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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation? (2015)
36 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
36 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Hungary's researcher Roska wins award for procedure that could cure blindness
36 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Google and data brokers accused of illegally collecting people’s data: report
36 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Most Technical Debt Is Just Bullshit
36 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Startup Ideas for Inspiration
36 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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The Race to Save 'Contact Languages'
36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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9 of Every 10 Restaurants and Bars in NYC Can't Pay Full Rent
36 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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AVIF Has Landed
36 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Jamal Khashoggi murder: Saudi court overturns five death sentences
36 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Banker Walks Free from Insider Trading Charge After Deleting WhatsApp
36 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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College student uses GPT-3 to write fake blogs and ends up top of Hacker News
36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Why it matters where COVID came from
36 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Tracking Down Typewriters (2009) [pdf]
36 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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U.S. Border Patrol Bought 'Unlimited' Use of a Nationwide Tracking Database
36 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Cloudcraft – Architect and budget cloud infrastructure
36 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Giggle; Laughable Security
36 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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U.S. Election Priced as Worst Event Risk in VIX Futures History
36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Dual-Purpose Drones for Agriculture
36 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Ask HN: How do people become experts?
36 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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New research provides solution for the 'Dust Bowl paradox'
36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features
36 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Reddit – “Windows 10 prompted me to vote”
36 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Journalists cheered Assange's abuse. Now they've paved his path to a US gulag
35 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Bloomberg pays off $20m debts of 31,000 felons so they can vote in Florida
35 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Oriental Carpets in Renaissance Painting
35 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Still Resonates Today
35 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Reasons Coding for Kids Is Not Just Another Fad
35 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19
35 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Which countries have protected both health and the economy in the pandemic?
35 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Email gateways and gatekeeping
35 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Two musings on the design of compiler warnings
35 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Thoughts Pertaining to Youth, Hot Rodders, and Chevrolet (1953) [pdf]
35 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Upwork to suspend Top Rated freelancers accounts from Eastern Europe
35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On?
35 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Robinhood Reportedly Under Investigation by SEC, FINRA for March Outage
35 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Spotify Employees Demanding Direct Editorial Oversight over Joe Rogan Podcasts
35 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Why New York’s in a Depression and Texas Isn’t
35 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)
35 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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New Windows exploit lets you instantly become admin
35 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Algorithmic Trading Using Logistic Regression
35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Twitter Stopped Letting New Users Pick Their Usernames During Sign-Up Years Ago
35 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?
35 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Why senior engineers get nothing done
35 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Blech Programming Language
35 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Vibration overcomes gravity on a levitating fluid
35 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Safety driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with homicide
35 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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2020 has been a year without a flu season in the southern hemisphere
35 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Are you friends with your manager?
35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Death decreed over Zoom
34 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Reading mind and Visualizing thoughts using AI
34 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Former Sanders Aide Jailed in Belarus Is Being Tortured to 'Confess'
34 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
34 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Oregon wildfires: Half a million people flee dozens of infernos
34 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Show HN: Oscillator Bank / Spectral Synthesizer
34 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Bankrupt Chuck E. Cheese parent company wants to shred 7B tickets
34 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Hootsuite signed contract with ICE then lied about it
34 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Interview with British Pianist Stephen Hough
34 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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A negative Covid-19 test does not mean recovery
34 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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How alarmist rhetoric is informing draconian speech laws in the Global South
34 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
34 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac
34 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
34 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses
34 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Dutch “Bicycle Buses”
34 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Technical skills helpful for building a startup today
34 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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COVID19 reinfection by a phylogenetically distinct coronavirus strain confirmed
34 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Become an Ultralearner – Scott H. Young on the Artists of Data Science Podcast
34 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Technology leadership lessons from TV show writing
34 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Producing a Music Video in the Browser
33 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Apple Helps FBI Track Down Floyd Protester Accused of Firebombing Cop Cars
33 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Why are there so few black tech entrepreneurs?
33 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Hackers leak data on 1k Belarusian police officers
33 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Silero Speech-To-Text models
33 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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The visa woes that shattered scientists’ American dreams
33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Review: We do not recommend the $299 Oculus Quest 2 as your next VR system
33 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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The Growing Case for a Microsoft Azure Slowdown [pdf]
33 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Haiku: Contest for System Sounds
33 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Show HN: Trivial script to spin up a Debian MIPS|PPC|arm|x86|x64 VM
33 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Delta IV Heavy rocket delayed again, raising concerns of aging infrastructure
33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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The World of Blind Mathematicians (2002) [pdf]
33 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran (2011)
33 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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A History of Punctuation
33 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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The first major sign your web host will not respect you
33 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Epic Games Is an Unreliable Narrator
33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
33 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Study: Inequality Robs $2.5T from U.S. Workers Each Year
33 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Ask HN: When an iPhone is released how far off are Apple in the next gen iPhone?
33 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Apple delays privacy feature in iOS 14 that would keep ad tracking at bay
33 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Nokia 3310 3G as a podcast player
33 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Memristor Crossbars as Easy as Raspberry Pi
33 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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EFF Joins Coalition Urging Senators to Reject the Earn IT Act
33 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Welcoming the Talented Teams and Beloved Game Franchises of Bethesda to Xbox
33 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Echo open source game engine
33 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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A Catalogue of Optimizing Transformations (1971) [pdf]
33 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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OCaml Labs breakthrough – good things come to those who wait
32 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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The Birth of Wheelchair Basketball
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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Solar proton activity may trigger high magnitude earthquakes
32 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
32 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate
32 points • comment • sep 15, 2020