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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
265 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
265 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life
265 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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How We Institutionalized Incompetence
262 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Yann LeCun on GPT-3
261 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Show HN: Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes
261 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Show HN: I made a computer vision addon for Blender
260 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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SparkFun À La Carte
260 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?
259 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Fast UTF-8 validation
259 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Zheap – Reinvented PostgreSQL Storage
259 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
258 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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The cheap pen that changed writing forever
258 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
257 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in Phoenix
257 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers
257 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
257 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
256 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Pyston v2: Faster Python
256 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron
255 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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ReactOS
255 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Kube Doom, Kill Kubernetes Pods Using Id's Doom
255 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
255 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
254 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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How to create minimal music with code in any programming language
254 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant
253 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
253 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In
253 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
252 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost
251 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
251 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition
250 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed
250 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption
250 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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U.S. faculty job market tanks
249 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Python For Feature Film
249 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
249 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)
249 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole
247 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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I Tried to Reduce Pylint Memory Usage
247 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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What is expected of a engineering manager?
247 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Memcmp being wrongly stripped like strcmp
247 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find
247 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’
247 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors
247 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
247 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Why I stopped reading HN (2010)
246 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018)
245 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering
245 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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iSH Shell
245 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The economics of vending machines
244 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.
244 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
244 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
244 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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XB-1 Supersonic Rollout
244 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF
244 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
244 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
243 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?
242 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]
242 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Webpack 5
242 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer
242 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Evolving Reddit’s Workforce
241 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
241 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Purism – Fund Your App
241 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
240 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]
240 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
239 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched
239 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
239 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition
238 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Show HN: Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
238 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach
238 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
238 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way
237 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Four features that justify a new Unix shell
237 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
237 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
237 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop
236 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts
236 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim
235 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]
235 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Show HN: SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning
235 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years
235 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Openproject: Open-source project management software
234 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more
234 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Are we losing our ability to remember?
234 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
234 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
233 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies
233 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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The Chaos Engineering Book
233 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data
232 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool
232 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2
232 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity
232 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
231 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Taikyoku Shogi
230 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Whose Computer Is It?
230 points • comment • oct 22, 2020