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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
489 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases
474 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
473 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
470 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Useless Windows 10 Features
469 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound
468 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Some Obscure C Features
466 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files
458 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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I feel like im talking to the borg
457 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day
457 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite
456 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
455 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]
455 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
454 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day
453 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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I find journaling indispensable
453 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Software made me loathe my car
450 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?
450 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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exFAT in the Linux kernel
448 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets
445 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code
439 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
436 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card
435 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
435 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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YAML: Probably not so great after all
435 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera
434 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Information Theory for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf]
433 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Thoughts on Rust bloat
433 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
431 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Psytrance Guide
431 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died
430 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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iTerm2 3.3
429 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Rules for Intuitive UX
428 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
428 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Rust Language Cheat Sheet
426 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)
426 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Datadog S-1
425 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Down the Rabbit-Hole
419 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone
418 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
417 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library
415 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
413 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
412 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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NPM Bans Terminal Ads
412 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Toni Morrison Has Died
411 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
411 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
411 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
407 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
404 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
404 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
402 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
401 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B
399 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day
399 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is
398 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
397 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Performance Matters
397 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Write your own Excel in F# (2018)
396 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
395 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
395 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services
394 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data
394 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
394 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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People love working remotely
391 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
390 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices
390 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China
390 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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People Simply Empty Out (1986)
390 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
388 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
386 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts
385 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K
385 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon
384 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Rust 1.37.0
383 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me
382 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
381 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife
381 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Calculus For The People
379 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
378 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling
377 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Wine on Windows 10
376 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Anxiety Looks Different in Men
375 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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9th Circuit says users can sue Facebook over unlawful use of facial recognition
372 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia
371 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future
368 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Lessons from Stripe
367 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Await in Rust
367 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs
365 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Xfce 4.14
364 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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MoviePass Worked Out Great
364 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript
362 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks (2018)
361 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details
356 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
354 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
353 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’
353 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair
352 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study
350 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
350 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Cool but obscure X11 tools
350 points • comment • aug 16, 2019