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Retired Man Solves Decades-Old Maths Problems While Brushing His Teeth (iflscience.com)

7 points by Anon84 on Dec 5, 2020 | 1 comments

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More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru (theguardian.com)

7 points by bedros on Dec 5, 2020 | 1 comments

4773.

Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst (sciencedaily.com)

7 points by 8bitsrule on Dec 6, 2020 | 1 comments

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Greta Thunberg Meets Sir David Attenborough (dn.se)

7 points by maxekman on Dec 6, 2020 | 1 comments

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Show HN: A physically based, CPU-only path tracer written in Rust (github.com)

7 points by ekzhang on Dec 6, 2020 | 1 comments

4776.

California Monolith Is Removed and Replaced with a Cross (nytimes.com)

7 points by qzervaas on Dec 7, 2020 | 1 comments

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Chinese photonic quantum computer demonstrates quantum supremacy (phys.org)

7 points by bobsoap on Dec 7, 2020 | 1 comments

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Show HN: Avo – The most beautiful, easy-to-use Ruby on Rails admin framework (avohq.io)

7 points by adrianthedev on Dec 7, 2020 | 1 comments

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Linear raises $13M in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital (medium.com)

7 points by jorde on Dec 8, 2020 | 1 comments

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AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.” (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)

7 points by flobosg on Dec 8, 2020 | 1 comments

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Google launches Health Studies app (blog.google)

7 points by hoddez on Dec 9, 2020 | 1 comments

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Weather Service runs out of Internet bandwidth, proposes limiting key data (washingtonpost.com)

7 points by pgrote on Dec 9, 2020 | 1 comments

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Eric Swalwell says “shocked” when FBI alerted him to suspected Chinese spy (axios.com)

7 points by cwwc on Dec 10, 2020 | 1 comments

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MasterCard to Cut Pornhub Ties After Finding Illegal Content (bloomberg.com)

7 points by toomuchtodo on Dec 10, 2020 | 1 comments

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Barr Worked to Keep Hunter Biden Probes from Public View During Election (wsj.com)

7 points by cwwc on Dec 11, 2020 | 1 comments

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WHO accused of conspiring with Italy to remove damning Covid report (theguardian.com)

7 points by elorant on Dec 11, 2020 | 1 comments

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Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (zdnet.com)

7 points by tosh on Dec 11, 2020 | 1 comments

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Is the second wave overloading Sweden's intensive care units? (thelocal.se)

7 points by juusto on Dec 11, 2020 | 1 comments

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Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread (washingtonpost.com)

7 points by l_davis on Dec 11, 2020 | 1 comments

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Why Politicians Embrace Covid Restrictions, Even If They Don’t Work (fee.org)

7 points by fsagx on Dec 12, 2020 | 1 comments

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Facebook Kowtowed to Conservatives and Got Nothing in Return (slate.com)

7 points by iron0013 on Dec 13, 2020 | 1 comments

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ACR – Autoconf Replacement, AMR – Automake Replacement (manpages.ubuntu.com)

7 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 13, 2020 | 1 comments

4793.

Ask HN: How to Live and Learn?

7 points by jereees on Dec 14, 2020 | 1 comments

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‘Dark Knight,’, ‘Grease,’ ‘Blues Brothers’, etc. Added to National Film Registry (variety.com)

7 points by mellosouls on Dec 14, 2020 | 1 comments

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OBS Studio 26.1 (github.com)

7 points by haunter on Dec 14, 2020 | 1 comments

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Daniel Stenberg: How my Twitter hijacks happened (daniel.haxx.se)

7 points by sohkamyung on Dec 16, 2020 | 1 comments

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GOG removes video game which contained easter egg critical of Chinese regime (twitter.com)

7 points by ddevault on Dec 16, 2020 | 1 comments

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Israeli Phone-Hacking Firm Claims It Can Now Break into Encrypted Signal App (haaretz.com)

7 points by arzt on Dec 17, 2020 | 1 comments

4799.

New Theory Casually Upends Space and Time (popularmechanics.com)

7 points by jacksonpollock on Dec 18, 2020 | 1 comments

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Federal prosecutors say Zoom worked with Chinese government to surveil users (washingtonpost.com)

7 points by bookofjoe on Dec 19, 2020 | 1 comments