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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks
110 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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What’s so exciting about Postgres?
110 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Xen on Raspberry Pi 4
110 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Petit Fat File System Module
110 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
109 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Space Engine – The Universe Simulator
109 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Tools I use: argparse builder
109 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
109 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M
109 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space
109 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Unfck the Internet
109 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Introducing Semgrep and r2c
108 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese innovation
108 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?
108 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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GitHub Certifications (Beta)
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Ogden's Basic English
107 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
107 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Z80 CPU User Manual (2016)
107 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov
107 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit
107 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf]
107 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Is there a known recent Linux locking bug that affects the OCaml runtime?
107 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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1M Cell Minesweeper
107 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Gray Wolves to Be Removed from Endangered Species List
106 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
106 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Lisp and Haskell (2015)
106 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Packaging Kubernetes for Debian
105 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops
105 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
105 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
105 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis
105 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Transparent wood could be the window of the future
105 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns
105 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Show HN: Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile
105 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
105 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Lawmakers Want to Protect Local Newspapers From Google, Facebook
105 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers
105 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul
105 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (2017)
104 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Homotopy Type Theory (2012) [pdf]
104 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging
104 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros
104 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound
104 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves
104 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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An opinionated history of programming languages
104 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Colorized and upscaled footage of a snowball fight filmed in 1896
104 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn
104 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Show HN: GridRoyale, a life simulation for exploring social dynamics
104 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Grid: AI platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning
104 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Glenn Greenwald Resigns from the Intercept
104 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Translation Units Considered Harmful?
103 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Python typosquatting is about more than typos
103 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API
103 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
103 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement
103 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Forcing Functions in Software Development
103 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?
102 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot
102 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The curious case of Romanian broadband
102 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF
102 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac
102 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?
102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Show HN: Gurlic – Free and Open Communities
102 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Asciidoctor
102 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
102 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack
102 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains
102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?
102 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Charles Lindbergh is the reason the U.S. doesn't have cameras in the courtroom
102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer
101 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you
101 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Tesla Earning Result 3Q 2020 [pdf]
101 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Report on Investigation of Twitter’s July 15, 2020 Cybersecurity Incident
101 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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“Within 24h of launch a majority of miners are already on strike” Consequences?
101 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection
101 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Prefer Fakes over Mocks
101 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers
101 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Incomplete Beginner’s Guide to Smalltalk
100 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware
100 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Parallel Tracks
100 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
100 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
100 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices
100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Which McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are Broken?
100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Frama-C: Modular Analysis of C Programs
100 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
99 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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White Women Need Not Apply
99 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working?
99 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Goodbye, Native Apps
99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
99 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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A tale from the trenches fixing an NES
99 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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How to play the piano: On Glenn Gould
99 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?
99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Getting noticed as a remote engineer
99 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages
99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says
99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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How to count every language in India (2018)
99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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All Telegram servers are down
99 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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The Three Sides of Risk
99 points • comment • oct 11, 2020