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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
375 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip
375 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy
372 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918
369 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Response to Google open letter
368 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
368 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
368 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google
367 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
363 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation
361 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD
359 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Emacs 27.1
359 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule
358 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Karpathy's MinGPT
358 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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GPU Accelerated JavaScript
358 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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An Update on MDN Web Docs
357 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis
357 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
357 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Why is America stuck with bad headlights?
357 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal
352 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever
352 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
351 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Docker to rate limit image pulls
350 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
348 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
348 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
347 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
347 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Death of Corporate Research Labs
347 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
346 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
346 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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That coworker who never stops refactoring
346 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
346 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors
346 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931
345 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Patrick Collison's Questions
345 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Briar Project
344 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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The Clean Network – United States Department of State
344 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Architecture of the Nintendo DS
344 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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NSA Owns Everything (2015)
344 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
343 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’
343 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference
343 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface
342 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
342 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
342 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
342 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
341 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Hacking Portable Air Conditioners
341 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)
341 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
341 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
340 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?
340 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government
339 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
339 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Citibank's $900M Blunder
338 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
338 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
338 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Life Is Short (2016)
337 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all
337 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
336 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says
334 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
333 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
333 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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27-inch iMac gets a major update
331 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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MicroPython
331 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017)
330 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
329 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
329 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Django 3.1
328 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
328 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
327 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home
326 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Mutt email client 25 years old
324 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
324 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Creating a QR Code step by step
323 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
322 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
320 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
320 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902
320 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip
319 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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New Racket Language Website
319 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3
319 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
318 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps
317 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up
317 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)
317 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Write Your Own Virtual Machine
315 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
314 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
314 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea
314 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year
314 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat
314 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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macOS Security and Privacy Guide
313 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Air pollution is worse than we thought
312 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
312 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern
312 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children
308 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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D3 6.0
308 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder
307 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company
306 points • comment • aug 18, 2020