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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js
255 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014)
255 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
255 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases
254 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14
254 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad
254 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
254 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15
254 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores
254 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Typing Is Hard
253 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The cult of the free must die
253 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look
253 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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What harm do minimum wages do?
253 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India
252 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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SEC Enforcement of Insider Trading Dropped to Lowest Point in Decades
252 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
252 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations
252 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT
252 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion
251 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US
250 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook
250 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git
250 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Linux from Scratch
249 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
248 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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No Hello (2013)
248 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
248 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base
248 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing
248 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
246 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
245 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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How I helped fix Canadaʼs Covid Alert app
245 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous
244 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server
244 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
244 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Adventures in Improving AI Economics
244 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
243 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Bogleheads
243 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
243 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)
243 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
243 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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I sold my side-project for $30k
243 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Show HN: ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D
242 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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tilde.town: A social network over SSH
242 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Expiring vs. permanent skills
241 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Linux 5.8-rc1
241 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Gmail and Google Drive Outage
241 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
238 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law
238 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Malloc Geiger Counter
237 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Street View of 1940s New York
236 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s (2019)
236 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
235 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015)
235 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
234 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
234 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
234 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing
234 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)
233 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook
232 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps
232 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes
232 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Endless Doom Scroller
232 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Hands-on WebAssembly
231 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
231 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach
231 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Parallel Seam Carving
231 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Simple SQL in Python
231 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices
231 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
230 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
230 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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My best SEO tactic so far
230 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
230 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
229 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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JuliaDB
229 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok
229 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study
228 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
228 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
228 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD
228 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft
228 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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PostgreSQL beginner guide
227 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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The Recursive Universe
226 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks
226 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
226 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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The dual PhD problem of today’s startups
226 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register
226 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)
226 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Arcosanti
226 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money
225 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less
225 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue
225 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups
224 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas
224 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds
224 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
224 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Automotive Grade Linux
224 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Zoom Partial Outages
223 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Essentials of Programming Languages
223 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Show HN: EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service
223 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?
222 points • comment • aug 25, 2020