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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
388 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
388 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F
387 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says
387 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks
386 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker
385 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Krita 4.4.0
385 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Chaos Ink
384 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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A Note about Spotify Transfers
384 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
383 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts
381 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away
381 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961
378 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Why I left my tenured academic job
377 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Elixir 1.11
377 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
375 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Stripe Climate
375 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater
373 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A 3D sculpting web application
373 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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The Right to Read (1997)
373 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)
371 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
371 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]
371 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier
371 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”
370 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
370 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
370 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court
368 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes
368 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio
367 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify
367 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Principles of Data Oriented Programming
367 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions
367 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
366 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
366 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete
365 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
365 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO
364 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive
362 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App
362 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Car seats as contraception
361 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
360 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup
360 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
359 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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The open source paradox
356 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine
354 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Free Linear Algebra textbook
354 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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I Hate Coordinate Systems
354 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Cloudflare One
353 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees
349 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
349 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR
348 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models
348 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand
347 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Goodbye IFTTT
345 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'
344 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball
343 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
342 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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What's in a Linux Executable?
342 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
341 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
341 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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If Not SPAs, What?
340 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder
340 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
340 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity
339 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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“Really successful people say no to almost everything”
339 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Next.js 10
335 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative
335 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
335 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
335 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground, but no one could see it until now
335 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
334 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime
334 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency
334 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Debian donation for Peertube development
334 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election
334 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head
333 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Git Exercises
333 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
332 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
331 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Firefox 82
331 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Rust Starter Kit 2020
329 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video]
328 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly
327 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU
327 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Witeboard
327 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
324 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life
324 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO
324 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)
323 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code
323 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?
323 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y
322 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)
321 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup
321 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
321 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
321 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps
320 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
320 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away
319 points • comment • oct 23, 2020