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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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To Korea’s ICT Minister: Ensure the TBA amendments don’t harm the open internet
24 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Good Law Project Forces HMRC to Collect £1.5bn in VAT from Uber
23 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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DuckDuckGo, EFF, & others just launched privacy settings for the whole internet
23 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Electronic Blood Vessels to the Rescue
23 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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America Is About to Enter Its Years of Lead
23 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The Man Who Edited Melville (1982)
23 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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What to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects
23 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Facebook says ad-supported model is ‘under assault’ amid Apple privacy changes
23 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission
23 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
23 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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NanoAdblocker / NanoDefender is malware now
23 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Minecraft will require a Microsoft account to play in 2021
23 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Show HN: App Performance Monitoring (APM) for mobile apps
23 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space?
23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Bottlenecked on Haskell's Text Library
23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Why I Left My Tenured Academic Job
23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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D 2.094 Released
23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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I made a simple Alexa knockoff that doesn’t spy on me
23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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The Death of Max Jacob
23 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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When did the CS field turn from freedom of speech and hacker mentality
23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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What the heck is the value of “-n % n” in programming languages?
23 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Good Bad Bad Good Adjust: What Was the Golden Age of TV? (2019)
23 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Scuttlebutt is a decentralised secure gossip platform
23 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Local Solar Time
23 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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All but one of Joint Chiefs of Staff quarantine after admiral tests positive
23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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A quarter of the Alexa Top 10K websites are using browser fingerprinting scripts
23 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Who are you? The history of MySQL and MariaDB authentication protocols (2017)
23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Canonical is now offering a fully Managed Apps service
23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Dissertation: Marine Insurance in the Netherlands 1600-1870 (2009) [pdf]
23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Oxford scientists develop extremely rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19
23 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Charges: Boogaloo Bois fired on Minneapolis precinct in Floyd protests
23 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Why Does No One Use Advanced Hyperparameter Tuning?
23 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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The official Arch Linux online conference ArchConf 2020 has started
23 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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V6: Color (2018)
23 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA
23 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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A Tour of the Worm (1989)
23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What to do if you are not good at building an audience?
23 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis
23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Hacker says he correctly guessed Trump’s Twitter password–it was “maga2020 ”
23 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Earth just had its hottest September on record
23 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Better Than Product-Market Fit: The Customer Adoption Spectrum
23 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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The Halloween Documents
22 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Hackers stole data of Google employees after breaching US law firm
22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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The Fall of the CDC
22 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Covid Deaths
22 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Tables, a Product from Area 120, by Google: One tool, many uses
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Spotify Is Defending Alex Jones' Appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience”
22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Nemo: Data Discovery at Facebook
22 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Using NLP to enable flatter organizations
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Delta has banned 460 anti-maskers
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Valve's Steam Machines: Was the Idea of Linux-Based Gaming Devices in Vain?
22 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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I will never buy another CyberPower UPS
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors
22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Colibri: A Browser Without Tabs
22 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Complexity in Operating Systems
22 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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An hour and a half of backseat footage inside self-driving Waymo
22 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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How to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence
22 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Solving the Sequence Alignment Problem in Python
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92
22 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? (2015)
22 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Sender of False DMCA Takedown Notices Ordered to Pay $370K in Damages
22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Zoom alternatives to encourage casual chatting
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Google Journalist Studio
22 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Ceiling Height Matters
22 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Hands-On Review: GemPro Enclosure for Raspberry Pi
22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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TurtleDB – Offline-first, collaborative Web application framework
22 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Trumania – all your photos and videos become independent evidence of anything
22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences (2018)
22 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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File Corruption Is Attractive
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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My California ballot, 2020 (by Scott Alexander)
22 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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The Best of Both Worlds: A New Take on Metal–Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you think 'normal' working will ever return?
22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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New Mojave Supplemental Update released that fixes issues caused by older update
22 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Facebook News
22 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit
22 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What is your favorite ergonomic chair/desk
22 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / software?
22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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“Recycler gets sued by Apple for 31M DOLLARS for reusing instead of recycling ”
22 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Teardown
22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Common mistakes inexperienced interviewers make
22 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Starlink ToS: “the parties recognize Mars as a free planet”
22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct
21 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just receive 1.3% of VC funding
21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Mind and space bending physics on a convenient chip
21 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Throwable Robot Car Always Lands on Four Wheels
21 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016)
21 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Debugging async generator errors in Rust
21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Aspect: Lets you draw websites, then publish or download them
21 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin
21 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Cloudflare Intrusion Detection System
21 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Clarence Thomas is begging someone to sue over Section 230
21 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The Legend of Abraham Wald – The Missing Bullet Holes
21 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Actifio squashes employee shareholders ‘like cockroaches’
21 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote
21 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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VPNs might finally be dead thanks to Twingate, startup built by Dropbox alums
21 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Scientists explore ways to use mineral waste from mines to pull CO2 from the air
21 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Creating Effective Tutorials for Your Dev Team
21 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
21 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Amazon's strategic failure with the video game industry
21 points • comment • oct 09, 2020