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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018
77 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing
77 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Joe Armstrong: The Mess We’re In
77 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Show HN: hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
77 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Dan Robbins, artist who created the paint-by-numbers idea in Detroit, dies at 93
77 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Vietnam’s Empty Forests
77 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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A Small Town in the Philippines Banned Gossip
77 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon
76 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)
76 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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How Germany used radio waves to guide night bombing raids in WWII
76 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In
76 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit
76 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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The Parker “51” (2018)
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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IsometricSass – Sass library to make isometric 2D without JavaScript
76 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Old emotions remain salient in insomnia disorder
76 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Toxic Positivity
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Git Implemented in OCaml
76 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Positional-only Parameters for Python
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – Tax calculator for your crypto trading
76 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Quantum Algorithm Zoo
76 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
76 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Time protection: The missing OS abstraction
75 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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I Obtained Satoshi's Treasure Keys 1, 2, and 3 in Minutes
75 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you know of any good product taking advantage of NLP?
75 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses
75 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Jumia is not an African startup
75 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill
75 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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How Amazon's Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
75 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Show HN: Python virtual environment, but backed by Docker
75 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded by China's Military and Intelligence
74 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Alternative Periodic Tables
74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Don’t trust the locals: investigating prevalence of persistent client-side XSS
74 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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The Geography of the Room
74 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (1976) [pdf]
74 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Research as a Stochastic Decision Process
74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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The Baghdad Battery
74 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Estonia is a place for independent minds
74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages
74 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project
74 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
74 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis
74 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Geohash in Golang Assembly (2018)
74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Cone Programming Langauge
74 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not
74 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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The Incredible Proof Machine (2016)
74 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall
74 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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C to Delphi converter (2018)
73 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure
73 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco
73 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Multi-Level Intermediate Representation Compiler Infrastructure
73 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Amazon customers will be able to return purchases to any Kohl’s store in July
73 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit
73 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Roshi: A large-scale CRDT set implementation for timestamped events
73 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Activation Atlases
73 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Cold plasma can inactivate or remove airborne viruses, UMich study shows
73 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
73 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go
73 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot [pdf]
73 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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“Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
73 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler
73 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz
72 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Giving Generative Art Its Due
72 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
72 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers
72 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs
72 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?
72 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus
71 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Building a Cathedral
71 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Lyft threatens lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, accusing support of short selling
71 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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After near-disaster, Oroville Dam spillway about to face its first big test
71 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Integer overflow flaw discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1
71 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Git9: Git Reimagined for the Plan 9 OS
71 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Lyft’s IPO Was a Success, Just Not for Investors Who Bought on Friday
71 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes
71 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered
71 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?
71 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Blocking high-risk non-secure downloads
71 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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DNSSEC Outage on www.cloudflare.com – 2019-03-21
71 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Model 3 Lease Available
71 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Andy Grove's Paranoia: Universal Lessons (1996)
71 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Amazon S3 Batch Operations
71 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Initializing Weights
70 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]
70 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Handshake: A Peculiar Chat Experiment
70 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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The Terrifying Potential of 5G
70 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Qgrep Internals
70 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Tell HN: Hours left to protest ICANN's plan to uncap prices of legacy TLDs
70 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Password checkup: from 0 to 650k users in 20 days
70 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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The Cold War bunkers that cover a country
70 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Show HN: Messing with Telnet
70 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Immune cells may play a role in causing cavities
69 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids
69 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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An Introduction to René Girard
69 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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An actress lived for decades in this NYC apartment for $28 a month (2018)
69 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors
69 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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We need a new generation of source control
69 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution
69 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (1946)
69 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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J Language – New Website
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019