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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
222 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Kotlin 1.4
221 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better
221 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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What is 5D chess?
220 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)
220 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim
220 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban
220 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Former Uber executive charged with paying 'hush money' to conceal breach
219 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers
219 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
218 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks
217 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’
217 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?
217 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT
217 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips
217 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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TSA considers new system for flyers without ID
217 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard connections show how money can distort research
217 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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C.I.A. Lacing (2014)
217 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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How Purism avoids Intel’s Active Management Technology
216 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans
216 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Portland passes low-density zoning reform
216 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Instagram faces $500B in fines alleging it harvested biometric data
215 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it
215 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go
215 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email
215 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Launch HN: Tella (YC S20) – Collaborative video editing in the browser
215 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators
214 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds
214 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships
214 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
214 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Show HN: Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem
214 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
214 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Why Software Should Be Free (2002)
213 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Show HN: Royalty-Free SVG Illustrations and Animations
212 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes
212 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)
212 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML
212 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible
212 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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What's new in PHP 8?
211 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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C will never stop you from making mistakes
211 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy
211 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
210 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Kali Linux 2020.3
210 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
210 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads
210 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography
210 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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New case studies about Google’s use of Go
210 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue
209 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
209 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005)
209 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Build Your Own FPGA (2012)
208 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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The Legend of GayBlade
208 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok
208 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Using Microsoft Word with Git
208 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be
207 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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One Year of Nushell
207 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide
207 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering
206 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
206 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer
206 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Metcalf Sniper Attack
206 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year
205 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6
205 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find
204 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Let’s implement a Bloom Filter
204 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Data isn't just being collected from your phone, it's being used to score you
203 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Italian Ruby
203 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
202 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Why Write ADRs
202 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Band-Limiting Procedural Textures
202 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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An Archive of a Different Type
202 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria
202 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme
202 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Spinning Up in Deep RL
202 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
201 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster
201 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Objective-Rust
201 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities
201 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser
200 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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DearPyGui
200 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)
199 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover
199 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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RethinkDB 2.4.1
198 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Do I Need Kubernetes?
198 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized
198 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
198 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor
198 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts
198 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Hard work vs. Long work (2011)
198 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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An Introduction to OpenBSD [video]
197 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds
197 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
197 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
197 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
197 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Bare Metal Rust Generics
196 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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The Panopticon Is Already Here
196 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
196 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book
196 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management
196 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
196 points • comment • aug 12, 2020