hackerNews

1

Facebook Container for Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

1446 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102503 422 comments

2

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network (www.reuters.com)

942 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102421 370 comments

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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking (joshwcomeau.com)

594 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102400 133 comments

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James Randi Has Died (web.randi.org)

574 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102300 79 comments

2

Notes on My Colon Cancer (www.charlieharrington.com)

504 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102403 287 comments

3

Quibi Weighs Shutting Down as Problems Mount (www.wsj.com)

471 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102403 522 comments

2

Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland (www.swisscom.ch)

412 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102400 339 comments

3

The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3 (engineering.fb.com)

409 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102400 138 comments

3

OAuth 3 (oauth.net)

400 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102418 205 comments

11

1Password Linux Beta Is Out (blog.1password.com)

398 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102303 227 comments

10

United States vs. Google (stratechery.com)

394 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102303 325 comments

6

PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos (joinpeertube.org)

360 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2022022515 186 comments

11

Debian Donation for Peertube Development (bits.debian.org)

322 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102306 108 comments

10

/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (community.cadence.com)

314 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102318 116 comments

4

Google Antitrust Notes (www.tbray.org)

304 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102403 211 comments

8

Just Write the Parser (tiarkrompf.github.io)

267 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102306 76 comments

6

Build a startup financial model from scratch (www.mathventurepartners.com)

223 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102315 49 comments

7

A brief introduction to BEAM (blog.erlang.org)

217 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102306 35 comments

9

FreeBSD Can Now Be Built from Linux/macOS Hosts (www.phoronix.com)

196 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102309 95 comments

10

Prologue: A powerful web framework written in Nim (github.com)

185 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102300 67 comments

11

BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP (fly.io)

177 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102303 45 comments

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Localisation is too hard for Gmail (shkspr.mobi)

174 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102218 171 comments

8

AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections (www.niels-ole.com)

170 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102318 64 comments

13

Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout (www.vox.com)

165 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102303 129 comments

24

To write better, you need to develop a habit of writing (bookpub.club)

164 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102300 71 comments

16

Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job (daniel.fone.net.nz)

154 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102303 72 comments

13

Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court (science.sciencemag.org)

149 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102300 143 comments

18

Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks (www.bbc.com)

134 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102300 123 comments

15

NYC’s new digital subway map (www.curbed.com)

127 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102303 108 comments

51

Attempts to make Python fast (sethops1.net)

120 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102209 135 comments

17

The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf] (aerospace.org)

118 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102306 86 comments

14

The Importance of End-to-End Thinking in System Design (www.sigarch.org)

116 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102303 7 comments

12

Do you think you're tone-deaf? Test your pitch perception (www.themusiclab.org)

110 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102300 126 comments

3

Java Edition is moving house (www.minecraft.net)

109 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2022030206 129 comments

19

No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov (www.firstthings.com)

103 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102303 31 comments

26

GitHub Certifications (Beta) (github.com)

101 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102300 105 comments

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Tesla Earning Result 3Q 2020 [pdf] (tesla-cdn.thron.com)

101 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102300 111 comments

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The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t (www.wsj.com)

98 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102218 79 comments

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Tesla Earning Result 3Q 2020 (www.sec.gov)

98 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102212 94 comments

14

The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices (seleniumbase.io)

98 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102315 27 comments

8

Publishing an F-Droid Repo Using a Hardware Security Module (f-droid.org)

95 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102309 17 comments

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NetBSD 9.1 (blog.netbsd.org)

94 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102218 16 comments

56

We Were Builders Once, and Strong (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

86 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102300 75 comments

20

Lots of overnight tragedies, no overnight miracles (www.collaborativefund.com)

85 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102303 25 comments

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Telecom auctions have failed India (www.bloombergquint.com)

82 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102300 87 comments

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Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years (www.economist.com)

82 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102221 85 comments

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Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf] (philpapers.org)

80 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102303 98 comments

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Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to (www.tomsguide.com)

73 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102221 11 comments

20

A Kubernetes operator to sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager (www.contentful.com)

66 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102400 30 comments

14

Is there anything innovative in the low-code movement? TLDR:No (modeling-languages.com)

64 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102218 31 comments

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Gardening Your Twitter (steipete.com)

62 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102218 47 comments

23

Fear and Loathing in YAML (chrisshort.net)

61 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102221 85 comments

13

The programming architecture of Babbage's Analytical Engine (media.ccc.de)

59 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102309 6 comments

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Quanta Mag: Vint Cerf on inter-planetary transmission protocols (www.quantamagazine.org)

56 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102309 37 comments

19

Escaping Science's Paradox (worksinprogress.co)

55 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102221 33 comments

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Slow lorises are one of the world’s only venomous mammals (www.nytimes.com)

51 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102303 37 comments

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Landing AI: Visual Inspection Platform (Andrew Ng) (landing.ai)

51 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102221 18 comments

9

Germany's Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing WhatsApp/Messenger backdoor (www.afp.com)

51 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102212 9 comments

35

Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition (jcjc-dev.com)

47 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102215 8 comments

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Quibi is shutting down (www.theinformation.com)

46 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102206 23 comments

23

London Pneumatic Despatch Company (en.wikipedia.org)

43 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102221 20 comments

72

White House pushing no-bid spectrum sale to Thiel-backed Rivada (www.cnn.com)

42 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102212 2 comments

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Ask HN: Is Microsoft preferable, from a privacy point of view, to Google? (item?id=24851340)

42 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102218 21 comments

71

Justice Department: Resolution with Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family (www.justice.gov)

41 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102206 28 comments

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AI outperforms humans in speech recognition (techxplore.com)

41 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102303 30 comments

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Aim for Operability, Not SRE as a Cult (www.stevesmith.tech)

39 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102221 11 comments

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Future of SaaS Architecture: Keep Data On-Prem and Control via Cloud (blog.pixielabs.ai)

39 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102303 7 comments

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Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save the Monarchy (www.nybooks.com)

39 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102303 73 comments

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Show HN: Onhold – Play sounds while and after shell jobs complete (github.com)

38 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102303 14 comments

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We Were Builders Once, and Strong (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

36 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102215 12 comments

0

LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions (prophitt.me)

33 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102203 10 comments

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Reducing Abusive Notification Content (blog.chromium.org)

33 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102206 42 comments

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File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter (blog.hboeck.de)

31 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102300 5 comments

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LUMI to become the world's fastest supercomputer (www.lumi-supercomputer.eu)

30 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102209 9 comments

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bat, a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting, Git integration written in Rust (github.com)

30 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102218 4 comments

23

Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal-Data Analyst (crimereads.com)

28 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102303 6 comments

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Tesla Starts Full Self-Driving Beta Rollout (electrek.co)

28 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102212 26 comments

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Kubernetes SLOs with Prometheus and Linkerd (buoyant.io)

28 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102209 2 comments

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Pope endorses same sex civil unions (www.nytimes.com)

28 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102215 13 comments

20

Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance (www.theparisreview.org)

27 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102306 8 comments

78

React v17.0 (reactjs.org)

23 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102206 4 comments

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Show HN: App Performance Monitoring (APM) for mobile apps (instabug.com)

23 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102212 7 comments

76

Google Meddling with URLs in Emails, Causing Security Concerns (hackaday.com)

23 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102209 3 comments

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Ongoing (Albeit Secret) Campaign of Patent Extortion Against Linux Distributions (linuxreviews.org)

23 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102300 0 comments

74

What to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects (qvault.io)

21 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102206 18 comments

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Global Trends 2015: Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts (2000) (fas.org)

19 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102300 10 comments

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Trying to Get an Nvidia GPU to Work with Raspberry Pi CM4 (gist.github.com)

17 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102303 4 comments

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Early Adopters: Be Picky About Who You Serve (www.johnkoht.com)

16 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102300 0 comments

0

Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say (www.motherjones.com)

14 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102209 4 comments

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Queen Kristina and René Descartes (www.delanceyplace.com)

14 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102221 2 comments

0

Simple Software Creates Complex Wooden Joints That Interlock with No Nails, Glue (scitechdaily.com)

13 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102215 2 comments

0

Pope endorses same-sex unions (www.bloomberg.com)

11 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102203 7 comments

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GraphQL and REST APIs in seconds with Hypi's low-code back end as a service (hypi.io)

10 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102209 0 comments

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Tesla to wide-release Full Self-Driving 'by the end of this year' (www.teslarati.com)

10 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102215 10 comments

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Ask HN: Is it possible to use Google search results like startpage.com does? (item?id=24855337)

10 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102221 2 comments

0

The Divide in America Is Between Political Junkies and Everyone Else (www.nytimes.com)

9 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102200 2 comments

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William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno (www.theparisreview.org)

9 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102221 2 comments

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AI reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara (news.ku.dk)

9 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102221 3 comments

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European Commission approved the new Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023 (ec.europa.eu)

8 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102203 0 comments

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When Too Much Concurrency Slows You Down (Golang) (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102212 0 comments

0

The Media Manipulation Casebook (mediamanipulation.org)

8 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102215 2 comments

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MIT now issues digital degree proofs on Bitcoin using “blockcerts” (twitter.com)

7 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102203 0 comments

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The PS3 and Vita are being buried alive (www.vice.com)

7 points first seen 2020102221 last seen 2020102221 5 comments

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Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges for Opioid Sales (www.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102203 2 comments

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Goodbye to the Truly James Randi (twitter.com)

6 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102209 0 comments

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Wikimedia Foundation’s Transparency Report (diff.wikimedia.org)

6 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102215 0 comments

0

Fasting 3 days each quarter (tomkwhite.substack.com)

6 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102218 0 comments

0

The Cloudflare Radar 2020 Elections Dashboard (blog.cloudflare.com)

5 points first seen 2020102200 last seen 2020102200 0 comments

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Generative Figures (polyfig.app)

5 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102206 0 comments

0

5000mAh graphene powerbank can be fully recharged in under 20 minutes (www.zdnet.com)

5 points first seen 2020102203 last seen 2020102203 0 comments

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Don't press the shiny red button (www.reddit.com)

5 points first seen 2020102206 last seen 2020102206 0 comments

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Barbie's Careers (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102209 0 comments

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NASA’s Osiris-Rex Successfully Touches Asteroid Bennu (www.wsj.com)

5 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102212 0 comments

0

James Randi Has Died (www.washingtonpost.com)

5 points first seen 2020102218 last seen 2020102218 0 comments

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The TRIPS project: an explicit data graph execution (EDGE) processor (www.cs.utexas.edu)

4 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102212 4 comments

0

Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say (www.motherjones.com)

4 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102215 0 comments

0

James Randi has passed away (en.wikipedia.org)

4 points first seen 2020102215 last seen 2020102215 0 comments

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Tesla is putting ‘self-driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism (www.washingtonpost.com)

3 points first seen 2020102209 last seen 2020102209 0 comments

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Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ, disabled clients (www.nbcnews.com)

3 points first seen 2020102212 last seen 2020102212 0 comments

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Singapore startup develops 60-second Covid-19 breath test (www.techinasia.com)

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