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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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‘I don’t smell ’ Meet the people who have stopped washing
54 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Exploring the Vastness of a Website
54 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Hasbro to Buy Peppa Pig Owner for $4B
54 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Rental firm walks away from Tesla order after quality dispute
54 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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HoloClean: Weakly Supervised Data Repairing
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Sinister Brutalism of Shipping Container Architecture
54 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) 2019 Proceedings
54 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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YouTube bans 14 year old for violating hate speech guidelines
54 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Photographing the Most Radioactive Places in Chernobyl
53 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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VDSO, 32-bit time, and seccomp
53 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords
53 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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The ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies
53 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Quantum Interference Between Light Sources Separated by 150M Kilometers
53 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Europe’s heat wave moves north
53 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers
53 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Finance (2018) [pdf]
53 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Shared e-scooters aren’t always as green as other transport options
53 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Writing Boot Sector Code (2007)
53 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Greek Artist Takis, Who Used Magnets to Create Pioneering Kinetic Art, Has Died
53 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Device vanishes on command after military missions
53 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf]
53 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Moloch – Open-Source Large Scale Indexed Packet Capture and Search System
53 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Apple Card can be damaged by wallets and jeans
53 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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P99: Preprocessor Macros and Functions for C99 and C11 (2012)
53 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Uber and Lyft Investors Are Looking for Signs of a Détente
52 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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When light and light collide
52 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Rule of Seven: how to overload the brain of a programmer for no good reason
52 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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A clear-eyed view of open software funding, impediments, and possibilities
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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PostgreSQL WASM Extension
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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A Potential Privacy Model for the Web
52 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A teen’s visual diary of the early-90s rave scene
52 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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A Scheme syntax-rules primer (2008)
52 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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UK Government to Ask Queen to Suspend Parliament
52 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Exploring the Visible Spectrum in Python
52 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Ray tracing in Excel
52 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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List of BBC Web Pages Removed from Google's Search Results During July 2019
52 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters’ Wishes, Court Rules
52 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Humans Migrated to Mongolia Much Earlier Than Previously Believed
52 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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How close are we to 3D printing the human heart?
52 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Sushi Roll: A CPU kernel for cycle-by-cycle micro-architectural introspection
52 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism?
52 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E. (2013)
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat
51 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Evidence suggests microplastics in water pose ‘minimal health risk’
51 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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“Carpe Diem” Got Lost in Translation
51 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Coursera acquires Rhyme Softworks, an online platform for hands-on projects
51 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Why the Amazon Is on Fire
51 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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'Matrix 4' officially a go with Keanu Reeves
51 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Australia's high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste
51 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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I lost my job for keeping Charlottesville police accountable. I'd do it again
51 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial
51 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service center
51 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores
51 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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On the Road in 1980
51 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Left-Recursive Peg Grammars
51 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got
51 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here Is Why [pdf]
51 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The world’s most-surveilled cities
51 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Why Don’t People Talk About Breaking Up Microsoft?
50 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Claude: Common Lisp Library Audience Expansion Toolkit (2014) [pdf]
50 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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A rich and joyous book about pigeons
50 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Fire One, Fire Ten: Implications of the Torpedo Scandal of World War II (2018)
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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The Software Arts
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Loot boxes a matter of “life or death,” says researcher
50 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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France Is Still Cleaning Up Marie Curie’s Nuclear Waste
50 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as Service Animals
50 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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How Hot Was July? Hotter Than Ever, Global Data Shows
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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It may be possible to extract electricity directly from damp air
50 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Names do not transmit meaning
50 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Google refused to call out China over disinformation about Hong Kong
50 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Fires in Brazil
50 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Uno Platform – Cross Platform .NET UI
50 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest
50 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure
50 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Thousands of tardigrades crash-land on the moon. Did they survive?
50 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Bang Bros Bought a Porn Doxing Forum and Set Fire to It
49 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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JavaScript Is Bad
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True
49 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The Mystery of Why Gas Pump Interface Design Sucks So Badly
49 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Climate Winners and Losers
49 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Quantum Computing Through Quaternions (2008) [pdf]
49 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 (1993)
49 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Binary Symbolic Execution with KLEE-Native
49 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Stock trading strategies using machine learning
49 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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President Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image of Iran
49 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Try Micromastery
49 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Our bumpy (but worth it) road to a co-created culture
49 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic
49 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
49 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator
48 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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KiloGrams: Large N-Grams for Malware Classification
48 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Funko Pop became a $686M business
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Why Is Lyme Disease So Hard to Understand?
48 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Ring’s Ukraine arm appears to be working on facial recognition technology
48 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions
48 points • comment • aug 07, 2019