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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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Free open-source Media Cloud Platform
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Apple App Store Small Business Program for 15% rate
28 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly
28 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Africa in the Photobook
28 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Reddit Is Down
28 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Lambda.r Functional Programming in R
28 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
28 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Futureproof is a live editor for GPU shaders, built on Zig, Neovim, and WebGPU
28 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?
28 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions
28 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Ousted Black Google Researcher: 'They Wanted to Have My Presence, but Not Me'
28 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress
28 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
28 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Show HN: Show last Git push on an e-paper device
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Obarun – Arch Linux based distro with skarnet s6/66 suite
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Russian Covid vaccine scientist dead w stab wounds after falling from 14th floor
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Data Catalogs Are Dead; Long Live Data Discovery
28 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Locked-down California runs out of reasons for surprising surge
28 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Twitter to wipe Trump followers before handover
28 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Ask HN: What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?
28 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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You’re Only as Good as Your Worst Day
28 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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I Am the Facebook Algorithm and I Come to You Now, Requesting a Swift Death
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Espionage at the Edge of Empire
28 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Princeton grad says Ivy League made him 'social climbing weasel'
28 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism
28 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Ask HN: What evidence would convince you of intelligent extra-terrestrial life?
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Why UPS drivers don't turn left and you probably shouldn't either
28 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Semantic segmentation algorithms do not generalize to off-road datasets
28 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Enzyme: Cross-language Automatic differentiation for LLVM IR
28 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Gmail Gone Again
28 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Empire of Fantasy
27 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Electronic amoeba finds solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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10 years ago today, Groupon turned down Google’s $6B offer
27 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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DeepMind A.I. unit lost $649M last year and had a $1.5B debt waived by Alphabet
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some recent less known innovations in UI/UX
27 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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UK coronavirus variant may be more able to infect children: scientists
27 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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FBI Informant Spent a Decade Committing Fraud
27 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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The Fruits of the Deep
27 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Can dairy farming ever be sustainable?
27 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Peak Oil Is Suddenly Upon Us
27 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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“your app will fit on two Heroku Standard 1x dynos and one Standard 0 database”
27 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Daniel Stenberg: Twitter lockout, again
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Mike Pondsmith: “‘Cyberpunk’ is a warning, not an aspiration”
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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FDA Fining Distillers for Making Hand Sanitizer
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Wikipedia: Don't Be High-Maintenance
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Leaked Government UFO Photo: What Is Hovering Cube-Shaped Object?
27 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Drones are poised to reshape home design
27 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown – AIER
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Finding Critical Open Source Projects
27 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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The Unbearable Pathos of Thomas Mann (2016)
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck
27 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Show HN: Badges of kindness for your website footers, repos, and more
27 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Rainer Weiss: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Nobel Prizes [audio]
27 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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AWS Proton is Conway’s Law-as-a-Service
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Microconfig Features
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Information Management in Times of Crisis [pdf]
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Clean architecture: Domain-driven design, part 1
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Panthers’ Russell Okung Becomes First NFL Player to Be Paid in Bitcoin
27 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Florida posted the password to a key disaster system on its website
27 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency industry?
27 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Show HN: We created a hexagonal keyboard made for smartphones
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Doing Python development under Mac OS
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Tiananmen Square images that China does not want you to see
27 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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My Comments on “Hitting the High Notes” (2005)
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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The Skeletons at the Lake
27 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Wildfire smoke is loaded with microbes
27 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Cyberpunk 2077 Removed from Playstation Store
27 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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New York Times Best Seller Business Book
26 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Microsoft to Make ARM CPUs
26 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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How to Choose a Microcontroller
26 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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City of Paris Fined Nearly $110k for Appointing Too Many Women
26 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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How Google’s AI ethics meltdown could shape policy
26 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Wistron’s Apple factory in India committed serious violations of labour laws
26 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Show HN: Live – A net/http compatible Phoenix LiveView implementation in Go
26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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A Continuous Integration Mystery
26 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Review: This Changes Everything
26 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Ticketmaster Pays $10M Criminal Fine for Intrusions into Competitor’s Systems
26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Start Contributing to Open Source Software
26 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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10x Engineers: The Purple Developer
26 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, SSH, and UUCP
26 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Turbo: The speed of a SPA without having to write any JavaScript
26 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Gmail Is Down
26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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They did everything right. But after one at-home haircut couple died of Covid-19
26 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Ask HN: I'm building a Windows video editor, what are your pain points?
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Sectorlisp – Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector
26 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Personal Server Configuration with K3s
26 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Principles of Effective Research (2004)
26 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Network effect: visualizing AI connections in the natural sciences
26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Tips for on Call Engineers During the Holidays
26 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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New Stay-at-Home Order a 'Deathblow' to California's Small Businesses
26 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Ask HN: How do I become a shell god?
26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Intel Urged to Take 'Immediate Action' Amid Threats from Apple Silicon and AMD
26 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Can I compute the mass of a coin based on the sound of its fall?
26 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Conceal malicious actions from malware detection by imitating user activity
26 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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UK approves Pfizer vaccine rollout
26 points • comment • dec 02, 2020