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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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How to chain multiple functions in JavaScript properly with async/await
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows
59 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The Lost City of Heracleion
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Scaling NSQ to 750B Messages (2016)
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Drink Poison and Smile: How I Arrived at My Position of Pro-Democracy
59 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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A mosque rebuilt once a year
59 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Marvin Minsky involved in the Jeffrey Epstein 'sex slave' scandal
59 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Launch HN: Lazy Lantern (YC S19) – Detect Meaningful Patterns in Your Analytics
59 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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How to Break into a Crowded Market and Win
59 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors
59 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The Broomway
59 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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ReadMe (YC W15) Raises 9M Series A from Accel and Y Combinator
59 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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British Expedition to Abyssinia
59 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Major Update of Vector Class Library
58 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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VMware Octant web-based platform to better understand Kubernetes clusters
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Hidden messages in Amiga games (2017)
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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I Do Not Marry a Married Man
58 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Launch HN: Coursedog (YC W19) – Resource Planning Software for Higher Ed
58 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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People with unusually high IQ, why are you still unsuccessful?
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Say No to the “Cashless Future” – and to Cashless Stores
58 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Cutting Through Conflict and Tough Conversations
58 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces into Hong Kong, or Wait Out Protesters
58 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Ditaa: Diagrams Through ASCII Art
58 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Homemade Liquid Nitrogen with the Joule-Thompson Effect
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Functional Programming in Bash
58 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Show HN: A list of no-code software, by category, with real-world examples
58 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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A pop of color and more: updates to Android’s brand
58 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Ask HN: What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols?
58 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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In its struggle to subdue Kashmir, India is stripping it of liberties
58 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological evidence of total warfare among the Maya
58 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Survival of the Richest (2018)
58 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C target
57 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: Connective – Large-scale reactive programming in Javascript/Typescript
57 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Tesla Insurance
57 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Why is strlen so complex in C?
57 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Are Saskatraz bees an answer to colony collapse?
57 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
57 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Light Seems to Pull Electrons Backward
57 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore
57 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Snap’s Secret Weapon Speaks
57 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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The End of Agile
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones
57 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari
57 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive
57 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture
57 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Valley
57 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste
57 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Uber imposes engineer hiring freeze as losses mount
56 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Easy Python CLI with Click
56 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Model-View Catharsis
56 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On
56 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Programming shape using kirigami tessellations
56 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judge Rules
56 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games
56 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Show HN: An app to help overwhelmed PMs never miss an important request
56 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Tesla Model 3 Cost of Ownership Slightly Cheaper Than a Camry
56 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York
56 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Federal fraud indictment: KU professor secretly worked for Chinese university
56 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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RSI as a Developer
56 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Package Management in OpenBSD
56 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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In Brain’s Electrical Ripples, Markers for Memories Appear
56 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Ghost Taxis of Japan (2016)
56 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
56 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Apple’s Watch Is Smarter, but My Casio Keeps Getting the Job Done
56 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Catching bugs early with static analysis
56 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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In Praise of Samuel R. Delany
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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H-1B Visa Most Used for 'Software Engineer,' 'Software Developer' Roles
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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South African bank advises against the use of password managers
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Choice Hotels Suffers Data Breach, Exposing 700k Customer Records
55 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Chess2vec: Learning Vector Representations for Chess (2018) [pdf]
55 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model
55 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp [video]
55 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year
55 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Bitcoin expert scams a scammer, donates the money to charity
55 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Prisoners Endure a Nightmare 'Gulag' in Lower Manhattan (2018)
55 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism
55 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Potosí: the mountain of silver that was the first global city
55 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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National Certificate in Kazakhstan Is Canceled
55 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 3
55 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Geneva Freeport
55 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics
55 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
55 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Host Protected Area
55 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Origin of Life
54 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Exploring the Vastness of a Website
54 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Jobs and Woz (2011)
54 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Modern Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Games
54 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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What is Haberman?
54 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Understanding GCC Builtins to Develop Better Tools [pdf]
54 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Europe's record heat melted Swiss glaciers
54 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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HoloClean: Weakly Supervised Data Repairing
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Twitter's Jack Dorsey has own account hacked
54 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Four-in-one pill prevents third of heart problems: study
54 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Rediscovering rules for ancient board games
54 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Mac OS Adds Early Support for VirtIO, QEMU
54 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices
54 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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New Proof Settles How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi
54 points • comment • aug 14, 2019