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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?
78 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Algorithms book, by Jeff Erickson
78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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404 Found
78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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On Mathematical Beauty in Physics
78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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World of Warcraft Classic Relase
78 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea
78 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses
77 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing
77 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II
77 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran
77 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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OpenBSD -stable binary packages
77 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants
77 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Guess I'm Done with Discord
77 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge
77 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Georgia Southern QB: roadside drug test wrongly showed bird droppings as cocaine
77 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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LogicENN: A Neural Based Knowledge Graphs Embedding Model with Logical Rules
77 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Libgphoto2 Controls Digital Cameras
77 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station
77 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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A New Clue to How Life Originated
77 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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SEC Freezes $8M in Assets in Alleged Fraudulent Token Offering Scheme
77 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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How Judy arrays work and why they are so fast (2002)
77 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Hong Kong protest: What is mainland China hearing?
76 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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A scientist must go where the evidence leads
76 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Launch HN: Lofty AI (YC S19) – Real estate investment with alternative data
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Show HN: Consider Groups – Like Slack Channels for Email
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Russia Says Five Died in Blast Where Radiation Spike Reported
76 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Jesse Combs (of Mythbusters) Killed in Land-Speed Record Crash
76 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Keanu Reeves will return as Neo in new ‘Matrix’ film
76 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Spatial Interfaces
76 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Solitude and Leadership (2010)
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say
76 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (2015)
76 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Show HN: Historical order book reconstruction API for crypto markets
76 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Japanese addressing system
75 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Habitat (video game)
75 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Motion smoothing is ruining cinema
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Unearthing a masterpiece: a rare Minoan sealstone (2017)
75 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported
75 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Reviving an HP 660LX in 2019
75 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home
75 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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CS50 IDE – Online IDE for Students and Teachers
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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In praise of xlogo
75 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Almost half of Europe’s soil is dryer than normal
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Uber and Lyft don't have a right to exist
75 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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The Hydrocarbon Era’s Spectacular End
74 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated?
74 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Japan's Women Opt Out of Marriage
74 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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The Past, Present and Future of Competitive Magic The Gathering
74 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
74 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Burgundy wine investors have beaten the stock market
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Launch HN: Together (YC S19) – App to facilitate employee-employee mentoring
74 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The Long Game of Research
74 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science (2008)
74 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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FAA Considers Relaxing Licensing Requirements for Rockets
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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E3 accidentally leaks personal details of journalists, YouTubers and analysts
74 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Golden Ratio
74 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Arcs of Seniority
74 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output
73 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)
73 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A predicted superconductor might work at a record-breaking 200° Celsius
73 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
73 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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UK Politicians Disapprove of DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
73 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Deep Reinforcement Learning
73 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Smartphone Sales Are in Freefall, and That’s Okay
73 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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HN is blocked in China now?
73 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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‘Deepfakes’ Trigger a Race to Fight Manipulated Photos and Videos
73 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Mailpile: Email that protects your privacy
73 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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To rein in global warming, healthy forests and sustainable diets are key, U.N
73 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
73 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
73 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997)
73 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Our team's troubles writing automated UI tests
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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What was it like to be an executioner in the Middle Ages?
73 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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How to Provide Great Feedback When You're Not in Charge (2016)
73 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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China’s Soft-Power Fail: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests
72 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Extending OCaml Programs with Lua
72 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad
72 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives
72 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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India is easing sourcing norms for single-brand retailers like Apple
72 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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U.S. CBP and Israeli Elbit to Persistently Surveil Native American Reservation
72 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Sushi Roll: A CPU research kernel with minimal noise for microarch introspection
72 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Tetris LED Tie (2013)
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Microwatt: A Tiny Open Power ISA Softcore Written in VHDL 2008
72 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to 'Censor the Internet' Denounced
72 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Go Scan 3D – Handheld 3D Scanner
72 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock
72 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books
72 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
72 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
72 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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YouTube shuts down 210 Chinese channels posting about Hong Kong
72 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Show HN: Dashboard – self-hosted accounts, orgs and subscriptions for web apps
72 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The Min Programming Language
71 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Cryptographic key used to sign one of Facebook's Android apps compromised
71 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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A week with Hy
71 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds (2018) [pdf]
71 points • comment • aug 14, 2019