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Hacker News (Jun 2019)
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Awk by Example
240 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
240 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
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New Hampshire installs historical marker to honor the creation of BASIC
240 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
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Google CTF 2019
240 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
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The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe
240 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
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Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
239 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
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Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?
239 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
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Write HTML Like It's 1999
238 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
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Iceland tire of tourists trashing their nature
238 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
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The NYC subway system runs on OS/2
237 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
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Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud
237 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
236 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
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Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic
236 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
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San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban
235 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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Announcing Startup School 2019
235 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
235 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
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Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15
234 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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Terence Tao's Raw Notes After His Princeton Comprehensive Exams (1999)
234 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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A Field Guide to Power Transmission Lines
234 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
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Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way
234 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
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Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)
234 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
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Support for U2F security keys
233 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
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G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis
233 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard
233 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
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The SaaS Opportunity of Unbundling Excel
232 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
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NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative
232 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
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So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebrite Touch”
231 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
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TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
231 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
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The Anti-College Is on the Rise
230 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
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CS Unplugged: Teaching material for CS using cards, string and crayons
230 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
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Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency
229 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
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How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’
228 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”?
228 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
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Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
228 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
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The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap
228 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
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A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
228 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)
227 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
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Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers
227 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
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Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
227 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
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Moons of all the planets in our solar system
227 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
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BTrDB: Berkeley Tree Database
227 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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The End of Political Cartoons at The New York Times
227 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
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Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
226 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
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DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)
226 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
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Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
226 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects
226 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
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Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad
226 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
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How Bad Are Things? (2015)
225 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM
224 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
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Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
223 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (1999)
223 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
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Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming (2016)
223 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
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Show HN: Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform
223 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks
223 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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Japanese Company Charges Its Staff $100 an Hour to Use Conference Rooms
222 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
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Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back control using open software
221 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
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The Man Behind “Fortnite”
221 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
221 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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When Pepsi Had a Navy
221 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
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Medicine needs to embrace open source
221 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
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Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore
221 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
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Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name
221 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
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Australia’s surprising disregard for free speech
220 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
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Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany
220 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
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Privacy Policies Are an Incomprehensible Disaster
220 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
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Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
220 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
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Moscow Publishes Photocopies of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Secret Protocols
219 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
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Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests
218 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
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Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten
218 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
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Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript
218 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
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Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday
218 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
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Use Coq in Your Browser: The Js Coq Theorem Prover Online
217 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
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Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan
217 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
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Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study
217 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
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Envoy Mobile
216 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
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HK's extradition law: Not just HK people have reason to fear Chinese “justice”
216 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
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How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?
216 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
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Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field
216 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone
215 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
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Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins
215 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
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Wood Joint Strength Testing
215 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
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Fast.ai Part 2: Deep Learning from the Foundations
215 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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White House weighs encryption crackdown
214 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
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Vim/Neovim Arbitrary Code Execution via Modelines
214 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
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Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter at Meduza, has been arrested in Moscow
214 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
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Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]
214 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
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Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand
213 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
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Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos
213 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
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DigitalJs: Digital circuit simulator in browser
213 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
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IBM and the Holocaust (2017)
213 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
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Writers Are More Prolific When They Cluster
213 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
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FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China
213 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
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Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
213 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
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Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key
213 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
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Candida auris: A fungus hospitals don’t want to talk about
212 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
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Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?
212 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
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Languages of India
212 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
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Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day
212 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
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Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
211 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
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NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model
211 points • comment • jun 13, 2019