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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?
120 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
119 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Cartoons in Tektronix Schematics
119 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Fast Tensors in Clojure – A Sneak Peek
119 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Launch HN: Gold Fig (YC S19) – Version Control for Settings Pages
119 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Traits of Serverless Architecture
119 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Is there a project based book or course on Go for writing web APIs?
119 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Privacy Fundamentalism
119 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. couples connect: study
119 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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G.E. Is Accused of $38B Fraud
118 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat
118 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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How to Get into Farming with No Money (1980)
118 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
118 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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How do we cut down on emissions from steel, cement, and plastic?
118 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Intel 10nm Chip Gets Mixed Reviews
118 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Yuan falls to 11-year low
117 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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MesaPy: A Memory-Safe Python Implementation based on PyPy (2018)
117 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Trails of Wind: Data Visualization of the Architecture of Airport Runways
117 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Mainlanders don't all view Hong Kong the same way
117 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Duckling: a Clojure library that parses text into structured data
117 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
117 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
117 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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List of military tactics
117 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Advances in Conversational AI
116 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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N. Korea Took in $2B in Cyberattacks to Fund Weapons Program: U.N. Report
116 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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An oral history of the AIM away message
116 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Google Calendar Event Injection with MailSniper (2017)
116 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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What Is Zig's Comptime?
116 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k years ago: hypothesis
116 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (2017)
116 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Mitre Systems Engineering Guide (2014) [pdf]
116 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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What Is Null? (2010)
116 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Dow plunges more than 950 points after China devalues its currency
116 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Amazon's Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing
116 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018)
116 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
116 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Show HN: ShapeForm – Schema Driven Forms for React
116 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby
115 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Toptal sues co-founder Breanden Beneschott for fraud
115 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Brazilian Butchers Who Took over the World
115 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Trump’s paid Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s surveillance network
115 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017)
115 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams
114 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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ZipCPU – A small, lightweight, RISC soft core in Verilog
114 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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A DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war
114 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
114 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard
114 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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How Slack Harms Projects
114 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue
114 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity
114 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?
114 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs
114 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Tooltips: Secret weapon for improving feature discovery
114 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up
114 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy
114 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects
114 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Does “www.” Mean Better Transport Layer Security?
113 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Game of Trees: A Version Control System for OpenBSD
113 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?
113 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza
113 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?
113 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils
113 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Cancer patients are being denied drugs, even with prescriptions and insurance
113 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Exploring DNA with Deep Learning
113 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The State of Transfer Learning in NLP
113 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Hundreds of people died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas
113 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10
112 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Getting Started with Lisp in 2019
112 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Why we ground electrical systems (2015)
112 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
112 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against
112 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Jupiter: RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style social credit system
111 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A Telegram bug that disclose phone numbers of any users in public groups
111 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Cure53 Audit of Chinese ‘Police App’
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
111 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Tumblr the Day After
111 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Simple RPC framework in 300 lines of Go
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City
110 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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I started an online subscription business from Malaysia
110 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
110 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)
110 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013)
110 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest
110 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)
110 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking
110 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
110 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Show HN: I made online community for unusual people
110 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Financialization of the American Elite
110 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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On Building My Own Artificial Pancreas
110 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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How annoying is too annoying?
110 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino
109 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)
109 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A Simulated Enigma Machine
109 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
109 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames
109 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Project Mu – A modular UEFI environment for building modern devices
109 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
109 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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A Codebase Is an Organism (2014)
109 points • comment • aug 24, 2019