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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Death of a Forgotten Anomaly
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: 33% Memory Reduction by Reordering Struct Fields
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Martin Fowler – Kinesis Advantage2 – Review after three years of use
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to your side projects?
13 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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A Princess makes Google remove ~200 links to her rant about killing muslims
13 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Automated mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer’s apps
13 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Trump accuses 'deep state' FDA of slowing vaccine development
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Amazon given go ahead to launch thousands of satellites
13 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Show HN: Vigyaa Anonymous – A safe place to write and read anonymously
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Show HN: UberCheats: a Chrome Extension to detect if UberEats is underpaying you
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Are companies averse to hiring remote developers from the Bay Area?
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Female-led countries had half as many Covid deaths as those with male leaders
13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Popular fertility app shared data without user consent, researchers say
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The Absurd (Lack of) Support for Android Developers
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Apple threatens to cutoff all Epic iOS and Mac developer accounts [pdf]
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: Melancholy Corner – an online vaporwave/lo-fi radio station
13 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Police Want Your Smart Speaker–Here's Why
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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TikTok owners will relocate to London from Beijing, Sun newspaper says
13 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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A data science approach to 138 years of congressional speeches
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Two Strains of Polio Down, One to Go
13 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Turnitin and the Debate over Anti-Plagiarism Software (2014)
13 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Why do humans prefer to mate in private?
13 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Dissuading Voting
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Show HN: Guestboard 2.0 – Our Alternative to FB Events – Now with Video Chat
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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German Court Suspends Driver for Adjusting Wiper Speed in Tesla Model 3
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Overcoming Burnout / Imposter Syndrome
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Jack: $10M to Dr. Ibram Kendi and the Center for Antiracist Research at BU
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Reclaiming Becket: London’s great saint needs a reboot
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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You Could Download Video Games from the Radio in the 1980s
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Samsung 870 QVO SATA 2.5“ SSD 8TB
13 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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The Case for Adding 672M More Americans
13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car–driver admits he was watching a movie
13 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Gayl Jones is releasing her first novel in two decades
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Why People Become Internet Trolls
13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Huawei: 5G Is About Capacity, Not Speed: One-on-one with CTO Paul Scanlan
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Overcast’s latest beta update tells listeners which podcasts are tracking them
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Japanese Wonder Weapons
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Linus Torvalds: “I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry” (2018)
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Helping people spot the spoofs: a URL experiment
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Putin says Russia has approved 'world first' Covid-19 vaccine
12 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Lean HTTP Server for Gleam
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Insurers are putting the lives of sick and disabled at risk during COVID-19
12 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn't Be
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Intel defends AVX-512 against critics who wish it to die a 'painful death'
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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South China Morning Post – WeChat to Be Banned in US
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Standing on the outside looking in: X-rays through glass
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Threat to kill wild boar that stole nude bather's laptop prompts outcry
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car–driver admits he was watching a movie
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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The Seduction of Bad Posts
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The Rank Hypocrisy of a TikTok Ban
12 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Bangalore Becomes 'Bengaluru' (2014)
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Tackling Cancer Metastasis with Engineered Blood Platelets
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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GPT3 → Dataset → Task Model?
12 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Joy of Cryptography
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Show HN: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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BMW's New Diamond Motorcycle Chain Never Needs Lube or Adjustment
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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APL is more French than English (1978)
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Book Summary: Why Nations Fail – Understanding why countries are rich or poor
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The Early History of Smalltalk
12 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Chemists efficiently synthesize natural anti-cancer compound cepafungin I
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Google Play Music will begin shutting down in September
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Why Peat-Free Gardening Is Essential for the Environment
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Judging a Book by Its Cover: Protecting words, now and then
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Apple lets China's WeChat bypass its rules, former app review chief claims
12 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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A simple telephony honeypot received 1.5M robocalls across 11 months
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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California under counted Covid-19 cases after TLS certificate expired
12 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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WireGuide VPN Protocol
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Microsoft "mirrors" Android apps into Windows 10 with new Your Phone update
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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How Apple is bullying small developers
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you start getting into VC?
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be
12 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Git Sucks, What Am I Doing Wrong?
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Facebook Grants Researchers Access to Study 2020 Election
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Show HN: Founderpath – Raise $10k-$1m in 72 hours, free revenue analytics
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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How to learn higher math: An illustrated guide
12 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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NSF grant changes raise alarm about commitment to basic research
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Sold any support contracts for open source?
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Subtle Tricks Shopping Sites Use to Make You Spend More
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Paper Money with an Expiration Date
12 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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I wrote a technical book in under 200 hours
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Let's not forget, Bill Gates hasn't always been the good guy
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Don’t reconnect mailing machines, USPS tells plants. Tacoma does it anyway
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Show HN: Transient – A tool for creating VMs for testing and development
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Fairphone users can buy new camera without replacing the phone itself
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Facebook Abandoned Drilling Equipment Beneath the Ocean Floor
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Manage Active Directory Objects with the New Windows Ad Provider for Terraform
12 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Is this the best collection of Halo games yet?
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Where do Business Mafias come from?
12 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Debunking reports claiming Covid-19 definitely wasn’t made in a lab
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Artificial Stupidity
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020