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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists
133 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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SuperSQLite: SQLite library for Python (2018)
133 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)
133 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged
132 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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The Art of PostgreSQL
132 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Camera vs. Lidar
132 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups
132 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss
132 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
131 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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WeWork’s 17th employee: I was not offered options
131 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Caviar was a free bar snack
131 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Airframe – Open-Source Dashboard Template
131 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020
131 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally
131 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The thoughts running through our heads are more varied than we might suppose
131 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
131 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage
131 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Portugal trials use of goats to clear vegetation for reduction of wild fire risk
131 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Programming Algorithms: A Crash Course in Lisp
131 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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BGP super-blunder: How Verizon sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’
130 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Rendering on the Web
130 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos
130 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Most software companies ignore user behavior
130 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How the Stock Market Works
129 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit
129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning
129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College
129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation
129 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The New Lion King trailer style transformed to resemble the animated version
129 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
129 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak
129 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Porsche Taycan [video]
129 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World
129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
129 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Clever Functional Design
128 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Reducing pollution from boats by switching to electric motors
128 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Min Chiu Li
128 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Yoda conditions
128 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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A person has died from a vaping-related condition
128 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Siri, Privacy, and Trust
128 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour
128 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
128 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence
127 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing
127 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount
127 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics
127 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise
127 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The 1619 Project
126 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Wisconsin Officials Urge People to Stop Vaping After Sudden Rise in Lung Disease
126 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Fairphone 3 Launch [video]
126 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Processor Design: An Introduction (1998)
126 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs
126 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Measles: Four European nations lose eradication status
126 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example
126 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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First modern coreboot server platform
126 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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How to Write a Lisp Interpreter In Python (2010)
126 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Google begins penalising domain leasing
125 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade
125 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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CERN Open Data Portal: Explore more than 2 PB of open data from particle physics
124 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees
124 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Best books to learn about manufacturing
124 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Cowrie: a medium-interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot
124 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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QEMU 4.1 released
124 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker
124 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles
124 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Hydrophilic disc uses solar power to separate salt from water
124 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Pokemonsay: Pokemon Version of Cowsay
124 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund at $1B Valuation
123 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans
123 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
123 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows
123 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
123 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
123 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution
123 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)
123 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls
123 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Dolphin Progress Report for June and July
123 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Live Avatars with face-api.js
122 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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How the Great Truth Dawned
122 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996)
122 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Learning to prove theorems via interacting with proof assistants
122 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Show HN: Purely Functional Scripting
122 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)
122 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks
122 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize
122 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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In Pentagon Contract Fight, Amazon Has Foes in High Places
122 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
121 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Open list of GDPR fines so far
121 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to download JRE
121 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts
121 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Data Structures
121 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein
121 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Effortless Elixir Releases and Deployment
121 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Arrived – a new model of home ownership
120 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance
120 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
120 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt
120 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates
120 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript
120 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?
120 points • comment • aug 11, 2019