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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Random Effects Key to Containing Epidemics
9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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CFTC charges BitMex with illegally operating derivatives exchange
9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Asterisk Corrections
9 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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The Cure for Aging Might Be the Cure for Alzheimer’s
9 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A Brief History of Surgeons
9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Marketing on Hacker News
9 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Don't Copy Paste into a Shell
9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Concerns over China and UN’s Joint Data Center
9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Remembering a classic “time travel” bug
9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Liberals' 2021 single-use plastic ban includes grocery bags, takeout containers
9 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Expensify CEO implores customers to vote for Biden
9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Modern Running Shoes and Heel Striking
9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Hacked Off with Hacktoberfest
9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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How Humans Judge Machines [pdf]
9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Understanding the Junior Developer
9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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I altered my personality to fit in at work
9 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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The Mesopotamian wheel, 3500 BC, the oldest known wheel (2016)
9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform
9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Pixlet – Build apps for highly-constrained displays with Starlark
9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children (2020)
9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Kearny Fallout Meter
9 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Tracking sea turtle egg traffickers with GPS-enabled decoy eggs
9 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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A game of developer ecosystems: why mobile developers will be pissed off
9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Why does Twitter unfollow people without their consent?
9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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“Oh Jeeeesus”: Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release
9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Iceland’s most active volcano may be about to erupt
9 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Linux gaming is set to get a whole lot better
9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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How to Use Docker Images, Containers, and Dockerfiles
9 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Iran Amends Law to Allow Imports to Be Funded with Cryptocurrency
9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Azure Space – cloud-powered innovation on and off the planet
9 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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On Volitional Philanthropy (2017)
9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Americans view U.S. tech companies in 2020 – Pew Research Center
9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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If a robot is conscious, is it OK to turn it off?
9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Amazon said nearly 20k workers got coronavirus
9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations keep decreasing across California
9 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms
9 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Firebase: Google Cloud’s Evil Twin
9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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How to Get Started with Dungeons and Dragons
9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno
9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Electronic Blood Vessels to the Rescue
9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Twitch detects and tells you to stop using adblockers
9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Palantir Goes IPO
9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Trump to be hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center after Covid-19 diagnosis
9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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When Too Much Concurrency Slows You Down (Golang)
9 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The PS3 and Vita are being buried alive
9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Guard Clauses, a Better Way to Do Conditionals
9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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James Gosling explains his motivations for creating programming language Java
9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Visa’s Planned Purchase of Plaid Faces Antitrust Scrutiny at Justice Department
9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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“Our infrastructure to deploy a single Docker container on AWS.”
9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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We just launched Amazon SNS FIFO topics
9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Navy ship breaks longest time at sea record due to Covid concerns
9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam
9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Facebook and Twitter Limit Sharing New York Post Story About Joe Biden
9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Command Palette for Jira, GitHub and Google Workplace
9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Reddit announces permanent wfh, eliminates cost-of-living pay compensation
9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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South Atlantic Anomaly
9 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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An Introduction to Reddit’s ‘Slave Labour’ Subreddit
9 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Walter Reed – American pathologist and bacteriologist
9 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Autological Humor
9 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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On Life in the Shadow of the Boomers
9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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The curious, three-person committee in Iceland that approves and rejects names
9 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Ask HN: What software will space need?
9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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PPL Bench: A standard for benchmarking probabilistic programming languages
9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Lidar Is on iPhone 12
9 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030
9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Principles used in Wall Street trading algorithms
9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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AI reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara
9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Remote Work and Mental Health
9 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Wasteful, damaging and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers?
9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Zuckerberg Throws the Open Internet Under the Bus; Support Section 230 Reform
9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000)
9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Tech Dilemma: Unfilled jobs, few workers, lack of confidence in STEM education
9 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What features would you like to see for PDF documents?
9 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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I learned to Shut Up when Learning
9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Bill Gates introducing Windows 3.1 (video 60s)
9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Why Does Everybody Hate Their Parents?
9 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Popular anti-adblocking extension gets sold, users details compromised
9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Introducing Pro1 X: Official LineageOS Android Phone by XDA
9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Twitter to prompt anyone retweeting something to share a quote tweet instead
9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say
9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Beginner's Guide to Digital Privacy
9 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs vs. the Max Neef Model of Human Scale Development (2016)
9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Process for Regenerating Neurons in the Eye and Brain Identified
9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: Remote Compilation for Your Build
9 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week
9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Supreme Court inclined to affirm copyrightability holding Oracle vs. Google
9 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Eddie Van Halen, Virtuoso of the Rock Guitar, Dies at 65
9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations
9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Detecting asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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He Married a Sociopath: Me
9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Ask HN: How to deal with ADHD on your own? (If you have to)
9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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5G Drains iPhone 12 Battery 20% Faster Than 4G in Benchmark
9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE now available
9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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First Look at Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta and it looks just insane
9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole
9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The Netherlands Is Becoming a Predictive Policing Hot Spot
9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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The Internet Archive is temporarily offline
9 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Swiss central bank, BIS plan to test digital currency by the end of this year
9 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Piyama-Radu
9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Palisade: Version Bumping at Scale in CI
9 points • comment • oct 07, 2020