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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Jay Z, Charles Schwab-Backed Ethereum App Opens Doors to Public
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Notepad++ banned in China after “Stand with Hong Kong” update
20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Apple Takes Legal Action Against Small Company For Using a Pear Logo
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state
20 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Making Navigation Work (2017)
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Detection of Rapidly Growing Informal Settlements
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4B SPAC merger
20 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences
20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Builders who will thrive in the new world
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Neurophilosopher argues morality is rooted in brain science, not reason
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Citigroup clerical error of $900M; a beneficiary refuses to hand back $175M
20 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Hardware interrupts with Ben Eater [video]
20 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors
20 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Who do I trust and why? Digital Ocean, Google Chrome and Motion Sensors
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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SpaceX: Musk's 'Mars ship' prototype aces 150m test flight
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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An Argument for Race Abolitionism (2020)
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Thriverism
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Canada Is Allowing Dying People to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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2000 Year Old Analog Computer - Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Single-family housing in the Bay Area linked to more racially segregated cities
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Are you planning to leave big cities?
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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U.S. Department of Energy Unveils Blueprint for the Quantum Internet
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
20 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Why do Covid fatalities remain low when infection numbers are rising?
20 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Masks Do More Than Protect Others: Reducing the Inoculum to Protect Wearers
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91
20 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Compiler numbers, and why they don't matter
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Why Tokyo’s New Transparent Public Restrooms Are a Stroke of Genius
20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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2020: An Isolation Odyssey
20 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT (2016) [video]
20 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The danger from climate change no longer outweighs risks of nuclear accidents
19 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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‘AeroNabs’ Promise Powerful, Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Bitwarden Announces Integrated Password Security with Identity-Based SSO
19 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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A Lesson in Acceptance
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Uber and Lyft granted an emergency stay
19 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Idris: A Language for Type-Driven Development
19 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Smooth teleoperator: The rise of the remote controller
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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George Hotz: “Tesla's Going to Win Level 5” Vehicle Automation
19 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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In alarming move, CDC says people exposed to Covid-19 do not need testing
19 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Oral Histories
19 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Game engines are basically eating the world
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’
19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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CCP Uses 'Friendship Groups' to Infiltrate and Divide Europe
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Secret Service sought tactical aircraft to protect White House in May
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal
19 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Excuse Me for Being an Optimist in “The End Times” of Our Current World
19 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Former Cisco engineer pleads guilty to causing Webex account chaos
19 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Is Joe Rogan right about young men and video games?
19 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Computability in Linear Algebra (2004)
19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Are bread riots coming to America?
19 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The information catastrophe
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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‘He’s Destroyed Conservatism’: The Republican Case Against Trump’s GOP
19 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy in Platform
19 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Freelance Legal Help
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Why Australia buried 23 F-111s after the aircraft’s retirement
19 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree
19 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How the Pandemic Defeated America
19 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Apple says Epic is ‘putting the entire App Store model at risk’
19 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Using MicroCOVIDs to Quantify Your Covid Risk
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Quotes from Moral Mazes (2019)
19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians [pdf]
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Innovators are shaping Africa’s ‘informal economy’
19 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
19 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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With $16bn in cryptocurrency, Ripple attempts a reset
19 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Chadwick Boseman has died at 43
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Tim Cook's Style of Leadership
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Canada Is Allowing Dying People to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms
19 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Why not give unpaid leaves?
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Trump issues executive orders with effective bans of TikTok, WeChat
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Gimp project gets $68.34 monthly
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Paradox of Tolerance
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Unsporting scandium (2014)
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Elon Musk Gets Approval to Tunnel Expansion Beneath Las Vegas
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Taking my home work setup seriously: ergonomics and setting in for the long haul
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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YouTube announces it'll no longer allow videos containing "hacked information"
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Rust 1.45.2
18 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Trump issues executive orders against ByteDance and WeChat
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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‘Enforcement’ Coming at Ocean Beach Park Where Weekly Drum Circle Crowds Gather
18 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: Download Free Hi-Res Art, Posters and Illustrations
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Tor 0day: Replying to the Tor Project
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Satellite Images Show Wakashio Being Towed Toward Antarctica as Mystery Deepens
18 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The Illusion of Control in Web Design (2018)
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The Key to Understanding Vladimir Putin
18 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Tesla and FBI prevented $1M ransomware hack
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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FSF Heroes
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Trump: Microsoft should pay ‘key money’ to Treasury for facilitating TikTok deal
18 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Immortal Beloved (1812)
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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YouTube auto-playing unmuted Trump ad on main page
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of “Black Panther,” dies at 43
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Microsoft backs Epic against Apple in legal fight over Unreal Engine on iOS
18 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Vitamin C levels in patients with SARS-CoV-2-associated ARDS
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What helps you push through?
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Canada to Silicon Valley’s international talent: ‘We want you’
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020