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What is the best Dumb TV without smart features? (pointerclicker.com)

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A WiFi controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys (bert.org)

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Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste (www.troyhunt.com)

449 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100509 186 comments

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Privacy Is the Most Important Concept of Our Time (inre.me)

410 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2020100312 193 comments

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Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform (www.samsung.com)

402 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100506 369 comments

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Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says (www.cnn.com)

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Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video] (www.youtube.com)

327 points first seen 2020100312 last seen 2020100506 31 comments

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Logging Everyone Out (lists.wikimedia.org)

298 points first seen 2020100306 last seen 2020100400 142 comments

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Where our economy is, for the young (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

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Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In (github.com)

253 points first seen 2020100315 last seen 2020100418 107 comments

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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India (pulkitsharma07.github.io)

247 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100406 128 comments

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Investigate Google Accounts to find their real name, physical location, devices (github.com)

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Apple Watch momentum is building (www.aboveavalon.com)

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Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making” (www.fosspatents.com)

196 points first seen 2020100315 last seen 2020100415 279 comments

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Pelican static site generator 4.5 (blog.getpelican.com)

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Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users (www.theregister.com)

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Deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 60 companies (simpleoptout.com)

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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part III: Hammer-Time (acoup.blog)

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An Honest Review of Gatsby (cra.mr)

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“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World” (www.spiegel.de)

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Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data (www.zdnet.com)

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Tokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardware Took Down a Market (www.bloomberg.com)

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Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat (phys.org)

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JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor (dropbox.tech)

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Global Capital Is the Tail That Wags the U.S. Economic Dog (carnegieendowment.org)

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Facebook: What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf] (about.fb.com)

132 points first seen 2020100315 last seen 2020100403 112 comments

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When we lose weight, where does it go? (theconversation.com)

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Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Laser Light (www.quantamagazine.org)

123 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100400 48 comments

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Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide (www.notion.so)

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RaspberryPi 4 home lab with LXD cluster (discuss.linuxcontainers.org)

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Two members of videogame piracy group “Team Xecuter” in custody (www.justice.gov)

113 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100403 98 comments

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How to build an open source business (www.ockam.io)

109 points first seen 2020100318 last seen 2020100421 37 comments

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Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly Off Libraries' Virtual Shelves (www.wired.com)

102 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2020100406 84 comments

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Python typosquatting is about more than typos (www.iqt.org)

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Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

99 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100321 112 comments

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A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust (deislabs.io)

96 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2020100321 23 comments

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Hetty: An HTTP toolkit for security research (github.com)

96 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100400 10 comments

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Bead Sort (karthikkaranth.me)

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MS Excels celebrates 35 years (twitter.com)

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BMW fined $18M for providing inaccurate retail sales information to investors (yourautoadvocate.com)

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The Open Source Paradox (antirez.com)

87 points first seen 2020100321 last seen 2022081515 79 comments

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Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water with the feds (arstechnica.com)

85 points first seen 2020100312 last seen 2020100421 62 comments

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Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement (www.hefvin.com)

83 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100400 81 comments

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Boa 0.10 (boa-dev.github.io)

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Hacked hospital chain says all 250 US facilities affected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

76 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100415 31 comments

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates (engineering.kablamo.com.au)

72 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100406 39 comments

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Ask HN: What is an acceptable latency for a web load balancer? (item?id=24661903)

70 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2020100321 63 comments

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The future of garbage collection is pneumatic tubes (qz.com)

68 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2020100500 94 comments

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I Met the Reclusive Georgia O’Keeffe (www.newyorker.com)

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The Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You (www.propublica.org)

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Transparent wood could be the window of the future (www.usda.gov)

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Earn IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives (www.eff.org)

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Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads (9to5mac.com)

60 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100306 76 comments

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Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country? (item?id=24663996)

60 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100321 39 comments

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Think Fast: Tensor Streaming Processor for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads [pdf] (conferences.computer.org)

58 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100321 24 comments

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Bash code generator for command-line arguments (github.com)

57 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2022032400 26 comments

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Exploring the abandoned birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64 [video] (hackaday.com)

53 points first seen 2020100321 last seen 2020100421 12 comments

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Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View (https://streetviews.earth)

47 points first seen 2020100306 last seen 2020100321 13 comments

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What Makes People Feel Upbeat at Work (www.newyorker.com)

45 points first seen 2020100312 last seen 2020100412 6 comments

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Evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker (sr.ht)

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Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users (outlook.uservoice.com)

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Tesla acquires German battery assembly line maker supplying BMW and Mercedes (electrek.co)

36 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100312 15 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone else miss spontaneous conversations at work? (item?id=24665472)

36 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100318 30 comments

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A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (www.skynettoday.com)

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The IRS Is Outgunned (www.nytimes.com)

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Tom Stoppard: A Life (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (www.youtube.com)

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It's kinda like phrenology but worse (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

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NASA Benefits to US Economy in 2019. $64.3 billion. 312,000 jobs (www.nasa.gov)

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Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space? (arstechnica.com)

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Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene (phys.org)

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Felony Charges Against Burkman, Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocall Investigation (www.michigan.gov)

22 points first seen 2020100312 last seen 2020100315 3 comments

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Backup Your Data to Paper (github.com)

21 points first seen 2020100321 last seen 2020100500 13 comments

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“This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.” (19andme.covid19.mathematica.org)

19 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100303 2 comments

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Ask HN: How many of you are actively making contingency plans to leave the U.S.? (item?id=24664906)

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Inside the World's Most Popular Vibrator (insidesextoys.com)

12 points first seen 2020100312 last seen 2020100312 0 comments

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Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks (vez.mrsk.me)

11 points first seen 2020100309 last seen 2020100321 0 comments

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Archillect – an AI created to discover and share stimulating visual content (archillect.com)

10 points first seen 2020100315 last seen 2020100400 2 comments

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Games Playing with Computers (1972) (www.chilton-computing.org.uk)

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Can You Build a CPU? (medium.com)

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Facebook Chides Netflix over Portrayal in Movie on Social Media (www.bloomberg.com)

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Kearny Fallout Meter (en.wikipedia.org)

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Single episode of heavy drinking tied to Brain Atrophy in Young Adults (medicaldialogues.in)

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Hacked hospital chain says all 250 US facilities affected (apnews.com)

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Photon powered Engine (enhance Apache Spark 3.0’s performance by up to 20x) (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

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‘Thick’ diners who did a runner identified using track-and-trace (metro.co.uk)

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Why economists believe 47.2 is our most miserable age (www.ft.com)

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When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed (www.wired.com)

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The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too many people to the doctor (www.theverge.com)

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YouTube hit with UK class action style suit for ‘unlawful’ use of kids’ data (techcrunch.com)

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Google, Cambridge, DeepMind's ‘Performer’ Transformer Slashes Compute Costs (syncedreview.com)

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A magnetically actuated microrobot for targeted neural cell delivery (advances.sciencemag.org)

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Philosophy’s Systemic Racism (aeon.co)

5 points first seen 2020100315 last seen 2020100315 0 comments

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Hacked Off with Hacktoberfest (www.infoq.com)

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Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes (www.theguardian.com)

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What Facebook Did to American Democracy (www.theatlantic.com)

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“Our infrastructure to deploy a single Docker container on AWS.” (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100303 0 comments

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Ask HN: What software will space need? (item?id=24664523)

3 points first seen 2020100303 last seen 2020100303 0 comments

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Amazon hid its safety crisis (revealnews.org)

3 points first seen 2020100306 last seen 2020100306 0 comments

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Ask HN: Hosting your own Facebook-like service (item?id=24663870)

3 points first seen 2020100306 last seen 2020100306 3 comments

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Please Test Your Memory (shipilev.net)

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Trump Goes to Hospital After Testing Positive for Covid-19 (www.bbc.com)

3 points first seen 2020100321 last seen 2020100321 0 comments

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Lumi (YC W15) is hiring Product Designers to design tools for sustainable packaging (www.lumi.com)

0 points first seen 2020100300 last seen 2020100315 0 comments

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Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Software Developers with Video Focus (bitmovin.com)

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