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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Show HN: Curated Toolkit for Remote Work
99 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
99 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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QualPwn – Exploiting Qualcomm WLAN and Modem over the Air
99 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms
99 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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BPF port-based firewall for systemd services
99 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet
99 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Bad Customer Service Is Profitable
99 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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USB-C Easy Bake Oven (2017)
99 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Commodore 900
99 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Police arrest student leader over laser pointers in Hong Kong
99 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Perfect French Baguette
98 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Germans, how to work legally remote?
98 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The land that no country wants (2016)
98 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (2004)
98 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models
98 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go
98 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey
98 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
98 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Show HN: A few simple games not only for kids
98 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors
98 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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How Uber Got Lost
98 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
97 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem
97 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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The FCC Fined 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' 'The Walking Dead' for Use of Emergency Tones
97 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze
97 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
97 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve
97 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Privacy by Design Foundation
97 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites
97 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality
97 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Google Transparency Report
97 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
97 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries
97 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
97 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Ear Speakers – Research, Design, and Evolution
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
96 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Facebook Transcription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners
96 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Japanese Play-by-Postcard RPGs: Net Games (2017)
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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NEC shows ‘flying car’ hovering steadily for minute
96 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
96 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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I love my paper dictionary (2017)
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Show HN: Beatboxing for Kids – Teach Your Child to Beatbox Using Everyday Words
96 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do
96 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Incrementing vectors
96 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video]
96 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s
96 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Visible Lisp Computer
96 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Border agents are checking social media, but we still don’t know how closely
96 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Boeing changing Max software to use two computers
96 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video]
95 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air
95 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Wasm vs. PNaCl Performance Benchmark
95 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
95 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Anyone who looks at this code instantly becomes insane
95 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp?
95 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches
95 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Recap of the `funding` experiment
95 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
95 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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MPEG1 Single file C library
95 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015)
94 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
94 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future
94 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide
94 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
94 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Chorded keyboard
94 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later
94 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Puts Users at Risk
94 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Shepard Tone
94 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it annihilated itself
94 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align
94 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail to Dent Tesla’s Electric-Car Dominance
94 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Who Did the Maya Sacrifice?
94 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
94 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Ceramic-bearing bicycle drive shaft (2018)
94 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The Population Bust
94 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Woman Finds Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds
94 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Wavelets (1994) [pdf]
94 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The coming automation of propaganda
94 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Death of the Neighborhood Bar
93 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Swift on Raspberry Pi
93 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts
93 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Show HN: Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem
93 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Invincible – 1964 novel
93 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy
93 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Kentucky Miners Blocking a Coal Train, Demanding Their Stolen Wages
93 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers
93 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Inside a Poundland computer mouse [video]
93 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time
93 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Evolving Lindenmayer Systems
93 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets
93 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A Transparent Display with Per-Pixel Color and Opacity Control
93 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Loops in Python – Comparison and Performance
93 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Why Everyone Hates Customer Service
93 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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WTF Happened in 1971?
93 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business
93 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
93 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 (2018)
93 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Why we lie about being retired
92 points • comment • aug 20, 2019