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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Arby’s Has an Answer to Plant-Based Meat: A Meat-Based Carrot
7 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Why I Indent My Code 8 Spaces? (2018)
7 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Ask HN: Should I part ways with my cofounder?
7 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Five SpaceX Starlink satellites are about to burn up – SlashGear
7 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Better Software Engineering Debates
7 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Robinhood stored credentials in readable format
7 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Forget Streaming: Why You Should Still Buy Blu-Rays
7 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Huawei reportedly planning US layoffs
7 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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As the Jeffrey Epstein Case Grows More Grotesque, NYC and DC Brace for Impact
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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The Marvels of Tick Saliva
7 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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MacBook Pro 13“ Two Thunderbolt Ports 2019 Teardown
7 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists surprised by asteroid that just missed Earth
7 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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USB Power Supply/Charger Test
7 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Strange warping geometry helps to push scientific boundaries
7 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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An Insider Story of How Microsoft Built the Windows Subsystem for Linux
7 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Gender differences in participation and reward on Stack Overflow
7 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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The March Toward a DIY Metal 3D Printer
7 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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The History of the Picnic
7 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Christian family fined after arguing taxes 'against God's will'
7 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Is there a $15k penalty for not accepting YC's offer to join?
7 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Border agency knew about secret Facebook group for years
7 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Nomads Travel to America’s Walmarts to Stock Amazon’s Shelves
7 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Star Trek: Picard
7 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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No Algorithms
7 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Iconic font company Monotype is getting acquired by PE firm HGGC for $825M
7 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Status of rust-analyzer: Achievements and Open Collective
7 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster ️
7 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Was Taunted by Steve Jobs with Mystery Phone Calls
7 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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My Life Was So Hard After Leaving My Google Job
7 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Are Companies About to Have a Gen X Retention Problem?
7 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Opting Out of Face Scanning at Hong Kong International Airport
7 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Europe Set to Race Past US in Battery Manufacturing
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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WhatsApp Is Down
7 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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A small glass of juice or soda a day linked to increased risk of cancer; study
7 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Unusual Linux Ransomware Targets NAS Servers
7 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Current vs. future cities – Click on a city and explore its future climate
7 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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FBI Releases Master Decryption Keys for GandCrab Ransomware
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Slack Is Down
7 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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BI Tools Pricing and Capabilities – Analysis of Legacy and Modern BI Tools
7 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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New Device Turns Heat into Light Could Boost Solar Cell Efficiency to 80%
7 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Watching Porn Produces as Much Carbon Dioxide Emissions as Whole Countries
7 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
7 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Show HN: Lockless Variadic Futures for C++17
7 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Google takes another run at social networking with Shoelace
7 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Duotone, a beautiful new icon style by Font Awesome
7 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Dogs (2017)
7 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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.Net Fiddle Now Supports .Net Core
7 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Advisory panel for FCC accused of corruption
7 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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The Switch-Router War Is Over, and Hyperscalers Won
7 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Knights Hospitaller, 'accidentally' became major European air power
7 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Stop Being Reasonable – why we can’t get people to act rationally
7 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Facebook Asked to Stop Libra Implementation by US House of Representatives
7 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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BT to build 5G core infrastructure on Ubuntu
7 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Iridium Next Leo Satellites as an Alternative PNT in GNSS Denied Environments
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-Technical Audience [pdf]
7 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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PostgreSQL 12 Released
7 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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U.S. women win the country's 4th World Cup
7 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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National Spelling Bee, at a Loss for Words, Crowns 8 Co-Champions
7 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Ask HN: Why are there so many queue services but almost none support scheduling?
7 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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YouTube needs 'new set of rules and laws': executive
7 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic
7 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Neural Logic Machines
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Israeli Researchers Develop Vibrating Vest to Communicate Wordlessly with Dogs
7 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Can you solve it? The enduring appeal of Venn diagrams
7 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Diatoms make 20% of Earth's oxygen and can double in population every 24 hours
7 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Laurie Voss, NPM co-founder, resigns
7 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Ask HN: What are you all using to automate desktop setup and config?
7 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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NTPsec is potentially dangerous: hostile forking and temperamental leadership
7 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Savage tick clone armies are exsanguinating cows; experts fear for humans
6 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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AMD Releases BIOS Fix for Booting Newer Linux Distributions
6 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Quantum Supremacy Is Coming: Here’s What You Should Know
6 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Xkcd #2172: Understanding Lunar Cycles
6 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Living in California Is Living on the Edge
6 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Buzz Aldrin sloshed around in pee on the moon (and 11 other Apollo facts)
6 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon's 'war cloud'
6 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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How TensorFlow outdid itself in handling Overfitting in DNNs.
6 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Doom in Claymation (2016) [video]
6 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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My sixth day with Haiku: Under the hood of resources, icons, and packages
6 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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A Dead Simple VPN
6 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Robots and Firms
6 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Americans overestimate the intergenerational persistence in income ranks
6 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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How an Optimizing Compiler Works
6 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2019
6 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Nebraska Attorney General sues Hilton hotels for hidden resort fees
6 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals
6 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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How to implement a programming language in JavaScript
6 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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For Years, Alcohol Was My Only Comfort. Then It Nearly Killed Me
6 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Baidu’s Ernie 2.0 Beats Bert and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks
6 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Trump Comes Out Against Bitcoin, Libra, and Other "Unregulated Crypto Assets"
6 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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New Udemy Course on Malware Analysis
6 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Stop Gatekeeping Email
6 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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SEC approves first consumer RegA+ token Props for cross-app rewards
6 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Equifax to Pay $575-700M as Part of Settlement with FTC and Others
6 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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CMU Creates Language2Pose Model That Generates Animations from Text
6 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed
6 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Neal Stephenson's new novel – part tech, part fantasy – dazzles
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Show HN: A relaxing mindful breathing companion to get you through the day
6 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Bernie Sanders’ Staff Director highlight their accomplishments
6 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Garbage Collection in Go: Part III – GC Pacing
6 points • comment • jul 19, 2019