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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis
65 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (2014)
65 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019
65 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (2017)
65 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory
65 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying
65 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (2014)
65 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Code Is Not Literature (2014)
65 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Parts of America may already be facing recession
64 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Why Shame Stifles Creativity and How to Unwrap the Gift of Curiosity
64 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Long time nuclear waste warning messages
64 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing
64 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data
64 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Putting an end to Retadup: A malicious worm that infected hundreds of thousands
64 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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A Framework for Moderation
64 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS
64 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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The world is running out of sand and there’s a violent black market (2018)
64 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV
64 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Using ‘switch’ to match arbitrary logic instead of string or number literals
64 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Malaysia files charges against 17 current and ex-Goldman Sachs bosses
64 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Dart nullability syntax decision: a?[b] or a?.[b]
64 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Show HN: Prophecy.io – Cloud Native Data Engineering
64 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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LucidScience – Electronic Projects and Tutorials
64 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The modern law firm: not all partners are created equal, data and billings rule
64 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes
64 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Hydrogen Hoax (2007)
64 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Disneyland’s Disastrous Opening Day (2015)
64 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
64 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Show HN: Procrastinating? Take a 5min break without leaving your computer
64 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along
64 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand
64 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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20-Year Mortgages Hit Zero for First Time in Danish Rate History
64 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth
63 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Spin found in clinical trial abstracts in top psychology and psychiatry journals
63 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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The “Myths List” is a communication antipattern
63 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)
63 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Freshermeat – Open-Source Security Software
63 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Why does putting a dot after the URL remove login information?
63 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Loss of Arctic’s reflective sea ice could advance global warming by 25 years
63 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Real Dark Web
63 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes
63 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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A Z-Machine in OCaml (2016)
63 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?
63 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US original
63 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Hall’s Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore’s Law (2012)
63 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Engineers develop bone-like metal foam that can be 'healed' at room temperature
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Psychology vs. the Graphics Pipeline (2017)
63 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardian's Permission
63 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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GPUDirect Storage: A Direct Path Between Storage and GPU Memory
63 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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An underground Facebook market for rare meat
63 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings (2015)
63 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. SVG
63 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Viewing Cute Images Narrows Attentional Focus (2012)
63 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Causal Analytics
63 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support
63 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery
63 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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From automatic differentiation to message passing [video]
63 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Princeton theoretical physicist Steven Gubser has died
63 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Long Live Microbiomes
62 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Show HN: Hello
62 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Baltic Way
62 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Using the Golden Research Engine to Query the Y Combinator S19 Batch
62 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Why the CIA Doesn't Spy on the UAE
62 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Judge claims mobile phone is not a computer
62 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Practice does not always make perfect, finds study of violinists
62 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Visualizing Transformer Language Models: Illustrated GPT-2
62 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor (2012)
62 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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BiVector: Community for Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering
61 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Marshal Zhukov's Pocket Knife
61 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Woman survives fall from plane after parachute fails
61 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health
61 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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The Scheme Shell (2006)
61 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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A.I. Is Learning from Many Humans
61 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Surprising Number of Programmers Who Can’t Program
61 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Cephaloponderings
61 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Pesticide 'contaminating' Prairie wetlands: scientist (2014)
61 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories (2015)
61 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Summer camps use facial recognition so parents can watch from home
61 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The Oral History of the Super Soaker
61 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Native lazy loading has landed in Chrome
61 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Flying with Miniature Horses
61 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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What Linux Journal's Resurrection Taught Me about the FOSS Community
61 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software (2012) [pdf]
61 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Famous Graphics Chips: Microsoft’s Talisman
60 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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The Compositional Nature of Vim (2014)
60 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Rashomon of Disclosure
60 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Packrat Parsing (2002)
60 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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How Fentanyl Ingredients From China End Up in the U.S.
60 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Python Oberon v0.1.0
60 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It
60 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
60 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy
60 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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World's largest urban farm to open on a Paris rooftop
60 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Corporate America's 'Elite Charade'
60 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Machine learning primitives in rustc (2018)
60 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Strange Blissfulness of Storms
60 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
60 points • comment • aug 17, 2019