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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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The IRS Is Outgunned
35 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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BBC finds Facebook failed to remove child abuse (2017)
35 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Automatic Optical Illusions Using Python and OpenCV
35 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Self-erecting pneumatic structures (2000) [pdf]
35 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Euro English
35 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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New Relic employees report unrest over work culture, CEO’s donations
35 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Show HN: Hacktoberfix, Fix your October already
35 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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My doctor gave a wrong neurological diagnosis. I should know: I'm a neurologist
35 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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10 years, 8 months and 12 days
35 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
35 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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bat, a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting, Git integration written in Rust
35 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Fund manager: ‘Nightmare’ US stock valuations driven by ‘young, dumb’ investors
35 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Time Gun – Maps
35 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Nokia Composer in 512 bytes of JavaScript
35 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard
35 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Silicon Valley and Defense Tech
34 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Sweden is moving away from its no-lockdown strategy
34 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Nature supports Joe Biden for US president
34 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Get Your Facebook Account in ‘Good Standing’ Before Buying Oculus Quest 2
34 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told
34 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Show HN: Learning Project: building an imperative language
34 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Show HN: SixtyFPS – multi-language GUI toolkit for desktop/embedded
34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Cassini Data Solves Mystery of Arecibo Radar Signals on Titan
34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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BlazingSQL Speeds Up Queries on Summit Supercomputer with GPU-Accelerated SQL
34 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Don’t Find Mentors. Find Your Future Self
34 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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DNA ties Ashkenazi Jews to group of just 330 people from Middle Ages
34 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Reddit will now pay all US employees SF/NYC salary regardless of where they live
34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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India’s engineers have thrived in the tech industry. So has its caste system
34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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What Is a Worldview? (2001)
34 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Show HN: Learn Programming Basics in 40 Minutes
34 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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SEC just paid a record $114M to a whistleblower
34 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Late Aaron Swartz is omitted from the founders page of Reddit
34 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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US Department of Justice to file antitrust lawsuit against Google
34 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study
34 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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At Home Covid-19 Testing for Pirates – Hello Virology
34 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes
34 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Bash Bracket Cheat Sheet (By Julia Evans)
34 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Pandemic fatigue may be setting in across much of the world
34 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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IBM Watson's Next Challenge: Modernize Legacy Code
34 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The Death of the Full Moon Party
34 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)
34 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Swedish virologist says her country's strategy has failed, but nobody admits it
34 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Did You Write Mine?
34 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Hardware-as-a-Service
33 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Utubster downloads YTB playlists, MP4 videos and MP3s from almost any website
33 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Golden Dawn Found Guilty of Running Criminal Organization in Greece
33 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 Covid tests in England
33 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]
33 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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A Free Hyperlegible Typeface from the Braille Institute
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Remotion raises $13M to build video workspace for short spontaneous conversation
33 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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With Hunter Biden Expose, Suppression Is a Bigger Scandal Than the Actual Story
33 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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A potential employee’s guide to Silicon Valley startup equity
33 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women
33 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)
33 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Recursion Revisited
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Acorns in the Middle Ages
33 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device
33 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Rejuvenating Autoconf
33 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake'
33 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Kubernetes: Curated List of Tools and Resources
33 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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CG/SQL: Easy, accurate code generation for SQLite
33 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Ask HN: How does WhatsApp make money?
33 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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'I never saw stars': Gene therapy brings back 8-year-old Canadian boy's sight
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Bay Area co-living startup HubHaus implodes, stranding renters and homeowners
33 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
33 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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New Geologic Map Reveals Portland's Deep History
33 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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The Life and Death of SNET, Havana's Alternative Internet
33 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Stripe's Political Correctness
33 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Arm’s Transactional Memory Extension support in gem5
33 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Yelp to place “alert” on businesses accused of racism
33 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Optical receiver for space communications has ‘unprecedented’ sensitivity
33 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Generating bingo cards with clojure.spec, Clojure/test.check, RDD and TDD
33 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Reducing Abusive Notification Content
33 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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It Pays to Be a Space Case
33 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
33 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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The Age of Scurvy (2017)
33 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Millennials the largest share of the U.S. workforce, control 4.6% of U.S. wealth
33 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Show HN: App to create object detection projects without coding
33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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We left the UK for Portland expecting a liberal dream. That wasn’t the reality
32 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Historical Thesaurus of English
32 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Sneaky Sliders
32 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: An AMA with Cory Doctorow
32 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Pattern Matching in Python
32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters
32 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism
32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects
32 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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The persistence of COBOL: why a 60-year old language is still in demand
32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Covid-19 Vaccine Protocols Reveal That Trials Are Designed to Succeed
32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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What it's like to write a book that gets censored
32 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Pope endorses same sex civil unions
32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Tech companies are clamoring to give you credit cards
32 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Image processing techniques that you can use in machine learning projects
32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter
32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Memgraph DB 1.1
32 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Show HN: Betafeedback – Tools for Feedback Loops and Sprint Reviews
32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Hi, I'm shitoberfest. Tag me with hacktoberfest vandalism
32 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Documentation-driven development for APIs
32 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations for 2020
32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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More Taste: Less Greed? Or, Sending Unix to the Fat Farm (1990)
32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Fredrik deBoer on the taboo of admitting some kids just aren't good at school
32 points • comment • oct 24, 2020