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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
274 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks
274 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea
273 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (2017)
273 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Slack Security Incident
273 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Let's talk about peeing in space
272 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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“Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
272 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
272 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network
271 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Learning Golang – From Zero to Hero
271 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Elements of Programming (2009)
270 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
270 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
270 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data
269 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)
268 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
268 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux
267 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Tips for reviewing code you don’t like
267 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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How to Use User Mode Linux
266 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Racket Is an Acceptable Python
266 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted
266 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up
266 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors
265 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
264 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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How iOS 13 redraws your eyes so you're looking at the camera
264 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
264 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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How not to sign a JSON object
264 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
264 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Toilets of the World
262 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
261 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters
260 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Radiotrophic fungus
260 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China
260 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
260 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 Released
260 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms
259 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
259 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
259 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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If Sapiens were a blog post
258 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Facebook's fake account problem
257 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Tokyo's audiophile venues (2016)
257 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
257 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model
257 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig
256 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant
256 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Google Protest Leader Leaves
255 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (2018)
255 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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The helicopter team that films the Tour de France
255 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine
255 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
254 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Nodes – JavaScript-based 2D canvas for computational thinking
254 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Launch HN: Hatchways (YC S19) – Internships Instead of Interviews
253 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Winnti: Hackers attacking the heart of German industry
253 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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A Brief Guide to a Few Algebraic Structures
253 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
251 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Decoded: GNU Coreutils
251 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware
251 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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A new study uses camera footage to track the frequency of bystander intervention
250 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Data-Oriented Design (2018)
250 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store
250 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy
250 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Let's build a circuit that displays an image on a VGA monitor [video]
250 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales
250 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases
250 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it
249 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Fighting Complexity in Software Development
249 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
249 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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How to run a small social network site for your friends
248 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser
248 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust
248 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
248 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Run Your Own Website
248 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1
248 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket
247 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Go Contracts – Draft Design
247 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty”
247 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
247 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4
246 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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King – Man + Woman = King?
245 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Python consumes a lot of memory – how to reduce the size of objects?
245 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Why Three Prongs? (1996)
245 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control
245 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees
245 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
244 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Seattle Faces Backlash After Easing on Crimes Involving Mental Illness
244 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
244 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
243 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think
243 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
243 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Going Quiet: More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings
243 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC
243 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)
243 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years ago
242 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change
241 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Australia's anti-encryption laws used to bypass journalist protections: expert
241 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Mistakes we made adopting event sourcing and how we recovered
241 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer
241 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces
240 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year
240 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
239 points • comment • jul 02, 2019