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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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YouTube's deep learning AI boosted two news channels in US
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Why does HN hate humor?
20 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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FBI agents investigating if 5G paranoia was behind Nashville bombing
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Fired Googler says she was told heavy Baltimore accent a “disability”
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Cellebrite claims it can break Signal
20 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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DocWriter: Typewriter that sends its keystrokes to a Google Doc (2017)
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Samsung Galaxy S II, released in 2011, has an unofficial port of Android 11
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Software Development Team Structure: Important Roles and Responsibilities
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Ask HN: How to develop accurate self-understanding?
20 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Stratechery Year in Review
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Google AI Researchers Lay Out Demands, Escalating Internal Fight
20 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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DoorDash Is Expected to Price IPO at Around $102 a Share at $39B Valuation
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Oregon’s computers sending erroneous letters to jobless; they can't stop them
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Cosmic Latte
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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The Gig Economy Is White People Discovering Servants
20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Rally – A Community of Rejected YC Founders
20 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Trump downplays Russian-linked cyberattack on U.S.
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Malaysian official who renamed stadium denies title is his name backwards
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2B in Four Months
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and others file amicus brief in support of NSO lawsuit
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Implementing Anonymous Posts on Gurlic
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Microsoft Flight Simulator's new VR mode haunts my dreams
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Webtor – free cloud BitTorrent-client
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower’
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Russia's SolarWinds Attack
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change?
20 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
20 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Learning New Things from Google
20 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Do you need to show your face to sell courses online?
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Show HN: I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame
20 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Farmer Given 3-Day Facebook Ban over Literal Sheep
20 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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‘Longest known exposure’ recovered from makeshift camera forgotten on telescope
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you decide what books to read?
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Show HN: Rocketshipping – A Handbook for Starting a Startup
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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It's a Wonderful Life
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Chuck Yeager Has Died
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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FTC Sues Facebook, Alleging Anticompetitive Behavior [pdf]
19 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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I Have Access to Bank Accounts That Are Not Mine (Capital One Bank)
19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Ask HN: 1Password vs. LastPass vs. Bitwarden for teams ?
19 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Investors in SolarWinds traded $280M in stock before hack was revealed
19 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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The aftermath of “No, 'Open Source' does not mean 'Includes Free Support'”
19 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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YouTube Shuts Down Scott Adams
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Unrepentant Baguette Merchant
19 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Consider the Golden Mole (2019)
19 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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AWS Lambda now supports container images as a packaging format
19 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Show HN: Passerine – an extensible programming language – v0.8.0 released
19 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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12-year-old boy genius accepted at Georgia Tech, has dreams of going to Mars
19 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollar a year into CentOS clone
19 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Hackers can take full control of online compilers through a RCE exploit (2018)
19 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Ask HN: If agelessness was genetically possible, wouldn't it have evolved?
19 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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John le Carré passed away
19 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Diet may help reduce cognitive decline
19 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Intel Is Finished
19 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Show HN: Make your own help center (Intercom UI) with Airtable
19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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PHP8, from a Security Point of View
19 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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I Paid $250 to Drive for Lyft Last Year
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Why Bing (and others) is so behind Google in features?
19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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A call to revolutionize the workplace – by working less
19 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Apple closes all California stores as Covid cases rise
19 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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The FTC Can Do More Than Sue Tech Companies. It Can Regulate Them
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Apps Are Helping to Gut the Restaurant Industry
19 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Collabora presents a Wayland driver for Wine
19 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting
19 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Analyzing Minard's Visualization of Napoleon's 1812 March (2014)
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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NASA: Lessons Learned for Project Managers
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security with the “Earn IT” Act
19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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I think GPT-3's private beta distribution strategy widens economic inequality
19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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A dying man, a therapist and the ransom raid that shook the world
19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Error 418 – I'm a Teapot
19 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Poisoned Russian politician dupes FSB agent into detailing own murder attempt
19 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Hardware security mechanisms protecting physical memory on mobile devices
19 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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New terrorism guide shows FBI still classifying Black 'extremists' as threat
19 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Show HN: text.fish: Get Only Text, Read Peacefully
19 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems
19 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues
19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Most interesting things you've learned/discovered in 2020?
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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EU criticises 'hasty' UK approval of Covid-19 vaccine
19 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Former Israeli space security chief says ETs exist, and Trump knows about it
19 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Precursor – What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
19 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Cryptocurrency Startup Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows
19 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Apple’s 8GB M1 Silicon Isn’t Magic, but It Is Magical
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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An Assange confidant in the sights of the CIA
19 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Node.example.com Is an IP Address
19 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Twitter fined ~$550k over a data breach in Ireland’s first major GDPR decision
19 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Copy Guard: a browser extension to prevent copy hijacking
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Instacart Is a Parasite and a Sham
19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Blob Opera
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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The 1950s plan for a Washington Square Highway (2014)
19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid
19 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Tesla Model 3 = 31% of UK Electric Vehicle Sales
19 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Microsoft president sounds alarm on ‘ongoing’ SolarWinds hack
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Mobile data shows which European countries took lockdown seriously
19 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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National Weather Service weather radar website disaster as Flash retires
19 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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House passes bill decriminalizing marijuana at federal level
19 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Oculus Quest user breaks neck, then Facebook deletes his account
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Amnesia: IoT flaws dangerous and patches unlikely, say experts
18 points • comment • dec 10, 2020