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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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The California Consumer Privacy Act Should Be Condemned, Not Celebrated
37 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Make your own quadrille, graph, hex, etc. paper
37 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Ask HN: How do I choose between software engineering and data science?
37 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Information Civics: Deconstructing Power Structures of Social Computing Networks
37 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter
37 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Coinbase and the Widespread Adoption of Cryptocurrency
37 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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PEP 505: Bringing None-Aware Operators to Python
37 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Dispatches from the Rap Wars (2016)
37 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Issue: Async script stalls page load
37 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Build a Simple CRUD App with Angular 6 and ASP.Net Core 2.1
37 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The Art of Travel (1872)
37 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Ask HN: Engineers, don't you feel like pawns?
37 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Run Chaos Experiments Without Risking Your Job
37 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Direct vascular channels connect skull to dura, enabling myeloid cell migration
37 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Why do women live longer than men?
37 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Projects: Back to C
37 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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AMD Is on Fire
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Google Censorship Plan Is “Not Right” and “Stupid,” Says Former Google Manager
36 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Why we downplay Fermi’s paradox
36 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis
36 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Stop Don't blindly take that coding challenge
36 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Show HN: Greetings cards that don't skirt around your emotions
36 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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What lives inside fog water droplets
36 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Programming Languages
36 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The Sex Life of Samuel Pepys (2016)
36 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Incarceration as Incapacitation: An Intellectual History
36 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Logitext – An educational proof assistant for first-order classical logic
36 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The Ghosts of the Orphanage
36 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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How to Design for the Modern Web
36 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge
36 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Bootcamp for self-taught developers?
36 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Ask: How do you apply “programmer’s” efficiency in everyday life things?
36 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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NL2Bash – Generating bash commands from natural language
36 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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QEMU 3.0 Released
36 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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New York Becomes the City That Never Shuts Up
36 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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An Introduction to BON – Business Object Notation (1999)
36 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Where even Walmart won't go: how Dollar General took over rural America
36 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person
36 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Easter Island’s society might not have collapsed
36 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Statement on Police Activity on the Road to Black Rock City
35 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Trump Unveils His Plan to Weaken Car Pollution Rules
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Top geneticist loses 3.5M grant in first test of landmark bullying policy
35 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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$50 a Month for 1Mbps: How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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CastSan: efficient detection of bad C++ casts [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Why is San Francisco covered in human feces?
35 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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My journey to securing sensitive data in Puppet code
35 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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AP and Princeton: Google tracks location of users even when they tell it not to
35 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Piping Botnet – Turning Green Technology into a Water Disaster
35 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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BEAKL – Theory and observations to find the optimal keyboard layout (2017)
35 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Reddit Was Hacked
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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If Google bows to China’s censorship, it will put tech giant on a slippery slope
35 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Why are there no public social networks?
35 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Ask HN: Had anyone already had to deal with the GDPR fines / abuse?
35 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far away as Wales
35 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Blocking Compromised Passwords on PyPI
35 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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VW will stop firing ‘hail cannons’ after farmers protest
35 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Ask HN: What exciting open-source science projects can one contribute to?
35 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019
35 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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The US Is the Lowest Taxed Large Developed Economy in the World
35 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Burnout vs. Major Depressive Disorder (2014)
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Common Reasons Kubernetes Deployments Fail
35 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Show HN: A Chrome extension that extracts used CSS and combines it into one file
35 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Where do people get money to buy CA homes these days? Often, from mom and dad
35 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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The many faces of consistency
35 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Podcasting the Past
35 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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OpenRISC port accepted into GCC
35 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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GSoC wrap-up – Splitting Servo's script crate
35 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal – 48-minute walkthrough
35 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
35 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Sex, religion and a towering treatise on anatomy
34 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Reverse Engineering A/B Tests (2009)
34 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps]
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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How to write a good coding article
34 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Poetry Is Everywhere
34 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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A Medicaid patient lost the care he'd received for 20 years. Died 3 months later
34 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Ask HN: What is going on?
34 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Show HN: A syntax-diagram generator for rust's macro_rules()
34 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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IETF draft proposes encrypted message security for all
34 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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American Fast Food Took Over Kuwait and Made Its People Obese [video]
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up with Netflix
34 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf]
34 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?
34 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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I Was So Wrong About Microsoft
34 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance
34 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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What Drove Sigmund Freud to Write a Scandalous Biography of Woodrow Wilson?
34 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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U.S. airline worker steals plane, takes it for flight before crashing it
34 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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The Cowboy Cartographer Who Loved California
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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IBM Has a Watson Dilemma
34 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Fixing the External Monitor Color Problem with Your 2018 MacBook Pro
34 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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A Type of Simulation Which Some Experimental Evidence Suggests We Don't Live In [pdf]
34 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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For some, experiencing trauma may act as a form of cognitive training
34 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Show HN: Simple way to obtain pseudorandomness from CPU context switch in Go
34 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Dthreads: Efficient Deterministic Multithreading (2011) [pdf]
33 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Effects of Adaptogens on the Central Nervous System (2010)
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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What does the GDPR actually mean for startups?
33 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa's biography describes cold Steve
33 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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John Coltrane and the End of Jazz
33 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The Boy Who Heard Too Much (2009)
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Pylava: A fork of the Pylama code audit tool for Python 3.7
33 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The Lost World of Weegee
33 points • comment • aug 22, 2018