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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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Abandoned America
149 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Molten Salt Reactors
149 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows
149 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander
149 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Why did Intel kill off their modem program?
149 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Report on the technical vulnerabilities found in Huawei 5G [pdf]
148 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom
148 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform
148 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Show HN: A tiny JS library for real-time localization of eye pupils
148 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today
147 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Programming and Programming Languages (2018)
147 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
147 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Mango leaves: Indian scientists' solution to a $2.5T global shipping problem
147 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wireframes templates
147 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law
147 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Show HN: A tool to convert Jupyter notebooks to beautiful blogs
147 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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How to Write a Thesis (1977)
147 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Pi-Top 4
147 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018)
147 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Myths about Perl 6
147 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Investigating the Galileo Satellite Navigation System Outage with a LimeSDR
147 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Show HN: An ad-free news website with crowdsourced summaries
146 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down
146 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Lahja – A generic event bus implementation written in Python
146 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Liftbridge: Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams
146 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Virtual Kubernetes
146 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
146 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation
146 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?
146 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop
146 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Ale – A Lisp Environment Written in Go
146 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Guix Workflow Language
145 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms
145 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Vugu – Modern UI Library for Go and WebAssembly
145 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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George Wilson, The Man Who Walked His Life Away
145 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages
145 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework [pdf]
145 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones
145 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Inside Coinbase’s Executive Turmoil: Conflicting Visions
145 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Data Still Dominates
144 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas in Academia
144 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Cookieless cookies (2013)
144 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B
144 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Tiles to Curves: Fun with Voronoi Graphs
144 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Lee Iacocca Has Died
144 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community
144 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch
143 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (2008)
143 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update
143 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Saudi airline cancels $6B Boeing order in favor of Airbus
143 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook
143 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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The Story of the Ping Program (1997)
143 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week
143 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
142 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
142 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Boeing loses big order for 737 Max aircraft
142 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
142 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Evolutionary gene loss may explain why only humans are prone to heart attack
142 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Pen Refills Guide
142 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home
142 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Scientists capture MRI scans of single atoms
142 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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Kyoto Animation artworks go on display nationwide in remembrance of arson attack
142 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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House lawmakers ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold
142 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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A new book critiques medicine
142 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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New antibiotics effective against resistant bacteria in mice
142 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Palantir’s User Manual for Cops
141 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival
141 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014)
141 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python
141 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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EASA demands additional changes for the 737 Max
141 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
141 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Dead Simple VPN
140 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Space station mold survives 200 times the radiation dose that would kill a human
140 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.80) mobile-only monthly plan in India
140 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]
140 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans' Health Is Widening
140 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Steam Labs
140 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
140 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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PEG Parsers
140 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
139 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults
139 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Let’s Make: Dangerous Dave
139 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
139 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
139 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Tuna are spawning in marine protected areas
139 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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The Wood Database
138 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith
138 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool
138 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic
138 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
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Patrick Collison's Bookshelf
138 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Nuclear material worth $72M seized in a car in Turkey
138 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court
138 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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From South Korea to Malaysia, ‘smart cities’ turn to ghost towns
137 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions
137 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
137 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Retro 5″ Black and White TV as a computer monitor – A tale of pointlessness
137 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Oregon’s Tsunami Risk
137 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Saving the World from Spreadsheets [video]
137 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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TurboTax to charge more lower-income customers
136 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees
136 points • comment • jul 26, 2019