hackerNews

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Someone has stolen my Instagram account (twitter.com)

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foo@bar.com (www.bar.com)

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Universal Split Screen (universalsplitscreen.github.io)

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A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations (github.com)

423 points first seen 2020092821 last seen 2020100121 189 comments

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Assange Trial Day 18 (www.craigmurray.org.uk)

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Hotel Guest in Thailand Jailed for Defamation After Posting Bad Online Reviews (loyaltylobby.com)

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Adequate Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk of Dying from Covid-19 in Half, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)

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Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro (www.bbcelite.com)

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Won’t Subscribe (www.tbray.org)

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Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores (www.reuters.com)

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French Fathers Will Now Get Double the Paternity Leave (www.vogue.com)

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YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring (www.youtube.com)

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Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation? (www.bbc.com)

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Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400k Bonuses. What Are They Buying? (www.nytimes.com)

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Cloudflare keeps sending emails over a year after account was cancelled (shkspr.mobi)

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Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS (item?id=24604291)

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VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library (github.com)

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Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn? (item?id=24605807)

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Investigating TLS Blocking in India (ooni.org)

196 points first seen 2020092812 last seen 2020092909 123 comments

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Show HN: Keyboard Simulator – virtual keyboard designer (keyboardsimulator.xyz)

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OpenSSH 8.4 (marc.info)

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“So here's a thing I'm not supposed to have.” (twitter.com)

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The Long Lost Manual for the World's Oldest Preserved Computer Has Been Found (www.vice.com)

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Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14 (blog.timac.org)

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The Polygons of Doom: PSX (fabiensanglard.net)

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Hal Finney’s Proposal for Optimizing Bitcoin to Be Enabled in Bitcoin Core (www.btctimes.com)

168 points first seen 2020092800 last seen 2020092903 160 comments

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It used to be simpler to teach Unix (jpmens.net)

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Mastering PostgreSQL Administration [pdf] (momjian.us)

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Today is LibreOffice 10th Anniversary (twitter.com)

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Uber secures right to continue operating in London (www.bbc.com)

137 points first seen 2020092821 last seen 2020093000 203 comments

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Picat 3.0 released (logic-based multi-paradigm programming language) (picat-lang.org)

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Automatic layout algorithms compute layouts for diagrams (rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de)

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Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective (www.economist.com)

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Sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector (github.com)

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Something funny is about to happen to some prices (blog.ifost.org.au)

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Show HN: Life Calendar – Your Life in Weeks (https://life-calendar-in-weeks.vercel.app)

103 points first seen 2020092809 last seen 2020092903 39 comments

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Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (2013) (ch00ftech.com)

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Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man (www.techdirt.com)

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United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf] (krebsonsecurity.com)

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New Google ChromeOS updates cause 100% CPU usage, heating issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Light colour schemes are better, based on science (stitcher.io)

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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? (www.nber.org)

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Compiling to Assembly from Scratch: the book, released (keleshev.com)

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Show HN: bbox-visualizer – Make drawing and labeling bounding boxes easy as cake (github.com)

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Modernize your Bash Scripts by adding GUI (medium.com)

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Coinbase is a mission focused company (blog.coinbase.com)

62 points first seen 2020092812 last seen 2020092812 48 comments

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SimulIDE 0.4.13 (www.simulide.com)

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Hardcaml: An OCaml library for designing hardware (github.com)

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Doom Emacs (github.com)

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Rare Edition of Shakespeare’s Last Play Found in Spanish Library (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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How Humanity Came to Contemplate Its Possible Extinction (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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Before you ship a “security mitigation” (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

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I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak (twitter.com)

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PilBox – Building Android Apps in PicoLisp (picolisp.com)

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Poshmark Filed to Go Public (www.bloomberg.com)

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How Aztecs Reacted to Colonial Epidemics (daily.jstor.org)

39 points first seen 2020092800 last seen 2020092803 46 comments

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Simplicity and Ecosystems (orib.dev)

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Show HN: Instant SVG icon search with over 50K+ icons indexed (iconsear.ch)

38 points first seen 2020092812 last seen 2020092903 5 comments

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Epoch Graphics Engine (6502disassembly.com)

36 points first seen 2020092803 last seen 2020092900 0 comments

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One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) (youtu.be)

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Neolithic Signs in China (en.wikipedia.org)

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Jackfruit: The ‘vegan sensation’ that saved Sri Lanka (www.bbc.com)

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Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats (theconversation.com)

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Study shows Pepcid and Zyrtec effective in Covid-19 treatment (www.northsidesun.com)

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How The New York Times is reshaping its ad business for a cookie-less world (digiday.com)

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Putting $10M into uBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014) (lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com)

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Arcade Perfect: How Sega brought the Mega Drive into the mainstream (readonlymemory.vg)

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Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track (item?id=24607841)

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‘It's like an open prison’: the catastrophe of converting office blocks to homes (www.theguardian.com)

21 points first seen 2020092800 last seen 2020092800 29 comments

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Mark Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of history (www.fastcompany.com)

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Show HN: Wisefin API – Turn messy bank transactions into beautiful data (https://wisefin.ai?hn)

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Simulating the Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal in LTSpice (cushychicken.github.io)

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British Museum to go more than skin deep with Scythian exhibition (2017) (www.theguardian.com)

18 points first seen 2020092812 last seen 2020092906 0 comments

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The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog (eblong.com)

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Median US worker salaries could have been $102,000 without inequality (www.businessinsider.com)

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Tesla’s battery day affirms Wright’s Law and spells trouble for the competition (twitter.com)

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Ponds, Beaver Ponds, Arctic & Antarctic Ponds, and Walden Pond (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

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Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase that you liked? (item?id=24611256)

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Show HN: Prosthesis limbs customization platform in 3D (http://coleg.co)

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ActivityPub Conf 2020 talks are now available (conf.activitypub.rocks)

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Surveillance Company Explains How to Keep Facebook from Detecting Fake Accounts (www.vice.com)

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Welcome to Birthday Week 2020 (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Practice does not necessarily make perfect when it come to creativity (www.gsb.stanford.edu)

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Bitcoin, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Future of Money (medium.com)

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AARDcode, Microsoft’s hidden self-destruct (youtu.be)

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Eric Schmidt’s Daughter Has Tech Ambitions–Just Not in Silicon Valley (www.wsj.com)

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South Korea Successfully Managed Coronavirus (www.wsj.com)

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Cinnamon for Debian – imminent removal from testing (www.preining.info)

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Ask HN: Technical skills helpful for building a startup today (item?id=24604687)

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Richard Feynman's Advice to Steven Wolfram (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Build AWS ECS external deployments graphically (craftydeploy.com)

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The world’s first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi to Japan (www.bloomberg.com)

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Battle of the $350 laptops: Acer Swift 1 vs. Gateway Ryzen 3 3200U (arstechnica.com)

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Grade school math cranked up in one page of concepts and symbols (mathvault.ca)

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Why is the NYT article concerning Trump's taxes being continually flagged? (item?id=24610890)

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The Warmth of a Lost World (www.nytimes.com)

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