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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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The Biggest Video Game Surprise Hits of 2020
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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SuperSym is a toy for doodling with symmetry
11 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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China to Outlaw Binge-Eating ‘Mukbang’ Videos
11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Google discontinues Home Max speaker, tells you to buy two Nest Audios instead
11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Floyd-Steinberg Dithering Algorithm
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Apple to ban X-Mode tracking, developers given two weeks to comply
11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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The Detente Escapement Explained
11 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How to learn by observation from co-workers in a remote-first company?
11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Hackers locked my dad out of WhatsApp – need advice
11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Biohacker's Handbook
11 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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TSLAQ
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Speaker Snitch tells you when your smart speaker is listening in on you
11 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Xkcd: Statistics Tip
11 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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South Korea allows K-Pop stars to defer military service until they turn 30
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Acute mortality of NW Pacific salmon due to tire rubber residues
11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
11 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Quick Reference for all modern/useful HTML5 link and meta tags
11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Top Paying Tech Companies and Cities in 2020
11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Intel Debuts 'Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X
11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Instagram Lite is a 2MB app that removes Reels, Shopping, and IGTV
11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Run is a platform to build apps and tokens on Bitcoin
11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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What MrBeast Burger used to launch 300 virtual restaurants
11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the best charting / graphing JavaScript tools
11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Default password in GE radiology devices leaves health networks exposed
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Major Bay Area retail theft gang arrested
11 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Catching the ‘Green Wave’ – Audi Introduces Smart Traffic Lights in Düsseldorf
11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs
11 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus
11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Show HN: I built a flashcard platform that supports latex and code highlighting
11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Trump signs order on principles for U.S. government AI use
11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Show HN: Generate static sites in Node with plain JavaScript and HTML
11 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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OldLinux – A site dedicated to historical Linux preservation
11 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Google, Facebook reportedly agreed to work together to fight antitrust probes
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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“Ask Culture” vs. “Guess Culture” (2007)
11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Writing on Mathematics of 2020
11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge?
11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Senate invites fringe, unscientific medical group to testify about Covid
11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Nearly a third of workers don’t want to ever return to the office
11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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New Material Can Store Energy from the Sun for Months or Even Years
11 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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China’s Drive to Make Semiconductor Chips Is Failing
11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer vaccine
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Xkcd 1110: Click and Drag
11 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Girl Is Born from Embryo Frozen for 27 Years
11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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DIY Covid-19 Vaccine
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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The biggest problem with capitalism? Not enough capitalists
11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Fusion Is a Terrible Way to Make Electricity
11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Congratulations, the US got you cryptocurrency regulation for Christmas
11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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AirPods Max Teardown
11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the state of the non-tech part of the advertising industry
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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RISC-V is starting to produce technological breakthroughs
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Ask HN: I have 1 BTC, what can I do with it?
11 points • comment • dec 26, 2020
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The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean
11 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Edmund Clark, the 2007 Turing Award winner, has died
11 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Sweden's King Says His Country 'Has Failed' Handling Covid
11 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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What are the characteristics of an innovative person?
11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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A 3x IT Efficiency Boost: Use a Scale-Out Database for Near Real-Time Analytics
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Reggie Fowler owes lawyers $600k
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Jean-Luc Brunel, modeling agent with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arrested
11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Best Slow News Sources?
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Multicore OCaml – what is coming in 2021
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Airflow 2.0 has been released
11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Why do AWS, Azure, and GCP charge so much for outbound data transfer?
11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees
11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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NextMind ships its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit
11 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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We stopped posting videos (hijacked YouTube account)
11 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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While Congress Squabbles over $2k, They Packed the Stimulus Bill with Pork
11 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Nvidia Ampere vs. AMD RDNA 2: Battle of the Architectures
11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Jupiter and Saturn Head for Closest Visible Alignment in 800 Years
11 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Python Financial Stock Analysis [YouTube]
11 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Ars Technica’s 2021 Deathwatch–2020 was just the beginning
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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T-Mobile data breach exposed phone numbers, call records
11 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Facebook’s Campaign Against Apple Is Against Users and Small Businesses
11 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama allowed to vote on unionization
11 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Middle America is still racking up a ton of new coronavirus cases
11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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UK chipmaker Graphcore valued at $2.8bn after it raises $222m
11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin
11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest
11 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Pentagon Imposed Emergency Shutdown of Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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As Tony Hsieh is memorialized in Vegas, fingers point at the 'Park City Crew'
11 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Older Sad Man Syndrome
11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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45 Fantastic Online Communities for Entrepreneurs
11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Small Towns and Covid-19
11 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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IBM Dictionary of Computing Technology [pdf]
11 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Self-Driving A.I. In Action
11 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Using JAX to Accelerate Research
11 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Vintage Basic – Games
11 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Beethoven and Freedom
11 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Elites on the Edge
11 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Scientists studying why gamers invert their controls
11 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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A package for presenting person names
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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MediaTek Becomes Biggest Smartphone Chipset Vendor for First Time in Q3 2020
11 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Bootstrap 5 Beta 1 is here
11 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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East Bay Democrat Compromised by Chinese Spy
11 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Amazon Is Building Its Own Quantum Computer
11 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Rebekah Jones: Florida police raid home of former state Covid-19 data scientist
11 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Coffee Crisp candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders
10 points • comment • dec 29, 2020