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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Drawn-on-skin electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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False Covid-19 claims taken down by Facebook and Twitter
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Vaccine Nationalism Makes a Deadly Disease Even Worse
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Converting boolean-logic decision trees to finite state machines
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Time to forget global tipping points (2013)
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Show HN: Typelit.io – Improve your touch typing by practicing on classic books
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Versioned Finite State Machines in Postgres
5 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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People who recover from Covid-19 don’t need to be retested for 3 months says CDC
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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An OSS community that converts cars to electric. Part 3: Johannes Huebner
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Why did Apple deprecate OpenGL and OpenCL?
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Oracle is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok’s US business
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Tech worker quarantined at home builds co-working space in Second Life
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Mpemba effect: what conditions make hot water freeze faster than cold water?
5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Firefox adds protections against redirect tracking
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Pineapples could be key to treating the new coronavirus
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Why has the UK done so badly on Covid-19? There are still no simple answers
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote?
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Coronavirus creeps into US mink farms, “unusually large numbers” dead
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Secure Coding Done Right
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Appeals court grants Uber and Lyft temporary reprieve after threats to shut down
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ray Dalio: Changing World Order, Big Cycle of the US & the Dollar Ch4 Pt1
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Syria Says Donald Trump Stealing Its Oil, After U.S. Company Makes Deal to Drill
5 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Malicious Chinese SDK in 1,200 iOS Apps with Billions of Installs
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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The US is building a new Great Firewall
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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A collection of resources on wait-free and lock-free programming
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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TikTok owners show true colors with communist flag
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Birth of the USPS and the Politics of Postal Reform
5 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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What RN is missing in order to be the default framework to build apps
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Google’s Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Exactly What the Market Needs
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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China and Russia ditch dollar in move towards ‘financial alliance’
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Starship SN5 150m Hop official video
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Enabling the Stripe and Lyft Platforms Through Modern Safety Science
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Can we get a black bar in memoriam of Turing Award winner Frances Allen?
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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More data, but still confusion over how much children spread SARS-CoV-2
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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LG officially announces its battery-powered air purifier mask
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Bill Gates invests $78M in satellite antenna firm Kymeta
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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State Department Announces Great Firewall for the US
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Video shows San Jose police tasing, beating couple after hotel birthday party
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Show HN: Instant web chat inside your LAN
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Air India repatriation flight crash-lands, at least 17 killed
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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SARS-CoV-2 detected in waste waters in Barcelona on March 12, 2019
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Ask HN: What would happen if we prevented the creation of billionaires?
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A Modular Underscore.js
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A case against “Platform Teams”
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Migrating big astronomy data to the cloud
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Slack on Slack: Delivering impactful internal products
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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How Did It Happen? America’s Unique Failure to Control the Virus
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Best public-facing issue trackers?
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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OnePlus is preloading its phones with Facebook bloatware
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Brain-to-Body Mass Ratio
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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TCP window scaling, timestamps and SACK
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Amazon Looks at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores into Fulfillment Centers
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Paul Thurrott: Microsoft shouldn’t buy the US operations of TikTok
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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When DRY Doesn’t Work, Go Wet
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Y Combinator CEO Faces the Crisis and His Critics
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Show HN: Rate Your Politicians and Compare Candidates
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Unreal Engine on iOS and Mac in Jeopardy
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Salesforce lays off 1000-2000
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream – how to take power back
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic primary pain
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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ASCII Shader Made in Unity
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Diatom
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Apple’s Best Times Are Behind It. For Real This Time
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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The Ambiguous Agassiz
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Biogen conference likely led to 20k Covid-19 cases in Boston area
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ventilation should be part of the conversation on reopenings. Why isn’t it?
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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The End of Politics
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Will This Old Financial Tool Transform Tech Investing?
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Amazon Support vs Google Support
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: Problem Pad – Discover Problems That Need Solving
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Scientists see signs of lasting immunity to Covid-19, even after mild infections
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Airbnb plans to confidentially file for IPO this month
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Israel to Establish Ties with Arab Neighbor and Suspend Annexation
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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How Debian Packaging Works
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Saturn's Hexagon
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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How we used Open Data APIs to go from $0 to $2000 MRR within weeks
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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While Big Tech Prospers, an Eviction Crisis Looms Next Door
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Concurrent Pascal-S
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Police: Rioters trapped officers in burning building with rebar and concrete
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Web Scraping for Business -Leverage the Power of Data
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Joint NBA and NBPA Statement
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Up to 75% of cyberattacks originate from US soil, says top Moscow security chief
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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An excerpt from Part 2 of “Unreported Truths” – a brief history of lockdowns
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Alan Kay's answer to What is it like to be an Apple Fellow?
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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In San Diego, ‘Smart’ Streetlights Spark Surveillance Reform
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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When the US dollar is worth nothing will Utah lead with a new American currency?
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: Milvus – An open-source vector similarity search engine
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Mao's Factories in Cold War China
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Homemade tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike (2017)
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Finding the Best 64-bit Simulation PRNG
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Show HN: Cointop, coin tracking for hackers
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020