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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming
203 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut
203 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node
203 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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More than half of all whale and dolphin species are of conservation concern
203 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
202 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
201 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder
201 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively
201 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?
201 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software
201 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement
200 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice
200 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Pointers from Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War
200 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Get started with 2-minute rule
200 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab
200 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy
199 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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On the destruction of America’s best high school
199 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web
199 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support
199 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues
198 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
198 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL
198 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”
197 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great
197 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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It’s 255:19AM. Do you know what your validation criteria are?
197 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Combating abuse without backdoors
197 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Why I Prefer Functional Programming
197 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Data engineering learning path with recommended resources
196 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work
196 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way
196 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
196 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice
195 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
195 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries
194 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Sid Meier's Memoir
194 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Menu simulation, Spidertron, Ghost building, Confirm button
194 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
194 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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An Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom
194 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet
194 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop
193 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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FastCGI – The Forgotten Treasure (2002)
193 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Porn, Zen, and .vimrc
193 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
193 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
193 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016
193 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
193 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?
193 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)
193 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code
193 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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VSCode on Google Colab
193 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second
192 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Loading CSV File at the Speed Limit of the NVMe Storage
192 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants being sold
192 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012)
192 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Sentimental Versioning
192 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Visidata 2.0
192 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Tasmota: Cloud-free open source smart home firmware for ESP8266 devices
191 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser
191 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Youtube-dl GitHub Template
191 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Pelican static site generator 4.5
191 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps
190 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (2018)
190 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding
190 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method
190 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot
190 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers
189 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable
189 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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ØMQ – The Guide (2011)
188 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parliament
188 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions
188 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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LyX – The Document Processor
187 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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KDE.org migrated to Hugo
187 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in damages
187 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Programmable Search Engine
186 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
186 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)
186 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Media buyer: Facebook updates have ‘wrecked the ad platform on the backend’
185 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Extreme Debugging
185 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Prologue: A web framework written in Nim
185 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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C++ still isn't cutting it
185 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds
184 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies
184 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
182 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light
182 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Steps to Improve Your Writing
182 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast
182 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry
181 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises
181 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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The Abundance of Silicon Valley
181 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale
181 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden
180 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails
180 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 17.3GB/month
180 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Choosing the Management Track
180 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future
180 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Section 230 Explained
179 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Apple forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors
179 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP
179 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago
179 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
178 points • comment • oct 07, 2020