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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (1999)
111 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time
111 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Facebook Team Lands at Delhi Man's House for ID Verification over Political Post
111 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Building China: Rise of the Superblock
111 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux
111 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book
111 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Calling a real estate robocaller back
111 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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How to Fly the B-25 Mitchell Bomber (1944) [video]
110 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing
110 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Ireland blocks the world on data privacy
110 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
110 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (1960) [pdf]
110 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Checking Email Less Often Leads to More Productive Workdays
110 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation [pdf]
110 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer's and other diseases
109 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
109 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C
109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30
109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Show HN: My interview with patio11 and other profitable side project hackers
109 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections
109 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Minetime.ai – A Calendar for the 21st Century
109 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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AmpliGraph: A TensorFlow-Based Library for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
109 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Fixed Layout Prototyping – Hexagonal Electronics Breadboard
109 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]
109 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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World's deepest pool to open in Poland
109 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Unseen Clockwork Orange 'Follow-Up' by Anthony Burgess Unearthed
108 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO
108 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America
108 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Native image lazy-loading for the web
108 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
108 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Chomsky on the arrest of Julian Assange [video]
108 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'
108 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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SpaceVim v1.1.0 released
108 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
108 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo
108 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
108 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Realsense T265 tracking camera
108 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Hacker dumps thousands of sensitive Mexican embassy documents online
108 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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How healthy is the internet?
107 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Loop invariants can give you coding superpowers
107 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Google Cloud CEO says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook
107 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting
107 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Rockset – Serverless search and analytics engine
107 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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In its fight to keep drug prices high, big pharma leans on charities
107 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Half of Instacart’s drivers earn less than minimum wage, labor group claims
107 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril
107 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now
107 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
107 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Why Rent Control Doesn't Work
107 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Mark Shuttleworth sees increased demand for enterprise Ubuntu Linux desktop
106 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its tech secrets
106 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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New video of Intelsat 29e satellite reveals dramatic “anomaly”
106 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about protests when aged 16
106 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
106 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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The Problem With Hexagons
106 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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A look at IBM S/360 core memory: In the 1960s, 128 kilobytes weighed 610 pounds
106 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old
106 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
106 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)
106 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train
106 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery
106 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Why aren't figs considered vegan?
106 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Firefox banning noisy video from autoplaying
106 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware
105 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking
105 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close in on an Explanation
105 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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The Fargate Illusion
105 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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El Grapho: High Performance WebGL Graph Data Visualization Engine
105 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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540M Facebook Records Exposed
105 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation (2009)
105 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Kidnapping: An Efficient Business
105 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War II (1988) [pdf]
105 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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How much can forests fight climate change?
105 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law
105 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge
104 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Making the obvious code fast (2016)
104 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
104 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Bosque Programming Language
104 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?
104 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Tim Cook: Apple doesn't donate to political candidates and PACs shouldn’t exist
104 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release
104 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Hackers publish data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
104 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors
104 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild
104 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone
104 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media
104 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (1981)
104 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name
103 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Huawei’s claim of 100% employee ownership false, may be state-owned: paper
103 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Nana: A modern C++ GUI library
103 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps
103 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth
103 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of WhatsApp
103 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Librem 5 April Update
103 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Buster Keaton: Anarchitect
103 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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New Satellite Photos Show Climate Change Is Sweeping Europe
103 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds
103 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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College Kids Are Living Like Kings in Vancouver’s Empty Mansions
103 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Giistr – Search, filter and help on GitHub issues
103 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power
103 points • comment • apr 07, 2019