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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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4Chan Smear Campaigns Seek to ‘Red-Pill’ Boomers with Fake Snopes Content
19 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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AI model detects asymptomatic Covid infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
19 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Blue Peter shows off a phone with no cable (1976) [video]
19 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Twitter early release v2 API conversation tree example
19 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Alzheimer’s may be driven by overactivation of cerebral fructose metabolism
19 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Facebook and Google cash in on misleading ads for ‘garbage’ health insurance
19 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Starfleet Ships Use SQL
19 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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'I think phones are much more dangerous than guns' – filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Human 'microevolution' sees people born without wisdom teeth and extra artery
18 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Google to Pay Publishers over $1B for News Content
18 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Ad-blocker extension caught stealing user data and-accessing accounts
18 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Trump, first lady test positive for Covid-19
18 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Security Operation Center Simulation for Beginners
18 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The Case for Unique Email Addresses
18 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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SARS-CoV-2 blocks pain receptors, results in asymptomatic patients
18 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Apple started hiding the traffic of its own Mac apps
18 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Open Source Factory Building Game
18 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Covid's cognitive costs? Some patients' brains may age 10 years
18 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
18 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Show HN: PageWatch – Check your site for layout errors/spelling mistakes
18 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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An Interview about Spinoza
18 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Mathwashing
18 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Human-Centered Programming
18 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Should I learn C/C++ or Rust as my first systems programming language?
18 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Microsoft says ‘configuration update’ caused global Outlook outage
18 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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What reinfections mean for Covid-19
18 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Machine Learning Engineering Book
18 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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How to remember anything forever-ish (2018)
18 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem, but what’s the solution?
18 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks
18 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Meteoroid Caught on Camera Bouncing Off Earth’s Atmosphere
18 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Yacht: Web interface for managing containers with 1 click deployments
18 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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As Trump Equivocates on White Supremacy, the FBI Warns of Right-Wing Terror
18 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Facebook under fire for boosting right-wing news sources
18 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble
18 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Ask HN: How Do You Learn?
18 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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It’s Time for the Eternal September to End
18 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Why Gravity Is Not a Force
18 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Minimalism in Programming: How Complexity Harms Your Productivity
18 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Destroy All Monsters (2006)
18 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Did Mark Zuckerberg lie to Congress?
18 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Bill to kick blacklisted Chinese firms out of U.S. markets
18 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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US removes Sudan from terrorism blacklist in return for $335m
18 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including 'Dr Johnny Bananas'
18 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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How I spent my summer of 1982: the Making of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600
18 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Windows Update for the Removal of Adobe Flash Player
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The Fall of the CDC
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Greeks rejected heliocentricity due to conflict with lack of stellar parallax
17 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Robot’s parents proud of her for finally passing CAPTCHA test
17 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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FCC will move to regulate social media after censorship outcry
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Ramirez: “You Cannot Die, MacLeod. Accept It!” (1986) [video]
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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In Love with the Louvre
17 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Teradata is laying off people today
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The D. H. Lawrence We Forgot
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Is the World Getting Safer?
17 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Harry Reid Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs for Years
17 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Should Remote Compensation Be Tied to Location?
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Ann Arbor decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Google Suppresses Breitbart News in Search – Even with Exact Headline
17 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Exposure to Static Magnetic and Electric Fields Treats Type 2 Diabetes
17 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Faster Web Applications with SCGI (2007)
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Why I’m Glad I Left America
17 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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EFF: The Online Content Policy Modernization Act Is an Unconstitutional Mess
17 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Why can't nuclear waste be launched into the sun?
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Nanoparticles eat cardiovascular plaques from the inside out
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Zig inventor in dispute with landlord over Shrill TV show
17 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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How the coronavirus is spread through the air
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Google is beginning the forced migration from Hangouts to Chat next year
17 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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A meditation on space in four parts (2012)
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Facebook bans troll accounts linked to conservative group
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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STAT-Harris Poll: Share of Americans who want Covid-19 vaccine ASAP is dropping
17 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Possible malware found inside the ImageNet dataset
17 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Elm vs. PureScript
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Good Mentors and Bad Mentors
17 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Unforced Management Errors
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers
17 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Recovering Lost Roam Notes
17 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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The default branch for newly-created repositories is now main
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Windows 10 Forced Restarts
17 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Countdown to Scala 3 by Martin Odersky
17 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: Learn coding concepts faster
17 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Seismometer noise includes storms, 'footquakes' from soccer matches (2011)
17 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Forget Antitrust Laws. To Limit Tech, Some Say a New Regulator Is Needed
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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I’ve Been Watching My Kid’s Teacher on Zoom, and I’m Horrified
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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'Brain fog' following Covid-19 recovery may indicate PTSD
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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A fresh cup is retiring
17 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Nvidia announces $59 Jetson Nano 2GB model
17 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Swings onto Raspberry Pi
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Justices to weigh in on landmark copyright battle between Google and Oracle
17 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Mozilla shares fix for Twitter not working on Firefox
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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People are leaving San Francisco, after decades of growth
17 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Early Adopters: Be Picky About Who You Serve
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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It’s in the Air: The Corsair HS70 Wireless Headset and Linux
17 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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AMD Radeon Reveal Event Livestream
17 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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FCC Set to Take Away Another Ham Radio Band in 2021
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Ask HN: Did the Bloomberg's story “The Big Hack” happen?
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Tory Covid track and trace system used Excel columns to store data, crashed
17 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The Grand Design (2010)
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2020