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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits
162 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data
162 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Facebook Is a 'Super Spreader' of Election Misinformation
162 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019)
162 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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India's new paper Covid-19 test
161 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals
161 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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MobX 6
161 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight
161 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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What if you knew how computers work? (2015)
161 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
161 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Ask HN: Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?
160 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
160 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield
160 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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A Family of Better Random Number Generators
160 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?
160 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity
160 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job
160 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion
159 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream
159 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Simulating Machines in Clojure
159 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
159 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly
159 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire
158 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites
158 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008)
158 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?
158 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US
158 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)
157 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died. CUPS creator M. Sweet has moved on to a fork
157 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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The Whitworth Three Plates Method (2017)
157 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
157 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Writing Is Thinking (2014)
157 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns against them
157 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram
157 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Big Trouble in a Deep Void
157 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads
157 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
156 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster
156 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy
156 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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How to better calculate churn rates
156 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Tesla dissolves its PR department
155 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Tokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardware Took Down a Market
155 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Machine Learning Engineering Book
155 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia
155 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?
155 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS
154 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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The misuse of colour in science communication
154 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West
154 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
154 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth
154 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear
153 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims
153 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Covid-19 can damage hearts of some college athletes
153 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Reversing the technical interview (2017)
153 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Swift Concurrency Roadmap
153 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code
153 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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The End of the American Internet
152 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk
152 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world
152 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time
152 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure
152 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect
152 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
152 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.4 Tree
152 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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C++ the Good Parts (2014)
152 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Multicore OCaml: September 2020
152 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Compression
151 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
151 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
151 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court
150 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
150 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Humans are more closely related than we commonly think
150 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors
150 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years
150 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better
150 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf]
150 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted for popular devices
150 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually
150 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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GDB 10.1
149 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Ungrammar
149 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90
149 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100
149 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
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Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
149 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Flame retardant may cause hyperthyroidism in cats
149 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Blender Conference 2020
149 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M
148 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion
148 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely
148 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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RFC 8905 – The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments
148 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Teens' mental health did surprisingly well in quarantine
148 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg
148 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing
148 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Wyoming uses a “dark money” organization to advocate for coal in other states
148 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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After 14 years a new printed UK Amiga magazine
147 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230
147 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media
147 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Humans Are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter
147 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells
147 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
147 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Collision Detection (2015)
147 points • comment • oct 10, 2020