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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving
305 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business
305 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore
304 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
302 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
301 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
300 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
300 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious
299 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish
299 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers
298 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
298 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Compiler Explorer
298 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Autodesk criticised by architects
298 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users
298 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
298 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams
297 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
296 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra
296 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)
296 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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On All That Fuckery
295 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
294 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk
293 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript
293 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
293 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers
293 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad
292 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission?
291 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets
289 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets
289 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle
288 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden
288 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Low latency tuning guide
287 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students
286 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
286 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
286 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light
286 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative
284 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
284 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership
283 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
283 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Raise Less Money
283 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Motivation – Keli Language
283 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver
282 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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College Notebook of Isaac Newton
281 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019
281 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports
280 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML
279 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF
279 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition
279 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
278 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
278 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Graphical Linear Algebra
277 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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People work longer and different hours under lockdown
276 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader
276 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone
276 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
274 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Oh Shit, Git?
274 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi
274 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
272 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
272 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Pure Skill Minesweeper
271 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Unicode in five minutes (2013)
271 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Mastodon 3.2
271 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Chat Bubble Blindness
270 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?
270 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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A Database of Historical Cookbooks
270 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo
268 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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First Impressions of Rust
268 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
267 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
267 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK
267 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)
266 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years
266 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Blender 2.90
266 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
266 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health
265 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Neuralink Progress Update [video]
265 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial
265 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
264 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)
263 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
263 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)
263 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)
263 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut
263 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk
261 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Navy F/A-18 squadron commander's take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot
261 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication
261 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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SQLite 3.33
261 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
260 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
260 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Julia 1.5 Highlights
260 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish
259 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Local-first software (2019)
259 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
258 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts
257 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts
257 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Game Design Curriculum
256 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Infinity: open-source search engine
256 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Adding a fiber link to my home network
256 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js
255 points • comment • aug 16, 2020