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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective
81 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection
81 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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He Invented the Rubik’s Cube. He’s Still Learning From It
81 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Getting rid of the Google cookie consent popup
81 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Pointers Are Complicated, Or: What's in a Byte? (2018)
81 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet
81 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Tips for stable and portable software
81 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available
81 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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The Deafening Silence of the Royal Society Open Science Journal
81 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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To Manage Wildfire, California Looks to What Tribes Have Known All Along
81 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server
80 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Keeping Time at NIST
80 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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YC W21 Remote Batch
80 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm
80 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Trials begin for a new weapon against Parkinson’s: light
80 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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US military increasingly using drone missile with flying blades in Syria
80 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Chrome anchors are broken, Google has locked and is ignoring bug thread
80 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Smart Cow Collars
80 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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U.S. Adult Obesity Rate Tops 42 Percent; Highest Ever Recorded
80 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Neurotoxic peptides isolated from venom of giant Australian stinging tree
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
79 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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GitPals – Find team for cooperative development
79 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Reverse Engineering the Logitech Harmony
79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Fun Yet Effective Meetings
79 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Retro Unix Operating System
79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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The Anthropologist in an Economist World
79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Tesla says its battery innovations will deliver its goal of a $25,000 car
79 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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What is the purpose of issuing laws/regulations without penalty? (2017)
79 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Jamstack Handbook – All things Jamstack with 3 step-by-step tutorials
79 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11
79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Show HN: TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data
79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms
79 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Show HN: Remotely Controlled Escape Room
79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Verne Edquist – Glenn Gould’s Piano Man
79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols
79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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A Horrible Experiment
79 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing
79 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Loose Lips Sink MIPS
79 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
79 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Jet Fuel Is Now So Cheap It’s Being Blended for Use by Ships
79 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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In Defence of Half-Arsing
79 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian
79 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Yacd – Decrypts FairPlay applications on iOS 13.4.1 and lower, no jb required
78 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a
78 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter Kit and eBook
78 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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For Camus, It Was Always Personal
78 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) [pdf]
78 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
78 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Software supply chain security
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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NSA spying exposed by Snowden didn't stop a single terrorist attack, judge finds
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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A creature that eats its own brain
78 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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QAnon website shuts down after Citigroup security analyst identified as operator
78 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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My Hacking Adventures with Safari Reader Mode
77 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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Assange Hearing Day 13
77 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch
77 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high
77 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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A request to a YouTube video downloads the title 14 times and displays it twice
77 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (2008) [pdf]
77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Deep Learning for Compilers
77 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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McAfee S-1
77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Made with Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood
77 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Bush Did North Dakota – Slate Star Codex
77 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Manually verified job salaries/offers in Artificial Intelligence
77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Woman hatches ducks from Waitrose eggs
77 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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YouTube launches TikTok competitor, Shorts
77 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Alu (Runic)
77 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Great North Air Ambulance trials paramedic jet suit
77 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
77 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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On Hacking MicroSD Cards (2013)
76 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit
76 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
76 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Save ARM
76 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky
76 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Bash code generator for command-line arguments
76 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?
76 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
76 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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The Economics of Skyscraper Height
76 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Why should I do production support?
76 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Defer Reference Implementation for C
76 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Visualizing Gzip Compression with Python
76 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Due Diligence That Money Can’t Buy
76 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Judge Blocks US Attempts to Ban WeChat
76 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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LibreOffice Online API
76 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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A discretization attack [pdf]
76 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas (2019)
76 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Show HN: Neural Image Compression Demo
75 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Bastion Fort
75 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Tesla Shares Fall as It Fails to Make It into S&P 500 Index
75 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Bill Gates slams 'shocking' U.S. response to Covid-19 pandemic
75 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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California Businesses Leave the State by the Thousands
75 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics
75 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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UK supermarket Tesco sets 300% sales target for plant-based alternatives to meat
75 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Rails Concerns: To Concern or Not to Concern
75 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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The Guardian’s New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism
75 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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California Will Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars
75 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Impossible Colors
75 points • comment • sep 02, 2020