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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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Social Cooling (2017)
2657 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
2307 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
2118 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1716 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
1674 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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This electrical transmission tower has a problem
1654 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
1625 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
1575 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
1328 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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On the Use of a Life
1265 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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I no longer build software
1252 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Most-favorited Hacker News posts
1249 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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BitTorrent v2
1224 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
1176 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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CRDTs are the future
1164 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
1118 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
1088 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Nova by Panic
1042 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
983 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
965 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Someone has stolen my Instagram account
942 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Security by obscurity is underrated
916 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
898 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Amnesia is now open source
898 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
896 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
891 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
871 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
861 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
852 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Ask HN: How to learn sales?
852 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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foo@bar.com
841 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
824 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Relativty – An open-source VR headset
809 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
791 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
784 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
771 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
765 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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Vue.js 3
750 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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David Graeber has died
732 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak
731 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
727 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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How to Get Promoted
726 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
702 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Teacher's low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class
700 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Gitter is joining Matrix
698 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
696 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Linux Journal Is Back
694 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
693 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
684 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Winamp Skin Museum
681 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
679 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
675 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Remembering my father
673 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
671 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
670 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
666 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Attention is your scarcest resource
658 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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GitHub CLI 1.0
656 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Say goodbye to hold music
654 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Calibre 5.0
650 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Wikipedia is getting a new look
644 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
634 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Writing a book: is it worth it?
632 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Six Figures in 6 days
631 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
630 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss
624 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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uMatrix has been archived
622 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
622 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
622 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
616 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
614 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
613 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
612 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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The Era of Visual Studio Code
612 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
610 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
598 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Htop 3.0
591 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Firefox 81.0
588 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
587 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]
582 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
576 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content
574 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
572 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
571 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
566 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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The Social Dilemma
561 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes
557 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
552 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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PG and Jessica
546 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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PostgreSQL 13
543 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
539 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
532 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors
528 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
522 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks
520 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
514 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
512 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035
509 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
504 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
497 points • comment • sep 01, 2020