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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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TimescaleDB tech lead calls VictoriaMetrics comparison biased
18 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Faculty Senate Condemns Covid-19 Actions of Hoover’s Scott Atlas
18 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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'Machine-gun with AI' used to kill Iran scientist
18 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Infer powering Microsoft’s Infer#, a new static analyzer for C#
18 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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A New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears
18 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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How do I know if I’m ready to interview at FAANG?
18 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Making The Time Element More Accessible
18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Did Joseph Smith Use Psychedelic Substances to Facilitate Visionary Experiences? [pdf]
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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3D Modeling Finds Surprising Source of the Shots That Killed Iranian Scientist
18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Musk tweets he reached out to Apple's Tim Cook for acquiring Tesla
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Sound C Code Decompilation for a Subset of x86-64 Binaries [pdf]
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0
18 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity
18 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Google Waives $1.5B DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount
18 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Spotify Employee Accused of Deleting Joe Rogan’s Alex Jones Interview
18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Not Apple, Google and Facebook Are Killing the Free Internet
18 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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UK supermarkets report a surge in vegan food sales while expanding ranges
18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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UK approves Pfizer vaccine for rollout next week
18 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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I Left Feminism
18 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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A little puzzle with printf() and C argument passing
18 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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PicoLisp on PicoLisp on LLVM-IR
18 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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U.S. charges China-based Zoom executive with disrupting Tiananmen commemorations
18 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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XScreenSaver 5.45
18 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Yes, the KFConsole Is Real and It's Spectacular
18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Google Illegally Fired and Spied on Workers Who Tried to Organize, Agency Says
18 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Scientists make a sodium-ion battery density breakthrough
18 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website
18 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Tesla: Soaring share price creates army of 'Teslanaires'
18 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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The future for general-purpose computing
18 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Louisville Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Will Be Fired
18 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Star Wars Novelists Seek Years of Missing Royalty Payments from Disney
18 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Apple outages, Apple injustices – FSF perspective
18 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Unesco recognises Finland's sauna culture
18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Telegram to begin monetizing the app as it approaches 500M users
18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Apps Are Helping to Gut the Restaurant Industry
18 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Elon Musk: During the darkest days […] I reached out to Tim Cook
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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The day I woke up to find my industry had vanished
18 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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QNX 1.2 Virtualized
18 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Ancient Petra – Lost and Found
18 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the Year: What Happened?
18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Raiders of the Lost Steel (2016)
18 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Gavin Newsom's businesses collectively got nearly $3M in PPP loans
18 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Ask HN: How to figure out if someone is smart during a casual conversation?
18 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Senate GOP Blocks $2k stimulus checks
18 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Before Covid Death
18 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Show HN: Unconstrained Ghost Hosting For $25/month
18 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Ask HN: Will the dev tools that don't work on M1 chips be fixed next year?
18 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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GOG walks back release of controversial horror game Devotion
18 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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John Le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89
18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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CD Projekt Is Adjusting Cyberpunk 2077's 'Distracting' Amount of Dildos
18 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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What’s the Point of Gigabit Broadband?
18 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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The anti-porn religious lobby just destroyed the livelihoods of pornographers
18 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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The Evolution of Religion (2010) [pdf]
18 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Dreaming in Code
18 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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WeWork: How the $3.5B Flex Space Giant Is Engineering a Comeback
18 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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High Density and Sustainability
18 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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FBI and Europol Shut Down 'Bulletproof' VPN Service That Helped Criminals
18 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Prehistoric Horses: Exploring the meaning of Lascaux’s galloping herds
18 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
18 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Show HN: Timeless HN – random good HN stories from the past
18 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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30 Years Later: Early Days of the Web
17 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Samsung just updated one of its phone apps to serve you even more ads
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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ASR33 Consumables
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Noam Chomsky on the Future of Deep Learning
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Command Line Interface Guidelines
17 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Ask HN: To which FOSS projects will you donate a little something?
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Show HN: Kube Jobs – Curated Kubernetes Jobs
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur
17 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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An introduction to property-based testing with QuickCheck
17 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Cyberpunk Game Maker Faces Hostile Staff After Failed Launch
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide
17 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Bill proposed in NYC would charge residents $3 for all packages ordered online
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the best decisions you’ve made?
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Libreddit – a private front-end for Reddit
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Salaries at Facebook
17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs
17 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Ask HN: Best companies working on climate in 2020?
17 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Deleted words from Xi's economic policy speak volumes
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Show HN: Dither Me This – an online image dithering tool
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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The Dark Future Where Payments Are Politicized and Bitcoin Wins
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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The Google Disease Afflicting AWS
17 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Best “Big Data” Course?
17 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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YouTube just nuked my Account
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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The hell-raising story of Uber rewriting their app in Swift
17 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Beijing Accelerates Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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The pandemic has taken surveillance of workers to the next level
17 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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NSudo – run processes as System or TrustedInstaller
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Ask HN: How Stable Is Pijul?
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Rocky Linux December 2020 community update
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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The 99% Invisible City
17 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Discuss HN: The Last 10 Years
17 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Better learning with shape-shifting objects
17 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Show HN: Create Your Own Cryptocurrency
17 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Apple reportedly working on a 32-core processor for high-end Macs
17 points • comment • dec 07, 2020