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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development
67 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Paper maps, two-way radios: how firefighting tech is stuck in the past
67 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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The Unrealized Potential of Federation
67 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy's blasphemy jail term
67 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Show HN: DataSpeeder Instant End-User Web GUI for MySQL
67 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Foreign Actors Likely to Spread Disinformation Regarding 2020 Election Results
67 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Show HN: Parallelise pipelines of Python async iterables
67 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Netlify was down
67 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Tutanota aknowledge being under attack
67 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? (2019) [pdf]
67 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Apache Arrow and MinIO
67 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Python 3.9 is around the corner
67 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Talking is throwing fictional worlds at one another
66 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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'Super bacteria' survives for three years outside space station [video]
66 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Show HN: Memory Pill
66 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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What's it like to negotiate with ransomware gangs?
66 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Build Your Own Artificial Neural Network
66 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Joe Rogan Experience #1536 – Edward Snowden [video]
66 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Crab – an interpreter for a tiny subset of Logo
66 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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The Art of Voltage Probing
66 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web
66 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (By David Graeber)
66 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here
66 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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JPMorgan to Move $230B Assets to Germany in Brexit Shift
66 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1
66 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Writing for Snobs
66 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Memorizing a Deck of Cards
66 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Doctors Group Sues California for Failing to Add Processed Meat to Cancer List
65 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin
65 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Gifted Children as Hidden Persuaders in the Cold War (2019)
65 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Lawyers for Assange Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister et al.
65 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina
65 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Ask HN: So I Hired a Homeless Guy
65 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Hypothesis: Bipolar disorder is an Epstein–Barr virus‐driven disease
65 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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The Hardware Lottery
65 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Solar Foods closes Series A financing for its first commercial factory
65 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Pasukon – The easy JavaScript parser generator
65 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
65 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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The Evolution of Psychiatry
64 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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The Battle over Dyslexia
64 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Nvidia CEO Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
64 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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SEC Charges Interactive Brokers with Repeatedly Failing to File SARs
64 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Floating Under a Levitating Liquid
64 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Z80, the 8-bit Number Cruncher (2011)
64 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever
64 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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DayStar Genesis MP
64 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Britain has offensive cyberwar capability, top general admits
64 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation (2018) [pdf]
64 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Ultimate Python Study Guide
64 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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How big is a neutron star?
64 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Median US worker salaries could have been $102,000 without inequality
64 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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PalanThiel: The Uncola
64 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Modernize your Bash Scripts by adding GUI
64 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio
64 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API? (2017)
64 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations (2020): $750k to Organizations Worldwide
64 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Technology has created a barrage of notifications and interactions
63 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold
63 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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The end of dispersed camping?
63 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model
63 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Getting Users Is Hard
63 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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Athens an open source Roam alternative
63 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Parents got more time off, then the backlash started
63 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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GitHub: PR won't be merged because the contributor is an Israeli
63 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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The UK's “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year
63 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)
63 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too
63 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Floating Point in the Browser, Part 1: Impossible Expectations
63 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after Covid
63 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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The Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel
63 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades
63 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Show HN: I built FabHomePages so your home can have its own homepage in minutes
63 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Show HN: Build Machine Learning Web-Service with Python and Django
63 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Out running this morning and a lady runs past me
63 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016)
63 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?
63 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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U.S. surpasses 200k Covid-19 deaths
62 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Evil Unit Testing (2019)
62 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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A deep dive into Swift’s function builders
62 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Bazel For Open-Source C/C++ Libraries Distribution
62 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Electronic music pioneer Simeon Coxe has died
62 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days
62 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the Rescue
62 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Simulating Democracy
62 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Jugaad, an Indian Delivery Methodology
62 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III
62 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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San Francisco Troubles – 19,000 Highly Paid City Employees Earned $150k
62 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Designed in Minecraft, Built IRL
62 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure
62 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Playing with fonts
62 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Nvidia MLOps: The AI LifeCycle for IT Production
62 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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State of Cybersecurity Industry Exposure at Dark Web
62 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work
62 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters
61 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)
61 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval
61 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python
61 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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What makes a good REPL? (2017)
61 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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The Lancet: World population projections by 2100
61 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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Bold for Delphi Is Open Source
61 points • comment • sep 23, 2020