hackerNews

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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source (blog.domenic.me)

775 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100209 372 comments

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Welcoming Gitter to Matrix (matrix.org)

696 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100321 113 comments

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Say Goodbye to Hold Music (blog.google)

651 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100212 378 comments

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Six Figures in 6 days (tr.af)

626 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100300 283 comments

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Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS (www.zdnet.com)

402 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100206 247 comments

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How Normal Am I? (www.hownormalami.eu)

380 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100221 206 comments

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The Failed Promise of Web Components (lea.verou.me)

361 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100300 223 comments

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Car seats as contraception (privpapers.ssrn.com)

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Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread' (www.foodandwine.com)

340 points first seen 2020100115 last seen 2020100203 227 comments

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Google TV (tv.google)

322 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100300 428 comments

2

Linux Under Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Leaks VPN Traffic (mullvad.net)

311 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100300 176 comments

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Industrial Literacy (rootsofprogress.org)

311 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100212 164 comments

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Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers (voxeu.org)

309 points first seen 2020100103 last seen 2020100118 138 comments

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GitHub: Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available (github.blog)

288 points first seen 2020100115 last seen 2020100306 107 comments

5

Teenage engineering – Introducing the OB–4 magic radio (teenage.engineering)

277 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100200 210 comments

6

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website (themarkup.org)

275 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100206 149 comments

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Fossil (www.fossil-scm.org)

245 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100200 99 comments

14

Why is Snowflake so Valuable? (www.freshpaint.io)

239 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100218 158 comments

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Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think? (item?id=24638756)

231 points first seen 2020100103 last seen 2020100118 121 comments

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Cloudflare Radar (radar.cloudflare.com)

221 points first seen 2020100103 last seen 2020100200 89 comments

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SpaceX's Starlink in action: Internet satellites keep emergency workers online (www.zdnet.com)

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Quino, creator of Mafalda comic character, dies aged 88 (www.bbc.com)

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2

Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf] (github.com)

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Dissecting Lemire’s nearly divisionless random (veryseriousblog.com)

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Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions (github.com)

186 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100303 70 comments

5

3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic (github.com)

178 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100218 81 comments

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Show HN: Ruby One-Liners Cookbook (learnbyexample.github.io)

176 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100203 31 comments

16

Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated (digitalbunker.dev)

160 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100218 58 comments

9

Students Left Behind by Remote Learning (www.newyorker.com)

158 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100206 378 comments

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Pixel 5 (store.google.com)

156 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100118 200 comments

4

C++ the Good Parts (www.infoq.com)

151 points first seen 2020100118 last seen 2020100221 219 comments

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Launch HN: Narrator (YC S19) – a data modeling platform built on a single table (item?id=24640540)

143 points first seen 2020100103 last seen 2020100318 59 comments

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Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled (www.straitstimes.com)

139 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100109 366 comments

8

On Old Age – Cicero (How to Appreciate Getting Older) (butwhatfor.substack.com)

130 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100121 84 comments

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D-Wave Announces General Availability of First Quantum Computer for Business (www.dwavesys.com)

128 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100212 76 comments

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An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf] (res.mdpi.com)

127 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100209 36 comments

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Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM (www.phoronix.com)

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Golden raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z and Marc Andreessen joins board (golden.com)

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Why did Warren Buffett invest $6B+ in centuries-old Japanese trading houses? (thehustle.co)

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Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns (beta.ctvnews.ca)

105 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100121 148 comments

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Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985) (archive.org)

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Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers (www.omzlo.com)

100 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100218 92 comments

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Chromecast with Google TV (store.google.com)

99 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100115 150 comments

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Jack Sharp works of amateur photographer circa 1950-1970 (www.jacksharp.co.uk)

92 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100215 49 comments

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Amazon Timestream is generally available (aws.amazon.com)

84 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100200 32 comments

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Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high (www.statnews.com)

75 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100203 18 comments

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Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf] (greenlab.di.uminho.pt)

74 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2022092203 81 comments

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Defer Reference Implementation for C (gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr)

73 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100203 57 comments

20

Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages (ryangjchandler.co.uk)

72 points first seen 2020100118 last seen 2020100212 29 comments

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A housing industry of endless one-offs is holding our society back (blokable.com)

70 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100203 145 comments

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Build Your Own Artificial Neural Network (nautil.us)

66 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100306 5 comments

15

What's it like to negotiate with ransomware gangs? (redtape.substack.com)

64 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100215 52 comments

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Reddit issuing permanent suspensions to IFTTT users (www.reddit.com)

58 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100200 58 comments

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Palantir Goes IPO (www.ft.com)

55 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100306 51 comments

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Elements of Programmnig (www.pathsensitive.com)

43 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100215 9 comments

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Singapore to treat infosec as equivalent public good to fresh running water (www.theregister.com)

42 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100206 4 comments

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Nuclear industry bribed politicians to kill app electric utility customers love (www.theregister.com)

39 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100118 7 comments

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Words from Old Books (words.fromoldbooks.org)

39 points first seen 2020100115 last seen 2020100203 6 comments

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MicroCOVID: Estimate the Covid risk from your ordinary daily activities (www.microcovid.org)

39 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100203 11 comments

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Progress in Biology Is Slow – Here's How We Can Speed It Up (adamashwal.com)

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Dick Costolo on leadership at Coinbase (twitter.com)

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“Invisible Little Worms”: Athanasius Kircher’s Study of the Plague (publicdomainreview.org)

37 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100209 5 comments

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Show HN: Useful scripts and environment setup for coding in VPS (github.com)

36 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100200 24 comments

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Trade unions urge EU to investigate Amazon effort to spy on workers (www.theguardian.com)

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Banker Walks Free from Insider Trading Charge After Deleting WhatsApp (www.bloomberg.com)

33 points first seen 2020100100 last seen 2020100106 9 comments

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Delta IV Heavy rocket delayed again, raising concerns of aging infrastructure (arstechnica.com)

33 points first seen 2020100103 last seen 2020100109 8 comments

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Show HN: Okdb – OT Simplified (okdb.io)

30 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100200 9 comments

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Benchmarking Firefox 83 Nightly with “Warp” Against Google Chrome on Linux (www.phoronix.com)

30 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100200 5 comments

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You're Allowed to Write Slow Rust Code (blog.jonstodle.com)

29 points first seen 2020100118 last seen 2020100121 36 comments

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Tesla Tire Costs 10× Battery Cost, & My Plan to Deflate Tire Costs 90% (cleantechnica.com)

25 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100115 7 comments

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Principles of ARM Memory Maps (2012) [pdf] (documentation-service.arm.com)

23 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100200 0 comments

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Google Asks Workers Who Went Abroad for Covid to Return (www.bloombergquint.com)

21 points first seen 2020100115 last seen 2020100121 5 comments

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Spotify’s Failed Squad Goals (www.jeremiahlee.com)

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Cloudflare Radar (blog.cloudflare.com)

19 points first seen 2020100103 last seen 2020100103 0 comments

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'I'll sleep when I'm dead': The sleep-deprived masculinity stereotype (phys.org)

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Parrots separated at zoo after encouraging each to curse profusely at guests (www.cbsnews.com)

17 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100112 10 comments

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Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning (martinfowler.com)

17 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100203 0 comments

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Ann Arbor decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants (www.sfgate.com)

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Cyberpunk studio breaks promise, forces overtime on developers (arstechnica.com)

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Windows on ARM is about to get lots of apps thanks to new x64 emulation (www.theverge.com)

15 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100115 9 comments

0

Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 21 (www.craigmurray.org.uk)

15 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100121 0 comments

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Nest Audio (store.google.com)

14 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100200 7 comments

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Linux-based Windows makes perfect sense (www.zdnet.com)

14 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020101209 6 comments

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Early Works by Edward Hopper Found to Be Copies of Other Artists (www.nytimes.com)

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Japan Exchange halts trading for entire day in worst-ever outage (bloomberg.com)

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny describes his poisoning with Novichok (www.spiegel.de)

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PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space (Basically) for Free (medium.com)

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Palantir insiders struggled to sell because of trading platform (www.cnbc.com)

12 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100112 0 comments

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Bpython (bpython-interpreter.org)

11 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100200 3 comments

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California will now require more diversity on company boards (www.msn.com)

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care (www.aiplusinfo.com)

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Principles used in Wall Street trading algorithms (medium.com)

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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered (phys.org)

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“The Social Dilemma” Fails to Tackle the Real Issues in Tech (slate.com)

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Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of Covid-19 (www.theregister.com)

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Jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust (www.ft.com)

7 points first seen 2020100106 last seen 2020100109 0 comments

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Google Nest Audio (store.google.com)

7 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100118 0 comments

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Ask HN: What are your favorite weeklong courses not related to work? (item?id=24644420)

7 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100112 3 comments

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Targeted (projects.tampabay.com)

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Coliving rental startup HubHaus implodes, says no funds to pay unsecured claims (missionlocal.org)

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In World of Video Game Development, Chronic Overtime Is Endemic (www.bloomberg.com)

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SEC Orders Salt Lending to Offer Refunds to Investors in Its $47M ICO – CoinDesk (www.coindesk.com)

5 points first seen 2020100112 last seen 2020100112 0 comments

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C++ the Good Parts (www.infoq.com)

5 points first seen 2020100115 last seen 2020100115 0 comments

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Overlooked No More: Roberta Cowell, Trans Trailblazer, Pilot and Auto Racer (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2020100109 last seen 2020100109 0 comments

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On the pervasive presence of military language elements in computer security (dustri.org)

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Diffa: The Creative Community Funding the Fight Against HIV/Aids (rozjoseph.substack.com)

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Taken at the flood: How Agatha Christie moved with her times (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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DuckDuckGo: Google’s Android search engine auction is ‘fundamentally flawed’ (www.theverge.com)

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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (m.youtube.com)

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Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness? One Scientist Thinks It Might (www.discovermagazine.com)

3 points first seen 2020100121 last seen 2020100121 0 comments

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Gather (YC S19) Is Hiring (www.teamgather.co)

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