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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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Software quality/delay problems are coming from one source: constant changes
10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Employers now allowed to take tips from waiters, split them with other workers
10 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster
10 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Ask HN: If you could time travel, where would you go?
10 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Online WebCam Eye-Tracking API
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle
9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Social Networking 2.0
9 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Show HN: TinyBaker, a library for defining composable file-to-file transforms
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker
9 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Coverage of “wooden satellites” misses the point
9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Alibaba's Software Can Find Uighur Faces, It Told China Clients
9 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Tesla UI refresh (Model 3) is bad
9 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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CDC's Redfield says 'the most difficult' months in health history loom
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Hollywood studio MGM puts itself up for sale at $5bn
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Nashville explosives attack on AT&T impacts regional communications
9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Support the Free Software Foundation
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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A Poet Who Wrote the Way Abstract Expressionists Painted
9 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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From Coils to Curves – A Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
9 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Any good resources out there on putting together consulting packages?
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Phosphorus equivalent of graphene makes reconfigurable transistors
9 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Learning to program at 57 years young
9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Enigma: Archaeologists find legendary Nazi cipher machine in the Baltic Sea
9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Congress (Once Again) Sells Out to Hollywood
9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Nashville Bomber's Reported Paranoia: Between 5G Reality and Marketing
9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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JetBrains CLion for Apple Silicon is now available
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Covid-19 vaccine: Allergy warning
9 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Netscape Communicator 4 and SHA-1 are part of Brexit agreement
9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Ben Bova Passes Away at 88
9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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A side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines
9 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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The Wuhan Files
9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some interesting APIs (free or paid) available to anyone
9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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World now has 500 unicorns, 70% of which in US and China
9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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The Mystery of the Gatwick Drone
9 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Why the Office Isn’t Going Away
9 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Ghost-Gun Company Raided by Federal Agents
9 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Show HN: Cyberpunk city, Urban fantasy art, Rainy city
9 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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Cloudflare Pages
9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Any Modern Alternative to JQuery?
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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The Year in Math and Computer Science
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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All 300 computer science students at ANU penalised due to widespread cheating
9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Show HN: NotAn.app
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits
9 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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How bots are buying PS5s and inflating prices
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Yes! High level languages should be used to write systems software (1975)
9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Show HN: I created a platform to track retail traders' most popular moves
9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Show HN: ParttimeCareers – Yet Another Part-Time Jobs Website
9 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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IN 2020, Disinformation Broke the US
9 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Salesforce prevents employee from sitting on external board
9 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Wikipedia rejected entry for Nobel Prize winner because she wasn’t famous enough
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Fungus zombifies plants and forces them to grow pseudoflowers covered in spores
9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Weather Underground Organization
9 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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What Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Wrong About the Genre
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Pinterest Settles Gender Discrimination Suit for $22.5M
9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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I cannot convince Twitter that I am human
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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A Chain Just Cut Through a Capsized Cargo Ship and the Process Is Fascinating
9 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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SEC Sues Ripple over XRP Cryptocurrency
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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MacKenzie Scott gives away $4.2bn in four months
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Where to Start with Design Tokens
9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Cryptographers Unveil Breakthrough in Achieving Indistinguishability Obfuscation
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Remote Workers Fleeing High-Cost Cities, Not All Cities
9 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Judge Declares H-1B Visa Rules Unlawful
9 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Redesigning Search would harm American consumers and businesses
9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Password Cracking with Deep Learning
9 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Deep-learning robot Shimon writes and rhymes in real time
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Kiwi adults know more te reo Māori than they realize, study reveals
9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Photos That Bear Witness to Modern Slavery
9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Chicken Hypnotism
9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Why won’t New York’s leaders share the data on restaurants and Covid-19?
9 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Catalina: Instead of fix, package contained chime
9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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MeshCentral: Self-hosted web-based management of remote computers
9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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Ask HN: What websites do you use when searching for a programming job?
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Golang First Impressions
9 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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The Market Curve
9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020
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I Hate Cilantro
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Advanced TypeScript Type Tricks
9 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Ditch Nuclear and Save $860M with Grid Flexibility, U.K. Told
9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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William Barr to Step Down as Attorney General Before Christmas
9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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The 512KB Club
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Fusion energy device sets a record by running for 20 seconds
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Building x86_64 Docker containers on Apple Silicon
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Investigation identifies Russian specialists who trailed Putin's nemesis
9 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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The Author's Curse (2006)
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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'They can take me away': Bay Area salon refuses to close
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Making an HTAP Database a Reality: What I Learned from PingCAP's VLDB Paper
9 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Pfizer’s CEO hasn’t gotten Covid vaccine, saying he doesn’t want to cut in line
9 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes
9 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Zoom may launch email service and calendar app to compete with Google, Microsoft
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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The Fan Game – Ghostbusters and the Secret of Monkey Island
9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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Elie Metchnikoff, the Man and the Myth (2016)
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Justice minister announces online freedom of speech bill
9 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Show HN: TQL – Codegen-free and typesafe GraphQL operations in TypeScript
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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Hackers accessed Microsoft cloud customers' information through third party
9 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Rimac Tests Its Hypercar So It Won’t Brick Stoplights with EM Radiation
9 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Facebook Accused of Squeezing Rival Startups in Virtual Reality
9 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you have a coach? What are your recommendations getting one?
9 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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MFK Fisher's Sensual Realm (1988)
9 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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The web did not turn 30 years old four days ago
9 points • comment • dec 24, 2020