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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Pattern Matching in Python
32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Historical Thesaurus of English
32 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter
32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump
32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Tech companies are clamoring to give you credit cards
32 points • comment • oct 26, 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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Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub
31 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Why can't banking practices change to prevent money-forwarding scams?
31 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Thumbnails and Screenshots using FFmpeg
31 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Design patterns, Smalltalk, and the lost art of reading code
31 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Illuminated Mercedes-Benz badge can cause power steering failure
31 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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3Blue1Brown Made It to π Million Subscribers
31 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Platform Liquidity: Why Economic Incentives Matter
31 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Jonathan Edwards was both 'a nemesis and an avatar' of the Enlightenment
31 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Node.js malware caught posting IPs, username, and device info on GitHub
31 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3k Years Ago
31 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Talked about my fave cereals now I see ads for the exact cereals. How?
31 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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ARM64 Performance in .NET 5
31 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos?
31 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Linux 5.10 Will Have a Fully Lock-Less Ring Buffer
31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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LUMI to become the world's fastest supercomputer
31 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Florida Gov. DeSantis attempts to vote, discovers someone changed his address
31 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Email cannot be encrypted at rest
31 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Show HN: C++17 RISC-V RV32GC / RV64GC userspace emulator library
31 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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ArsDigita: From Startup to Bust-Up (2001)
31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company
31 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Will Facebook be a badge of shame on a resume?
31 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Large inequality in international energy footprints between income groups
31 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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A Computer Dungeon Slash Postmortem
31 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Why the Swedish Model for Fighting Covid-19 Is a Disaster
31 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Amazon SNS FIFO – First-in-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging
31 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Redefining Software Quality
31 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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React v17.0
31 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Billionaires see fortunes rise by 27% during the pandemic
31 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust
31 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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UX of Speculative Brain-Computer Inputs
31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Facebook is losing users in the US and Canada
31 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The Physicist’s New Book of Life
31 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Preparing for Solopreneurship
31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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My Dad, the Pornographer (2015)
31 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Show HN: Optimizt – CLI image optimization tool for front end developers
30 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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AWS Is Not Your Ideal
30 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
30 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Bloodletting in Mongolia
30 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Sony will let PS5 owners record their voice chats and snitch on fellow players
30 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Yet another alternative to floating-point numbers
30 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Sketch – Part of your world: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app
30 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Do Masks on Plane Flights Really Cut Your Risk of Catching Covid-19?
30 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs
30 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Tesla Starts Full Self-Driving Beta Rollout
30 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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It's kinda like phrenology but worse
30 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Calliope: Automatic Visual Data Story Generation from a Spreadsheet [pdf]
30 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Mystery Weapon Attacks Continuing, Even on U.S. Soil
30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Onepanel – Production scale, Kubernetes-native vision AI platform
30 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Good Intentions, Bad Inventions: Myths of Healthy Tech [pdf]
30 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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95% of Marine Life on Sea Floor Killed in Kamchatka Eco-Disaster, Scientists Say
30 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Retool Nears $1B Valuation with Funding from Sequoia
30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Implement a retro game in JavaScript with MakeCode Arcade style sprites
30 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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The Rise and Fall of Quicksand (2010)
30 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Twitter Drops the Big One
30 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The World Henry Ford Made
30 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What should a software engineering Hippocratic Oath equivalent be?
30 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The Fascinating Influence of Cyclone (2019)
30 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
30 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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You're Allowed to Write Slow Rust Code
30 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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A12 – Advancing Network Transparency on the Desktop
30 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Coronavirus could age the brain by 10 years or cause IQ to fall
30 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Network Rail Lifts and Escalators API
30 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Phase Detection vs. Contrast Detection Autofocus
30 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Gruber on ‘10 Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows’
30 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Show HN: Git-Retext
30 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Compiling without continuations (2017)
30 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is making money with HTML5 Games?
30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?
30 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Show HN: A simple app to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted text by default (Windows)
30 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest
30 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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A Bluffers Guide to CRDTs in Riak (2013)
30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Last Call for Gumshoes
30 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Ex-App Store head says Apple Arcade violates Apple's own policies
29 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Interdimensional Cable Box
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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U.S. Supreme Court warns of limitations to Section 230 platform indemnity [pdf]
29 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement
29 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Chemistry Nobel laureate uninvited from biodesign conference
29 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Harmful language in the RIAA's DMCA against YouTube-dl
29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Felony Charges Against Burkman, Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocall Investigation
29 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: Virtual Corn Maze
29 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Greek court rules far-right Golden Dawn leaders ran a crime group
29 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers
29 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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MIOS: IBM 5150 BIOS Replacement Project
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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State of AI Report 2020
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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The Basic Internet Fanzine (1995)
29 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Optimizations as a Company of One
29 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Classified knots: Researchers create optical framed knots to encode information
29 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The Database Is on Fire
29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Kubernetes SLOs with Prometheus and Linkerd
29 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Svelte: Cybernetically Enhanced Web Apps
29 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Scientific consensus on the Covid-19 pandemic: we need to act now
29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Sexagesimal
29 points • comment • oct 31, 2020