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Hacker News (Aug 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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Office Drama on macOS
157 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset
157 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge for App Store ban
157 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The BEAM Has Spoiled Me
157 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Save the USPS
157 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water
157 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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1-Euro Houses
157 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Introduction to Statistical Learning
156 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
156 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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‘AeroNabs’ – Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19
155 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected
155 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats
155 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Andy Matuschak's Notes
155 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012)
155 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python
155 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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A collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering
155 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Epic Systems workers are organizing
155 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Launch HN: Batch (YC S20) – Replays for event-driven systems
154 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
154 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
154 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)
154 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Microsoft backs Epic in court filing
154 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Samsung to halt production at its last computer factory in China
154 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase
153 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Redefining what sustainable fishing means
153 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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J Notation as a Tool of Thought
153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop
153 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one
153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs
153 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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People slept on grass beds 200k years ago
153 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally
153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Cloud Traffic
152 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
152 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
152 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Knuth versus Email (1999)
152 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
152 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet
151 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn
151 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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A New Chapter for PyPy
151 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear
151 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph
151 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation
150 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner
150 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Redis Labs Raises $100M
150 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
150 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood
150 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Awesome-sysadmin: A curated list of amazingly open source sysadmin resources
149 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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A CRISPR first produces squid as clear as glass
149 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Real Time Machine Learning (2019) [pdf]
149 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue
149 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France
149 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How much things can change
149 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Graphics Programming Projects
149 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy
149 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
149 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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I’m A Teapot – HTTP status code 418
149 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool
148 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language
148 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Architecture Playbook
148 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
148 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid
148 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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How to deploy a React app for free
148 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker
148 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux
148 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads
147 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Thoughts on Voice Interfaces
147 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe
147 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server
147 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite
147 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Trust Models
147 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Humanly Traversable Wormholes
146 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases
146 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Inside Information and Kodak Stock
146 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make
146 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Future of DeepSpeech / STT after recent changes at Mozilla
146 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Reverse Engineering for Beginners [pdf]
146 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
146 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Perl7 is a fork of values
146 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design
146 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space
146 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Debian Janitor: 60k Lintian Issues Automatically Fixed
146 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Small Businesses Are Dying by the Thousands – and No One Is Tracking the Carnage
145 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2
145 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021
145 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines
145 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Lord of the Manor: a medieval city builder game
145 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800
145 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a face doesnt fit
144 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Show HN: Will It CORS? – an automatic CORS explainer
144 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS
144 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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I had Covid-19, and these are the things nobody tells you
144 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints
144 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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FreeCol: Turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization
144 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland
143 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018)
143 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer
143 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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How We Got the Favicon (2017)
143 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
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KeePassXC 2.6.1
142 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Show HN: ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML
142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020