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Hacker News (Nov 2020)
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“Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures
7 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Shkreli's legacy disappears as former company becomes Travere Therapeutics
7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
7 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Uncanny Elizabethan autofiction: 2 ways of understanding early modern personhood
7 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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A Long-Forgotten CIA Document Sheds Light on Today's U.S. Politics and Wars
7 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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Indian doctor duped into buying 'Aladdin's lamp' after genie show
7 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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Take a trip: it’s for your mental health
7 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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The Antique (1997) Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
7 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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How Objective Is Peer Review? The ESA Experiment
7 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Total cost of ownership: Mac versus PC in the enterprise
7 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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Ask HN: I'm looking for pre tech MVP anecdotes from successful companies
7 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Does Knowing God Just Take Practice?
7 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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A Secret Vice (1931) [pdf]
7 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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Essential Math for Data Science – The Book
7 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Best FOSS alternatives to photo hosting SaaS(flickr, GPhoto, iCloud)?
7 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Noam Chomsky – “The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding”
7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Samsung Announces Exynos 1080 – 5nm Mid-Range SoC with A78 Cores
7 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Dosing error turns into lucky punch for AstraZeneca and Oxford
7 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO: A new way to synthesize hydrocarbons
7 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Yellen, Summers Say Central Banks No Match for Savings Glut
7 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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A Thousand Slayn
7 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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False Positives
7 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Writing an embedded display driver in Rust
7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Show HN: Do you live on a Democratic or Republican street?
7 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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Topological mechanical metamaterials go beyond Newton's third law
7 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Quarantine May Negatively Affect Kids’ Immune Systems
7 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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40% of Real Estate Investors Surveyed Bought Their Last Property Off-Market
7 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Cerebras’ wafer-size chip is 10k times faster than a GPU
7 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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Some Raspberry Pi 4s Can Now Overlock to 2.3 GHz. Here’s How
7 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Best US City for a software engineer during Covid?
7 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you organize your personal notes on the company codebase?
7 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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Liberal politics, Covid-19 and high CoL are fueling California exodus
7 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Show HN: Elastic Pod – In audio search for podcasts
7 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change
7 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Face recognition data from Moscow streets available for sale
7 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Got a Big Social Media Boost from Indian Troll Farms
7 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Show HN: Inkrement – No more annual reviews. Give and receive feedback real time
7 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Apple cuts App Store commission from 30% to 15%, if your apps earn less than $1M
7 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Thread Helper: A serendipity engine on the Twitter sidebar
7 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Biden May Win, but Trump Remains the President of Red America
7 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Jira: Major Outage Reported
7 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Show HN: Just Scream
7 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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ArduBee – A ready-to-fly micro drone dev-kit for the masses
7 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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The Weirdness of Quantum Random Walks
7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Big Companies vs. Startups
7 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Percentiles are incorrect P99 of the times
7 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts
7 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Serendipity in a Remote World
7 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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What Delaware license plates tell us about social status signalling
7 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Covid-19 may have been in Italy as early as September 2019
7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Walmart Ends Contract with Robotics Company, Opts for Human Workers Instead
7 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Janki Method – Using SRS to Improve Programming (2011)
7 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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How to Challenge Yourself Out of Your Comfort Zone – Tony Hsieh – Ted [video]
7 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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CBL-Mariner: Microsoft's internal Linux distribution
7 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election
7 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Herman Cain’s life and death were more complicated than that
7 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Apple is lobbying against a bill at stopping forced labor in China
7 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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Volkswagen’s ID.3 Leapfrogs Tesla, Renault in October European EV Sales Charts
7 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Is This the End of College as We Know It?
7 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Apple details the battery life of its new Arm-based MacBooks
7 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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A usable and secure password policy backed by science
7 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy
7 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Microsoft engineer gets nine years for stealing $10M from Microsoft
7 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Artist built usable 40k Space Marine armor (video, swe)
7 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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Ask HN: How blogging has helped you?
6 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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We Need Design Thinking in Social Innovation
6 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Coding Guidelines for Prolog (2009)
6 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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President of Shopify comments on Reddit on how remote work impacts Canadian jobs
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Software engineering photonics and color science
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Brotli compression using a reduced dictionary
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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A Surprising Way That Exercise Improves Your Mind
6 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Show HN: T3MPL – generic website editor and static website generator in one
6 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Decisions&Disruptions: tabletop RPG about security in industrial control systems
6 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
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Show HN: Apogee – cross between a spreadsheet and a notebook
6 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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How to Scale Out a Real-Time Data Warehouse for Second-Level Analytics
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Peter Thiel backs Berlin startup making psychedelics in $125M round
6 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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ARM and Lock-Free Programming
6 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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No, the new Arm MacBook Air is not faster than 98% of PC laptops
6 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Things that will go wrong in a distributed system
6 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Show HN: QAReplay – Record steps to reproduce effortlessly
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Who gains most from canceling student debt?
6 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Would you want a distributed Postgres that runs on Spot Instances?
6 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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The Nuances of Constants in Go; Go Isn’t JavaScript
6 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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Biden Will Win Nevada by 1%
6 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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M1 MacBook Pro and Air can only drive 1 external display
6 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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European Parliament votes in favor of 'right to repair'
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Chinese rocket firm Galactic Energy succeeds with first orbital launch
6 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
6 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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9 Companies That Use Rust in Production
6 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
6 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
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Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development
6 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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First Drone Goes Flying to the North Pole on a Climate Mission
6 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Asteroid Bennu may be hollow, according to a new study
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Searchkit: Search UI with GraphQL, React and Elasticsearch
6 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Fuzzing Linux Drivers with Syzkaller
6 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in a Public Library (2013)
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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The Ethics of Rebooting the Dead
6 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Could a pandemic destroy an economy? Iran and the Black Death
6 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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The Idea Adoption Curve
6 points • comment • nov 23, 2020