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Hacker News (Nov 2020)
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Magic mushrooms are changing the lives of terminal cancer patients
303 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries
303 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle
303 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Winamp for Windows 10
302 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps
301 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Why We're Building Observable
299 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
298 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
298 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’
298 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
297 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
297 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS
297 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
296 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
296 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
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Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
295 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures
293 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
293 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship [video]
293 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019)
293 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes
293 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007) [video]
293 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Guitar Center files for bankruptcy
292 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
290 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
289 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
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Fast Inverse Square Root
289 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 3: Effect Systems
288 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Apple's Shifting Differentiation
288 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet
286 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Advent of Code 2020
285 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?
285 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)
285 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Eight Years at Roblox
285 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests
281 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Is Apple Silicon Ready?
280 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
279 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
279 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
279 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
278 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
278 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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How to seriously read a scientific paper
278 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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A US Visa in 937 Days
277 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
277 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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Dan's online motorcycle repair course (1999-2020)
277 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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All Hail Geometric Algebra
276 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
276 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
276 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting
275 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers
275 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Evidence-based software engineering: book released
274 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Writing Rust the Elixir Way
274 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall
273 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Mutt 2.0 Release Notes
273 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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Java Verbal Expressions
273 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy
273 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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iFixit tools in Apple's lab
272 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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“To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”
272 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Tips for Performant TypeScript
271 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
271 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
270 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]
270 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model
270 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail
270 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Dan Kohn has died
270 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation
270 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Writing well
269 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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CERN Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November
269 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells
269 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
268 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
267 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Walmart Exclusive Wi-Fi Router Contains Backdoor to Control Devices
266 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
266 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else
265 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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The Tao of Programming (1987)
265 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached
265 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension
265 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients
264 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Undeleting a file overwritten with mv
264 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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GFXBench: Apple M1
264 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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A new jailbreak for a new era
263 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality
262 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Let’s Build a Video Card
262 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen
262 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting
261 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate
261 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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X11 Library Sees Lots of Fixes with LibX11 1.7 Release
261 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory
260 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014)
260 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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RIP Google Music
260 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant
260 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test
260 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
260 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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What is the benefit of having FIPS hardware-level encryption on a USB stick?
259 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Names are not type safety
259 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overtook diesel
259 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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DaVinci Resolve – A high-end video editing/post-production software program
258 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
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I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
257 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
257 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
256 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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DoorDash S-1
255 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
255 points • comment • nov 01, 2020