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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Overloading by Return Type in C++
90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff
90 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning
89 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Web Neural Network API
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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A ritual for your product increases satisfaction and spending
89 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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An Indian startup is abusing DMCA to curb online dissent against their products
89 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Declarative Shadow DOM
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The Developer Experience Gap
89 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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The Prize in Economic Sciences 2020
89 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh
89 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs
89 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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“I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”
89 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account
89 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The Corporatization of Nursing Homes
89 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Nginx Service Mesh
88 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Germany's Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing WhatsApp/Messenger backdoor
88 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?
88 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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When Plants Go to War
88 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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NASA WebGL of the Universe
88 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Haskell web framework IHP aims to make web development type-safe and easy
88 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
88 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Otvdm/winevdm: run old Windows software in 64-bit Windows
88 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Charisma: Now You’ve Got It, Now You Don’t
88 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?
88 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The shadow investment wars of Alibaba and Tencent
87 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Presidential Plinko
87 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: A site to help you validate ideas in bulk
87 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Cyclone Scheme
87 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Obscurix – Arch Linux-based OS configured for privacy, security and anonymity
87 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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CrimeOps: The Operational Art of Cyber Crime
87 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Show HN: Ajour – A GUI application in Rust to manage World of Warcraft addons
87 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease
87 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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USC's Dying Linebackers
87 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response
87 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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We Were Builders Once, and Strong
87 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water with the feds
86 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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The Walls of the Waldorf Astoria
86 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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AWS IAM having issues yet again
86 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The Long Road to HTTP/3
86 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it
86 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Going Viral as a Woman in Tech
86 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Beg the Question
86 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974)
86 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain
86 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning
86 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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How HN crushed David Walsh's blog
86 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Linux’s History (1992)
86 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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The Problem of Legacy IT Systems
85 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
85 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Hoppscotch – A free, fast API request builder
85 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Demo: iPhone as trackpad on macOS
85 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Lots of overnight tragedies, no overnight miracles
85 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?
85 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens
84 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Only existing market leaders are benefiting from coronavirus lockdowns
84 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Kafka in Pieces
84 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Developing for the Semantic Web
84 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and the Times
84 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Competition and Quarter-Life Crises
84 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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I'm paying over 10k to stare at a screen and be told to “teach myself”
84 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other languages with Meson
84 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
84 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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A 40KB Optimization Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth
83 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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2020 Had the Warmest September on Record, Data Shows
83 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64
83 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years
83 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux
83 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US and UK next week
83 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015)
83 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Why Europe Wins
83 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries
83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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An Almond-Based Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Depression in Diabetics
83 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Why build another website builder?
83 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Hexagonal Minesweeper with multiplayer, geographic maps, zoom and pan
83 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Embedded Programming Without the IDE
83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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CZ-4C R/B passed over LeoLabs Kiwi Space Radar – with no signs of debris
83 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Rust for Clojurists (2015)
83 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Viral effects are not network effects
83 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (1969)
82 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Malloc as a Service
82 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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When is no-code useful?
82 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers
82 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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A modular, extensible DIY NAS
82 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Old Laptops as Secondary Monitors
82 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19
82 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Facebook Q3 2020
82 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Telecom auctions have failed India
82 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool
82 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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RF Shielding Tips and Tricks
82 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Read-Only Mode for Better Rails Downtime
82 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash
82 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Free Email Templates for Developers
82 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Reproducible Machine Learning in production
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France
81 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (2009)
81 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Joe Rogan Experience #1556 – Glenn Greenwald
81 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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The Ghidra Book
81 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Where Are All the Successful Rationalists?
81 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Starlink Packet Routing
81 points • comment • oct 15, 2020