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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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How Italy Turned Around Its Coronavirus Calamity
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Ongoing Challenges in Computer Science
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Why You Should Stop Using Google Analytics on Your Web Site
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Explosion rocks Beirut, injuring thousands across Lebanese capital
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Paul Graham's response to AOC's “The working class does not need billionaires.”
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Culture-Bound Syndrome
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Ask HN: What's a climate change organization you would recommend donating to?
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Why Microsoft's new Flight Simulator should make Google and Amazon nervous
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Powers of Ten (1977)
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl’s Radiation Free
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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After the city of LA released 31% of its prison population, crime did not spike
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Enola Holmes sued due to giving Sherlock “copyrighted” emotions
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Indications that gene editing could undo ageing
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Mercedes Barcha, 1932-2020
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Controllable Video Sprites That Behave and Appear Like Tennis Players
10 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Trans-Planetary Subway Systems (1978)
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Statistics 110: Probability (35 lectures)
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Show HN: A minimal stack based VM in C
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to IDs
10 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?
10 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Call of Duty Trailer Replaced Worldwide over Tiananmen Square Footage
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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How the Pandemic Defeated America
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Listening to Silence: Why We Must Protect the World’s Quiet Places
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself?
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Twitter rolling out reply-limiting feature to all users
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Microsoft cuts xCloud iOS testing early
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Almost Too Good to Be True: Health Insurance for $149/Month, Zero Deductible
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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GaryVee Is Still Preaching the Hustle Gospel in the Middle of a Pandemic
10 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Dividing 1 by 998,001
10 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Notepad++ Banned in China
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you manage backup 2FA codes?
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Beating the bookies with their own numbers
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Microsoft Flight Simulator players observed Hurricane Laura in real-time
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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One in Three Americans Would Not Get Covid-19 Vaccine
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Not just antibodies: B cells and T cells mediate immunity to Covid-19
10 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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The case for banning gold mining
10 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Hottest temperature on Earth recorded in Death Valley
10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: Omg-Curry – JavaScript currying library
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Trump Is Hobbling the Mail the Old-Fashioned Way
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Workers Join Belarus Protests, as Leader’s Base Turns Against Him
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Democracy for Sale
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Google accused of retaliation against app maker over antitrust investigation
10 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Question: What is the best way to prepare for a Belarus-style internet attack?
10 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Transgender in Iran
10 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Finnish Education Chief: 'We Created a School System Based on Equality' (2014)
10 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Who Owns Huawei?
10 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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A brief introduction to definite clause grammars (2004)
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Entire cities could fit inside the moon's monstrous lava tubes
10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Myriam Sarachik Never Gave Up on Physics
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Tell HN: A Thanks to the Mods
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Do We Have to Talk About TikTok Key Money?
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The Internet explained from first principles
10 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD
10 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: A CSS file that reshapes the web
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Bill Gates Calls Microsoft's TikTok Deal a Poisoned Chalice
10 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Goes Alpha
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Pentagon to launch task force to investigate UFO sightings
10 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Google Analytics?
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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I didn't think I'd survive: women tell of hidden sexual abuse by Phoenix police
10 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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How Josh Kaufman Does Research
10 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Mutual fund winners don’t stay ahead for long
10 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Twitter to begin labeling 'state-affiliated media outlets'
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Sales Engineer – Experiences
10 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: Session–a pomodoro timer app with beautiful analytics
10 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Deep Learning for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
10 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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20GB Leak of Intel Data
10 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Should Blackmail Be Legal?
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Greed may be good when it comes to solar power
10 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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‘Mulan’ is coming to Disney+ on September 4, for an additional price of $29.99
10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Joe Biden's mysteriously disappearing “Dislikes” on YouTube
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Fortnite developer Epic takes aim at Apple
10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: Shieldon 2.0 Released Today
10 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Triller sues TikTok over patent infringement
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory. Here Is What We Learned
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Mass Exodus of SF
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Using deep learning to detect coronary artery disease based on facial photo
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Tesla’s made-in-China cars lead market in quality while US-mad cars score lowest
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Facebook is a 'parallel universe' of minisformation to deliver election to Trump
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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How to Undo Gender Stereotypes in Math
9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Profitably Unemployed
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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How much you suck as an engineer = 1/(sum(len(n) for n in Nv)/len(Nv))
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Earthquake detection and early alerts, now on your Android phone
9 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Show HN: Treenee, a simple “decision tree” engine
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Show HN: Free to use static generated landing page template for your mobile app
9 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Algorithmic adjustment of grades causes chaos in UK exam system
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Proof of X
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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U.S. Flood Strategy Shifts to ‘Unavoidable’ Relocation of Entire Neighborhoods
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What knowledge or skills do you hope your kids to have?
9 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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A Princess Is Making Google Forget Her Drunken Rant About Killing Muslims
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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An Indian doctor who is in Jail for 6 months for protesting against govt
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence Course
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Blue Box – Officially Woz
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2020