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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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What kind of risk-taker are you: Maximax, Minimin, or Minimax?
10 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Single episode of heavy drinking tied to Brain Atrophy in Young Adults
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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20 Predictions for Community in the 2020s
10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled
10 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Trusted Contacts won’t be supported after December 1, 2020
10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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European Space Agency finalises plans to ‘explore the moon properly’
10 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Baldur’s Gate 3 devs built a testing AI. Then, they tried to defeat it
10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Gap: Groups, Algorithms, Programming: System for Computational Discrete Algebra
10 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Show HN: KN95 Mask Price Dataset
10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin
10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-Pocalyptic Predictions
10 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Barbie's Careers
10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Scientists find 24 'superhabitable' planets more hospitable for life than Earth
10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Amazon Inexplicably Removes Apple Card from Payment Options
10 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed to US Supreme Court
10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Show HN: Bookpub v1 – free web library with classic books
10 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What side business do you have that makes money?
10 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Trying to add more than 5 family members to Google family
10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Show HN: Timesheet – Minimalist Work Hours Manager
10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Amazon has created fertile ground for bribery schemes, sellers say
10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Tomb: File Encryption on GNU/Linux
10 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide for Managers
10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Ask HN: If you were to build the web today from scratch how would you design it?
10 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Brain Fog Plagues Covid-19 Survivors
10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Movie Company Sues Pirates Who Used an Anonymous VPN (PIA)
10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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GCHQ Link to Debian Analyzed
10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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On Automation Part 2: If it can be automated, it will
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Senate to Subpoena Twitter CEO over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles
10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Pocketbook Color review: is color e-ink finally ready?
10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This
10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Facebook Has Always Been Right-Wing Media
10 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Genetics in the Madhouse
10 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Reports: Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Grand Theft Auto 3 GTA3 Is Running on the Nintendo Switch
10 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Apple Does Not Need to Return Fortnite to App Store, Judge Rules
10 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Jack Dorsey faces Senate subpoena after blocking NY Post articles
10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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California will now require more diversity on company boards
10 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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MemgraphDB: Why and how we implemented Bolt Protocol v4
10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The Abyss of Ignorable: A Route into Chaos Testing from Starling Bank
10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Crypto Cruise Ship
10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Facebook bans QAnon across all its platforms
10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: iOS14 weather (METAR) widgets for pilots
10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Managing your hosts file with a CLI
10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Humpback whales seize chance to sing in Alaska's cruise-free Covid summer
10 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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QEMU Virgil – Virtualization, acceleration, celebration
10 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Is it possible to use Google search results like startpage.com does?
10 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The Ghosts of Newspaper Row
10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Bay Area could be worst hit by outward pandemic migration
10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means
10 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Tesla had water shut off at Giga Berlin because they didn't pay their bill
10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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OpenStack Foundation Transforms into the Open Infrastructure Foundation
10 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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You Don’t Need a Blockchain, You Need a Time-Series Database
10 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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DHS Memo Told Officials to Make Comments Favorable to Kenosha Shootings Suspect
10 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News open links in a new tab?
10 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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A Historical Dig Sheds Light on the Food of the Underground Railroad
10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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"Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity"
10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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AOC's Twitch viewership already competitive with FOX and MSNBC ratings
10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Ask HN: Why is the US so vulnerable to disinformation from abroad?
10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Show HN: The only diary app with a community and features to boost mental health
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Ask HN: What language/framework you thought was the future but ended up dying?
10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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I've never met my cofounder
10 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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5000mAh graphene powerbank can be fully recharged in under 20 minutes
10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot
10 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, ex-creators raise cash for a new gaming studio
10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Games Playing with Computers (1972)
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Archillect – an AI created to discover and share stimulating visual content
10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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European Commission approved the new Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023
10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Covid-19 Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on Virus Spread – National Review
10 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Mercedes-Benz teases ‘highest-efficiency electric car’ with 750 miles range
10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Observations on Consequences of Short-Term Thinking in Technology Organizations
10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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The Deadliest Pandemics in History
10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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On Roger Penrose's Nobel Prize
10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Dish-O-TRON – AI to detect dirty dishes in the sink
10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Hunting Ghost No. 1
10 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Facebook and Twitter begin restricting circulation of Hunter Biden expose
10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Chileans Vote to Draft a New Constitution
10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Why Woke History Is Not the Answer
10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Spaces or Tabs? Microsoft developers reveal their preferences
10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Nearly a decade late, Berlin's Brandenburg Airport finally opens
10 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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ByteDance High-Resolution AMT System Achieves SOTA in Piano Note
10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Unusual electronic and vibrational properties in thermopower material FeSb2
10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Giving up on politics is often tempting. It is also risky
9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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U2’s Songs of Innocence Has Haunted Me for 6 Years. Until Now
9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Filecoin's diluted marketcap was hundreds of billions yet miners are losing $
9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Inflation Isn’t just 2% for a Small Brewery
9 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The New Tyranny Few Even Recognize
9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Img2css – Convert any image to pure CSS
9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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American Liberalism is in Danger
9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Why economists believe 47.2 is our most miserable age
9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Geoff Huston apologises for bringing the internet to Australia
9 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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UK Companies House warns customers of company name with possible XSS-injection
9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Understanding Memory Initialization Patterns
9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Polymaths want to know everything – but ‘everything’ isn’t what it used to be
9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: FlashCode – Create and review developer flash cards within VS Code
9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Photoshop Adds Deep Fakery
9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Show HN: Nested forEach directive in non-standard GraphQL server
9 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Boris Johnson Says U.K. Is Now Preparing for No-Deal Brexit
9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020