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Hacker News (Sep 2020)
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Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years
9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Bitcoin, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Future of Money
9 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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World failing to meet all biodiversity goals, says UN
9 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration
9 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Data and Reality, 2nd Edition
9 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown
9 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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The History of the Electric Scooter
9 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
9 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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Ask HN: What software has improved your life the most?
9 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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The Millennials Are Coming for the Boomers' Money
9 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your favorite weeklong courses not related to work?
9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable
9 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Dictionary.com revises definitions to eliminate prejudiced language
9 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Losing the Right to Encryption Means Losing Business
9 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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The surprising secret hidden in a pregnancy test
9 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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Apple will no longer terminate Epic’s usage of ‘Sign In with Apple’
9 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust
9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Emily Ratajkowski on Reclaiming Her Own Image
9 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Man flying a jet pack spotted at LAX
9 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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In its 5th filing with the SEC, Palantir finally admits it is not a democracy
8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Tesla to Sell as Much as $5B of Shares After Rally
8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Form Follows Function: On Louis Sullivan’s Kindergarten Chats
8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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A conversation with Bloomberg Beta venture capitalist Roy Bahat
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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China bans Scratch, MIT’s programming language for kids – TechCrunch
8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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What Tesla will put in its new batteries
8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Diffbot's Natural Language API
8 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
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Killer whales launch ‘orchestrated’ attacks on sailing boats
8 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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Microsoft report shows increasing sophistication of cyber threats
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Facts You Need to Know About Google on Its 21st Birthday
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink in the field
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Implementing Records in X7
8 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
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The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know
8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Geneva to raise minimum wage to £3,500 a month
8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Moobot vs. Gatebot:Cloudflare Auto Blocks Botnet DDoS Attack Topping at 654 Gbps
8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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“yarn is dead, long live npm”
8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Why Magic Leap Failed
8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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U.S. Border Patrol Digital Forensics Programs [pdf]
8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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Blur attacks bypass Bluetooth Classic and BLE security mechanisms CVE-2020-15802
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Show HN: Explore breathtaking places from home with 360° Audio Tours
8 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
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An Asymmetric Landscape: The Different Shapes of Blue and Red News
8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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MicroG 0.2.12 released, adds support for Covid-19 contact tracing apps
8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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The Truman Show Delusion
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Stack Overflow is buying reviews for Teams
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Ask HN: How does a product like Snowflake pitch itself to customers
8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Amazon Wants Alexa to Move into Your Apartment Before You Do
8 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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New Covid Cases Soar in Denmark, Surpassing No-Lockdown Sweden
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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RISC-V: What’s Missing and Who’s Competing
8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Disqus Comments Has Been Hacked
8 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
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Show HN: A Chrome extension to help save books you want to read
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Hong Kong shocked by violent police arrest of 12-year-old girl
8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Microsoft Teams Is Down
8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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U.S. Military Seeks Authorization to Expand Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya
8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
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As humanity ages the numbers of people with dementia will surge
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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A 'Cure for Heart Disease'? a Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys
8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK
8 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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Is it time we started killing spammers? (2010)
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Semantic Import Versioning is unsound
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Ang Rita–who climbed Everest record 10 times 1983-96 without added O2–dies at 72
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Podjeli: A dumb new way to share files online
8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Remote working has negative effects
8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
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Show HN: OOTB Code-Server, Easiest “VSCode on Browser” + HTTPS and GitHub Auth
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Healthcare giant UHS hit by ransomware attack
8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Why would a bot (or person) leave these identical nonsense IMDB reviews?
8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
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Genetic algorithm discovers 5 reflected TCP amplification attacks
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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Microsoft Edge on Linux preview is coming in October
8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
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Scaling Up Fundamental Quantum Chemistry Simulations on Quantum Hardware
8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Quibi Explores Strategic Options Including a Possible Sale
8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
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How Do I Hide All Firefox Browser Welcome Pages?
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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The Pandemic Has Parents Fleeing from Schools–Maybe Forever
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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UK scores an own goal with its Digital Services Tax
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Show HN: WunderGraph - the GraphQL BFF to Aggregate APIs + OIDC Auth + Caching
8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
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Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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Dupes and Fellow Travelers (1949)
8 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
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I’m Leaving the West Coast
8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
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America is trapped in a pandemic spiral
8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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Tawk of the Town
8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Show HN: CUDA Pathtracer with Lots of Features
8 points • comment • sep 20, 2020
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The Great Filter of Startups
8 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
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Facebook and Instagram Down
8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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Palantir Apollo: Powering SaaS where no SaaS has gone before
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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Exponent Rule for Derivative: An Introduction
8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
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Only About 3.5 Percent of Americans Care About Democracy
8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Dozens of Amazon's own products have been reported as dangerous
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Greatest Musical Albums of All Time
8 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
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Speeding up HTTPS and HTTP/3 negotiation with DNS
8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
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Donald Trump Nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
8 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
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US to Sell Taiwan Drones; Rockets
8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
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New Electronics Book Honors Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims III
8 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
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We built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue
8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
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India bans PUBG and over 100 additional Chinese apps
8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
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Clearing up mysteries – The original goal (1989) [pdf]
8 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
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Numan Türle adds every Gitlab user to project
8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
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What happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Deanonymization of police officers in Belarus could be a game-changer
8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
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Learning the concept of even numbers (differentiable ILP; my first paper impl.)
8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
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Ominous map shows the entire West Coast with the worst air quality on Earth
8 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
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Is this an eggplant which I see before me?
8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
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CNN report finds Amazon's own products are being flagged as fire hazards
8 points • comment • sep 12, 2020