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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Why we lie about being retired
92 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?
92 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked
92 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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DEA agents conduct surprise searches of Amtrak passengers
92 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make [video]
92 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Thoughts on Racket2
92 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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GNU C Library 2.30
92 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike
92 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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“Angels” that aren’t actually angels, and the problems that poses
91 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Compact TLS 1.3
91 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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The World's Largest Submarine: The Soviet Union's Pr. 941 Typhoon SSBN (2014)
91 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video]
91 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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You're paying too much for business software
91 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR
91 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
91 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score
91 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
91 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Carla – Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
91 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail transcripts and Chrome Extension texting
91 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Windows 95 Web UI Kit
91 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal
91 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing
91 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to
91 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked
91 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse
90 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines
90 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision
90 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says
90 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
90 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook
90 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky
90 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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If we burn, you burn with us
90 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Holidays are good for workers and companies alike
90 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
90 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Outlaw Country
90 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Researchers create personalised sound projector with $12 webcam
90 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Fabric – A simple triplestore written in Go
90 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?
89 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident
89 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Marium, the Dugong Who Charmed Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic
89 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Umberto Eco: Texts, sign systems and the risks of over-interpretation
89 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire
89 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy
89 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon Scanning?
89 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
89 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random
89 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management
89 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Hacked
89 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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The New Treasures of Pompeii
89 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Advances in NLP to better connect people
89 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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DEF CON 2019 – CTF Retrospective
89 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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20th anniversary of José Bové’s 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France
88 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Improving Siri's Privacy Protection
88 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service
88 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
88 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives
88 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach
88 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (1970) [pdf]
88 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Brazil's President Blames NGOs for Amazon Fires
88 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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The Robot economy and the future of work
88 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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China has started a grand experiment in AI education
88 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (2015)
88 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time
88 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)
87 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf]
87 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Show HN: Repository of open source space-related software and hardware
87 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Simple Python Package to Extract Deep Learning Features
87 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via Helicopter Catching
87 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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I am a horse in the land of booleans
87 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins
87 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish
87 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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The OpenBSD Ada Library
87 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
87 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?
87 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In
86 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Fuzzification: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques [pdf]
86 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Google Launches ‘Live View’ AR Walking Directions for Google Maps
86 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth
86 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
86 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Launch HN: Embrace (YC S19) – Spot and fix bugs in mobile apps
86 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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What Is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?
86 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Webmin 1.890 Exploit – What Happened?
86 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)
86 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland
86 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Kevinism
86 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users
86 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp
86 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language
86 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The foodoo economics of meal delivery
86 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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What We Can and Can’t Learn from Copenhagen
86 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Simple, pure, and total functional language that generalizes Datalog
86 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Etcd 3.4
86 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Kdevops: Framework for setting up and testing the Linux kernel for any project
86 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English
85 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M
85 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs
85 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Boeing 737 Unpaved Strip Kit
85 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Hawaii Extends Thirty Meter Telescope Permit Amid Protests
85 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The brain avoids looking at glassy skyscrapers
85 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Version Museum
85 points • comment • aug 18, 2019