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Hacker News (Sep 2018)
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Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
256 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours
256 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
256 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders Chafed
255 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014)
254 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support
254 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?
254 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder
254 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives
254 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
252 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?
252 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS
251 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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CEO’s Plan to Save Sears Would Hand His Hedge Fund $1B
251 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law
251 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke
250 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3
249 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Java 11 released
249 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Nim 0.19
249 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs
248 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Hayabusa-2: Japan's rovers send pictures from asteroid
248 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever
248 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones
248 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video]
248 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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How to Be Better at Parties
247 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
247 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system
246 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud
245 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work out what was nicked
245 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build server
245 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Introducing Workers KV
244 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations
244 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Source for theguardian.com
244 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago
243 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong
243 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
242 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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What Is Systems Programming, Really?
242 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes
241 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Open Machine Learning Course
241 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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MatchSticks: Portable CNC System for Automating Wood-Working Joinery
240 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI
239 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
238 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Apple File System Reference [pdf]
238 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Perkeep: personal storage system for life
237 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
237 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (2015)
237 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data
237 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing?
236 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise
235 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes
234 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages
234 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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HTTPS-Portal: Automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Docker
233 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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iOS 12, reviewed
233 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants
233 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink
233 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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How America lost its love for the stick shift
233 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
232 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Rails, still?
232 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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MacOS Marzipan
232 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them
231 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads
231 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy
231 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
231 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)
231 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
230 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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You Don't Need Moment.js
230 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Murdered body found after tree ‘unusual for the area’ grew from seed in stomach
230 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Police that collect more in fees and fines are less effective at solving crime
230 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Using Rust for Game Development [video]
229 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization
229 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error
229 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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20M historical artifacts destroyed in Brazil National Museum fire
227 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean
226 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret
225 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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The Servers Are Burning
224 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice
224 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Federal chokehold on marijuana stymies studies on epilepsy, autism
224 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Facebook blocked users from posting some stories about its security breach
224 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
223 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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LLVM 7.0.0 released
223 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?
223 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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The mean age of high-tech founders is 43, economists say
222 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
222 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?
222 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA and compression
222 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Introducing the Librem Key
221 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career
221 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Show HN: My new SaaS side-project, after years of open source
220 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Generative art: New and recreated vintage art, made with code and imagination
220 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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How to read a mathematics textbook (2016)
219 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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How to Design for the Modern Web
219 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption
219 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Isochronous Curves
218 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor
218 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?
217 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back
217 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet?
217 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012)
217 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Vocore2, a ridiculously small Linux PC
216 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model
215 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on
214 points • comment • sep 09, 2018