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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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CentOS 8 vs. Amazon Linux 2
26 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Fictional 'Black Jet' Toys, Models, and Video Games from the 1980s to Today
26 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Odroid-Go Super
26 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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The World’s First Medical Records
26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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The Death of the Newsfeed (2018)
26 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Silicon Valley's hunger problems grow during a time of record profits
26 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Stop-saying-PHP-is-dead
25 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Resolving the Time Paradox Implied by Functional Programs
25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Manuscripts.io
25 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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A notebook-free notebook or Jupyter dev env for coders
25 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Sonic attacks on US diplomats likely microwave energy, government study says
25 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Show HN: This Wojak Does Not Exist
25 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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A Fraud Operation Stole Millions from Online Bank Accounts
25 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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A Modest Proposal for Building the Future
25 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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How to steal photos off someone’s iPhone from across the street
25 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Facebook blasts Apple in new ads over iPhone privacy change
25 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google
25 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Geometry by Design: Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia
25 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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AWS Lambda is winning, but first it had to die
25 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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The Aquarium: A child’s isolating illness (2011)
25 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon, Other Conspiracy Theories
25 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Telegram is not as private and secure as most of its users think
25 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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FBI says white supremacists plotted attack on US power grid
25 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Bitcoin paper wallet generator bitcoinwalletpaper.com leaks private key
25 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Wonder
25 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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When Failures Align
25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Automated tool to study and reverse-engineer algorithmic recommendation systems
25 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Community Takes All: The Power of Social+
25 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine: literature review
25 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Megadose of vitamin C may treat sepsis
25 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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The Weaknesses of Full Text Searching (2008) [pdf]
25 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet
25 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples lands in Australia
25 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Why are personalised ads bad?
25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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How to Remove Yourself from Data Broker Websites
25 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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TeX: A Tale of Two Worlds
25 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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DuckDB now has a Node.js API
25 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Congress Sneaks Case Act, Felony Streaming Bill into Government Funding Omnibus
25 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?
25 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Hacker’s Discovery Changes Understanding of the Antikythera Mechanism
25 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Top Down Operator Precedence (2007)
25 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Why Doesn’t Gravity Happen Instantly?
25 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Ask HN: About Financial Inequity
25 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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We’re Rebranding PrestoSQL as Trino
24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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One Year of Load Balancing
24 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Powerful Cellphone Location Surveillance Used in Europe, Middle East, Australia
24 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Platform Monetization: Dealing with High Adoption Barriers
24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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First Alzheimer's Blood Test Rolled Out for Clinical Use in US
24 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Unicorn Traits – Early Signs of a Bilion Dollar Company
24 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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How UI developers can adapt, not die
24 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Corona Contact Tracing Germany
24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Elasticsearch new features: 2020 year in review
24 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Building a React Native App for Your Christmas Lights
24 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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AstraZeneca vaccine not ready for quick European approval
24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform
24 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Clockwise/Spiral Rule
24 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Mystery illness puts 450 in hospital in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
24 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Is anyone using Linux on the 2020 Thinkpad X1 Fold?
24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Ruby 3.0 Changes
24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Make Amazon Pay
24 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages [pdf]
24 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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How to backup and decrypt Signal for iPhone message history
24 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Air pollution a cause in girl's death, coroner rules in landmark case
24 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Show HN: GuitarLSTM-Create deep learning models of guitar amps/pedals in minutes
24 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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KFC's KFConsole Is Real: Secret Ingredient Is Intel Silicon
24 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Why Domain Specific Languages? A Collection of Anecdotes
24 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Hacker interview – Gummo [video]
24 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Indian iPhone Factory Attacked by Angry Workers
24 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Unrecognizable: William Gaddis’s American Pessimism
24 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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The Key to Armenia’s Tank Losses: The Sensors, Not the Shooters
24 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Some healthcare workers refuse to take Covid-19 vaccine
24 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Occupational Depression Inventory: A new tool for clinicians and epidemiologists
24 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Underlay – The world’s distributed knowledge graph
24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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The Army’s Official Face Mask to Be Issued to New Soldiers in 2021
24 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
24 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Leaves Silicon Valley for Texas
24 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Another new Covid-19 virus variant found in Nigeria, says Africa CDC
24 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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There is much less intellectual diversity now than there was 100 years ago
24 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Laura Poitras: I Am Guilty of Violating the Espionage Act
24 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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The M1 MacBook Air: Perfection
23 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught?
23 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology
23 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you send custom notifications to your phone?
23 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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King's Day Speech (2016)
23 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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The Perfect Media Server – 2020 Edition
23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt
23 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Tall people are less supportive of government redistribution of wealth
23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Microsoft broke autosave in Word, forcing you to use OneDrive for it
23 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants
23 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Where do you regularly discover interesting links on internet?
23 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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How Surveillance Companies track you using Mobile Networks [video]
23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza
23 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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FDA Authorizes Ellume as First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Test for COVID
23 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Is PyTorch better than TensorFlow for production?
23 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Show HN: I Built a Synthesizer with WASM
23 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban
23 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease (2018)
23 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Firsts in 2020 (or, A little dose of good news for C++) – Herb Sutter
23 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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About those new Covid mutations
23 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Argentina legalises abortion in landmark moment for women's rights
23 points • comment • dec 30, 2020