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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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The Intelligence Myth – Why I cringe when someone tells me my child is smart
94 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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How Banksy Authenticates His Work
94 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Equifax CEO pushed out after data hack getting nearly $20M in bonuses
94 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows
94 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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The IndieWeb needs to believe in itself (2018)
94 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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The Farm Automation Breakthrough
94 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)
94 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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How I automated my Instagram account using Machine Learning and Python
94 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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How to Debug (2010)
93 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo
93 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
93 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday
93 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City
93 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Notes on a Smaller Rust
93 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Launch HN: Cloosiv (YC S19) – Order ahead from local coffee shops
93 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks That Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone [pdf]
92 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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How Much Water Do You Need to Drink?
92 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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EvilGnome: Rare Malware Spying on Linux Desktop Users
92 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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How to survive an open office
92 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Why I'm Leaving Medium
92 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Researchers easily trick Cylance's AI Antivirus to think Malware is 'Goodware'
92 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest-Throughput Service
92 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System
92 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Picat – a logic-based multi-paradigm programming language
92 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg
92 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Anaxagoras Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock
92 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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First Programmable Memristor Computer
92 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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How Capitalism Changed American Literature
91 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Extending the Linux Kernel with Built-In Kernel Headers
91 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental)
91 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (2017) [pdf]
91 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Logs vs. Metrics: A False Dichotomy
91 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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TikTok being investigated in the U.K. for handling of children’s data and safety
91 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development
91 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia
91 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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MathFiction: Alex Recommends
91 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Banding in Games: A Noisy Rant [pdf]
91 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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China Wrestles with the Toxic Aftermath of Rare Earth Mining
91 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Word2vec: Fish + Music = Bass
91 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of (2018)
90 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Engineers Don't Solve Problems (2018)
90 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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MemGuard: Secure sensitive information in memory in Go
90 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Cat Colors
90 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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The Semantics of Transactions and Weak Memory in x86, Power, ARM, and C++
90 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Blender 2.80
90 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Improved seam carving with forward energy
90 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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The Durian King
90 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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The Trouble with Many Worlds
90 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Deutsche Bank axes whole teams in Asia-Pacific as job cuts begin
90 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of students ahead of fall semester
90 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal
90 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Degraded performance on GitLab.com
90 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Model Checking a C++ Software Framework: A Case Study
90 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Abusing the PHP Query String Parser to Bypass IDS, IPS, and WAF
90 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?
90 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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What Is Gaussian Curvature?
90 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition
90 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism
89 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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NASA Maps Surface Changes from California Quakes
89 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Google Acquires Elastifile
89 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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CEO of Marriott Statements About Hotel Fees Customers Loathe
89 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
89 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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The Aesthetic Beauty of Math
89 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Catlab.jl: Experimental framework for applied category theory
89 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Andy Rachleff on 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories
89 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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French Minerve submarine is found after disappearing in 1968
89 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment Clears Milestone
89 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest
89 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?
89 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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How to Bypass “Slider Captcha”
89 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter desert floor in before-and-after images
89 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy
89 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman
88 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Gokrazy: a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
88 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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A brief history and future of credit scores
88 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
88 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Time is running out for sand
88 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid
88 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Beijing Presses Hong Kong Government to Quell Unrest
88 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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FUSE performance improvements with eBPF [pdf]
88 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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America needs to see Amazon’s tax returns
88 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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The forgotten joy of soap
88 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Rent the Backyard (YC S19) wants to build a studio apartment in your yard
88 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Plot Maps of Star Wars
88 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial Genomes (2017)
88 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Giving Up TV for a Month Changed My Brain
88 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Baumol Effect
87 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass
87 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The British Virgin Islands’ Struggle to Protect Its Dark Offshore Economy
87 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless
87 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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A Giant Asteroid of Gold Won’t Make Us Richer
87 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box
87 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Suffragetto: An early 1900s board game between suffragettes and police
87 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Polanyi’s Paradox
87 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Self Programming Language
87 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Raising the American Weakling (2017)
87 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Global Passport Power Rank 2019
87 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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How over 25 People Got Scammed into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company
87 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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The Clean Farming Revolution
87 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Lyttle Lytton Contest
87 points • comment • jul 15, 2019