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Hacker News (Aug 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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First tax year with Stripe Atlas
195 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP
195 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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QEMU should move from C to Rust
195 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”
194 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
194 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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JS1024 Results – 1k JavaScript Demos
194 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics
193 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun
193 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas
193 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
193 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Three Bay Areas (2017)
192 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Foiling Electric Boat
192 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
192 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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How I got my Japanese permanent residency
191 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
191 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Art of chording
190 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research
190 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
190 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Palantir S-1
190 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?
190 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift
190 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Where do argc and argv come from?
189 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups
189 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances
188 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)
188 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Emotional resilience and burnout in leadership
188 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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We should discuss soil as much as coal (2019)
188 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
188 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready
188 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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When Asbestos Was a Gift Fit for a King
188 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really?
188 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
188 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Assange, Manning and Snowden Nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
188 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base
187 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
187 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
187 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue
187 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team
187 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
186 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains
186 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches
186 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine
186 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents
186 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped
186 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Transparent OLEDs
186 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member
185 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Is Hacker News Bullshit?
184 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning
184 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
183 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
183 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme
183 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"
183 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
183 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Arizona DMV Sells Drivers' Photos and SSNs to Private Investigators
183 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada
182 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak
182 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible
182 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
182 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough
182 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple
182 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
182 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making
182 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
182 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
181 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along
181 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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ThinkPad 560E
181 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
180 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail elections in New Jersey
180 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Barbados introduces plan to allow visitors to work remotely there for a year
180 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives?
180 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers
180 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park
180 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020
179 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%
179 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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London traders hit $500M jackpot when oil went negative
179 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Show HN: My notes on Working with Go
179 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors
179 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Emulating Windows system calls in Linux
178 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Japan facing credit card number shortage
178 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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India announces plan to connect 600k villages with optical fiber in 1000 days
178 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images
178 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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So you want to roll your own crypto?
178 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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The Joy of Cryptography
178 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist
177 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How Happy Couples Argue: Study (2019)
177 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin
176 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment (BBC News)
176 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon
176 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
176 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate
176 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes
176 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
175 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis
175 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Belarus election: Police use live fire on protesters in Brest
175 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Hiroshima (1946)
175 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Don't ask to ask, just ask
175 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Crux SQL
174 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity
174 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The longest train ride in the world (2019)
174 points • comment • aug 25, 2020