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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation
81 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The Ghidra Book
81 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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How to Design an Algorithm (2018)
81 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?
81 points • comment • oct 13, 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
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DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federal antitrust law today
81 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?
80 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Keeping Calm: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
80 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin
80 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Availability of cookies affects evaluation of teaching (2018)
80 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Zoom and Gloom
80 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Grid Computing with Plan 9 Ants
80 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Uber: “Yes on Prop 22” popups shown to drivers
80 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf]
80 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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FreeCAD BIM development news
80 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Palo Alto Tiny BASIC in the Browser
80 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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AMD Has Scaled Ryzen Faster Than Any Other CPU in the Past 20 Years
80 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Terraform at Scale
80 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Everything I know about elite America I learned from Fresh Prince and West Wing
79 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Giving up on wlroots-rs (2019)
79 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX
79 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Covid: Belgian doctors with coronavirus asked to keep working
79 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs
79 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]
79 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Complexity in Operating Systems
79 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Show HN: Lucia – 3kB Vue Alternative
79 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100
79 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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“Powered by” buttons for customer acquisition
79 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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The Niche I am Looking to Fill
79 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011)
78 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to
78 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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HP-28S Battery Compartment Door
78 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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A Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation
78 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25
78 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
78 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Issue Grooming
78 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Facebook Continues Its Bullshit with Oculus Accounts
78 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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First-ever footage of a ram's horn squid in its natural habitat 800m deep
78 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Why Twilio Acquired Segment
78 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)
78 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts
78 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’
78 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS
78 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium
77 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Show HN: Feature Rich Wiki for Microsoft Teams
77 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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For reliable excess returns, VC funds need 500 investments
77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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The Elusive Peril of Space Junk
77 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots
77 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Hacked hospital chain says all 250 US facilities affected
77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Spaced Repetition (2019)
77 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Your Response to Mistakes Defines You (2014)
77 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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4x4 Macro Pad Kit
77 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures
77 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Deno 1.5
77 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality
77 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Boa: an experimental Javascript lexer, parser and compiler written in Rust
77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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What does I/O bound mean? (2008)
77 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Big O, Little N
77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Versus – Find alternatives to a product or service
76 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The YouTube-DL Takedown
76 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Overmind.js – Frictionless State Management
76 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)
76 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Women’s gymnastics is legal child abuse
76 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Show HN: I built a site to compare Presidential Candidates speeches side-by-side
76 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Quest for the Whistler Button
76 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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New York City thinks up to half of restaurants will close permanently [pdf]
76 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores
76 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]
76 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Most homebuyers and renters not warned about flood or wildfire risk
76 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?
76 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates
76 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: Create a 3D book cover and embed it on your website
75 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Let's Build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell
75 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Racket: Parsing propositional logic in 33 lines
75 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Internet of Plastic Things, No Batteries or Electronics Required
75 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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How to arm Caesarean babies with the gut bacteria they need
75 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Tesla is fighting a Right-to-Repair initiative in Massachusetts
75 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey
75 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
75 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The truth about ferrites
75 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Show HN: A Product Idea Prompt Generator
75 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Three Ways of DevOps
75 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective against Covid-19
75 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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s7 – Scheme implementation intended as extension language for other applications
74 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Is Twitter Down?
74 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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“This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”
74 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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RC – The Plan 9 Shell (c. 1990) [pdf]
74 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Big Companies Are Starting to Swallow the World
74 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)
74 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Show HN: Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine
73 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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What can a pipe wrench teach us about software engineering?
73 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?
73 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone
73 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilon
73 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
73 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
73 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (2011)
73 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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California Is Built to Burn
73 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
73 points • comment • oct 04, 2020