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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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‘BioSolar Leaf’ to Tackle Air Pollution in White City
44 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Asm-declaration – Embed assembly language code within a C++ program (2017)
44 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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The Importance of Insect Suffering
44 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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The Story of Humans and Neanderthals in Europe Is Being Rewritten
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
44 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Deep Representation Learning with Genetic Programming (2018) [pdf]
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Cyber Incident Exposes Potential Vulnerabilities Onboard Commercial Vessels [pdf]
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal
44 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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LAN Manager Product Specification, 1987
43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Emma Chamberlain dropped out of school and changed the world of online video
43 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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World’s largest steam locomotive rolls through Chicago area
43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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UK’s ten warmest years all occurred since 2002
43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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UK CO₂ Emissions Are Lowest Since 1888 Due to Government Intervention
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35 (1965)
43 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Teens
43 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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LiveJournal data breach impacts 33M users with plaintext passwords
43 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Satellites threaten privacy
43 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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On Inequality and Risk Capacity
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Blockstack’s token offering is historic, but its dance with the SEC is not over
43 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Einstein’s Entanglements
43 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Documenting every apple variety in North America
43 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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The Role of Doubt in Design
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Education publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks
43 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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How to Save a Dying Language (2013)
43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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US Customs seized JPMorgan ship after authorities found 39,525 lbs of cocaine
43 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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The Honey Trap on East 71st Street
43 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It
43 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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At Pike Place Market, seniors and kids work well together
43 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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TLS Performance: Rustls versus OpenSSL
43 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Democracy Is for the Gods – Humans Cannot Sustain It
43 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Peter Thiel Calls Google 'Treasonous' and Says CIA Should Investigate
43 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Don't want to write CRUD apps for the rest of my career, what to do?
43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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The Unfinished History of U.S. Freeway Revolts
42 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Rust Is Leading Most of the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks (New Round 18)
42 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Starting with Semantics [video]
42 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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The Glorious and Ruinous Life of Alcibiades
42 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Samsung in hot water over splashy Australian phone ads
42 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Ask HN: Any logic based software dev tool which helps building code gradually?
42 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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What Spectre Means for Lanugage Implementers [video]
42 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Facebook is exploring brain control for AR wearables
42 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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New World Drugs in Old World Mummies?
42 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Rising health insurance deductibles fuel middle-class anger and resentment
42 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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The Sheldon Conjecture
42 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein Pitched a New Narrative. These Sites Published It
42 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for upcoming 16" MBP
42 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report warns
42 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads
42 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT
42 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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A Practitioner’s Guide to Deep Learning with Ludwig
42 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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The Business Executive's Guide to Kubernetes
42 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry
42 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to take the blame
41 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Video Games That Made People Question Their Beliefs
41 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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What Disney+ Traffic Could Be Worth to CDNs
41 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society
41 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics
41 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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The Discovery of Sharklet
41 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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The Creepy Anglerfish Comes to Light
41 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers
41 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Japan PM Abe: See no need to raise sales tax beyond 10% for decade
41 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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House Rules (2018)
41 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Artists getting evicted in Detroit
41 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Demystifying Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
41 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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U.S. Forces Failed to Conquer Canada 200 Years Ago (2012)
41 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet
41 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Dean and Deluca Is Closing Its Stores
41 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Girls’ advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in STEM
41 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Three large coronal holes 31st July – first August
41 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Bret Victor's Bookshelf (2015)
41 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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The Weird Magic of Eiderdown
41 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater
40 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? ‘Lots of luck with that’
40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Security Things in Linux v5.2
40 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Urban heat island
40 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (July 2019)
40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Children’s Village Forever
40 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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You probably won’t get $125 from the Equifax settlement
40 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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aSMtris – Tetris in assembly language (2016)
40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Apple Recalls 15-Inch MacBook Pro Laptop Computers Due to Fire Hazard
40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
40 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Tesla Roadster
40 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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CO2 and Climate Task Force (AQ-9) (1980) [pdf]
40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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The terrible truth of climate change
40 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Secure email provider Tutanota launches free encrypted calendar
39 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Hawaii telescope protest shuts down 13 observatories on Mauna Kea
39 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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New York state has banned cat declawing
39 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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A Koch Executive’s Harassment in China Adds to Fears Among Visitors
39 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Why I Don't Think Craig Wright is Satoshi
39 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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My humble tribute to Apollo 11 AGC
39 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux
39 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Helen Gurley Brown Only Wants to Help (1970)
39 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Why doesn't Linux apt use HTTPS?
39 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack
39 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Twitter is down – “Something is technically wrong.”
39 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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A Fan’s Notes: Unsolicited Praise for Sportswriter Jon Bois
39 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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House passes bill to hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
39 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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'Major distraction': school dumps iPads, returns to paper textbooks
39 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Xkcd: Trained a Neural Net
39 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/?
39 points • comment • jul 26, 2019