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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian
166 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes
166 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Connecticut moves to help low-paid workers hurt by noncompete rules
166 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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India will soon overtake China to become the most populous country in the world
166 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Graph Convolutional Networks (2016)
166 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Crystal 0.28.0 Released
166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm about surveillance
166 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers
166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Show HN: Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go
166 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’
166 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident
166 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]
166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
165 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
165 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Do people become happier after 40?
165 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
165 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Zarf’s Interactive Fiction (2017)
165 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses
164 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I ask for a raise?
164 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Time protection: the missing OS abstraction
164 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Wasmer: A Python library for executing WebAssembly binaries
164 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward
163 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?
163 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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The bible of doing business with the city of New York
163 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?
163 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta
163 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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CVE-2019-9193: Not a Security Vulnerability
163 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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The Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed
163 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory
163 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?
162 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Unofficial new Berlin rapid transit route map
162 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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In California, giant Stratolaunch jet flies for first time
162 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math
162 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report
162 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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AMD EPYC Rome 2P Will Have 128-160 PCIe Gen4 Lanes and a Bonus
162 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
162 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?
161 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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In England, rhubarb is grown by candlelight
161 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive
161 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces
161 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Tibetan musical notation
160 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing
160 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart
160 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Show HN: Learn to use email with Git
160 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Sinclair ZX81 1KB Chess vs. Stockfish Chess Engine (2018) [video]
160 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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NSA says warrantless searches of Americans’ data rose in 2018
160 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Influencers Are Abandoning the Instagram Look
159 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Why India's rich don't give their money away
159 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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The Nokia N9 Alarm Clock (2014)
159 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On
158 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban
158 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data
158 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device
158 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted
158 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware
158 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
158 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Ginseng: Keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system
157 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype
157 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
157 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause
157 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator
156 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016
156 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili
156 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Eisvogel: A clean pandoc LaTeX template with a focus on computer science
156 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition
155 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment
155 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Building a front end with no JavaScript
155 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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N-Wheeled Cars
155 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth
155 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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How Venice Works [video]
155 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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A Pentester's Guide: Osint, Breach Dumps, and Password Spraying
155 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Insurance Constantly
155 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking into GPS Tracking
154 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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The Metrics of Backpacks
154 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Chessvision.ai – Analyze chess position from websites, images or video
154 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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C#88: The Original C# (2018)
154 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Boeing software under scrutiny as Ethiopia prepares crash report
154 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)
154 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities
154 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you think
154 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea
153 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer
153 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead
153 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown
153 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
153 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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How do we know when we’ve fallen in love? (2016)
153 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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O(N^2) in CreateProcess
153 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Lopdf: Rust library for PDF document manipulation
153 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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God's Number Is 20 (2010)
152 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test
152 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs
152 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Blend2D – 2D Vector Graphics Engine
152 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Trinity Nuclear Test Site Open House – Saturday, April 6
152 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Two More Cases of Third-Party Facebook App Data Exposure
152 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Amazon's empire rests on its low-key approach to AI
152 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video]
152 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Mercury – Banking built for startups
151 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Writing a Technical Book for Manning
151 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
151 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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On Startup Capital Efficiency
151 points • comment • apr 08, 2019