Most-favorited Hacker News posts — and Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok

Issue #149 — September 03, 2020

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Most-favorited Hacker News posts observablehq.com \| points: 799 \| comments: 218

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Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok bbc.com \| points: 464 \| comments: 263

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Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions vice.com \| points: 395 \| comments: 318

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Lesser-known Web APIs blog.greenroots.info \| points: 361 \| comments: 119

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Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory elemental.medium.com \| points: 347 \| comments: 132

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Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation blog.patreon.com \| points: 320 \| comments: 303

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India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China bbc.com \| points: 299 \| comments: 201

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Law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping proceeds kstp.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 191

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TSA tries out another biometric system papersplease.org \| points: 284 \| comments: 227

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Lo-Fi Player magenta.tensorflow.org \| points: 279 \| comments: 42

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Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code github.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 51

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Teens’ anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds bbc.com \| points: 225 \| comments: 324

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Programming with Categories brendanfong.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 72

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Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy axios.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 289

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Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators jvt.me \| points: 187 \| comments: 159

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To design and develop an interactive globe stripe.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 61

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Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year onezero.medium.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 165

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Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake anandtech.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 136

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On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap probablydance.com \| points: 139 \| comments: 22

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Bardcore en.wikipedia.org \| points: 135 \| comments: 51

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