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Ask HN: How to learn sales? (item?id=24601579)

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Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) (www.gkogan.co)

425 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092903 265 comments

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ShowHN: all duckduckgo bang operators on one page (metasearch tool) (mosermichael.github.io)

405 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020100103 138 comments

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A Short Story for Engineers (userweb.cs.txstate.edu)

384 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092806 119 comments

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How to properly manage SSH keys for server access (www.paepper.com)

361 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092900 170 comments

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Things I Was Wrong About: Types (v5.chriskrycho.com)

335 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092818 423 comments

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Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code (pastebin.com)

311 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092900 123 comments

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LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor, with a Strong Focus on User-Friendliness (deepnight.net)

285 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092900 58 comments

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Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter (www.ora2pg.com)

277 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092900 71 comments

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WSL Getting GUI Support (twitter.com)

275 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092900 297 comments

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Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes (www.economist.com)

245 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092803 80 comments

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Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM (www.bloombergquint.com)

243 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092900 531 comments

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Create beautiful system diagrams with Go (github.com)

238 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092903 59 comments

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Towards Principled Reactive UI (raphlinus.github.io)

223 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092809 91 comments

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Password-Cracking Conspiracy Theory Against Assange Unravels at Trial (dissenter.substack.com)

198 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092818 117 comments

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Caramel: An erlang back end for OCaml (github.com)

186 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092903 107 comments

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eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Story of a Stalking Scandal (www.nytimes.com)

183 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092809 102 comments

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Muesli/Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility (github.com)

181 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092900 38 comments

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Brain-eating microbe: US city warned over water supply (www.bbc.co.uk)

178 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092821 187 comments

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Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video] (www.youtube.com)

167 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092809 92 comments

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The bridges portrayed on Euro banknotes aren't fictional anymore (www.atlasobscura.com)

162 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092803 55 comments

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The IRS Sets a Trap for Cryptocurrency Tax Cheats (www.wsj.com)

160 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092812 247 comments

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Spotify founder commits to investing €1bn in European moonshots (sifted.eu)

151 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092800 168 comments

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Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (arxiv.org)

151 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092818 169 comments

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Are we living at the 'hinge of history'? (www.bbc.com)

151 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092815 293 comments

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Debian 10.6 (www.debian.org)

134 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092709 52 comments

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The fresh smell of ransomed coffee (decoded.avast.io)

132 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092800 178 comments

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PyPy 7.3.2 triple release: Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7 (morepypy.blogspot.com)

131 points first seen 2020092718 last seen 2020092812 52 comments

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What Is Math? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

128 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092809 232 comments

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All you need is λ, part one: booleans (antitypical.com)

126 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092806 31 comments

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US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20 (phys.org)

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James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing [video] (www.youtube.com)

120 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092803 58 comments

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Pac-Man Maze Generation (shaunlebron.github.io)

103 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092821 6 comments

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Randomized Living (maxhawkins.me)

102 points first seen 2020092718 last seen 2020092809 65 comments

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SwissMicros releases DM41x a modern take on the HP-41CX (www.swissmicros.com)

100 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092821 70 comments

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LibreOffice 7.1 (wiki.documentfoundation.org)

96 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092718 34 comments

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The Art of Automation (blog.jessfraz.com)

91 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092812 27 comments

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ESP32 based old clock controller, with NTP sync (smallhacks.wordpress.com)

90 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092809 36 comments

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Show HN: Fully Open-Sourced Online MIDI Editor (signal.vercel.app)

89 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092809 17 comments

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums 2003 vs. 2012 vs. 2020 (docs.google.com)

88 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092803 156 comments

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Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Libraries (www.smithsonianmag.com)

86 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2022010509 74 comments

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Ask HN: I am “trapped” in a senior engineering role, how can I escape? (item?id=24598261)

86 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092715 52 comments

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AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3 (thegradient.pub)

84 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092806 73 comments

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Increase your productivity with starship environment and ambient noises (landemy.netlify.app)

75 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092706 26 comments

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My Hacking Adventures with Safari Reader Mode (payatu.com)

75 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092803 6 comments

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Show HN: Rentify – Create an online rental store (https://rentify.store)

73 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092721 56 comments

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Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart/maybe self-aware (www.sciencemag.org)

71 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092803 55 comments

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LibreDWG: “Plans are to add support for SolveSpace, OpenSCAD and PythonCAD” (www.gnu.org)

70 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092806 18 comments

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Open Source Foundation for Application Security (owasp.org)

69 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092806 6 comments

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Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial (www.wsj.com)

67 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092806 58 comments

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Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API? (2017) (utcc.utoronto.ca)

64 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092806 48 comments

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How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) (www.theatlantic.com)

62 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092803 51 comments

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Patatap- create musical forms with your keyboard (www.patatap.com)

59 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092809 9 comments

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Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves (www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org)

53 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092812 14 comments

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“YAYA”, a New Threat Hunting Tool from EFF Threat Lab (www.eff.org)

50 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092800 2 comments

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Ossia score – a sequencer designed to create interactive audio-visual shows (github.com)

49 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092809 10 comments

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FedEx teams up with Reliable Robotics on autonomous cargo planes (www.supplychaindive.com)

49 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092803 12 comments

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Catalina VM (www.bit-101.com)

47 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092712 11 comments

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This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work (www.vice.com)

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Linux kernel initcalls, part 2: Digging into implementation (www.collabora.com)

45 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092809 0 comments

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Developing a reactivity system with Lamport clocks and incremental computation (v5.chriskrycho.com)

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Vitamin D at least 30 ng/mL reduced risk for Covid-19 adverse outcomes (journals.plos.org)

42 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092709 5 comments

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Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers (trueq.io)

41 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092818 57 comments

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LBRY App Banned from the Google Playstore (twitter.com)

41 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092809 2 comments

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Show HN: Fun with cell phone webcam and WebGL shaders (acidicworks.github.io)

39 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092806 15 comments

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The Endless Frontiers Act (benjaminreinhardt.com)

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How often do you need to shower? A doctor argues, less often than you think (www.npr.org)

38 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092800 33 comments

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Nanotherapy reduces plaque buildup in mouse arteries (med.stanford.edu)

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Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation (pikchr.org)

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Ten Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages (www.hillelwayne.com)

31 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092800 10 comments

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5k people have pledged to give 10%+ of their income to effective charities (www.givingwhatwecan.org)

30 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092800 11 comments

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Clickhouse DB Migration Framework (github.com)

28 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092721 5 comments

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Scientists Resolved the Mystery of the Devil’s Corkscrews (2019) (www.smithsonianmag.com)

28 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092806 3 comments

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St Giles Rookery: A Lost London Landmark (landmarksinlondonhistory.wordpress.com)

28 points first seen 2020092718 last seen 2020092818 2 comments

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Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over 100 (www.icelandreview.com)

27 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092703 21 comments

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Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait (www.nytimes.com)

26 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092806 5 comments

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Show HN: Send Audio Messages in Gmail (nat.app)

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Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down (www.vice.com.)

25 points first seen 2020092700 last seen 2020092703 16 comments

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Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths (nypost.com)

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The Trouble with Designing a Book When Its Author Is in Jail (2018) (lithub.com)

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Inside a counterfeit analog multiplier (www.righto.com)

22 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092806 9 comments

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American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review (news.yahoo.com)

22 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092803 26 comments

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Deprecate GraphQL Subscriptions over WebSockets in Favour of SSE/EventSource API (item?id=24599155)

18 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092703 3 comments

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The Case of the Missing Bullet Holes (2017) (micawberprinciple.com)

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Google has stopped responding to data requests from Hong Kong (www.reuters.com)

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QAnon and the Emergence of the Unreal (jods.mitpress.mit.edu)

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Show HN: A freelance-only job board (https://lancer.to)

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Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe (www.theguardian.com)

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19 years of difference – running Windows XP and MS Office 2003 in a VM (twitter.com)

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Coffee makers are demanding a ransom (arstechnica.com)

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London and the Anxiety Threshold (medium.com)

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Commercialising Quantum Computers (www.economist.com)

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OpenAI should be renamed ClosedAI (www.geekwire.com)

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Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results? (item?id=24603476)

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Arm wants to obliterate Intel and AMD with gigantic 192-core CPU (www.techradar.com)

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“Ship It” the Game of Product Management (postlight.com)

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European Commission will appeal ruling that favored Apple in 15B tax case (www.techspot.com)

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Ask HN: What's a solid, non-mesh/-repeater/-cloud WiFi-GbE bridge ~100 USD? (item?id=24598253)

10 points first seen 2020092703 last seen 2020092703 6 comments

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Real talk: You are perpetuating bias with your technical interview process (www.youtube.com)

10 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092712 0 comments

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I Just Bought a Bank – Yotta YC S20 (www.youtube.com)

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Nikola founder bought truck designs from third party (www.ft.com)

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This week in KDE: fixing up Plasma 5.20 (pointieststick.com)

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A 'Cure for Heart Disease'? a Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys (www.nytimes.com)

8 points first seen 2020092706 last seen 2020092709 0 comments

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Ask HN: Why would a bot (or person) leave these identical nonsense IMDB reviews? (item?id=24602837)

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Straight, Middle-Aged Men Are Being Charged More to Use Tinder Plus (www.vice.com)

8 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092715 3 comments

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A Physicist Has Discovered Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible (www.sciencealert.com)

8 points first seen 2020092715 last seen 2020092715 7 comments

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Ask HN: When to notify your employer you are going to leave? (item?id=24603173)

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Show HN: “Embeddable Fields” in GraphQL (leoloso.com)

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You can now ‘adopt’ a BART car for $10k, but they come with lots of rules (www.sfchronicle.com)

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NASA commissions report to show its economic impact: $64B and 312K jobs (techcrunch.com)

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Mathematical Foundations of the GraphBLAS (www.youtube.com)

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I’m Leaving the West Coast (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Eyes Have It (spectator.us)

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Show HN: I'm building an open-source catalog of cloud infrastructures (github.com)

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Show HN: Transactional Outbox Pattern in Go (github.com)

5 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092718 0 comments

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Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content (www.reuters.com)

5 points first seen 2020092712 last seen 2020092712 0 comments

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Show HN: Startingcondition.com – Who goes first at standup? (or group events) (startingcondition.com)

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Argentine lawmaker suspended after sexual ACT during virtual session of Congress (nationalpost.com)

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The Oracle of Our Unease (www.nybooks.com)

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NASA’s 1966 plan for a mission to Mars (2012) (arstechnica.com)

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A Cooler Cooler from Cooler Master (www.bit-101.com)

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The Imperial Doppelgänger – When One Typewriter Is Never Enough (oztypewriter.blogspot.com)

3 points first seen 2020092709 last seen 2020092712 0 comments

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Using SPF on HELO/EHLO hostnames is repurposing SPF to validate a different thi (utcc.utoronto.ca)

3 points first seen 2020092721 last seen 2020092721 0 comments