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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Can ageing be treated or cured?
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Researchers show children are silent spreaders of virus that causes Covid-19
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Interview with the programming team behind Phantasy Star Online
3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Square’s Cash App tests new feature allowing users to borrow up to $200
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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LibrePlanet 2021
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Because They Were Never Meant To
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Goldman Sachs Has Money. It Has Power. and Now It Has a Font
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Bureaucracy Contributed to the Blast in Beirut
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Zsh-Autocomplete
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Labor Department lawyer leading Oracle case alleges interference by secretary
3 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Programmable Synthetic Materials
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Beirut blast: Explosion rocks city ahead of Hariri verdict
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Curiosity rover spots dust devil on Mars
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Ask HN: How to structure JV for SaaS given upfront salary/costs
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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ML “Recipes” & Analytics for B2B Sales and Marketing
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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The Tao of Language Agnosticism
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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CI/CD Observability: Tekton and Prometheus
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Game Dev Examines Whether Nostalgia Is a Worthwhile Game Genre
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Use of Reed-Solomon error correcting codes in Covid-19 pooled testing
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Otto Aviation Officially Introduces Celera 500L “Bullet Plane”
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Oracle is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok’s US business
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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H.P. Lovecraft was a virulent racist. How Lovecraft Country confronts his legacy
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative Wins Green Light from SEC
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Linux containers – a technical introduction (2015)
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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What Atlassian's futuristic Sydney tech hub will look like
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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As Covid-19 rages around the globe, other infectious diseases shrink away
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Google Pay partners with 6 US banks to offer mobile checking accounts next year
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Hyundai will launch three new electric cars, starting in 2021
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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3D homes that take 24 hours and less than $4k to print
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Bill Gates on Covid Vaccine Timing, Hydroxychloroquine, and 5G Conspiracy Theory
3 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Coronavirus clobbers Uber, leading to $1.8B quarterly loss
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Two European cases of coronavirus re-infection reported
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Xkcd: Voting Software
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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It's likely better to test for accessibility than for Firefox
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Why do razor blades get dull so quickly?
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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How TOTP Systems Like Google Authenticator Work
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Top Vaccine Official Says He’ll Resign If FDA Caves to Political Pressure
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Why CSS:before content doesn’t work on inputs and images
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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What’s this? A bipartisan plan for AI and national security
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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C O M P U T E R 1.0 – Textile display By Victoria Manganiello and Julian Goldman
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The European Cities Using the Pandemic as a Cure for Airbnb
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Population immunity is slowing down the pandemic in parts of the US
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Walmart Wants to Get Its Greasy Hands on TikTok
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Are there any tools for viewing activity across multiple GitHub repos
3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Only Mediocre Minds Nitpick
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Virus-Like “Jumping” DNA Regulates Human Neurons
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Google announces plan to break password managers in name of security
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Sprint, one of America's most storied brands, is no more
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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China's ByteDance to consider international HQ for TikTok, outside U.S.
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Law of Jante
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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From Cloud to Cloudlets
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Twitch Prime is now called Prime Gaming
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Greece and Egypt sign agreement on exclusive economic zone
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Show HN: A zsh prompt to encourage you to commit frequently
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Not a tinkerer: The painful, hardly instructive story how I became an engineer
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The Viking Snowden: Denmark spy chief 'relieved of duty' after whistleblower
3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Fast proxy to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Marriage Counseling – 27 Worst Marriage Mistakes
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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'Everyone tested positive':Covid devastates ag workers in California's heartland
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Surprising results from one of the earliest Covid-19 surveys
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Visa, MasterCard Debit Fees Are Hurting Retailers, Sen. Richard Durbin Says
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Coronavirus: Trump killed tens of thousands of Americans
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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If You Are Still Calling AI Artificial Intelligence, You Are Wrong
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data [pdf]
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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If consumer confidence is so low, why is spending rising during the pandemic?
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The role of vit D in the prevention of coronavirus 2019 infection and mortality
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Why There Are So Few Moderate Republicans Left
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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NBA Players Will Return to Playoffs After Walkout
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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GraalVM 20.2.0
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Power Grids Aren’t Evolving Fast Enough for Global Warming
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Decades-Old Soviet Studies Hint at Coronavirus Strategy
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Showcase Your Code with Grasshopper's Gallery
3 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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How to Roll Half a Dice
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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A.out
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Show HN: Scraper.ai – Watch new job listings from sites like indeed.com
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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How many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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University of Utah pays $457,000 to ransomware gang
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Dyalog APL (Morten Kromberg, Google Tech Talk, 2015)
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Principal Component Analysis
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you own a E-ink tablet to take notes
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Unopinionated framework faster than everything (0kb raw and gzipped)
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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REI to sell sprawling new and unused headquarters to shift to remote work
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Girl thrown into air by kite in Taiwan
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Containers: A Foolproof, Hands-On Docker Tutorial
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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The Second Act of Social-Media Activism
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Architect Spends 10 Years Building Bubble House Design, Lives in It for 36 Years
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A Coronavirus Vaccine Requires Medical Essentials Like Vials and Needles
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Ask HN: How hard is creating an app to replace Uber and Lyft?
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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How bad was the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?
3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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How to Infrastructure Engineer: Noob Edition
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020