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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Why Life Can’t Be Simpler
146 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code
146 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs
146 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
146 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial
146 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)
146 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Applying Textbook Data Structures for Real Life Wins
146 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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How to Interview Engineers
146 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE
146 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor
146 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel
146 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
146 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics (2019)
145 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8
145 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Cursed Elixir
145 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The Most Surveilled Cities in the World
145 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
144 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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A Youtube video downloader written in Go
144 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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How to Live with Dying
144 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Suicide Linux (2009)
144 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
144 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”
144 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Face retouching settings should be off by default
144 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done
144 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee has died
144 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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NixCon Live
143 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life
143 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort
143 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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The Xonsh Python Shell
143 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility
143 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Snap! 6 is here, and it's all about scale
143 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”
142 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada
142 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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How Microsoft went from “Linux is a cancer” to “Microsoft loves Linux”
142 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting
142 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI
142 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros
141 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Yahoo Groups is closing down
141 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Deprecating SHA1
141 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
141 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Spamtoberfest
141 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
141 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
141 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A web of trust for NPM
141 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)
141 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things
141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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GardaWorld lost track of millions
141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Letter from Raspberry Pi Foundation over trademark use
140 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Falling in love again with the haunting sounds of interwar Polish tango
140 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Rich Comment Blocks in Clojure
140 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
140 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018)
139 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs
139 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
139 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
139 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
139 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU
139 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Logs Seized from F-Secure’s VPN Must Be Destroyed, Court Rules
139 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog
139 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics
138 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption
138 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Updated BBC micro:bit
138 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene
138 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook
138 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Launch HN: Decentro (YC S20) – APIs for Banking Integrations in India
138 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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A tool that increased my typing speed
138 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
138 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet
138 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app
138 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Show HN: Collaboratively Edit Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
138 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)
138 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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US Seizes Domains Used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
138 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Pandemic sparked European cycling revolution
138 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes
138 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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A CIA Office Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches
138 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time
138 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers
138 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Geeking Out with UEFI
138 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?
137 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Java Concurrency – Understanding the Basics of Threads
137 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Proton 5.13: A Massive Update
137 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis
137 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers
137 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Shasqi (YC W15) aims to make chemotherapy more powerful and less toxic
137 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser
137 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Show HN: Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer
137 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
137 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars
137 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Show HN: Live map of “good morning/night” tweets
136 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Galileo's Ground Segment Problem
136 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
136 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019)
136 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
136 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Why Is There a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee?
136 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
135 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile
135 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools
135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors
135 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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UEFI-rs: Write UEFI applications in Rust
135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020