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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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Babel 7.5
79 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
79 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Ubisoft joins blender development fund
79 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Antikythera Mechanism
79 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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The Enduring Mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun (2016)
79 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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American kids would much rather be YouTubers than astronauts
79 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line
79 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Investigating sources of PII used in Facebook’s targeted advertising [pdf]
79 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Trump signals scrutiny of Google's ties with China after Thiel comments
79 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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The wrong kind of trees: Ireland's afforestation meets resistance
78 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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A Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank
78 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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ASCII Art in .NET Code
78 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a Decade
78 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Has Died
78 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Lager: Unidirectional data-flow for C++ inspired by Redux and Elm
78 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Show HN: Comntr – a widget that adds comments to your page
78 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything
78 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Has anyone dissolved a Stripe Atlas company?
78 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Rutger Hauer: Blade Runner actor dies aged 75
78 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Poisonous ABCs: From Aconitine to Zetekitoxin
78 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea
78 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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The Secret Seat of the Knights Templar
77 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)
77 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Returning Due Process to Campus
77 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?
77 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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China scrambles to stem manufacturing exodus as companies leave
77 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup
77 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Must-Read Books About the Moon
77 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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The Near Impossible 20-Year Journey to Translate 'Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'
77 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)
77 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Out-of-Place Artifact
77 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (1982) [pdf]
77 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
77 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (1979)
77 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014)
76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Sending 1.2M Tweets
76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?
76 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Film of Inside the Ilford Factory to See How B&W Film Is Made
76 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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I Used Google Ads for Social Engineering
76 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source (2016)
76 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Max Planck Society conducts bullying survey
76 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community
76 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Introduction to Decentralisation
76 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Why we are withdrawing the NHS Common User Interface
76 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Tobacco out, hemp in for Tennessee farmers
75 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Book Review: Impro by Keith Johnstone
75 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Coroutine Theory (2017)
75 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Reddit AMA: I'm a Former Amazon Fulfillment Center Employee
75 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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My Last Macbook Pro
75 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum (2004)
75 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs
75 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf]
75 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf]
75 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Visualize team email network with new MIT tool
75 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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The Mutable Web
75 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails
75 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution (2012) [pdf]
75 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine
75 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript
75 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Ring has enormous control over the ways police partners can portray its products
75 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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The Psychology of Prediction
74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Ex-Joyeur
74 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
74 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear
74 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B
74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and turmoil
74 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear
74 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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My Journey from Free Market Ideologue, Part 5: Commercial Development
73 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet
73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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C++20 Is Feature Complete; Here’s What Changes Are Coming
73 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad blocking
73 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes
73 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Where the Bodies Are Buried
73 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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FTC: Equifax might run out of cash, so please take the credit monitoring
73 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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The Internet Is Run by an Unaccountable Private Company (2015)
73 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force
73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Dell E7440 and E7240 Hackintosh
73 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Kernel analysis with bpftrace
73 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)
73 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939)
73 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Blockchain takes us back to medieval times
73 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail
73 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript
73 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater
73 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards
73 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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U.S. government staff told to treat Huawei as blacklisted
73 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
73 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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CSS Houdini Interactive Introduction
73 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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MetaCall: Inter-language foreign function interface calls
73 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]
73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers
72 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions
72 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
72 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA
72 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Coroutines: A Million Stacks (2017)
72 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas
72 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Tree of Forty Fruit
72 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing
72 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014)
72 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Building a Reflow Oven
72 points • comment • jul 22, 2019