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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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.NET 5 Now 'Feature Complete' with Preview 8, Go Live Release Candidates Up Next
24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Free Expression of Professors and Its Prudential Limits
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Stealing local files using Safari Web Share API
24 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Why Epic can’t afford to lose the Unreal Engine in its fight with Apple
24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Charging a MacBook on the Wrong Side Can Significantly Lower Its Performance
24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Capitalism Cancels the Passions
24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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How to politely crawl and analyze 500MM images
24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage
24 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Building GUIs with DearPyGui
24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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The Average New Car Loan Is Now over 70 Months
24 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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California wealth tax could become first of its kind in the U.S.
24 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Universities Attended by CS PhD Students at Stanford (Reddit)
24 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Interviewing the “Passé” Way, For a Reason
24 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Microsoft Introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Donates It to CNCF
24 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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History of software engineering
24 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Show HN: Little Ball of Fur 2.0 – A graph sampling Python library
24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Xkcd: 26-Second Pulse
24 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games
24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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‘This Market Is Nuts’: S&P 500 Hits Record, Defying Economic Devastation
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Aha – Take On Me – but OpenAi Jukebox tries to complete the song
24 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Amazingly realistic Facebook ads slamming the company by a street artist in NYC
24 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The Purpose of Technology
24 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, has died
24 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Vim Adventures – Learn Vim While Playing a Game
24 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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IBM 5160
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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List of games that Buddha would not play
24 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
24 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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750M genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys
24 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Do We Live in a Sick Society?
24 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
24 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source
24 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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NPM Was Down
24 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
24 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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There’s a rule in Russian grammar that every first-grader knows by heart
24 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Cleverer Automata Exist
24 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them
24 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Boeing publicises new name for 737 Max planes after crashes
24 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers
24 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Shelley: macOS menu bar app that runs shell scripts upon authorized HTTP request
24 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Padding Oracles: An Animated Primer
24 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Pseudo-Epidemics: Why COVID-19 is guaranteed to never end
23 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Step-by-Step Centralized Authentication for K8s with Keycloak and Ambassador
23 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Google adds virtual visiting card feature in Search in India
23 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations
23 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Palantir is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto to Denver
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn
23 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Google to partner with BankMobile to offer digital bank accounts
23 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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GNU tar blocking factor, blocks, records and checkpoints
23 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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What It’s Like to Go into Lockdown for the Second Time
23 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Show HN: Script-httpd – Turn command line scripts into web services
23 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ugrep: Faster Fuzzy Interactive Grep
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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NPM Is Down
23 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Show HN: RISC-V disassembler in 200 lines of C
23 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Kubernetes 101
23 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Ultraviolet Hubble Movie
23 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Great Retsina, an Oxymoron No More
23 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Stop using 6-digit iPhone passcodes
23 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Microsoft removes the ability to disable Defender via the registery
23 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Self-driving cars are bullshit
23 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Michigan’s Postal Workers Say the Fix Is In
23 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Show HN: Papercups Support for React Native/Expo
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One he is banning TikTok
23 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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One Million Dollars in Huawei Mobile Services App Innovation Contest
23 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
23 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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We need a full investigation into Siri's surveillance campaign
23 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Homeland Security Is Quietly Tying Antifa to Foreign Powers
23 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Latest Project to Preserve Pompeii Reveals New Treasures
23 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window
23 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Another anti-caste activist arrested in India
23 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Show HN: I Made a Clothing Database
23 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Ask HN: 5K 27“ computer monitor recommendation?
23 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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“The Edge of Chaos” (2017)
23 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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All signs point to herd immunity happening in parts of the U.S.
23 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Cannonball Record Broken: 25 Hours, 39 Minutes from NYC to LA
23 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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TAWS – The Amiga Workbench Simulation
23 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services
23 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Stuck with Pound
23 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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US homeland security surveilling journalists covering Portland protests
23 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Lockdown 'killed two people for every three who died of coronavirus' at peak
23 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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CalREDIE under-reporting all California Covid-19 cases for past “few weeks”
23 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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C's 'while' is spelled 'for' in Go
23 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Teen Has Filled the Scots Wikipedia with Thousands of Fake Translations
23 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Windows 10 turns thumbs down on CCleaner
23 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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‘It was me. I know it was me.’
23 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The health care scare
23 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel
22 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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On Ethics in Software with the Authors of “The Pragmatic Programmer”
22 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: kubectl-flame – Effortless profiling on Kubernetes
22 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Tell HN: I got banned from Twitter for literally no reason
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Microsoft 365 will drop support for Internet Explorer 11 next year
22 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: AppleBot – Automate Things in Apple Dev Portal
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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The structure of KDE, or how anarchy sometimes works
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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95% of Programming Isn’t Hard
22 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Alice in Wonderland and the theft of the public domain
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: A bunch of simple SaaS calculators
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Twilight of the Imperial Chef
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Joxa: A concurrent, distributed Lisp for the Erlang VM
22 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Domain Squatters Are the Scum of the Earth
22 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see (2015)
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2020