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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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US generates more electricity from renewables than coal for first time ever
28 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore
28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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ICANN removes .org price caps despite 98% public opposition
28 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Hardware cost evaluation of the posit number system
28 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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South Korean parents hire thugs to stop school bullies
28 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order
28 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Iron particles are falling into the seas in greater quantities than thought
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Faster Fractals with Multi-Threaded WebAssembly
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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India's super-rich peak tax rate, at 42.7%, now higher than USA
28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Some Traits of Bismarck (1882)
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Possible link between sugary drinks and cancer
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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The Agile process of software development is often perverted by politics (2016)
28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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IKEA releases free ‘Soffa Sans’ font made of couches
28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Human species-specific genetic mutation enhances atherosclerosis
28 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Gene Kranz Describes His Instrumental Role in the Apollo 11 Mission
28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Heard More Than Heard: An Audio Steganography Method Based on GAN
28 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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F-Droids statement on their ban of Gab
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Auden’s Grumpy Moon Landing Poem
28 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Philosophers should not be sanctioned for their positions on sex and gender
28 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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GitHub Is Down
28 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities
28 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Science of Science
28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried
28 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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When Mesmerism Came to America
28 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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European Net Neutrality Is Under Attack
27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Former Google exec, Android founder accused of having a 'sex ring' in complaint
27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Why California Cities Already Lost Local Control
27 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Introducing ROMchip – What Could the History of Games Be?
27 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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First image of particle entanglement
27 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Doom 1/2 on Nintendo Switch requires Bethesda account login on first-play
27 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Habits vs. Goals: Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Life
27 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Alternative theory of gravity makes a nearly testable prediction
27 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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4M people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click
27 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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BRIN Index for PostgreSQL: Don’t Forget the Benefits
27 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Scientists in Florida have detected the largest seaweed bloom in the world
27 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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We’ve already built too many power plants and cars to prevent 1.5 ˚C of warming
27 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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The Spectacular P. T. Barnum
27 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Healthy lifestyle may cut risk of dementia regardless of genes
27 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Capital One Announces Data Security Incident
27 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Intel Builds a Neuromorphic System with 64 to 768 Loihi Chips: 8-100M Neurons
27 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Couple Plants an Entire Forest over the Past 20 Years – Growing 2M Trees
27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Use Vue.js with Pure Python
27 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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How trashy TV made Italian children dumber, enabled a wave of populist leaders
27 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Why are there so many JavaScript frameworks?
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Scientific AI: Domain Models with Integrated Machine Learning
27 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Microsoft Introduced NeuronBlocks – Modulized NLP DNN Toolkit
27 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis
27 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Chrome's on-by-default ad blocker – the one that doesn't block 99% of ads
27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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The disappearing physicist, Ettore Majorana, and his elusive particle (2014)
27 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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US cop fired over deadly shooting 'rehired to get pension'
27 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels
27 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Navigating the tension between work and relationships
27 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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“Tree planting will make the rest of your life feel easier.”
27 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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AlexNet hallucination quiz: can you find which image matches the stated class?
27 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Doctoring the Ladies
27 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
27 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Predicting Patient Deterioration
27 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
27 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Zahada: The Most Challenging Riddles Online
27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages?
27 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Ask HN: How do we fight the existential threat of climate change?
27 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing
27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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The Lingering of Loss
27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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What I Do When It Feels Like My Work Isn’t Good Enough
26 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Powers of Two in Lexicographic Order
26 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)
26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Disney heiress ‘livid’ after going to one of her family’s theme parks undercover
26 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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“How Couples Meet” Chart
26 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel
26 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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The Paradox of Toil (2010)
26 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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You probably don't need a single page app
26 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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First 3D Nanotube and RRAM ICs Come Out of Foundry
26 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Forget Silicon Valley, It Still Pays More to Be a Doctor in America
26 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Apple’s Heir Apparent Is More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs
26 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect
26 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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China's capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down
26 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Did Boeing Secretly “Bet the Company” yet Again on an Airline Project?
26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Satellite data for June shows 88% year-on-year increase in Amazon deforestation
26 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal
26 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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Launch HN: Simmer (YC W19) – Reviews for Delivery Dishes
26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Politics of Space Junk
26 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Banks can accidentally lose safe deposit boxes
26 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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What Is Posix? Richard Stallman Explains
26 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Peter Thiel Reportedly Says the FBI and CIA Should Investigate Google
26 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Fixing Random, part 40 of 40
26 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Learning World Graphs to Accelerate Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
26 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review overhaul
26 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat
26 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Earth had a near-miss with 'city-killer' asteroid this morning
26 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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DNA sequencing progress has stagnated
26 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Are people who make $200k middle-class?
26 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Automatic Index Recommendations in PostgreSQL using pg_qualstats and hypopg
26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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A Production Outage Was Caused Using Kubernetes Pod Priorities
26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Calorie Paradox of Raw Veganism (1999)
26 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age
26 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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The bounty hunters of Fallout 76 will kill anyone you want, for a price
26 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
25 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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An American Treatment for the 'American Nervousness' (1980)
25 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, and the Photos Are Nuts
25 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer?
25 points • comment • jul 16, 2019