1722
472
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
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1266
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Most-favorited Hacker News posts
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
703
541
Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
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608
435
Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards
515
306
Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880
469
147
Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory
https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63
458
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How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
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454
164
Bardcore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore
400
128
Lesser-known Web APIs
https://blog.greenroots.info/10-lesser-known-web-apis-you-may-want-to-use-ckejv75cr012y70s158n85yhn
376
251
India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53998205
342
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Programming with Categories
http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats.html
334
319
Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation
https://blog.patreon.com/patreon-series-e-announcement
354
Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351111
312
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Law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping proceeds
https://kstp.com/news/controversial-law-allows-police-to-seize-and-sell-cars-of-non-lawbreakers-keeping-the-proceeds-august-24-2020/5838303/
296
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TSA tries out another biometric system
https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/09/01/tsa-tries-out-another-illegal-biometric-id-verification-system/
286
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Lo-Fi Player
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/lofi-player
250
364
Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53884401
244
On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap
https://probablydance.com/2020/08/31/on-modern-hardware-the-min-max-heap-beats-a-binary-heap/
240
355
Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
https://www.axios.com/health-bankruptcy-fears-poll-ce3c4905-53c6-4f43-ba4f-fde22f4ef849.html
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Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets [pdf]
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