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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Stop Panicking about the Post Office
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Bill Gates advocates for stopping end-to-end encryption
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The neuroscience of getting and staying motivated (EPFL)
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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How will the world vaccinate seven billion?
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The Rise of Chick-Fil-A
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who cant speak Scots
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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300k cargo ship workers still trapped at sea by the coronavirus pandemic
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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I Invented the iPhone in 1977
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Penguin’s Moonlit Maze – The Dawn of Nation-State Digital Espionage (2017) [pdf]
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Mozilla extends Firefox search deal with Google
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your strategy to handle recruiters asking for salary?
15 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Git Guide: Zero to Rebase
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities in the US
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How Much Do Countries Spend on Healthcare Compared to the Military?
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Trump demands cut of TikTok sale fee
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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We Can Do Better Than SQL (2019)
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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A Tech Star Blackmailed
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Parsing: A Timeline (2014)
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Eviction Moratorium Poses Nightmare Scenario for Small Landlord
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Costco's brilliant, contrarian and successful business model highlights
15 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. This grad student solved it in days
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Considerations for Updating the Bootloader Over-the-Air (OTA)
15 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Uchronia: An Alternate History List
14 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: A device I built to improve my sleep
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Amazon launches Braket quantum computing service in general availability
14 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Docker install and upgrade guide – CentOS and Ubuntu
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders at All
14 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Luminar to go public in $3.4B merger
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Dené–Yeniseian Languages
14 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The phone that almost ruined my social life
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Hacktoberfest 2020! Yay!
14 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Facebook is now merging instagram and messenger chats into one service
14 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Musk: ‘China rocks’ while the U.S. is full of ‘complacency and entitlement’
14 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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New York Attorney General seeks to dissolve NRA
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Fed Unanimously Approves Shift on Inflation Goal, Ushering in Era of Low Rates
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Knurling-Rs Announcement
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem
14 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Joel Test for Software Teams is 20 years old this weekend
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Chenjiandongx/oscar: Next generation building tool for nothing
14 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Trump Considering Ban on Alibaba
14 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Locals rediscover resorts absent of foreign tourists
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Fascism is back. Blame the Internet
14 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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The Linux Foundation in 2020 Helps Serial GPL Violators Get Away with It
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Advice for Dealing with Crippling Procrastination?
14 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they cause
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Bridges 2020 Virtual Conference
14 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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‘Zoom is fine, but it can’t match being back in the office’
14 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Show HN: Auto Generate REST API Client from Flask
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Epic Games introduces direct payments on iOS (routing around iOS store payments)
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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A network-based explanation of why most Covid-19 infection curves are linear
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Nepalese journalist who reported on Chinese encroachment in Nepal found dead
14 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks
14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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China’s Dangerous Taiwan Temptation
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A majority of Americans think social media sites are politically biased
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Ask HN: Why is Enterprise software UX so bad compared to Consumer Software?
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Exxon Mobil replaced by a software stock after 92 years in the Dow
14 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal
14 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Newly declassified footage of the most powerful nuclear test ever
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Children with no Covid-19 symptoms may shed virus for weeks
14 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Republicans Aid Kanye West’s Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Don't Name Classes After Patterns. Mostly
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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The “Full Stack Professor” Who Left Academia for the Internet
14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Pataphysical Software: Ridiculous Solutions for Imaginary Problems [pdf]
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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The daydream that never stops (2017)
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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U.S. Tech Stocks Are Now Worth Over $9T, Eclipsing Entire European Stock Market
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Trinity Cube (2015)
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Jeff Bezos Becomes the First Person Ever Worth $200B
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Rust-Style Futures in C
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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101 GDPR Complaints on EU-US data transfers filed
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Judge Agrees to End Paramount Consent Decrees
14 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The Dreamup: A codeless alternative to the Web
14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Tesla fights back against owners hacking their cars to unlock performance boost
14 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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A Year of 379 Computer Days
14 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Amazon Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple over App Store Terms
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Trump banning TikTok/WeChat from operating in 45 days if not sold by companies
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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(Visualization)What caused 1 Million U.S. wildfires over the last 30 years?
13 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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'Everybody’s entitled to their opinion – but not their own facts'
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Engineers: Introduction
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Why it's so hard to find dumbbells in the US
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Amazon Wins FAA Approval for Drone Fleet
13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Train PyTorch models with differential privacy
13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Google has lost sight of what made Chrome a good browser
13 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Burning laptops and flooded homes: Courts find Amazon liable for faulty products
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Convicted of On-Line Sex Crimes, but with No Victims
13 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis
13 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The challenges of hydrogen for airliners, part 2: ecosystem
13 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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235M Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Users Exposed in Data Leak
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The Peloponnesian War officially ended in 1996
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Modelling Business Logic as Data
13 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Apple: We Won’t Make an Exception (Fortnite)
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Israel military detects 6 blasts, each 11 seconds apart, before Beirut explosion
13 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Covid-19 signals the end of the American era
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: Sizle.io – React Presentation Builder
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2020