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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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All positive returns to major market indices over 3 decades occurred overnight
6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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On Writing Technical Blogs
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed
6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Apple introduces iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max with 5G
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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5 Hidden Python Features You Probably Never Heard Of
6 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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City of SF Spends $8k per Homeless Person, per Hotel Room, per Month
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Facebook Communications Chief: We are reducing distribution of anti-Biden posts
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Bot Analytics
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Twitter suspends Scott Atlas, White House Covid advisor, for mask tweets
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Open Dylan 2020.1 – Now with LLVM Back End
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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MDN Web Docs: Editorial strategy and community participation
6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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AR Copy and Paste – photograph something physical and paste it into a document
6 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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James Randi has passed away
6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Simultaneous Interpreting (2013)
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Dataflow-based Pruning for Speeding up Superoptimization [pdf]
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Jailbreak Oculus VR from Facebook control? EFF’s Cory Doctorow has advice first
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series (Live Stream)
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Does Palantir See Too Much?
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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The World’s 100 Smallest Countries (Infographic)
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Extremely rare Higgs boson decay process spotted
6 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Five Eyes warns tech firms that encryption creates 'severe risks'
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Amazon says 19,000 employees tested positive for Covid-19
6 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Here's how Russia could track your every move – without even hacking your phone
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Deep Learning for NLP: Stanford Course (My Notes on the Free Lectures)
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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How to create automated AWS billing reports
6 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Michael Cohen says he's working to free Reality Winner
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Emulating regexp lookarounds in GNU sed
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Alpine-term: x86_64 under QEMU with termux on Android
6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: Web Annotation
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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China's Qingdao orders city-wide Covid-19 testing following new infections
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Major Retailers in Britain Say No to Glitter for Christmas
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Are the health claims about Apple cider vinegar true? (2016)
6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Signs the Pandemic Is About to Get Much Worse
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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7 looming questions about the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Preppers plan to scrub social media profiles post-election, kidding themselves
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Monstrous Offspring
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Get Creative Commons Musics Ranked by Usage in YouTube Videos
6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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New England Journal of Medicine: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Statement regarding BGP hijacking on September 29
6 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Go: Location interprets wrong timezone (DST) with slim zoneinfo
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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In Reversal, Twitter Is No Longer Blocking New York Post Article
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Universal Basic Income (UBI) – A poverty fix?
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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The selfish hypocrisy of champagne lockdownism is demolishing our society
6 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Why so much coverage of Amazon Prime Day? The incentives, of course (2016)
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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CDC says virus can spread indoors in air beyond six feet
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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A Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Street Like None Other (See Footnote)
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Camouflaged Fire Sprinklers Erupt to Protect a Historic Japanese Village
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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If you're pinning your hopes on a Covid vaccine, here's a dose of realism
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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No Drugs, No Crime and Pennies for School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Put not thy trust in Nate Silver
6 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Inaugural eBPF Summit for users and developers
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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To Serve the Public, Seek Profits
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Ice Age Farmer Discord has been terminated due to “Spreading Misinformation.”
6 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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A Teardown Peek Inside Oral B’s Seriously Connected IO Toothbrush
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Goldman Sachs will claw back money paid to CEO, ex-CEO, & execs after 1MDB Fines
6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Guy makes website in 25 min with Webflow and No-code
6 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The self-made man, history of a myth
6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Shiny vs. Voila vs. Flask vs. Jupyter
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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The Coronavirus Unveiled
6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Dubai introduces facial recognition on public transport
6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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The Cloudflare Radar 2020 Elections Dashboard
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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To avoid quarantining students, school district moves them every 15 minutes
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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AfricArXiv: The Pan-African Open Scholarly Repository
6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Vitalik Buterin interviews Tyler Cowen on tech and crypto [video]
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Slack: Degraded Performance and Connectivity Issues
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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An introduction to timekeeping in Linux VMs (2017)
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark
6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Tesla’s seven-day return policy has been quietly removed
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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I created a webapp to help me learn simplified Chinese characters
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Well preserved 2k-year-old brain cells found in Vesuvius victim
6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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IROS Robotics Conference Is Online Now and Completely Free
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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HN is suppressing anti-tech stories
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Mission to a Metal World: Psyche
6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The new iPhone 12 has an Anti Repair design
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Tracy – A real time, frame and sampling profiler
6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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That advice to women to ‘lean in’, be more confident it doesn’t help
6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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AdoptOpenJDK 8u272, 11.0.9, and 15.0.1 Available
6 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Ask HN: What Operating Systems courses would you recommend?
6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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If Working from Home Is Destroying Your Back, You're Not Alone
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Increase in Analog Problems
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Goodbye to the Truly James Randi
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord
6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The Enemies Briefcase
6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Why millions of freelancers fear a Biden presidency may put them out of work
6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The Beam Marches Forward
6 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Paralyzed Dutch man can temporarily move and talk again thanks to sleeping pill
6 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Ask HN: What product, etc. do you think is snake oil?
6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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China's successful control of Covid-19
6 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest
6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Reading Poorly Structured Excel Files with Pandas – Practical Business Python
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Employers Should Reward Workers for Accomplishments, Not Hours Worked
6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Twitter abruptly changes hacked-materials policy after blocking Biden story
6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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FreeBSD 12.2-Release Announcement
6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Why Signups and Logins Should Open in a Right Form Drawer
6 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes
6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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uBlock Origin Extra has been discontinued
6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Show HN: Speed Up Python with Rust via WebAssembly
6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020