in Windows 10
27 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Wait until you get to picture #30 1875 Howard County Sheriff's House and Jail
27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
27 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Solutions to Mathematics Textbooks
27 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Make Billionaires Pay Act
27 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (2019)
27 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Pedot can make our bodies play nice with implanted electronics
27 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Netflix cancels 'Altered Carbon' after just two seasons
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Facebook Employees Slam Zuckerberg over Militia Groups and QAnon After Kenosha
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Astrobotic's CubeRover program awarded $2M NASA contract
27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance
27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020