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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread
49 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Noam Chomsky GCAS Lecture
49 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Lossless Compression of English Short Messages
49 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs
49 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Show HN: URL Shortener Optimized for QR Code
48 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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You Don’t Need a Blockchain, You Need a Time-Series Database
48 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture
48 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Fact Checks and Context for Wayback Machine Pages
48 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Marriott £18.4m over breach
48 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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The Digital Divide Starts with a Laptop Shortage
48 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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What happened to South America's missing mega-mammals?
48 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Wisconsin report confirms Foxconn’s so-called LCD factory isn’t real
48 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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WhatWG: Proposal – Update XPath to at least v2.0
48 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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The new minimum salaries in finance and tech for H1B visas
48 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Reverse Engineering the Japanese Sentence
48 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Plausible Analytics Isn't GDPR Compliant
48 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (1998)
48 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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The Programmer's Price (2014)
48 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Developer Advice to Self
48 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Learning Haskell – Miscellaneous Enlightenments
48 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition
47 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Model fits in a tweet and predicts all elections since 1960
47 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Danish chef spent ten years infiltrating North Korea
47 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Is it time to stop counselling patients to “finish the course of antibiotics”?
47 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Microsoft Edge dev preview for Linux
47 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies without complaining
47 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenza and pneumonia
47 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Blizzard: Starcraft II Update
47 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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iPhone 12 does not come with power charger or earbuds in the box
47 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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MusicNet (2016)
47 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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React is Dead, Long live Reactive Rails
47 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle
47 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run
47 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
47 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View
47 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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The Last Ent of Affric (2019)
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Live-streamed $375k deal for Pokémon cards ended in disaster
47 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Why Are We Living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction? (2019)
47 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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We Open Sourced Docs.github.com
47 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code
47 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Kazakhstan, Reversing Itself, Embraces ‘Borat’ as Nice
47 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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What is the PDP-11 instruction set?
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Large single compilation-unit C programs (2006)
46 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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State-Transition Tables
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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MicroMod – A modular prototyping platform for interchanging microcontrollers
46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Planka – an open-source self-hosted Trello-like app
46 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Six Tips to Ace a SQL Interview
46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?
46 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor
46 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Bytecode Alliance: One year update
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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De Bruijn Sequences (2011) [video]
46 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom
46 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
46 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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ICO investigation into use of personal information and political influence [pdf]
46 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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A Page Load Time Comparison of Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 Web Servers
46 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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FEATool Multiphysics – Physics Simulation Made Easy
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Google’s Project Zero discloses Windows 0day that’s been under active exploit
46 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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The Origins of Precision [video]
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Emily Dickinson Lexicon
46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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At what grade level do presidential candidates debate at?
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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NixOS 20.09 Released
46 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Review
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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What Is Amazon? (2019)
45 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Best programmable robot for a child with SDK?
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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White House pushing no-bid spectrum sale to Thiel-backed Rivada
45 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics
45 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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A company whose name was an XSS injection attack
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium (1999)
45 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease
45 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Apple blocks widow from honouring husband's dying wish
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Diving into /proc/pid/mem
45 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Pytest-austin: performance regression testing with no instrumentation
45 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Sony Unveils 'Spatial Reality Display' with Eye-Tracking for Glasses-Free 3D
45 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Star Wars Asciimation (2015)
45 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Man charged for 'liking' photo of murdered French teacher
45 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Microsoft Edge WebView2 is production ready
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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What Palantir and the LAPD Know About You
45 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Reverse Engineering a North Korean Sim City Game
45 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support
44 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Get free backup service for your database and storage
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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No More Bold Visions of the Future
44 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub
44 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Asteroids: By the Numbers
44 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Names and Identities Change – You Should Design for That
44 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Pepsi Once Owned the World’s 6th Largest Military Fleet
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Amazon can smell the blood in Ads. And it’s going for it
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Tell HN: HN now displays the GitHub or Twitter username in the truncated URL
44 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?
44 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars
44 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Throne of Games
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’
44 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Microsoft probed by US government over aim to double black staff numbers
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Founder Paydays at Exit (IPO)
44 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Tech gig worker underclass: customer service reps who have to pay to talk to you
44 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Amazon Q3 2020
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Custom Bullets with CSS:Marker
44 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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On a Typical Day: Daniel Ek
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Peter Weir’s 'Witness' (2017)
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2020