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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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Unusual Maps
173 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers
173 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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GraalVM
173 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Global wave discovery ends 220-year search
172 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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A leap of faith: Committing to open source
172 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
172 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)
172 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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F (2006)
172 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon
171 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Literate DevOps
171 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Multi-Tenant Architectures
171 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go
171 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
171 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]
171 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings
171 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Why is there only one Snap Store?
171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository
171 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Chrome Music Lab
170 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
170 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
170 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang
170 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
169 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic
169 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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What happens when you load a URL? (2015)
169 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Justice Department is scrutinizing takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit
169 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games
169 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
168 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
168 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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How to Leave Work at Work
168 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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We Know How to Prevent Megafires
168 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Racket 7.8
168 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
168 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths
168 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more
167 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech
167 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals
167 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
167 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
167 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (2010)
166 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Designing a Physics Engine
166 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf]
166 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
166 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Launch HN: Quell (YC S20) – Immersive gaming and combat workout
165 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
165 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]
165 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Brain-Gut Circuit Lets Microbiota Directly Affect the Sympathetic Nervous System
165 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
165 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Help Make the 19th Century Searchable
164 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Rethinking the App Store
164 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills
164 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics
164 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
164 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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T-Mobile: Are you blocking specific words and suspending accounts?
164 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL
164 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Code for The Economist's election model for 2020
163 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Nine-year-old bug in the Go standard library enables DoS
163 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
163 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Launch HN: Nestybox (YC S20) – Containers beyond microservices
163 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Cloth masks do protect the wearer
163 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings
163 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?
163 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Wiki Bankruptcy
163 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps
162 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment
162 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks
162 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
162 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Snowflake S-1
162 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Darktable 3.2.1
162 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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5G Just Got Weird
162 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Practical Data Ethics
161 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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“Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
161 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Surviving Django, if you care about databases
161 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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OCaml Workshop 2020 Online Conference is live now
161 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots
161 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions
161 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture [pdf]
161 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Show HN: Olaf – Acoustic Fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser
160 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Programming with RISC-V Vector Instructions
160 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA
160 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce
160 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit
160 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Reversing Mental Age with Psychedelics
160 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua
160 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development
160 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021
159 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech
159 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
159 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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DIY Satellite Ground Station to Receive NOAA Images
159 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Nuclear Reactor Development History
158 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)
158 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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The Rapier Physics Engine
158 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings
158 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Google's differential privacy library
158 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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"Rust does not have a stable ABI"
158 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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The demise of the second-hand bookshop
158 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web
158 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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SIMD Everywhere: 0.5.0
158 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2003)
158 points • comment • aug 30, 2020