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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Ask HN: What Alternative to StackOverflow?
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The Haunted House – Privacy on Google Street View
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom – Ted Chiang
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Charty for WhatsApp – Visualize WhatsApp chats
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Coca-Cola Using Hyperledger and Ethereum
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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British Airways Entertainment System Chat App Crash (2019)
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Salesforce Notifies Some Staff of Job Cuts
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Some People Get Covid-19 and Never Feel a Thing: Why?
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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What if everyone had an air-mile allowance?
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Fortnite Introduces Direct Payment Option on iOS Despite AppStore Guidelines
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Paul Buchheit: A Possible Third Solution to End the Pandemic
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Beyond jsonb: a generalized, unstructured data type for Postgres
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: The Tree Table is a portable table that mounts on a tree's trunk.
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results
16 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The Life-Saving Car Technology No One Wants
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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A brief introduction to observational entropy
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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I Got Covid-19 in March and Never Got Better
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Zuckerberg Denounces Apple's Monopolistic “Stranglehold” on Your iPhone
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Jobs to Be Done Framework Is More Useful Than Personas
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Show HN: DrugSheet – Keep up with the clinical trials on Covid-19
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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NYC desperately needs its billionaires
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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New Trump Rule Could Create ‘Bomb Trains,’ Environmentalists Say
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: Unicorn Valley-Platform for crowdsourcing satirical/dumb startup ideas
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Supply chain analysis of iPhone 5c cases and the pencil marks hidden inside them
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Wave Function Collapse in Clojure
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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World’s first COVID19 reinfected patient
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Rust-Style Futures in C
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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N.Y. Schools Can Reopen, Cuomo Says, in Contrast with Much of U.S.
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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The Disaster Poet
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Facebook Bans Anarchist “Center for a Stateless Society”
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Let’s do Befunge-93 (2014)
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Netflix, Accused of Sexualizing Girls, Pulls Artwork for ‘Cuties’
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Apple threatens to boot Epic–including Unreal Engine–off Mac and iOS
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Create unique long URL's out of A's
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Be in Trouble (2012)
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Literary Machines (1987) [pdf]
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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How Nat Traversal Works
16 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Tools You Should Know as a Cybersecurity Engineer
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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U.S. to Act on China Software Beyond TikTok, Pompeo Says
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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New York Times ordered 59M publishing assets on a laptop using Go
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Japan plans new coal powerplants
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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America Never Learns the Limits of Bootstrapping
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Fortnite Creator Sues Apple and Google After Ban from App Stores
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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QAnon Was a Theory on a Message Board. Now It’s Headed to Congress
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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TSMC to build 2nm fab in Hsinchu
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Chadwick Boseman, star of ‘Black Panther’, dies of cancer at 43
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Average Power: A Cautionary Note [pdf]
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: How can we solve politics?
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Show HN: Kiel – Minimalist Kotlin DSL for RecyclerView.Adapter
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Facebook is not worth $33B (2010)
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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F.lux is no longer available here (2015)
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Berlin reports rise in fatalities as new bike lanes fail to keep cyclists safe
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Researchers have invented a new way to thwart facial recognition
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Ergodicity Economics: A Primer
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Show HN: Avatarz – A Library of 3D Avatars
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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RFC 188, by Damian Conway: Objects: Private keys and methods
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Dynamic branch prediction using neural networks (2001)
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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How to Pick a Quack: Data
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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No Bathroom Relief in Sight for Thousands Living on the Street
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Interactive Visualizations of Why Eigenvectors Matter
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Show HN: I built a mini Social Blade on top of Google Sheets
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – user data
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Browse the Web with Your Voice
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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High-resolution electromagnetic calorimetry with noble liquids (1998)
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Dijkstra on Haskell
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Japan Is Running Diagnostic Tests on Its First Real Gundam
15 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Richard Stallman: A Discussion on Freedom, Privacy and Cryptocurrencies
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Palantir targeting 3 class voting structure giving founders perpetual control
15 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Understand HTTP3 in 5 Minutes
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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A student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of HN
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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TikTok Chief Executive Kevin Mayer Resigns
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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We Failed with ProductHunt Launch
15 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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“We want Google to be the third half of your brain.” – Sergey Brin
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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How to get police out of schools
15 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Why not RocksDB for streaming storage?
15 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Linux Commands frequently used by Sysadmins – Part 2
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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The Truth about Vaccines
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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NYC is dead forever – here's why
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Software engineering lessons from the flight deck
15 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Dating App Scams
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Top Biofuel Crops
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech
15 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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MicroCOVID Project, Micromorts but for Covid
15 points • comment • aug 30, 2020