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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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How to set up a perfect Python project
71 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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History of Clarus the Dogcow
71 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Why are pay-walled articles allowed on Hacker News
71 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Censorship in China Allows Govt Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf]
71 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming
71 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Growing Web Template Studio
71 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Kardashev Scale
71 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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New research on PTSD in elephants and other animals
71 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Red Hat Joins the RISC-V Foundation
71 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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One-lined Python
71 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Plastic Free July
71 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Apple Targets Launch of Apple TV+ in November for $9.99
71 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self
71 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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“Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves
71 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Nintendo Switch consoles keep frying
70 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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A Map That Made Los Angeles Make Sense
70 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: Data-viz project for ray-tracing the Moon model
70 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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‘Key player’ identified in genetic link to psychiatric conditions
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 2: Networked Key-Value Store
70 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
70 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Debug Adapter Protocol
70 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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The Polar Star, the only U.S. ship capable of bludgeoning through heavy ice
70 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s
70 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Scientists must rise above politics and restate their value to society
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Analog Spring Reverb: How it works
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Picking the FB50 smart lock
70 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST
70 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Modern Man Is Getting Stoicism All Wrong
70 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update
69 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Ask HN: A colleague is leaving. How to investigate what went wrong?
69 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Launch HN: Boost Biomes (YC S19) – Microbes for better crop yields, shelf life
69 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Major power failure affects homes and transport
69 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Container Networking with Vxlan, BGP and WireGuard
69 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album
69 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Known packings of equal circles in a circle
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Moore’s Law is not Dead
69 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Fasty – A New CMS / App Builder Based on Openresty and ArangoDB
69 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Show HN: I built a site to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad
69 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Ask HN: What is the state-of-the-art environment for developing Erlang code?
69 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Fertility Fraud: Artificial insemination doctors who used their own sperm
69 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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M44 (Cyanide Device)
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Penn Effect
68 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL
68 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator
68 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Using the computer as a tool for thinking in discrete mathematics (2017)
68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Future of Racket
68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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What Is a Logo-Like Language?
68 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Curving – Dog Body Language
68 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The New American Homeless
68 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
68 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Global economy is probably in recession
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The Nightmare of Valve’s self-organizing “utopia” (2018)
68 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast
68 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming?
68 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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The Decline of College Newspapers
67 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman
67 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn
67 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Kei – A small and expressive dependent language
67 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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“That is either genius, or a seriously diseased mind.” – Linus Torvalds
67 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat
67 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Private Equity Should Not Exist
67 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Show HN: Everything asked – organized recaps of 'ask me anything' interviews
67 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter
67 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Crypto CTF
67 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Domino’s launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash
67 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints
67 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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America’s DIY Phone Farmers
67 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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The FCC has no idea how many people don’t have broadband access
67 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
67 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The World’s Smartest Chimp Has Died
66 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Asset minification with Elm (2018)
66 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Two illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle
66 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Apple's operating systems mistreat or harm the user
66 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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TCP Puzzlers (2016)
66 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice
66 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares [pdf]
66 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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China Hits U.S. With Higher Tariffs on Soybeans, Cars, Oil
66 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Pwnie Award Nominations for 2019
66 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? (2018)
66 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Oil Needs to Fall Below $20 to Compete With Green Alternatives
66 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering
66 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by FreeBSD/RISC-V
66 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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What are children dying from and what can we do about it?
66 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will
66 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Albert Stevens
66 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your opinion on our solution
66 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?
66 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery
66 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America
65 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Implementing a Photo Stylizer in Python Using a QuadTree Algorithm
65 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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‘To Get Things More Real’: An Interview with Ira Glass
65 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Altruism Isn’t Always Attractive
65 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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I am dyslexic
65 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Show HN: Tranquility Calendar
65 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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A Radioactive Lens (2018)
65 points • comment • aug 03, 2019