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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Major Australian ISP down over cyber attack
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Shut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable for Aiding Trafficking
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Neopixel LED Face Mask
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Laser Beams Reflected Between Earth and Moon
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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How A Plan to Save the US Power System Disappeared
5 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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How I Managed to Switch from Windows to Linux over the Years
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Russian Charged with Trying to Recruit Employee to Plant Malware in US Company
5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How to spend your day when you are searching for the next idea?
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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We need better evidence on non-drug interventions for Covid-19
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Make Android Self-Hosting
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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What's the most important US law that seemed insignificant when passed?
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Researchers document first case of Covid-19 reinfection
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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HCQ and azithromycin found to increase coronavirus deaths by 27%
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Glossary of Collective Nouns by Subject
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Show HN: Not happy with your politician? Give him feedback
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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NeurIPS Paper Reviews Released, Controversies Resurface
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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World's thinnest (2mm) mechanical watch that can be used
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: I was invited to speak at a computer museum. What should I tell them?
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Flexible OLED Display in Action
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Generating nice callgraphs, part II
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The Unraveling of America
5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Virgin Galactic debuts design of future Mach 3 high-speed aircraft
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Google Pixel 4a: Everything you need to know
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The $300M button and other lessons
5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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DARPA AlphaDogfight Finals: AI agents compete to face a human F-16 pilot
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Dolphins Have Hidden Fingers. So Do Seals. These Sea Creatures Did Not
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Using the Sun to gravitationally lens an exoplanet
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Airbnb has filed confidential IPO paperwork
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The Unraveling of the American Era
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Thank You, Geoff
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Ask HN: Getting foot in door as a Software Engineering Student
5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Power And Performance Optimization At 7/5/3nm
5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Unredacted suit shows Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Tom Chi (Google-X): How to Address Our Carbon Debt to Heal the Planet
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Tesla’s Relentless Innovation Brought 13 Improvements to the Octovalve in 3 Mo
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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How We Made Flash Gordon – By Brian Blessed and Mike Hodges
5 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Rats nest:Visiting researcher from China at UCLA is arrested
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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How can Google Meet improve? Bring notes
5 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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In Utah, These Entrepreneurs Are Creating Their Own Version of Eden
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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For Facebook, weakening India’s democracy is just the cost of business
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Chinese Tech Landscape Overview [pdf]
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Hong Kong newspaper raided, publisher Jimmy Lai detained under new law
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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The Air Force’s Latest GPS Alternative: Earth’s Magnetic Fields
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Sysadmin Infographic
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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What Is Hall Effect?
5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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TikTok: Pompeo says Trump to crack down on Chinese software in coming days
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Bret Victor the Future of Programming
5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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TikTok – The end of all human life
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise soldiers
5 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Python scylla-driver: how we unleashed the Scylla monster’s performance
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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No longer looking for shortcuts
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question
5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Most Research in Deep Learning Is a Total Waste of Time – Jeremy Howard
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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One Man’s Unsolicited Opinion on the WordPress 5.6 All-Women Release Squad
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Opacus: A library that enables training PyTorch models with differential privacy
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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GitHub Audio
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Why is windows 10 atrociously slow?
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Retro Gaming's Misogyny Is Brought to Light After a Violent Tragedy
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Muse – Your Tool for Thought
5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Fitbit launches a $330 Apple Watch competitor
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Canadian government sides with telecoms in appeal of CRTC’s lower wholesale rate
5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Show HN: Cover Faces from Protest Photos
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Human genes renamed to prevent autoconversion to dates by Microsoft Excel
5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Oculus Connect is now ‘Facebook Connect,’ and it’s happening September 16th
5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Startups Braced for the Worst. The Worst Never Came
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Error: Uglifyjs is deprecated – use uglify-JS instead
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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China Intervenes in TikTok Deal
5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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SKAdNetwork and iOS 14 Privacy Changes
5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Instagram wants suspected bot accounts to provide government IDs
5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000
5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Show HN: Open AI's GPT-3 generates prose inspired by “Infinite Jest”
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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“Ily” – a word that qualifies–or adverbs–an adverb
5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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All the Covid safety rules are little more than theater
5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Why Evangelicals voted for Trump: religious persecution
5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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SSH Considered Harmful – Why You Should Be Using Persistent Sessions
5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Do Software Code Smell Checkers Smell Themselves?: A Self Reflection
5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Facebook, the PR Firm
5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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A Raspberry Pi 4 Performs Against Intel's Latest Celeron, Pentium CPUs
5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Calendly that you know or use?
5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Tech Companies Report Profits as 40M Americans Face Evictions
5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Low-code platforms and Full-code developers – a match made in hell?
5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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President Trump website 404 page displays Joe Biden lost
5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Don't let your children use TikTok, former MI6 intelligence chief urges
5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Covid-19 Transmits in Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Software developers: How plans to automate coding could mean big changes ahead
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The benefits of User Personas when designing the ultimate User Experience
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Tips to learn Git (version control)
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written by American in Mangled English
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Stealing Keys from the Sound of the Lock
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Suomi: Like Hacker News, but for Finns written in elixir
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Quantify the ventilation rate of an indoor space using an affordable CO2 monitor
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Startupschool Build Sprint Panic
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Implementing Vulkan-capable LibreOffice user interface using the Skia library
4 points • comment • aug 22, 2020