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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Research team discovers breakthrough with potential to reverse Alzheimer's
229 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Look ma, no mouse: Vimium
229 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
229 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police
228 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites
228 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google
228 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Police are requesting data from smart speakers
227 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system
227 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games
227 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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KDE Plasma 5.20
227 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Origami Simulator
226 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2016)
226 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)
226 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives
225 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
225 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Unifying the Technical Interview
225 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places
225 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit
225 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Distributed Systems Learning Notes
224 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature
223 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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A brief introduction to BEAM
222 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Building replacement proprietary battery packs
221 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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LLVM 11.0
221 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Books in .txt format for AI training purposes
221 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough
221 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Crouching T2, Hidden Danger
220 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with
220 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Beware the Casual Polymath
219 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Why you should write
219 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money
219 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Business Operations – Tech Stack
219 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more
218 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
218 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains
218 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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SpaCy v3.0 Nightly
218 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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How you could have come up with Paxos yourself
217 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets
217 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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ElectricityMap – Live CO₂ emissions of electricity production and consumption
217 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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How To Be An Anti-Casteist
217 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano
217 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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A toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for tech
216 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Building a computer in Conway's game of life
215 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Google's penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary
215 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain
215 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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EXoDOS: Collecting every game developed for DOS from original media
215 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository
215 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
215 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1
215 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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An/TVs 3 Searchlight – 20 kW Xenon Arc viewable from space
214 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy
214 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon
214 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Towards Tactic Metaprogramming in Haskell
214 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in
214 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Valve put their 'Pressure Vessel' container source for Linux games up on Gitlab
214 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Johns Hopkins Poker Course
214 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Abolish the Cash Bail System
214 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself
213 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies
213 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
213 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water
213 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (2019)
212 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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I enforced the AGPL on my code
212 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default
212 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
212 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
211 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Node.js 15.0
211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)
211 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf]
211 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Rethinking Attention with Performers
211 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up
210 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs
210 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Google pub/sub released an ordering feature
210 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
210 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Lessons from six months at Shopify
210 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Rust-GPU
210 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System
209 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook
209 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kubernetes
208 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
208 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Coinbase Card
208 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement
208 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point
208 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Apple Watch momentum is building
207 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Project Cybersyn
207 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors
207 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index
206 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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CC Hound: A curated library of free music for content creators
206 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher
206 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Compiler for the M language of the French DGFiP
206 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction
205 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)
205 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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On Being Bipolar
205 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong WiFi users
205 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco
204 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Babies' random choices become their preferences
204 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
204 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Swift Atomics
204 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies
204 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut
203 points • comment • oct 27, 2020