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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Millennials Slammed by Second Financial Crisis Fall Even Further Behind
18 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How Moving to Work Remotely Could Affect Your Taxes
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Dealing with monitoring software on work computers and transparency
18 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own
18 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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YouTube please stop showing me Trump ads
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Show HN: Own Private Online CV Website
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Useful Inequalities Cheat Sheet
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Intel's internal blueprints – 20GB of source code, specs – spill onto internet
18 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Uber and Lyft’s Business Model May Be Dead. Good
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Amazon wants to use delivery drones to surveil your house
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots
18 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Tarpn: Terrestrial Amateur Radio Packet Network
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Accused Spy Peter Debbins Evidently Beat the Polygraph to Penetrate the NSA, DIA
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Gitea: Open-source(MIT) self-hosted Git service
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Free Software
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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W3C give up on preventing PWAs from tracking users
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Leadership Development Is a $366B Industry: Most Programs Don't Work
18 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Show HN: Kafka Sprout – Web GUI for Your Kafka Clusters
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Why Reddit's New Website Is So Slow?
18 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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TikTok and the Great Firewall of America
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Why PostgreSQL 13 is a Lucky Release
18 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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The Open-Office Trap (2014)
18 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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President Trump announces to reporters that he’s banning TikTok
18 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Ketamine’s promise as antidepressant is being undermined by its lack of profit
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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USPS patent for reliable blockchain voting system
18 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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JSON Feed Version 1.1
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Warren Buffett: America's Folksiest Predator
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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I Sold My Entire Investment Portfolio One Hour Ago
18 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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What Truths Can You Divine from Instagram Paintings?
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Women Would Abolish Child Labor (and Other Anti-Suffrage Excuses)
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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TikTok and WeChat Expose Big Tech’s Lack of Innovation
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Labor of Division (2010)
18 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Best SciFi, Algorithmically Ranked
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Swiss town that taxes its wealthy without scaring them away
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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DevOps, DataOps, and MLOps: the three waves of operationalization
18 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: Newsboard – A Hacker News Clone
18 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: NudeNet – Nudity classification and exposed part detection in images
18 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Students are returning to US universities in a unplanned pandemic experiment
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Lilly Wachowski confirms 'Matrix' series is a transgender allegory
18 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Game Archaeologist Discovers the Island of Kesmai (2012)
18 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Why Mozilla's layoffs and Google deal made me rethink my browser of choice
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Tor 0day: Burning Bridges
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuak
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Townscaper
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Sputnik V – The First Registered Covid-19 Vaccine
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Trump Signs Executive Order Giving ByteDance 90 Days to Sell US TikTok Business
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Writing better Code (extension to Joel's 12 steps to better Code)
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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109 Year-old IBM is planning to take on Amazon. Here's how
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Cloud cost estimates in pull requests
17 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. This grad student solved it in days
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Run Rust on your embedded device from VSCode in one click
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Neoliberalism and the End of Democracy [pdf]
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s morning routine: Wake up 5am and ‘read tons of stuff’
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Adam Shostack on Threat Modeling [audio]
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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A thread on the disaster that is Star Citizen
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Why are true and false so large?
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Study: Experiencing Childhood Trauma Makes Body and Brain Age Faster
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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WorldWideWeb – Executive Summary – Tim Berners-Lee
17 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Micron Confirms RTX 3090, Will Have over 1 TB/S GDDR6X Bandwidth
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Keep Up: The first book written by an AI
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Kenosha Militia FB Event Asking Attendees to Bring Weapons Reported 455 Times
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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I'm shocked how hard it is to generate positive text about Muslims from GPT-3
17 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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I’m a Nurse in New York. Teachers Should Do Their Jobs, Just Like I Did
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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We need a full investigation into Siri's surveillance campaign
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Why does Google wants to be your bank?
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Has Elon Musk's Tesla already won?
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Salesforce Fires 1k on Day Its Stock Soars to All Time High
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Justice Department Finds Yale Discriminated Based on Race in UndergradAdmissions
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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UC Berkeley boosts Latino admissions by 40% in one year
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines may prevent herd immunity
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Show HN: SuperFan Studio – Canva for AR, a no-code tool to create AR
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ask HN: What do you use for SSH key management of teams?
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Edward Snowden: Trump says he will consider pardon for whistleblower
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Discovering over 13M leaked records from unsecured Firebase Databases
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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US health insurers doubled profits in second quarter amid pandemic
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Moin
17 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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A 393-years old Greenland Shark is the oldest living vertebrate known
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Trump's favorite tech company could win TikTok
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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These are all of the Color E INK e-Readers from 2020
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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JavaScript Face Detection and Recognition Libraries 2020
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Twitter temporarily bans Donald Trump from tweeting
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Joe Rogan Experience #1309 – Naval Ravikant (2019) [video]
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Microsoft to Stop Supporting Office 2016 for Mac in October
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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I've worn Alexa-enabled glasses for two weeks. They're driving me bananas
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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I captured an 85 megapixel photo of our moon last night
17 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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1+2=800% CPU usage on Catalina Spotlight calculator
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Moms swarmed, handcuffed by armed Secret Service officers in front of children
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Your calendar should be a whitelist, not a blacklist
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Vicar – Multi-dimensional image processing software
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Moments of Attention
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Encouraging News About Coronavirus Immunity
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Mutation Testing: A Tale of Two Suites
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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A college student used GPT-3, wrote fake blogposts and ended up at the top of HN
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Harry Potter with Guns
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020