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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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‘Quantum secret sharing’ scheme allows 10 parties to communicate securely
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Uber and Lyft Shutting Down in California
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Genode OS Framework 20.08
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other – AIER
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Google Launches Nearby Share for Android
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Nobel Noblemen
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Experian admits to giving a “fraudster” a database with records of 24mln people
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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What Makes Jio Different?
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Airbnb Confidentially Files for IPO
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Scientists see signs of lasting immunity to Covid-19 even after mild infections
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Show HN: I'm building a cloud cost tool for Terraform
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Apple compares Epic Games to shoplifters in bizarre lawsuit response
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Rumor: Pixel 5 is slower than the Pixel 4, has same camera as the Pixel 2
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Atari Transputer Workstation
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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New fossil of a 5-m ichthyosaur contains remains of a 4-m thalattosaur
7 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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The Next Big Language (2007)
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Who invented the wheel and how did they do it
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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A Queer Indigenous Professor Who Died of Covid-19 Didn’t Exist
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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A quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during the pandemic, CDC says
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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TikTok – How the White House Helped U.S. Investors to Raid a Chinese Company
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Show HN: A tool for editing, optimizing and converting SVG files to JSX or PNG
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Back when software was a craft
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Understanding PurpleAir vs. AirNow.gov Measurements of Wood Smoke Pollution
7 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Apple claims Epic asked for a ‘special deal’ for Fortnite payments
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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I got GPT-3 to predict the timeline of the pandemic
7 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Analogies in Product Management
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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War on fat – how I lost 20 kilos by changing my eating habits
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Objective data doesn't go deep enough to engender trust
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Tuscany's medieval 'wine windows' have reopened
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Transparent Public Toilets
7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Matt Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More [pdf]
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Terrorism Experts Say QAnon Conspiracy Theory a Threat to National Security
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Apple Has Reportedly Expressed 'Serious Interest' in Purchasing TikTok
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Trump appointees short-circuited grid modernization
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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MIT's 'Implosion Fabrication' Shrinks Objects to Create Nanoscale Versions
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Woz's 70th Birthday Party (Live)
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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California: Tell Senator That Blockchain-Based Immunity Passports Are a Bad Idea
6 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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The Washington Post Releases U.S. Climate Data on GitHub
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The Wikipedia War over Kamala Harris's Race
6 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Show HN: The Bear minimum – Building a super simple blog with Bear.app
6 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Nigerian ride-hailing bus service startup secures pre-seed investment
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Twitter warns Bitcoin scam security breach could lead to $250M FTC fine
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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US offers $10M bounty on hackers meddling in the presidential election
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to disrupt philanthropy has a race problem
6 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the best pre-launch landing pages you've stumbled upon?
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Interview with TikTok Deep Faker Jesse Richards
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Estimating True Infections
6 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Phone camera-based vital signs monitoring
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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How Academic ‘Blacklists’ Impede Serious Work on Climate Science
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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A Diagnosis (2014)
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Six Tools for Clearer Communication
6 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Twitter Banned Unity2020 – A New Movement
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Why Microsoft Wants TikTok
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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During the pandemic a digital crimewave has flooded the internet
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the fastest distro to boot Raspberry Pi in full screen Chromium?
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The Business of Data
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Why Upgrade PostgreSQL?
6 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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US warplane approaches Shanghai as tensions remain high amid consulate closures
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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New Zealand back into Covid lockdown
6 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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SSH-lockbox: Personal centralised SSH key deployment to multiple boxes (and Git
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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From Russia with Love: How ClickHouse Saved Our Data
6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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In the 75 years since Hiroshima, nuclear testing has killed untold thousands
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Lesson Americans Never Learn
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Apple Suspends Fortnite Maker Epic Games’ App Store Account
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Real-time rendering of water caustics
6 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Bogus pyramids: Learning methods, Maslow and Bloom
6 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Sudon't
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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US Attorney charges against Joseph Sullivan for alleged cover-up of Uber hack
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world
6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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FAA OKs Amazon's Delivery Drone
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Why You're Still Not CEO
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Show HN: ML Model Recognizes Sketch as you draw it
6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The mysterious fairy circles of Namibia
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Facebook Bets Big on Future of NYC, and Offices, with New Lease
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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`content-visibility`: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Century-old vaccine limits Covid spread, so bring it back, urge Israeli experts
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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From Head to Toe in the Ancient Maya World
6 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Economics Is a Disgrace
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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3D printed terra cotta tiles restore devastated coral reefs
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Show HN: One-Shot Recognition of Manufacturing Defects in Steel Surfaces
6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Show HN: bsv – maximum performance data processing
6 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Portmaster
6 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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SpaceX: Starlink satellte production now 120 per month
6 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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VCBrags did one last thing before deleting their account
6 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Show HN: Vs Graphs. Visually compare products and more
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Psychedelic Therapy Raises $30M Needed for FDA Approval
6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore
6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Facebook removes troll network posing as Black Trump supporters
6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Scientists Say Lithium Should Be Added to Drinking Water to Prevent Suicides
6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Ask HN: What kind of profitable business you can create with only $10K USD?
6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Odds of Catching Covid on a Plane Are Slim
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Neuralink Progress Update
6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Three new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond
6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020