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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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Can your employer fire you after you quit?
69 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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The Ghosts of Windows 3.1
69 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors
69 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Photography and racial bias
69 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Anyone makes 200k as a software engineer outside US?
69 points • comment • apr 23, 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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World Population Cartogram (2018)
69 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Sarah Hörst Creates Exoplanet Atmospheres in Her Lab
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions
69 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Running an IRC Network in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities
69 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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I have been hired for more than 10 years, and I have this simple rule
68 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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New paper quantifies how quickly Southern planters recovered from the civil war
68 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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The “sewing machine” for minimally invasive neural recording
68 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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DoX: DNS Queries over XMPP
68 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Refurbishing Classic Quad Electrostatic Loudspeakers
68 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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AI Helps Classify Lung Cancer at the Pathologist Level
68 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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No, Your Instagram ‘Influence’ Is Not as Good as Cash, Club Owner Says
68 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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“Hyperscans” Show How Brains Sync as People Interact
68 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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A crowd-sourced social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash
68 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Please be more careful when interpreting the Stack Overflow Developer Survey
68 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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The Wire Image of a Network Protocol
68 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Ask HN: What are the best open-access journals for non-academics to submit to?
68 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Another ZFS Port on Linux
68 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Google to pull plug on AI ethics council
67 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform
67 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Matrix.org Security Incident
67 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Generative Modeling with Sparse Transformers
67 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic integers
67 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Phantom OS, a Russian OS where “everything is an object”
67 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Moving to a provenance-aware memory object model for C: proposal for C2x
67 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Haversine Formula
67 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Vampire: First-Order Theorem Proving [pdf]
67 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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How many holes does a straw have? [video]
67 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Show HN: Hyper Editor – A back end independent visual composer for web
67 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Creating Heatmap from Scratch in Python (2018)
67 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Caddy 1.0, Caddy 2, and Caddy Enterprise
67 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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The Nature of Code – evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in code
66 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Kubernetes External Secrets
66 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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The Climate and Cloudflare
66 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Justice Department Warns Academy over Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix
66 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly
66 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Federal investigation of Facebook could hold Zuckerberg accountable on privacy
66 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Generating Fractals with Postgres: Escape-Time Fractals
66 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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On the difficulty of predicting the future (2001) [pdf]
66 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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High Speed Trains Are Killing the European Railway Network (2013)
66 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Live Share now included in Visual Studio 2019, available for VS Code
66 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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After the Bust, Are Bitcoins More Like Tulip Mania or the Internet?
66 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Dogs that protect little penguins (2015)
66 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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For some startups, there’s no buzz needed – Poll Everywhere (YC S08)
66 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Programmers and Musicians
66 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-Being [pdf]
65 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Storing files in the DB: story of an epic failure
65 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona
65 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge
65 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Rare and strange ICD-10 codes
65 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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A generic beer that was too cheap for Saskatchewan
65 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Curl says bye bye to pipelining
65 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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In Bubbles, She Sees a Mathematical Universe
65 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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You probably don't need that hip web framework
65 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers
65 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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A Year Later, Cybercrime Groups Still Rampant on Facebook
65 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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The Looming End of Payless ShoeSource
65 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch dollar oil trades to stop 'NOPEC'
65 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Guide to European Rail Maps and Atlasses (2013)
64 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
64 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Sharp X68000
64 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Opus Came to Be
64 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Google has added “unsupported browser” warnings for Edge Chromium on Google Docs
64 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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MIT cuts relationship with Huawei and ZTE over alleged sanction violations
64 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
64 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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To save the monarch butterfly, scientists are moving a forest up a mountain
64 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Mars Methane Hunt Comes Up Empty, Flummoxing Scientists
64 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Hong Kong 'Umbrella' protesters found guilty of public nuisance
64 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Japan is scrambling to reconcile systems with imperial calendar
64 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Mac DeMarco on Anxiety, Alcoholism and the Mitski controversy
64 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Amateur Radio in Space Pioneer Astronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL, SK
64 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Out of sight but not invisible: Defeating fileless malware
64 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Memory Makers Plan to Cut NAND Flash Production
64 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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An Introduction to the BPF Compiler Collection (2017)
63 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno
63 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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US Uber drivers plan 12-hour shutdown over pay and conditions
63 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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The Big Business of Japan’s Cherry Blossoms
63 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Ghidra source code officially released
63 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Commodore Peripheral Bus: Commodore DOS
63 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Camera Above the Classroom
63 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Nearby stellar explosions could have killed off large animals
63 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Nasa’s InSight Lander Captures Audio of First Likely ‘Quake’ on Mars
63 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you secure your Windows PC?
63 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Demand is skyrocketing in China for mice that mimic the diseases of humans
63 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Crystal Meth Is Spreading
63 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Hong Kong Property Tycoon Gave Away Children’s $400m Inheritance
63 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts
63 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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The Linux Edge (1999)
63 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Running WebAssembly and WASI with .Net
63 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Letter of Recommendation: Digging a Trench
63 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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The MacBook keyboard fiasco is surely worse than Apple thinks
63 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Uber’s self-driving unit gets $1B investment from SoftBank
63 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?
63 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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The Many Flavors of “Low-Code”
63 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates aren’t using a basic email security
63 points • comment • apr 30, 2019