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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Libretro/RetroArch – Hacker vandalised buildbot and GitHub organization
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Self-charging, thousand-year battery
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Balaji Srinivasan's plan to save journalism
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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8 Tips for Attending Virtual Conferences
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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What3words: The app that can save your life
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Star Trek DS9's Take on Homelessness Is All Too Real
11 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (2019)
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Did Fortnite just kill the App Store as we know it?
11 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Yield Curve
11 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Reports: “4K” Nintendo Switch revision slated for 2021 launch
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Charter can charge online video sites for network connections, court rules
11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Strange Rhythms: On Rosemary Mayer’s 1971 diary
11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Exxon Mobil dropped from the Dow after 92 years, replaced by a software stock
11 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Clearview AI CEO: ‘over 2,400 police agencies’ are using its facial recognition
11 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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OneCoin Took in Billions. Then Its Leader Vanished
11 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Nascar: The Science of Racing Safely
11 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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FDA ‘Grossly Misrepresented’ Blood Plasma Data, Scientists Say
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Subdomain hack associated with a removed S3 bucket
11 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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TypeScript adds support for Template String types
11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Spaceship Earth
11 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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The Least Liked Programming Languages
11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Easy Trick to Reduce APK Size on Android
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The Decolonial Atlas
11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Teams
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Python daemon ate my syslog message
11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with Covid-19 containment measures
11 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability
11 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Gmail Down/Degraded Performance
11 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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A documentation system: tutorials / How tos / reference / explanation
11 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Ongoing incident with compromised mod accounts
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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WordPress claims Apple cut off updates to its free app because it wants 30%
11 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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AMA with the Creator of Photopea
11 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Hands-On WebAssembly: Try the Basics
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament
11 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Ask HN: What're the advantages of becoming an Apache project?
11 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI?
11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Performance Impact of Parallel Disk Access
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Good Sales Emails by leading SaaS companies (100 great examples)
11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: Qew – a tiny queueing library written in TypeScript
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Sumo Logic S-1
11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Not a Monopoly
11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store
11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Red: Improving Audio Quality with Redundancy
11 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Word Mover's Embedding: Cheap WMD For Documents
11 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Epic Games just set an antitrust trap for Apple; Tim Cook walked right into it
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Terminal Jockey's Toolbelt
11 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Did obtaining an AWS Solutions Architect certification help you?
11 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Virgin Galactic reveals initial vehicle design for high speed travel
11 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Secret iPod
11 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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USPS warns 46 states voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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My Favorite Robots
11 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The Matrix Was Intended to Be a Trans Story, Says Lilly Wachowski
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Facebook Quietly Ends Racial Ad Profiling – Revue
11 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Psychology, Price and Profit
11 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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San Francisco flattened the curve early. Now, coronavirus cases are surging
11 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Arm rival SiFive raises $60M from SK Hynix, Aramco
11 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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First ever double hurricane could hit the Gulf of Mexico
11 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Machines
11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: Code Golf – Solve problems in the least number of characters
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Texas Luring Jobs Away from California with Promises of Electricity
11 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Byteconf Flutter, a free live-streamed Flutter conference
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic pain
11 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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LibreSSL Documentation Status Update
11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Cultural Revolution
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Election Cybersecurity: Preparing for the 2020 U.S. Elections
11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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A Bayesian Shops on Amazon
11 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Swift type checking is undecidable
11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Charles Sanders Peirce and the first absolute measurement standard (2009)
11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. (2018)
11 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The CDC's Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers
11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Patient-Led Research for Covid-19
11 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Trump executive order seeks to ban TikTok and WeChat in 45 days
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Categories of Optics (2018)
11 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Comment Flagging on HN as of Late
11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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How to (Actually) Change Someone’s Mind
11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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S&P 500 Sets First Record Since February, Erasing Its Coronavirus Plunge
10 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Open Amiga Sampler – New Amiga Hardware Announcement
10 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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A Future Without Aging with Aubrey de Gray
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Experimental evidence supportive of the quantum DNA model
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Ask HN: With Mozilla’s problems, should I be concerned about the future of Rust?
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Is the White House Banning Fortnite and League of Legends?
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Where are you moving to? (US only)
10 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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I want to contribute to your project, how do I start?
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Most Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Iranian hacker group becomes first known APT to weaponize DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom (2016)
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Chinese hackers have (allegedly) stolen Taiwan's chip designs, SDKs and source
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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In a flash, a changed world
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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What to pack in your evacuation bag
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Introduction to Terraform
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Why Linux’s biggest ever kernel release is no big deal
10 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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How (Not) to Code a Finite State Machine (1988) [pdf]
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Why Are So Many People on Capitol Hill Getting Infected?
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Apple cuts off Wordpress app to get a cut of domain sales
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Show HN: I built a simple, reliable, and affordable brand monitoring service
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Libretro: “Our GitHub Libretro organization just got hacked”
10 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Why is daily or n * daily deployment so popular?
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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The No-Money-Down Million Dollar Tech Stack
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020