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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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How scientists resolved the mystery of Devil’s Corkscrews (2019)
28 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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How The Boring Company is increasing tunneling speed
28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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The land before modern APIs
28 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco
28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Why So Much Science Is Wrong
28 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats
28 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Designing New Cryptography for Non-Standard Threat Models
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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How the IRS was gutted (2018)
28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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What If ‘Capitalism’ Isn't the Problem? [audio]
28 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Theranos’ Holmes May Pursue ‘Mental Disease’ in Her Defense
28 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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William Gates Senior dies at 94
28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Microsoft will release a new perpetually licensed Office in 2021
28 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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A Black Hole at the Center of Earth
28 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland
28 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Facebook Is Turning a Blind Eye to Global Political Manipulation
28 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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NVIDIA Marbles at Night real-time raytracing demo
28 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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The End of Spectrum Scarcity (2004)
28 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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St Giles Rookery: A Lost London Landmark
28 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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Microsoft: 'We Are Finished with F# 5'
28 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Covid Is Accelerating a Global Censorship Crisis
28 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Performance Benchmark Analysis of Egress Filtering on Linux
28 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Google Demands Its 30% Cut from App Developers in Play Store
28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit
28 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Saudi Arabia to Cut Oil Prices as Demand Fears Grow
28 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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‘Green’ billionaires behind suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary
28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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U.S. judge halts Trump administration's order to remove WeChat from app stores
28 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Why it’s better to be the anti-status quo
27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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CNN Worked with Army PsyOps Group During Kosovo War (2000)
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
27 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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The rate of obsolescence of knowledge in software engineering
27 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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A True Story (150 AD)
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Juul to lay off over half its workforce
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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The 1999 and 2003 messages explained [pdf]
27 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Pointers are Easy, Optimization is Complicated
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Altair 8800 Clone
27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Why Rust is not a mature programming language
27 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Fairphone 3 review: ethical smartphone gets camera upgrades
27 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Free VPNs are a privacy nightmare. You shouldn’t download them
27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Why the French Love to Complain
27 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Fragmentation, MTU, MSS clamping and tunnels (2014)
27 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Who Was the Falling Man from 9/11? (2016)
27 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack
27 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Collaborative Circuit Design & Simulation in the Browser
27 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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A New Algorithm for Graph Crossings
27 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Book Summary: 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. The Full List with Notes
27 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Audible-visuals: Audio visualizer experiments
27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Apache OpenWhisk is a truly portable Serverless Platform
27 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Microsoft’s $10bn Jedi cloud contract “sets dangerous precedent”, says AWS
27 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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U.S. Justice Dept weighs stripping federal funds from cities allowing 'anarchy'
27 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
27 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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The economics of fun – The secret economics of a VIP party
27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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'Moonshot' hype illustrates the UK government's obsession with tech hyperbole
27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Show HN: Pooductivity – An extension to replace productivity with the poo emoji
27 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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SoftBank Nearing Deal to Sell Arm Holdings to Nvidia for More Than $40B
27 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Named to Amazon Board of Directors
27 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Information, incentives, and goals in election forecasts [pdf]
26 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo
26 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Iced: x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder in Rust
26 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Donald Trump taxes report published/leaked
26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Victor Hugo, a SEO tool for Hugo based sites (opinions pls)
26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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The JPMorgan Trading Desk the U.S. Called a Crime Ring
26 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming
26 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Show HN: We made a meeting companion app on macOS to improve remote meetings
26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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How much does a bad hire cost?
26 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Higher ground: the expert guide to making the perfect cup of coffee at home
26 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Musings on the Impossibility of Testing
26 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Lithium find in Cornwall spurs hopes of regeneration
26 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Are We in a Reddit Trading Bubble?
26 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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A self-erasing chip for security and anti-counterfeit tech
26 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Evaluating Schwarz–Christoffel Maps in Pie Slices
26 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Lenovo goes all in with the Linux desktop with two dozen+ Ubuntu powered PCs
26 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Simon Says: 'Invent'
26 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Apple Delays iPhone Ad Tracking Changes That Rattled Industry
26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Motion sensing using the doppler effect in browser
26 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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The Passport is one of society's longest-running temporary hacks
26 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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The CIA and the Intellectuals (1967)
26 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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The Making of Quake Soundtrack; Carmack, McGee, Nine Inch Nails
26 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Four Golden Lessons (2003)
26 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Tesla Tire Costs 10× Battery Cost, & My Plan to Deflate Tire Costs 90%
26 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires
26 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Show HN: Hotpot – A tool to make graphic design easier
26 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Amazon Spent $24,000 to Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban
26 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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I speak with a computerized voice. Republicans used it to put words in my mouth
26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Jeff Bezos's gain during Covid is enough to give all his employees a $105k bonus
26 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?
26 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008)
26 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence
26 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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How can Ceasefire be self-supporting?
26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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The Feedback Loop of Productivity
26 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Seeing our own reflection in the birth of the self-portrait
26 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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KDevelop – A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP
26 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track
26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Personality traits affect the open source development process
26 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Ask HN: How have you successfully managed upwards?
26 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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A Detailed History of MongoDB
26 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
26 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Show HN: Glowbom – Using voice to make software
26 points • comment • sep 05, 2020