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1471.

Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit (phys.org)

84 points by gmays on Aug 18, 2020 | 28 comments

1472.

All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984) (atariarchives.org)

84 points by janandonly on Aug 8, 2020 | 27 comments

1473.

Solr 8.6.1 (mail-archives.apache.org)

84 points by based2 on Aug 16, 2020 | 23 comments

1474.

Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics (segment.com)

84 points by mrbbk on Aug 25, 2020 | 15 comments

1475.

How the ARM32 Kernel Starts (people.kernel.org)

84 points by trulyrandom on Aug 19, 2020 | 9 comments

1476.

Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite (github.com)

84 points by alixaxel on Aug 21, 2020 | 7 comments

1477.

Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI (bbc.com)

83 points by physicsAI on Aug 22, 2020 | 101 comments

1478.

Riots and Political Theory: A Reading List (southampton.ac.uk)

83 points by samgilb on Aug 13, 2020 | 86 comments

1479.

Why does the government let a company like Herbalife stay in business? (latimes.com)

83 points by xoxoy on Aug 29, 2020 | 83 comments

1480.

In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon (news.harvard.edu)

83 points by chmaynard on Aug 4, 2020 | 75 comments

1481.

Inside A £30 Record Player (shkspr.mobi)

83 points by edent on Aug 2, 2020 | 59 comments

1482.

Validating Kubernetes YAML for best practice and policies (learnk8s.io)

83 points by kiyanwang on Aug 9, 2020 | 54 comments

1483.

Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19 (jamanetwork.com)

83 points by pama on Aug 1, 2020 | 50 comments

1484.

How Drakeo the Ruler recorded an album from jail (pitchfork.com)

83 points by firloop on Aug 26, 2020 | 42 comments

1485.

Supercapacitors from Standard Bricks (arstechnica.com)

83 points by tomcam on Aug 13, 2020 | 37 comments

1486.

Python Hash Tables: understanding dictionaries (thepythoncorner.com)

83 points by mastro35 on Aug 21, 2020 | 37 comments

1487.

On-Device Supermarket Product Recognition (ai.googleblog.com)

83 points by theafh on Aug 11, 2020 | 32 comments

1488.

MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming (microblocks.fun)

83 points by jarmitage on Aug 6, 2020 | 27 comments

1489.

Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products (zdnet.com)

83 points by walterbell on Aug 11, 2020 | 8 comments

1490.

Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace (dailymail.co.uk)

82 points by DanielleMolloy on Aug 30, 2020 | 95 comments

1491.

Benign data races considered harmful (bartoszmilewski.com)

82 points by signa11 on Aug 14, 2020 | 58 comments

1492.

Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019) (bbc.com)

82 points by ElectronShak on Aug 5, 2020 | 55 comments

1493.

Clear Channel’s billboards will start tracking consumers in Europe (theverge.com)

82 points by JeanMarcS on Aug 18, 2020 | 48 comments

1494.

Nim – version 1.2.6 and 1.0.8 released (nim-lang.org)

82 points by dragonsh on Aug 31, 2020 | 45 comments

1495.

K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers (k-stash.com)

82 points by masc98 on Aug 29, 2020 | 44 comments

1496.

How to make a bee hotel [pdf] (foxleas.com)

82 points by DanBC on Aug 20, 2020 | 10 comments

1497.

Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh (caranddriver.com)

81 points by clouddrover on Aug 26, 2020 | 185 comments

1498.

On Using Twitter (medium.com)

81 points by polm23 on Aug 7, 2020 | 141 comments

1499.

Most common mistakes during interviews (aitorvs.github.io)

81 points by aitorvs on Aug 30, 2020 | 130 comments

1500.

How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)

81 points by MindGods on Aug 2, 2020 | 112 comments