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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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What happened after Portugal decriminalised all drugs? [video]
44 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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London Pneumatic Despatch Company
44 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Get free backup service for your database and storage
44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Visualize Starlink's current coverage with active TLEs
44 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Federal Agents Say They Thwarted a Miltia Plot to Kidnap Michigan
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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On a Typical Day: Daniel Ek
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Making a heat treatment oven
43 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Which Cities Have the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?
43 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How
43 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; it is a moral crisis
43 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Is Microsoft preferable, from a privacy point of view, to Google?
43 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Software Freedom Conservancy: The Strategic GPL Enforcement Initiative
43 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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OberonScript: a safe scripting language and runtime for web apps (2007)
43 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Berlin's 'new' BER Airport: A story of incompetence and corruption – DW News
43 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Chess Captcha
43 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Escaping the Index of Prohibited Books
43 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Denver's STAR program removes police from low-level 911 calls
43 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (1981) [pdf]
43 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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TSP Tour in 3D through 2,079,471 stars
43 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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DOJ – International Statement: End-to-End Encryption and Public Safety
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Formal Models for Ethics
43 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Common problems I see in technical interviews
43 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience
43 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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AI outperforms humans in speech recognition
43 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Mac Keeps a Log of All Your Downloads
42 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Containers Are Linux (2017)
42 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML
42 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Darwin’s theory about atolls is ‘beautiful’ but wrong
42 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights
42 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945
42 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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A Prayer for Archimedes
42 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Singapore to treat infosec as equivalent public good to fresh running water
42 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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A Scientist’s Reckoning with the Cruelty of Chance
42 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (2017)
42 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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A History of the Russian Bathhouse
42 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Spinach-based catalysts could power fuel cells
42 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Qt 6 will provide additional libraries via Conan package manager
42 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Charles H. Turner, pioneer in animal cognition
42 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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How the Presidential Candidates Spy on Their Supporters
42 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Cross-Border Payments – A New Beginning
42 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Justice Department: Resolution with Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family
42 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Show HN: LaunchSong – A platform for artists to promote their music
42 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Neon Programming Language
42 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas
42 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.10 Released
41 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker
41 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: Uncover how your funds spend money in politics
41 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge
41 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Better than the Scoville scale? Chili-shaped device can rate pepper hotness
41 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Nvidia replaces video codecs with neural networks for virtual meetings
41 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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The Development of Robotron
41 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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SK-Intel NAND deal points to wider shake-up of chip sector
41 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Two Paradigms of Personal Computing
41 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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This Person Does Not Exist (2019)
41 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed
41 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates”
41 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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The Complexity Paradox (1998)
41 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users
41 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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The Hydraulic Press Channel Is the Internet Sensation of Our Time
40 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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In Dune, Paul Atreides led a jihad, not a crusade
40 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Mapipedia – Map your geotagged photos
40 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale [video]
40 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Why is my unused Vizio TV sending gigabytes of traffic every day?
40 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Scalable, Ultra Low Latency and Adaptive WebRTC Streaming
40 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Asteroids: By the Numbers (2019)
40 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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What Is Philosophy? A survey of some answers
40 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Thank you, uBlock Origin
40 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests
40 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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There’s a Hole in Your SoC: Glitching the MediaTek BootROM
40 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportable, 4G LTE Equipped
40 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Reddit removes Aaron Swartz from founders list
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Solid Relevance by Uncle Bob
40 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Finding reference customers for a SaaS product
40 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Google Workspace
40 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Tell HN: Y Combinator’s Work at a Startup Expo Is Online on Thurs, December 3rd
40 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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MicroCOVID: Estimate the Covid risk from your ordinary daily activities
40 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Peter Elson: Science Fiction Illustrator
40 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Interrupted Loops
40 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Vertices Required for Cycles
40 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Chaos Engineering in Healthcare: Getting Started with Sensitive Workloads
40 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
40 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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How Coronavirus Spreads (airborne update)
40 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Composer 2.0 is now available
40 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Draw on a PDF Online
40 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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World’s First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves into Energy
40 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Filecoin Mainnet Is Live
40 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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White noise as sleep aid may do more harm than good, say scientists
40 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Aim for Operability, Not SRE as a Cult
40 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Covering a cover-up in real time
40 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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78 days, and still no broadband (Sky/Openreach, UK)
40 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1 KLOC
40 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers
40 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Machine learning model helps characterize compounds for drug discovery
39 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Taking a new look at ancient books
39 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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UK: 16K Covid cases missed because an 'Excel spreadsheet maxed out’
39 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept
39 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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A Digital Euro
39 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save the Monarchy
39 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do with Theology
39 points • comment • oct 22, 2020