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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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I Hate My MacBook
59 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The programming architecture of Babbage's Analytical Engine [video]
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Concatenative Programming; the Free Monoid of Programming Languages (2019)
59 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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ClipDrop AR Copy Paste
59 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The Rise and Rise of Creativity
59 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Bombshell on Bribe Claims Threatens States’ Google Probe
59 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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New political polarization casts rivals as alien, unlikable, contemptible
59 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Understand a little about TCP (2015)
59 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The First 32-Bit PowerPC CPU
59 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Why Software Developers Suck at UX
59 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Product Demo Sucks Because It's Focused on Your Product
59 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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VW sees EVs making up 90% of Norway sales in 2021
59 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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US Army trials augmented reality goggles for dogs
59 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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The Carver Challenge (1985)
59 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies Decision Tree
58 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Precomp: Further compress files that are already compressed
58 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Don't Use VPN Services (2016)
58 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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The New Facebook Design Sucks
58 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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A Neighbourly Solution to the 'X Is Deprecated? ' Conundrum
58 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Monolith -> Services: A Sketchy Approach
58 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Nickel: Better Configuration for Less
58 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Luhmann's Original Zettelkasten Digitalized
58 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Think Fast: Tensor Streaming Processor for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads [pdf]
58 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Why Nerds Are Unpopular (2003)
58 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada (2018) [pdf]
58 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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We Lost Our Way on Human Rights
58 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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'My team will be able to program circles around everyone else' (2002)
58 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
57 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013)
57 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Crypto scammers piggybacking Trump’s Twitter, cloning Medium, stealing crypto
57 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand
57 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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A novel polymer should make 3D printing more effective
57 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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China's Draft 'Personal Information Protection Law' (Full Translation)
57 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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An artist who does extreme close-ups of utility poles
57 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The Usability of HTML Elements
57 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Boston Dynamics Spot Measured Background Radiation in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
57 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Streamlit Sharing
57 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Tesla slashes its used car warranty to one year or 10k miles
57 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Bootstrapping (2019)
57 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Why Read Boethius Today?
57 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell
57 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Clarifying exceptions and visualizing tensor operations in deep learning code
57 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? (2008)
57 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Extracting SSH Private Keys From Windows 10 SSH-agent (2018)
57 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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'changeme' is valid base64
57 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C
57 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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From Vector Spaces to Periodic Functions (2019)
57 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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If a Presidential Candidate Dies or Is Incapacitated Before Election Day
56 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Overview of universal scaler DS.D3663LUA, revitalization of Philips 42-inch TV
56 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Palantir goes public but founders will have control for life
56 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Did Apple build MagSafe so that cases can “stick” to the new iPhones?
56 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Water exists on the moon, scientists confirm
56 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Jetson Nano Developer Kit
56 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Git 2.29 Highlights
56 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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16,000 coronavirus cases missed in daily figures after IT error
56 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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We All Live in Don DeLillo’s World
56 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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iMac PowerPC G4
56 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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SpaceX Starlink TOS: the parties recognize Mars as a free planet
56 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School (2013)
55 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Hootsuite employee fired after speaking out about company's ICE deal
55 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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My prof gave me zero because ProctorU Review+ said that I was talking
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Uber sends political ads through push notifications
55 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Java Edition is moving house
55 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Show HN: Generate realistic handwriting with neural networks [demo]
55 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
55 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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What does code readability mean? (2018)
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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John Cocke, the father of RISC architecture
55 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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California Middle-Schooler Threatened with Jail for Missing 3 Zoom Classes
55 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery
55 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Four submerged villages found in Noordoostpolder
55 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Escaping Science's Paradox
55 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Let’s Build a Global Power Grid (2015)
55 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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An Introduction to the PC’s BIOS (2010)
55 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Farther Away: “Robinson Crusoe,” David Foster Wallace, and Solitude (2011)
55 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil
55 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago
55 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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GDPR Enforcement Tracker
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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SDLang – Simple Declarative Language
55 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Aerial view of a cruise ship graveyard
55 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Sweden Bans Huawei, ZTE from New 5G Infrastructure
55 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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The Canadian printer who successfully sued the Soviet Union
55 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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To protect democracy, journalists need to learn to think like hackers and spies
55 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Symptoma – Digital health assistant and symptom checker
55 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials
54 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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California's Vanishing Lakes and the Hunger of the Mines (2015)
54 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Git filter-repo: much easier/faster alternative to filter-branch
54 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
54 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Virgin Hyperloop picks West Virginia to test high-speed transport system
54 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
54 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Exxon to Slash 14,000 Jobs Worldwide as Oil Demand Drops
54 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Men can be fired for taking paternity leave
54 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Starting a Telephone Company in 2019, or How I Built Fiber to My Neighbors
54 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Announcing NetBSD 9.1
54 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Kautilya Arthashastra and its relevance to Urban Planning Studies [pdf]
54 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Separating Hype from Hydrogen: EU's 6GW Electrolyzer Plan
54 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Ask HN: The state of Firebase alternatives in 2020?
54 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Analogue Duo: FPGA Based TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine Clone
54 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Google Meet Security and Privacy for users
54 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Parsing RISC-V assembly
54 points • comment • oct 26, 2020