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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Language Design with Leo White
99 points • comment • oct 24, 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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Everything you need to know about windsocks
98 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019)
98 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The strange new world of being a deepfake actor
98 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner
98 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim
98 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The Making of “My Octopus Teacher“
98 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Pay attention to the Indian startup scene
98 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins in Search for 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims
98 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
98 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (2015)
97 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
97 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Mission Protocol
97 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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A gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service
97 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1993)
97 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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OnlyFans Faces Allegations of Fraud, Theft
97 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?
97 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Cognition All the Way Down
97 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust
97 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Hetty: An HTTP toolkit for security research
97 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear
97 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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WordPress's Matt in debate with Netlify's Matt
97 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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The Fall of Silicon Valley
97 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Weird A.I. Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics
97 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot
97 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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The Citroën Ami and the future of urban transportation
96 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Avoiding Worry Driven Development
96 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Publishing an F-Droid Repo using a Hardware Security Module
96 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase
96 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Jupyter Notebooks Gallery
96 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Building Netflix's Distributed Tracing Infrastructure
96 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take
96 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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GDPR watchdog: tracking and consent popups unlawful
96 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux
96 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer
95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods
95 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change
95 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (2018)
95 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Feral pig populations have grown to unmanageable numbers
95 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce
95 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (2016)
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
95 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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NetBSD 9.1
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock
95 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Odroid-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The self-driving car is a red herring
95 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation
95 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Bead Sort
95 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock
95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year
95 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming
94 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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State of Independent SaaS
94 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying
94 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?
94 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75
94 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released
94 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The pandemic turned my parents into day traders
93 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday
93 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Custom Allocators Demystified
93 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018)
93 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work
93 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible
93 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Breach at Dickey’s BBQ Smokes 3M Cards
93 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Labelled procedure calls
93 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Python 3.9
93 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka
93 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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A clear, strong, and thermally insulated wood for energy efficient windows
93 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (1945)
92 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Cockney Rhyming Slang History
92 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Durability: Linux File APIs
92 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Show HN: NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework
92 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates
92 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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40th Anniversary of the Ethernet
92 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project
92 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Guide to Visual Storytelling
92 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?
92 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996)
91 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Is your programming language unreasonable? (2015)
91 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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BMW fined $18M for providing inaccurate retail sales information to investors
91 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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The companies that bring us knife steel
91 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf]
91 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Unofficial ballot drop boxes worry California elections officials
91 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years
91 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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“Less than one”-shot learning
91 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Scaling the Root of the DNS
91 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Banks help scammers with their bad UI
91 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home
91 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19
90 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Google
90 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Orbital edge computing: nano satellite constellations as a computer system
90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws
90 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID19 shutdown
90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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How narcissistic leaders infect their organizations’ cultures
90 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response
90 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your trick to do deep work or study?
90 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus
90 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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CBR 1000RR LEDs
90 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Is wind power’s future in deep water?
90 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Overloading by Return Type in C++
90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020