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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
492 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Swift System Is Now Open Source
490 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers
490 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating
489 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
486 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
485 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Your Phone Is Your Castle
485 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Windows XP source code has leaked
481 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated
480 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform
479 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Work on What Matters
475 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Universal Split Screen
475 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
471 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
470 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Emacs is special regarding UIs
469 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%
469 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
463 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet
463 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
461 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Use long flags when scripting (2013)
459 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
455 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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We Don’t Like Our Underground House
454 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
451 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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How HTTPS Works
451 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
447 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM
447 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
446 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Makani source code released
445 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Bardcore
443 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Why do so many people want us back in the office?
443 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Annoying website features I face as a blind person
442 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
442 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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X-COM
440 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
439 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
436 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk
435 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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We need physical audio kill switches
435 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence
435 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
434 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory
432 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
430 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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People expect technology to suck because it sucks
429 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
428 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
428 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
427 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test
427 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention
424 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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An update to the Timescale license
424 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
424 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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An Introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust
421 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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React is becoming a black box
420 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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What happened to Firefox Send?
417 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
415 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive
414 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
414 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
408 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed
407 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
407 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)
406 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
406 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
405 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Applebot
405 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
402 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
401 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII
400 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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New Zealand is about to test long-range wireless power transmission
397 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
396 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)
396 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation
396 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
394 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
394 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
394 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Modern C
393 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor
392 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic
391 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Assange Trial Day 18
391 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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How Do Routers Work, Really?
390 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy
389 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Lesser-known Web APIs
387 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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A Short Story for Engineers
385 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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Laid Off, Now What?
384 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn
382 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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How Normal Am I?
381 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)
380 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Non-Posix File Systems
380 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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The SaaS website content you need to close sales
379 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven
377 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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I Want to Fix Goodreads
376 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
376 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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OBS Studio 26.0
374 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
373 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
373 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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My least favorite Rust type
371 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Things we learned running Postgres 13
369 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku
369 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language
369 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Data Broker Opt-Out List
369 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
368 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Firebug
367 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Is Plastic Recycling a Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic
366 points • comment • sep 12, 2020