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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland
12 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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AARD Code
12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]
12 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Only one in ten medical treatments are backed by high-quality evidence
12 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus
12 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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13 Beautiful Tools to Enhance Online Teaching and Learning Skills
12 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite
12 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Invisible Science: The Scientization of the Ordinary (2016)
12 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring
12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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A Physicist Has Discovered Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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The Changing World Order
12 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Guy builds mesmerizing kinetic sculptures [video]
11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit
11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Ask HN: How to make home network secured
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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$100k in bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers earn $100M, DOJ says
11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs: The Books They Recommended
11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do recommendation algorithms suck?
11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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On writing and selling science fiction stories (2018)
11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Don DeLillo: The Word, the Image, and the Gun (2013)
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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The IRS offers a $625,000 bounty to anyone who can break Monero and Lightning
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Apple owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers
11 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse
11 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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‘The Innovation Delusion’ Review: Mistaking Novelty for Progress
11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Newsom orders phaseout of gas vehicles, calls for fracking ban
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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TLS 1.3 to be outlawed in Russia soon
11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Why It Is Risky to Have a Woke CEO
11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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After 20 Years of Web Development, I Am Ready for Disruption
11 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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This week in KDE: fixing up Plasma 5.20
11 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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IHP: Live Reloading Haskell Code, How It Works
11 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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A List of Skills and PracticesWe Use to Train Our DevOps Internally
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Identifying and Eliminating Unintentional Ambiguity in Written Communication
11 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Ask HN: Advice for Multiplayer Back End
11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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What If Trump Refuses to Concede?
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice
11 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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JuliaLang GSoC 2020 Wrap-Up
11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Private data gone public: Razer leaks 100k gamers’ personal info
11 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Remote-work visas will shape the future of work, travel and citizenship
11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Show HN: Market your product to 1m+ journalists
11 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars
11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Bill Gates was like Michael Jordan while running Microsoft
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that adds eyes to Zoom's Post Attendee page
11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Show HN: Recipe nutrition calculator focusing on micronutrients
11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Researchers discover a specific brain circuit damaged by social isolation
11 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Apple CEO impressed by remote work, sees permanent changes
11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
11 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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NSCache (2012)
11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland
11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Ask HN: What usable mobile phone do you recommend for privacy conscious users?
11 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Git Secrets: 7 Commands You Might Not Know
11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Twitter to investigate apparent racial bias in photo previews
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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The Revolutionary Thoreau
11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths
11 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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The right and wrong way to set up Python 3 on macOS (2019, updated 2020))
11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Rust climake: The simple, dependency-less CLI library
11 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Mypy – Optional Static Typing for Python
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space (Basically) for Free
11 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Why is SO running a promoted tweet with scaremongering Wikipedia misinformation?
11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Show HN: sus – static site based URL shortener
11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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AIX or Linux on Power
11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Percival Everett, the Art of Fiction No. 235 (2017)
11 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Australian conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $ for online posts
11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Verizon to buy wireless services provider Tracfone in $6.25B deal
11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Ask HN: You've got $300 to fill an empty library. What do you choose?
11 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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How to Interpret the Phosphine Discovery on Venus
11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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McConnell says Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg ‘will receive a [Senate] vote’
11 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Explainer: L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 Cache
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Trump agrees to deal in which TikTok will partner with Oracle and Walmart
11 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Principles for Naming a Brand
11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Start Measuring Web Vitals with Cloudflare
11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose a Russian spy network?
11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Bpython
11 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Universal Pictorial Picks (2018)
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Elvis in the Box
11 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Future Propaganda Will Be Computer Generated
11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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QAnon Website Shuts Down After N.J. Man Identified as Operator
11 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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THIS IS SDPARTA ! Easter Egg in Firefox WebRTC Implementation
11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Vilified Early over Lax Virus Strategy, Sweden Seems to Have Scourge Controlled
11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Amazon Empl. Warns Internal Groups They’re Being Monitored for Labor Organizing
11 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Recommendations for physical intrusion detection in pastures
11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Four Ex-eBay Employees to Admit Guilt in Cyberstalking Plot
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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From the Seabed, Figures of an Ancient Cult
11 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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Loko Scheme, an optimizing R6RS Scheme compiler
11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Trying to fix my Linux graphics issues
11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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/e/OS redefines the mobile OS paradigm for a more sustainable world
11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Thought capitalism couldn't get worse? Meet the workplace spiritual consultants'
11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
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Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse
11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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AmazonBasics products are going up in flames, but are still on the market
11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Colleges should offer a major in sports. It could solve some problems
11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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You do not own your own content
11 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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ActivityPub Conf 2020 talks are now available
11 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Rogue Ads from Google Prompt You to Download a Spurious Text File
11 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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GitHub Default Branch Changes
11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office
11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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Princeton's cheap, empty virtue-signaling may prove expensive
11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Is Palantir's Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?
11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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California Endures Kiln-Like Heat as Fires Rage
11 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Gravity-Based Energy Storage Begins Trials 2021
11 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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American date format leads to arrest in Spain
11 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Tesla unveils new 4680 battery cell: bigger, 6x power, and 5x energy
11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020