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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M
85 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check
85 points • comment • aug 09, 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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US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s over ‘atypical’ cracking
85 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Interest Rates: Naturally Negative?
85 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Diagnostics with Tracing, a Unified Instrumentation System for Rust
85 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS
85 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The brain avoids looking at glassy skyscrapers
85 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism
85 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Low on water, California farmers turn to solar farming
84 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler (2013)
84 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)
84 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures
84 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018)
84 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bitcoin holdings
84 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks?
84 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
84 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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German cartel office to take Facebook case to High Court
84 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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SmartyKit Apple I replica
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Good for Google, Bad for America
83 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Gerbil – A meta-dialect of Scheme
83 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product
83 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Dosing time matters
83 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Maybe Warren Buffett Is Warning Us About Something
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Using AR to help build a complex brick wall
83 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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A Topographic Map of the Moon
83 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Q-Learning
83 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
83 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Compasses to point true north for first time in 360 years in UK
83 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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GitHub Open-Source Code for Hand Gesture Recognition – Sign Language Translation
83 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform
83 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript
83 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
83 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015)
83 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomness
83 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea
83 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The phpCE 2019 conference in Dresden has been cancelled and won't be continued
82 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit
82 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities
82 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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The Y Combinator
82 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Crokage: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow
82 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The Moderators Who Keep Hacker News Focused on Intellectual Curiosity
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan
82 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?
81 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
81 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding?
81 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords
81 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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India Develops the World's First Iron-Ion Battery
81 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (1998)
81 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Threading Macros Guide
81 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them
81 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance
81 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb
81 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner
81 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Cathay Pacific faces crackdown as Hong Kong protests hit business
81 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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The $18B Electric-Car Bubble at Risk of Bursting in China
81 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Prolog Control in Six Slides
81 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for carriers
81 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Entropic: A federated package registry for anything
80 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels
80 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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EPYC SAP-SD 2-tier benchmark results
80 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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How we reduced deployment times by 95%
80 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Blocking Untrusted USB Devices
80 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superconductivity
80 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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America’s DIY Phone Farmers
80 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Opinion piece on GHC back ends
80 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Kazakhstan's National HTTPS Certificate Is Cancelled
80 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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How four packets broke CenturyLink's network
80 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Review: Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
80 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein's Death Was on 4Chan Before Officials Announced It
80 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The Pirate Party on Copyright Reform (2010)
80 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Show HN: Wagyu – Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets
79 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation
79 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Climate crisis, shown directly on power plant, in guerrilla projection
79 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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K2pdfopt
79 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions
79 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Show HN: MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript
79 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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AR will be startup dominated, VR will not
79 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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If You Lose Your iPhone, You Can’t Pay Your Apple Card Bill on the Web
79 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Serverless Components
79 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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New saltwater electrical generation could power submarines or medical devices
79 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Universal algorithm set to boost microscopes
79 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]
79 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer
79 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving
79 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
79 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants
79 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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A Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History
79 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Why doesn't Britain make things any more? (2011)
79 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The Economics of Kenneth Arrow
79 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Making Cloud.typography Faster
79 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Is Ebola Evolving into a Deadlier Virus?
79 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Google is ramping up its efforts to replace SMS with RCS
78 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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404 Found
78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Exploring Zork (2012)
78 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Uber made nearly $500M from a 'safe rides fee' – money went to company
78 points • comment • aug 27, 2019