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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
4 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Metasploit – A Walkthrough of the Powerful Exploitation Framework
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Lucid Motors has ambitious plans to defy skeptics and take on Tesla
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Revealed: MoD and UK’s most snr scientist weren’t consulted on £400m OneWeb deal
4 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Axios on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview
4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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How to Pre-Sell a Product That Does Not yet Exist
4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Tesla shares rally for no reason
4 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Trump says he will ban TikTok
4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Versioned HDF5
4 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Admit It, You Do Laundry During Work Video Calls
4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Ask HN: What keeps you from writing a blog?
4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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We Distort Probability
4 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Infiltrating the network using a malicious ZigBee lightbulb
4 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Fermi Estimates on Postgres Performance
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The wrong way to filter sockets with BPF
4 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Children who suffer violence or trauma age faster, study finds
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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WhatsApp Schools in Lebanon
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Books that shaped my Journey into Hardware Development
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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CEO Secrets: ‘What I learned from leaders’ behaviour off-camera’
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Ask HN: At what time do you go to bed / get up?
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Robotic Manipulation Fall 2020
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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State of Julia (JuliaCon 2020)
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Coronavirus Chased Off Tourists–Lots of Locals Don’t Want Them Flocking Back
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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How do I install a Python command line tool or script? (hint: pipx)
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Setup a Forever Free Ad Blocking WireGuard VPN Server W PiHole in the Cloud Free
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The Anti-Capitalist Software License
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Liquid information flow control [pdf]
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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TikTok – How the White House Helped U.S. Investors to Raid a Chinese Company
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Data Visualization Tips
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Bit Player – Documentary about Claude Shannon
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Show HN: Meet Transcript – Record Google Meet Caption & Screenshot to Google Doc
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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The Least Liked Programming Languages
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The Only Way to Know What Customers Want Is to Release Your Product
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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When You Can't Measure It, You Won't Fix It
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources (JavaScript and CSS) in WordPress
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Beginner non-trivial transpiler projects to learn from?
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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One-third of people with Covid-19 lie about their symptoms, study shows
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What is a rational business model for a digital society?
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Nevada lab confirms first coronavirus reinfection in the US
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Larry King Got Duped into Starring in Chinese Propaganda
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Evolution of SoundCloud’s Architecture
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Lazarus (a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE)
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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A word in your ear: why the rise of audiobooks is a story worth celebrating
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Usability Methods for Designing Programming Languages for Software Engineers
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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A Dozen Lessons on Building a Business from Sarah Tavel (2017)
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Operation Rosehub (Mad Gadget) (2017)
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Harvard and Sony built a tiny surgery robot inspired by origami
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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What small businesses make the most millionaires?
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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The race to develop paper-based tests for coronavirus
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Incrementally Improving the DOM
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Ask HN: What tech companies allow all employees to be remote?
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Is it possible to damage a FPGA with VHDL code?
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you stream? Why and what?
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Bizarre Notifications Pop Up on Android Phones, Was a Hacker to Blame?
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Palantir plans direct listing for September
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Amazon tells employees to delete TikTok immediately–then takes it back
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Army of a million microscopic robots created to explore on tiny scale
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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TypeScript v4.0.2 Released
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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The doomed Cleveland balloonfest of '86
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Have you been successful in getting your coinbase account recovered?
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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K Community Showcase
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The Trillion Dollar Question Facing Every Major American City
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Henrietta Lacks and Her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Theoretical vs. practical cryptography in the (Linux) kernel
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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How to Test Every American for Covid-19, Every Day
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership
3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator
3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Horse Grooming Guide by Expert – Cleaning Guide
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Weapons and Equipment of the Special Forces of the Qing Dynasty
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Show HN: Headcrab, a modern Rust debugger library
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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New Zealand's exchange (NZX) down for fourth day after cyber attacks
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Scientists inspired by 'Star Wars' create artificial skin able to feel
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Show HN: We build a calendar for people that schedule to-dos
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Get ready for the 'tech alt-right' to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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AMA with the JetBrains WebStorm Team
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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How China Controlled the Coronavirus
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Before Completing Tests
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Ask HN: Best free mind map software online? Limited use is ok
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Hackers Bled 118 Bitcoins Out of Covid Researchers in U.S.
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Using emails for retention – How to automate
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Stimulus and Credit
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Security Onion
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Out of Sight ≠ Out of Mind
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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'Stop Hiding Behind Your Platform:' Sweden Welcomes Amazon with Scathing Letter
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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It's Official: CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing for Covid-19
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Holding VCs accountable to commitments made to Black startups and founders
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Missiles are advancing so quickly that their names need to change
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Enough with the Linux Security Fud
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Speed Up Pkgsrc on Retrocomputers
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Math Riddle from the 1980’s Finally Solved – Could Be Used to Improve Computers
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do VoIP vendors hate their customers?
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Physicists discover new two-dimensional material
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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What Happens When You Don’t Shower for Five Years
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020