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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Flying cars
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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A static wiki-like site via forms, email, and local scripts
48 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence
48 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Memory Footprint of GUI Toolkits
48 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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A Penny for Your Books (2015)
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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UK to end freedom of movement for EU citizens on day one of Brexit
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Scale AI Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorn
48 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Long Tail of Dog Names
48 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Using deep learning to analyze the ultrasonic vocalizations of rats
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Frosted Glass/Panel Effect, Cross Browser Solution, Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
48 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Battery-Powered Ships Next Up in Battle to Tackle Emissions
48 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Funko Pop became a $686M business
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Adding NetlifyCMS to Your VuePress Website
48 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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CentOS 8.0 is almost ready
48 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Is Google evil? (2017)
48 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?
48 points • comment • aug 21, 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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Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home
48 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Sometimes, a Greener Grid Means a 40k% Spike in Power Prices
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Git-Revise
48 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 (2018)
48 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How to smear your enemies and silence critics, Chinese Communist Party style
48 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Indian Government Repeals Articles 370 and 35A, Bifurcates Kashmir
47 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video]
47 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Babies display “Werewolf syndrome” after getting anti-baldness drug by mistake
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Minimum Times Tend to Mislead When Benchmarking
47 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Making Web-Workers Async Iterables
47 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Silicon Valley Looks North as Tech Giants Expand in Toronto
47 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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The lost Doves Press typeface and its revival (2015)
47 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Ann Nelson Took on the Biggest Problems in Physics
47 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Electric scooters aren't as green as you may think
47 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Fairy wrens teach familial ‘passwords’ to their unborn chicks (2012)
47 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Google Pays Its DeepMind Tech Professionals a Huge Salary
47 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Google’s top lawyer allegedly had affairs with multiple employees
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Experimental PlayStation 4 Emulator
47 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
47 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A*
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases
47 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone
47 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life (2014)
47 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab
46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Medium suspends account that investigates Chinese concentration camps
46 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Should You Get a Scary UV Photo of Your Skin Damage?
46 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Why are non-technical managers paid more than engineers?
46 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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A static file server in x86 Assembly
46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Mizar proof system (2017)
46 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Giant Pumice Raft Floating Towards Australia Could Replenish Great Barrier Reef
46 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice
46 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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You’re Not Lazy, Bored, or Unmotivated
46 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (2007)
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Enter the dragon on the road to a trade war
46 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun, new study confirms
46 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Show HN: Parapet – A purely functional library to build distributed systems
46 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Reactive and Component Frameworks for “Old Fart” Programmers
46 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music From Low Quality Streaming
46 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks
46 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Environment and the programming language Self, part 4
46 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The New Nomads of VanLife Reflect an Enduring Divide
46 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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China Acknowledges Holding an Employee of U.K.’s Hong Kong Consulate
46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016)
46 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Do older people have a different smell?
46 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video]
46 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Hackable external wireless SSD storage?
46 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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“Qutrit” Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation
46 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Which California waters are listed as impaired for fish consumption?
46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic
45 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets Too?
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Dog ownership is associated with better cardiovascular health
45 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Towards parallel kernel test runs
45 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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QR Code Degenerators: Unmasking a Crypto Scam
45 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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States to Move Forward with Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms
45 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Why is my processor consuming more power than its datasheet suggests?
45 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States (2010)
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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War and drugs: Together since forever
45 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Crowdsourced archaeology shows human influence on Earth for thousands of years
45 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012) [pdf]
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira
45 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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New advanced malware, possibly nation sponsored, is targeting US utilities
45 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Atchafalaya (1987)
45 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Hipster offended after mistaking himself for hipster
45 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Random walkers illuminate a math problem
45 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
45 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (2017)
44 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Crows love cheeseburgers and are getting high cholesterol
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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How a fusion of at least four cuisines created crab rangoon
44 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Seymour Cray: An Appreciation (1997)
44 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (2003)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Moving from macOS to Linux for Music Production: The Journey Begins
44 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
44 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Apple (Credit) Card
44 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Seeking the Magic Mushroom (1957)
44 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The Birth of the Semicolon
44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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FreeBSD's Executive Director Calls for Linux and BSD Devs to Work Together
44 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (2015)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019