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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws
103 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
103 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (2017)
103 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B
103 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Eve Online’s communications blackout explained
102 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Show HN: Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform
102 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape
102 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Notifica – an app for if you're at risk of being detained by ICE agents
102 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Fax machines can be hacked to breach a network, using only its number (2018)
102 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’
102 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Swedish ISP Blocks Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub
102 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security
102 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of documents
102 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
102 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life
101 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice
101 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Renters may get access to rogue landlord database
101 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Stripe subsidiary plans to open office in Baltimore
101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends
101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Show HN: Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning
101 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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The Vision for Decentralized Web
101 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator (2014)
101 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Azolla Event
101 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data
101 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Make meaning your vocational goal
101 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site
101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Tagsistant: A Semantic Filesystem for Linux
101 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Value Is Dead, Long Live Value
100 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency
100 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]
100 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Qualified Small-Business Stock rule helps Silicon Valley workers save millions
100 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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A Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention
100 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon
100 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Substack
100 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Language Arguments (2018)
100 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Linux 5.2 released: list of changes
100 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there
99 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets
99 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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TetrisRant (1999)
99 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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“Only five people maintain Python-pip”
99 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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How developers use API documentation: an observation study [pdf]
99 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size
99 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record again
99 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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“Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site
99 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Running the numbers on an insane scheme to save Antarctic ice
99 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts
99 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Why Has Language Changed So Much So Fast? ‘Because Internet’
99 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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x86 API Hooking Demystified (2012)
98 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted
98 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Remembering Chris Kraft
98 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
98 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Servants Without Masters
98 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit
98 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Math versus Dirty Data
98 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars to beyond 2019
98 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use
98 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)
98 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Boeing May Halt 737 Max Production
98 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Legion Parallel Programming System
97 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Two drugs that block cell division synergize to kill tumor cells
97 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy
97 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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The Great Stink
97 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Software design is also about relationships
97 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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US mayors adopt resolution to not pay hackers over ransomware attacks
97 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket
97 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Being multilingual alters your experience of time (2018)
97 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat
97 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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The Art of Metaprogramming (2005)
97 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Ratification of the RISC-V Base ISA and Privileged Architecture Specifications
97 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf]
96 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Spaced Repetition
96 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Where we see shapes, AI sees textures
96 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Apple to include new keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro
96 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Recreate Secret Doors from Movies
96 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Google Sheets Formula Clock
96 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Hypothetical Indexes in PostgreSQL
96 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations
96 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes
96 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment
96 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Wikipedia's robots.txt
96 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Animals living alongside humans produce amylase, enzyme that breaks down starch
96 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds
96 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you read and understand an open-source project?
95 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds”
95 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Efficiently Generating Python Hash Collisions
95 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Teaching Tech Together
95 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model
95 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
95 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Show HN: Play rock paper and scissors against a untrained neural network
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Ray tracing with uLisp
95 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall
95 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission
95 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Mistakes we make using JavaScript Promises
94 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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How Banksy Authenticates His Work
94 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)
94 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Raspberry Pi 4 Review
94 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Alert issued for stolen car with nuclear substance in Chile
94 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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The Farm Automation Breakthrough
94 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review
94 points • comment • jul 12, 2019