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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic
178 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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$30 DIY Kilowatt Wind Turbine (2017)
178 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Timekeeping in Financial Exchanges
178 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
178 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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What Color Is This? Part 2
177 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
177 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher
177 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat’
177 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Dutch flying car gets permission to drive on European roads
177 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R
176 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos
176 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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HTML5 Accelerator Card
176 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread
176 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Indoor Mapping Data Format
176 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland
176 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and development has been paused
176 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Last Resort Font
176 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Apple refuses to engrave ‘liberate’ protest slogan on HK customer’s Apple Pencil
175 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Localisation is too hard for Gmail
175 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Wim Hof’s teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges
175 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube
175 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Lisp from Nothing
175 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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The No-Code Generation is arriving
175 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data
174 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Chess’s Cheating Crisis
174 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping
174 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Nine in ten adults think buying latest smartphone is waste of money
174 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums
174 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
173 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal
173 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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imgcat: higher resolution
173 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part III: Hammer-Time
173 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks
173 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Some onions were too sexy for Facebook
173 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains
173 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Germany fines H&M 35 million euros for data protection breaches
172 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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An Honest Review of Gatsby
172 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement
172 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?
172 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering
172 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
172 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
171 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)
171 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
171 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged
171 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
171 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too
170 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections
170 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
170 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
170 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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A List of Post-Mortems
170 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon
169 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Show HN: Personal CRM: Note taking, the way it should be
169 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015)
169 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go
169 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
169 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
169 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Web Scraping with JavaScript
169 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling
169 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Proposed EU rule may mean you can finally delete some apps from your phone
169 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement
168 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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A New Back End for Cranelift
168 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The experiment that proved airborne disease transmission
168 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Celery 5.0
168 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Hacking together a USB-C charger for a cheap Chromebook
168 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Acoustic Kitty
168 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
167 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Plug’nPwn – Connect to Jailbreak
167 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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'Person in jetpack' spotted flying again near LA airport
167 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
167 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout
167 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
166 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework
166 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486
166 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Mood and cognition after low LSD doses: A placebo controlled dose-effect study
166 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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The case for building a SETI observatory on the moon
166 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training
166 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Toward an API for the Real Numbers
166 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System
166 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming
166 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A case for using punctuation in Slack
165 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Re-Thinking the Desktop OS
165 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
165 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse
164 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review
164 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic
164 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Emacs Survey
164 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World”
164 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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To write better, develop a habit of writing
164 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The Nikon Small World Competition
164 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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He Married a Sociopath: Me
163 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video]
163 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Diolkos
163 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Benchmarking static website hosting providers
163 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Cloudflare Analytics review
163 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux
163 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Your single-page app is now a polyfill
163 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End
163 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Why I'm Tcl-Ish
162 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming
162 points • comment • oct 23, 2020