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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood
102 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
102 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils
102 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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California judge says L.A. officials 'arbitrarily' set outdoor dining ban
102 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Show HN: Offline-First Personal Kanban
102 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (1986)
102 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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OpenSSL Security Advisory – EDIPARTYNAME null pointer de-reference
101 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon
101 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit
101 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Reboots Pirate Honeypot Scheme from Prison
101 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Britain’s electricity since 2010: fossil fuel use nearly halves
101 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Show HN: Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game
101 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Head of Remote Work
101 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Wikipedia's in Trouble (2019)
100 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Why a land-value tax is inevitable
100 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984)
100 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with Covid-19
100 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn
100 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?
100 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11
99 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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18XX Train Games
99 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020
99 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks
99 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Managing an underperformer who thinks they’re doing great
99 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
99 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4.2B to charity
99 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
99 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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How to let go of a lifelong dream
99 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster
99 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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How Python attributes work
99 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network
99 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Notebook Is A Better Readme
98 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Implementing join planning in our open source Golang SQL query engine
98 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems
98 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Florida Agents Raid Home of Rebekah Jones, Former State Data Scientist
98 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once
98 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban
98 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Macs with T2, M1 chips cannot be restored to factory state without Apple
98 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Selling a Tiny Project
98 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Redox OS 0.6.0
98 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Understanding mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
98 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Finding Software Bugs Using Symbolic Execution
98 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual
98 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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LuckysheetServer – Google Sheets-like realtime collaborative spreadsheet
97 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration
97 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Experts: Evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones' home flimsy
97 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
97 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Canada's 350-year-old department store Hudson's Bay locked out by landlords
97 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Reverse Engineering the TP-Link HS110
97 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Libre Barcode Project
97 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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“I took FSFE to court. This is my story”
97 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India
97 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Dialup: Serendipitous Voice Chat
97 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries
96 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
96 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election
96 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Computer science is not software engineering
96 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)
96 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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The Rise and Fall of Minitel
96 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Redox OS 0.6, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system
96 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Common Problems in Financial Services Reconciliation
96 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
95 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf]
95 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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An open source portable terminal for every dev
95 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
95 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup
95 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops
95 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'
95 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters
94 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Mobile Home Skyscrapers: The Elusive Dream of Vertical Urban Trailer Parks
94 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Vacietis, a C compiler targeting Common Lisp
94 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer vaccine trigger allergic reactions
94 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music
94 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Ethr Is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and ICMP
94 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
94 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Google Cloud: $72,000 bill overnight
93 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS
93 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020
93 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]
93 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (1996)
93 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug
93 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
93 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Draw.io and Terraform = Brainboard, Graphical Way to Do Terraform
93 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”
93 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (1971)
93 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Debian CD Image for AArch64 Windows Laptops
93 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Oso – open-source policy engine for authorization in Rust
92 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Why Content Is King
92 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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AWS Proton
92 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language
92 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen
92 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook
92 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
92 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Unraveling the role of the microbiome in major depressive disorder
92 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Code Browser
92 points • comment • dec 28, 2020