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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long-Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach
29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The Great Barrington Declaration
29 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Why Laugh at Quibi's Failure?
29 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Mental model to deliver high quality software
29 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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To Eleventy and Beyond
29 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The Stock Market Is on the Edge of a Historic Crash
29 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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On Cryptocurrencies (2018)
29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: From Ugaritic to Linear B
29 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The EU's Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption
29 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Qcdoc: Quantum Chromodynamics on a Chip (2015)
29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Using AWS Cloud9 for browser-based development
29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Apple removes browser for Stadia from App Store
29 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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A Brief History of Word Games
29 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Segmented Addressing Solves the Virtual Cache Synonym Problem (1997) [pdf]
29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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I Think Bluetooth Is Finally OK
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The Data of Long-Lived Institutions
29 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Coronavirus antibody prevalence falling in England, REACT study shows
29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Coronovirus: France to go into national lockdown for whole of November
29 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people'
29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Hanford unprepared for another radioactive tank waste leak, says federal audit
28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued
28 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How is architecture practiced at FAANG companies?
28 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Copper: A statically-typed, loose syntax programming language
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Data shows schools aren’t super-spreaders
28 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Building computers out of sliding block puzzles [pdf]
28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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President and First Lady Begin Quarantine Process Aide Tests Positive for Covid
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Fasting 3 days each quarter
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Dylan Playground
28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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The implementation of epoll (2014)
28 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Marginal Revolution Vrs Hacker News
28 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Confidential Amazon memo reveals new software to track unions
28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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On Native Apps
28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The Real McKee: Lessons of a screenwriting guru (2003)
28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Ongoing (Albeit Secret) Campaign of Patent Extortion Against Linux Distributions
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Protests and Power
28 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene?
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal-Data Analyst
28 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Against Xkcd 1357
28 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away
28 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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How the URL Was Built
28 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2020)
28 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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QAnon High Priest Was Just Trolling Away as a Citigroup Tech Executive
28 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world
28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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SEC Issues Record $114M Whistleblower Award
28 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Apple sues GEEP for not shredding reusable iPhones
28 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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We throw away our power as engineers working for other people
28 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017)
28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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You don’t need talent for Sales
28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [video]
28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Tearing into a $1.3M Oscilloscope
27 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Fast reinforcement learning through composition of behavior
27 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance
27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Menger Sponge
27 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots
27 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting
27 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: Apio – Simple Application Monitoring for Node or Django
27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?
27 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Hacker releases PII on Las Vegas-area students after officials don’t pay ransom
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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EM Information Theory of Consciousness
27 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (2011)
27 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Why Look at Flying Saucers?
27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The Anti-Social Novelist
27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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iSH now available on the App Store
27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Is D3 still king for JavaScript visualisation?
27 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell
27 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Tesla Solar Roof buyer left without roof and tarps over his house after 2-months
27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artef
27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages – Lex Fridman
27 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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After Going All-In on Amazon, a Merchant Says He Lost Everything
27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Tom Stoppard: A Life
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Magic-Wormhole: Get Things from One Computer to Another, Safely
27 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Proving that 1 and 1 = 2 in Rust
27 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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An Introduction to LLDB Reproducers
27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms
27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Facebook is radicalising your parents
27 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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You will need a subscription license to access Qt 6 (non-LPGL)
27 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Cyberpunk 2077 devs reportedly chose to work 6-day weeks over delaying the game
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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A Review of the Clover SPAC
27 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Show HN: A tiny portable MIDI looper
27 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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2020 is on course to be the warmest year on record
27 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Judge rules Apple cannot take action against Epic Games dev accounts
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Programmers need to think like hackers
27 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Apple says it never asked Telegram to delete Belarusian channels for doxing cop
27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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DoorDash doesn't allow a tip of $10 because “The amount is higher than expected”
27 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Penicillin and cantaloupe
27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Colon Cancer Screening Should Start Earlier, at Age 45, U.S. Panel Says
26 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Show HN: Landmark Papers in Machine Learning
26 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Department of Homeland Security to Abandon H1B Visa Lottery for Salary Rankings
26 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Are Flame Retardants in Your Sofa Killing You? (2019)
26 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
26 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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64% of Americans say social media have a mostly negative effect on the U.S.
26 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service
26 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Show HN: Wafxr – dynamic sound FX via WebAudio
26 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Hi-vis clothing for cyclists does not reduce number of crashes
26 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Drones Complicate the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
26 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Show HN: Résumé Shell
26 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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GitHub CEO on restoring YouTube-dl
26 points • comment • oct 27, 2020