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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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The Nature of Lisp (2006)
66 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The power of two random choices
65 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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I switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years
65 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Efficient Evenly Distributed Sampling of Time Series Records in PostgreSQL
65 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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The - -var: ; hack to toggle multiple values with one custom property
65 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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LocalCDN – an extension that emulates CDN to improve your online privacy
65 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Steps For Better Online Privacy
65 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Fossil footprints: the longest known prehistoric journey
65 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
65 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Qt Support for State Charts
65 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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FBI arrests militia members plotting to kidnap Michigan governor
65 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school
65 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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AI’s “world in chains” scenario
65 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Raymarching with Fennel and LÖVE
65 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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BPG Image Format
65 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 100
65 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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I got hacked, lost crypto and what it says about Apple’s security. Part 1
65 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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E-6B Mercury airborne command just went active on east/west coasts
64 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Thinking About Recursion
64 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The Himalayan invention powered by pine needles
64 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Zuckerberg Throttled Traffic to Progressive News Sites
64 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets
64 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Deep interpolation – denoising data by removing independent noise
64 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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ARM32 Page Tables
64 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Row scrolling for parallax effects in Street Fighters 2
64 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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How to Read a Surface Weather Map
64 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Multi-screening may mess with your memory
64 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Own a Piece of the Internet in India
63 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Earn IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives
63 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Fear and Loathing in YAML
63 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Coal baron Robert Murray has died
63 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Deep Learning in Production Resource List
63 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A Guide to Deep Learning and Neural Networks
63 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Rook Graduation
63 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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I built an app to fix my depression
63 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild
63 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split
63 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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A parable about problem solving in software development (2013)
63 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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CP/67 CMS Operating System Source Code
63 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Large 2k-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines
63 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A Bayesian Perspective on Q-Learning
63 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)
63 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Is Reddit doing mass bot suspensions?
63 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The 8th Wonder of the World: Foxconn Mirage Factory in Wisconsin
63 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Google’s Internal Data Show Engineers Found It Harder to Code from Home
62 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Supercharging TensorFlow.js with SIMD and multi-threading
62 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Archive of tech interview questions of Google, Amazon, FB, Samsung and et al.
62 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Future gun control has been shot down
62 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Programming with a Read-Eval-Synth Loop [pdf]
62 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Gardening Your Twitter
62 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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A Better Mousetrap – Converting WebPages to Web APIs
62 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Boswell's Life of Johnson
62 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Tolstoy as philosopher
62 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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The Rome Toolchain: A linter, compiler, bundler, and more
62 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?
62 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Apple learned automation can't match human skill
62 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Online Activities for Remote Teams
62 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Global circulation of influenza viruses in 2020
62 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Kroomen: Black Slaver Hunters
62 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Probability and Statistics with Applications to Computing [pdf]
62 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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A Collection of application ideas to improve your coding skill
62 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal
61 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption
61 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL
61 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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What You Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (2018) [pdf]
61 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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PySpark Style Guide
61 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
61 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Crafting Functions
61 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Interview with David Vélez, founder of Brazil’s Nubank
61 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
61 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Tobler's First Law of Geography
61 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Nilang.jl – A Reversible Julia DSL
61 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit
61 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012)
61 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Algorand Consensus Protocol
61 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool
61 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
61 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Optimizing the Timing of Brainwork
61 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The Foundations of Liberia
61 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
61 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (2014)
61 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Show HN: Mental State of HN Users Before/After Lockdown
60 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think
60 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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NAPI Polling in Kernel Threads
60 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employees and visitors
60 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
60 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Dendrite (next-gen Matrix server) is entering beta
60 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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5 Arrested, charged as illegal agents for China (Re: PRC's 'Operation Fox Hunt')
60 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Show HN: Deploy to K8s without YAML using ShuttleOps
60 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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California Exodus: An online industry seizes Covid to sell the Red State Dream
60 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Measuring the Memory Overhead of a Postgres Connection
60 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Alan Turing – In Our Time
60 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
60 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Show HN: How to X with Y. Engineering questions, answered
60 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Polyform Licenses
60 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
59 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Show HN: WebCatalog – turn websites into desktop apps
59 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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New political polarization casts rivals as alien, unlikable, contemptible
59 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Eric Yuan's Visa Application Was Rejected 8 Times
59 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Why Software Developers Suck at UX
59 points • comment • oct 12, 2020