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Websites that look like desktop GUIs (simone.computer)

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De-escalating social media conflict (nickpunt.com)

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Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes (bennettfeely.com)

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Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? (item?id=23735676)

342 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070706 729 comments

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The Fourth of July (www.popehat.com)

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Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code (old.reddit.com)

310 points first seen 2020070515 last seen 2020070606 87 comments

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A ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune (gizmodo.com)

288 points first seen 2020070518 last seen 2020070706 92 comments

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Beginner's Guide to Abstraction (jesseduffield.com)

238 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070700 79 comments

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From context collapse to content collapse (www.roughtype.com)

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Hydrogen power might now be about to bear fruit (www.economist.com)

207 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070603 289 comments

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Back to old tricks, or, baby steps in Rust (donsbot.wordpress.com)

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Query Git Repositories with SQL (github.com)

163 points first seen 2020070503 last seen 2020070606 33 comments

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MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop (maxxinteractive.com)

162 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070603 111 comments

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SSH Emergency Access (smallstep.com)

160 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070606 70 comments

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Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program in uLisp (www.ulisp.com)

159 points first seen 2020070515 last seen 2020070618 24 comments

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Tinc – A Virtual Private Network (VPN) Daemon (tinc-vpn.org)

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Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (www.popularmechanics.com)

146 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070606 90 comments

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Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking (www.japantimes.co.jp)

137 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070512 117 comments

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How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS (www.preetamnath.com)

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Harmful Workload Generator for PostgreSQL (github.com)

131 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070603 7 comments

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Quick Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (blog.higashi.tech)

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Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018) (www.economist.com)

114 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070506 144 comments

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Meditations on Moloch (2014) (web.archive.org)

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Possible planet in habitable zone found around GJ877, 11 light years away (astrobiology.nasa.gov)

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Principles of Programming Languages [pdf] (www.cs.nott.ac.uk)

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Cassette tape-based navigation system from 1971 (jalopnik.com)

94 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070700 21 comments

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Rocket Lab vehicle lost during second stage burn on 13th mission (twitter.com)

87 points first seen 2020070515 last seen 2020070606 31 comments

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Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review (www.dxomark.com)

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Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals thanks to Autobidder (techau.com.au)

81 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070600 69 comments

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The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991) (www.cs.utexas.edu)

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Iran dumps Flight 752 investigator, airspace open to conceal 'imminent' attack (www.cbc.ca)

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Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas (github.com)

73 points first seen 2020070515 last seen 2020070606 19 comments

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The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics (www.nature.com)

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The remote British village that built one of the UK’s fastest Internet networks (arstechnica.com)

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Place for Open and Interactive Mathematics (imaginary.org)

69 points first seen 2020070521 last seen 2020070612 2 comments

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Targeted MitM attacks using information leakage in SSH clients [pdf] (www.fzi.de)

67 points first seen 2020070506 last seen 2020070600 82 comments

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Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging [pdf] (www.cell.com)

64 points first seen 2020070518 last seen 2020070700 10 comments

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Show HN: Screenshot.rocks – Create beautiful browser mockups from screenshots (github.com)

62 points first seen 2020070503 last seen 2020070521 18 comments

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Anyons: Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought 2D structures (www.nature.com)

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First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln (avalon.law.yale.edu)

61 points first seen 2020070515 last seen 2020070606 50 comments

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Founder-driven life sciences companies (axial.substack.com)

58 points first seen 2020070509 last seen 2020070603 26 comments

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The CSS Standardization Process (www.w3.org)

52 points first seen 2020070518 last seen 2020070606 25 comments

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How the American Worker Got Fleeced (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: How do you deal with social isolation while working from home? (item?id=23722523)

45 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070503 52 comments

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U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Minorities (www.bloomberg.com)

45 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070515 57 comments

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PuTTY: Observable Discrepancy leading to a leak in the algorithm negotiation (nvd.nist.gov)

44 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070503 45 comments

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Joseph Von Fraunhofer – The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics (2014) (nautil.us)

43 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070606 10 comments

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Neighborhoods with Limited Access to Streets (millionneighborhoods.org)

42 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070603 29 comments

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Newton, the Man (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

42 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070603 9 comments

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Survival of Scottish Gaelic in doubt (www.rte.ie)

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Bit-Box: custom keypad build (www.bit-101.com)

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George Stinney: youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed (en.wikipedia.org)

38 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070512 0 comments

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The Rabbit Outbreak (www.newyorker.com)

37 points first seen 2020070518 last seen 2020070606 5 comments

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Relativity behind mercury's liquidity (2013) (www.chemistryworld.com)

36 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070521 19 comments

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Tell HN: iBooks has deleted all my downloaded books (item?id=23736536)

36 points first seen 2020070518 last seen 2020070600 26 comments

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GitHub is now slowly turning into a Portfolio Website (twitter.com)

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The danger of surrogate metrics (2007) (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Vue.js sliding header(s) for top navigation bar (github.com)

29 points first seen 2020070521 last seen 2020070612 18 comments

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Chemistry of Fireworks (www.acs.org)

28 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070600 2 comments

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Show HN: FAANG Compensation Calculators (mackgrenfell.com)

26 points first seen 2020070515 last seen 2020070518 10 comments

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Platform Adjacency Theory (infrequently.org)

26 points first seen 2020070521 last seen 2020070615 6 comments

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Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India (www.businessinsider.in)

23 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070500 10 comments

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Foam Concrete (en.wikipedia.org)

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Trump May Attempt to Force Long-Time H-1B Visa Holders Out of U.S. (www.forbes.com)

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Open Markov Processes (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: What's the deal with overlapping NYC IPs? (item?id=23734021)

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New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo (www.oregonlive.com)

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Going back to normal: how Iceland has dealt with the coronavirus (www.theatlantic.com)

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Rocket Lab vehicle lost during second stage burn on 13th mission (mobile.twitter.com)

11 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070512 0 comments

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Anna Merlan's "Republic of Lies" Explores Fixation with Conspiracy Theories (www.npr.org)

9 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070500 2 comments

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Welcome anyons! Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought 2D structures (www.nature.com)

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India Bans Chinese Apps, the App Store Firewall, Reddit and the Donald (stratechery.com)

8 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070512 3 comments

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Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States (fee.org)

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How Is Money Created? – Everything You Need to Know (www.youtube.com)

6 points first seen 2020070500 last seen 2020070500 0 comments

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ProtonMail – Secure Email (en.wikipedia.org)

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Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will now be a crime in Mexico (www.xataka.com.mx)

6 points first seen 2020070518 last seen 2022061012 0 comments

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5G was going to unite the world–instead it’s tearing us apart (arstechnica.com)

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Rapper Kanye West announces U.S. presidential bid on Twitter (www.reuters.com)

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Recruiting Is Poker – Not Chess (recruithacker.substack.com)

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COVID-19: Excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries (ourworldindata.org)

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Getting Started with WordPress Static Site Generators (snipcart.com)

4 points first seen 2020070512 last seen 2020070512 0 comments

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Barclays Bank Potentially Used the Wayback Machine as 'CDN' for Some JavaScript (www.theregister.com)

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (en.wikipedia.org)

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Volley (YC W18) is hiring a lead mobile engineer to build voice-controlled games (jobs.lever.co)

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