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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground
507 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Notes on My Colon Cancer
506 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
506 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Pressing YubiKeys
503 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
497 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
492 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
491 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Ruby on Rails in a week
491 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)
490 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make
489 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain
485 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Foundations of Software Engineering
485 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
484 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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PS5 Teardown [video]
484 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
484 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
482 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
482 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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A Theory of Software Architecture
481 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable
478 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
474 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Quibi Is Shutting Down
473 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
470 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it
468 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
465 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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100k Stars
464 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour
460 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
460 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”
459 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story
457 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
457 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
457 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Fuck You Sunday
455 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
454 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal
452 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust
452 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste
451 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
450 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
448 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones
444 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Wobblepaint
444 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
443 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon
439 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
439 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
434 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic
432 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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A small but complete JavaScript engine
431 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
430 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
429 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
428 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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We deleted the production database by accident
426 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Image Scaling Attacks
424 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
424 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Org Mode's new site
424 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job
423 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows
422 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
421 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Microsoft Tilecode
419 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
417 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Welcome to the Old Internet Again
417 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
416 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
416 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready
416 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Privacy is the most important concept of our time
414 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
413 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
412 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
411 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home
410 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
410 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)
410 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
409 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
409 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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14,000x Speedup (2015)
409 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
408 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people
405 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Y Combinator Failed Startups
404 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course
403 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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1Password for Linux beta
403 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
402 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out
402 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
402 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Parsing Algorithms
401 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet
401 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition
401 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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America's True Unemployment Rate
400 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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OAuth 3
400 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
399 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens
399 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
396 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
396 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Dockerfile Security Best Practices
396 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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United States vs. Google
395 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street
392 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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OptaPlanner – constraint solver for optimizing planning and scheduling problems
392 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit
391 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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On Abandoning the X Server
391 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
390 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
390 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
389 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
388 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
388 points • comment • oct 09, 2020