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Hacker News (Nov 2020)
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The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
42 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking (2017)
42 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Always leave the code better than you found it
41 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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Why Proof of Stake?
41 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Startups
41 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Idea Napkins, a place for your brilliant ideas
41 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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Lockdown mentioned by 80% of callers to suicide prevention helpline – ITV News
41 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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Using ROCm to Program FPGAs
41 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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Homemade Q-Switch for Solid State Lasers
41 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
41 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Flying squirrels glow pink thanks to fluorescence
41 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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What Should Be Done About Social Media?
41 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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“Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
41 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
41 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well (1986) [pdf]
41 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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ClickHouse Capacity Estimation Framework at Cloudflare
41 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Unslack: Transform the way your business communicates (again)
41 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?
41 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Rebuilding from scratch after a cease and desist
41 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Apple MBPr 13 M1 cinebench R23 score
41 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Hacking the Perfect Auction
41 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Good Heavens 10M Impacted in Pray.com Data Exposure
41 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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The golden age of configuration languages
41 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less Likely to Get Hired
41 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Converting Utzoo-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to PostgreSQL Back End Using Python
41 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Ham Radio Needs to Embrace the Hacker Community Now More Than Ever
41 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Deciphering Chopin’s shorthand in the posthumous Mazurka in F minor (2018)
41 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Detective Game Design Problems
41 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years
41 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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Debugging Misadventures: Down the Rabbit Hole
40 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you prevent code leak from current/former employees?
40 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
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Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating system
40 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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France Is About to Become Less Free
40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Spring-powered wheel claims to be ‘E-bike alternative at lower cost’
40 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Google moves into Venmo, banks’ territory with checking accounts
40 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Expensive Security Fails in Healthcare Apps
40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Helicopter pilot finds 'strange' monolith in remote part of Utah
40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Down to the Suburbs
40 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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The West has failed – US and Europe have made a mess of handling the crisis
40 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Best Practices for Writing Clean Interfaces in Go
40 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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The Presidential Election of 1876
40 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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BBC Online Moves to AWS, Serverless
40 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Wouldn't it be great to be able to follow fellow HN users?
40 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Sinter: A user-mode application authorization system for macOS written in Swift
40 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
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Show HN: Portabella – privacy friendly project management
40 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
40 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen
40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Nipkow Disk
39 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
39 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Learn Assembly by Writing Too Many Brainfuck Compilers in Rust
39 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Show HN: Pronounce – practice while you browse for any language
39 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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The first-time founder’s guide to learning everything the hard way
39 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Doubleclicking on the Web (2015)
39 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of food coloring (2015)
39 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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Arm Looks to Laptops: Cortex-A78C Processor for PCs Announced
39 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Are Google products getting worse?
39 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Tesla (TSLA) to join S&P 500 December 21st
39 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Marc Geiger helped create Lollapalooza, now he wants to save live music
39 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Grinch Bots Will Steal the Best Deals This Holiday Season
39 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Coral Griefs: Finding Hope Amidst Loss
39 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Racket v7.9, with parallel garbage collection
39 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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How to Run a Database on AWS with Better Performance and Lower Cost
39 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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U of Miami uses facial recognition to intimidate protestors
39 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Hedy: A Gradual Language for Programming Education
39 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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How do people find bugs?
39 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel
39 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter
39 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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PHP 8 Release Announcement
39 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format
39 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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What mother never told you about VM service (1983) [pdf]
39 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch
39 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Scaling live streaming for millions of viewers
39 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Getting Started with Random Matrices: A Step-by-Step Guide
38 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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A new hot hand paradox
38 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.9 Release Notes
38 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividing American families
38 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Multivitamins' 'benefits' are all in your head: study
38 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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There are only three startup stages
38 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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The GitHub YouTube-Dl Takedown Isn't Just a Problem of American Law
38 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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The Poor, Misunderstood InnerText (2015)
38 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Selling to unicorns from my parents basement
38 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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The Secrets of Monkey Island’s Source Code
38 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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“Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”
38 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Klein Vision’s AirCar, a Flying Car Prototype, Completes Maiden Flight
38 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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UN actively passing names of Uighur dissidents to Chinese regime
38 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast
38 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Letter to German Greens on UPC and software patents: don’t betray your voters
38 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Show HN: Video-input, an HTML element that acts like a video form field
38 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Design Note: Implicit Semicolons (2017)
38 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings
38 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Lock Yourself Down, Now
38 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
38 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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PyPy: Faster Python with Minimal Effort
38 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Whatever Happened to New Math? (1990)
38 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Software and Hardware for General Robots
38 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Hacker News over Gemini
38 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Amazon reviews for scented candles, before and during the pandemic
38 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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The UK Government Isn't Being Transparent About Its Palantir Contracts
37 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year sentence
37 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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The IDE Divide (2004)
37 points • comment • nov 12, 2020