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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants
44 points • comment • aug 02, 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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A literary prank that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was based on a real story
44 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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How can List be faster than native arrays? (2018)
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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A California Type Foundry Is Keeping Vintage Printing Alive
44 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Finland producing food protein from CO2, water, and electricity
44 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The Birth of the Semicolon
44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Epigrams in Programming (1982)
44 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle Innovation
44 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (2015)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Tesla gets stolen with keyfob hack on camera in seconds
44 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress
44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The Overview Effect
44 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Epstein’s Links to Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Impossible choices: Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox
44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of seawater
43 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Tim Berners-Lee's new decentralisation project: Social Linked data(Solid)
43 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Segway-Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations
43 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Quantum microphone counts particles of sound
43 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Trump to Impose Additional 10% Tariff on Chinese Goods
43 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Build Highly Available MySQL Applications Using Amazon Aurora Multi-Master
43 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Thomas Mann's War Against Hitler
43 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake
43 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Our Graham Greene in Havana
43 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy and IQ scores in offspring
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report
43 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Early Years of Computer Gaming: Steve Russell and Nolan Bushnell (2002) [video]
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)
43 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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American with No Medical Training Ran Center for Malnourished Kids. 105 Died
43 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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That's Interesting (1971) [pdf]
43 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Show HN: Quark-IDE and a JavaScript runtime to build cross-platform desktop apps
43 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Psyche: A domain specific language designed for creating WebAssembly modules
43 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Have Disneyland fans finally reached their limit?
43 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Nvidia Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation to Help Open-Source Drivers
42 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Dark Matter from Scalar Field Fluctuations
42 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Linux package managers are slow
42 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin
42 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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JWTs suck (for web auth and basically everything else)
42 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Google Warns Against Blocking Cookies Entirely, Triggering Criticism
42 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market
42 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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U.S. Treasury Department Labels China a Currency Manipulator
42 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Trouble with Fusion (1983) [pdf]
42 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Unum Pattern
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs
42 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Swadesh List
42 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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When Worse Is Better (2011)
42 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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11B tons of ice melted in Greenland – in just one day
42 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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There have been three times more wildfires in the EU so far this year
42 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Researchers speak about life in troubled ancient-DNA lab
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Hong Kong Protesters Find New Momentum with Largest Rally in Weeks
42 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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When Battlefield Surveillance Comes to Your Town
42 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Free and open source alternative to Uber/Lyft
42 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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From Two Guys Building Their own Browser
42 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book
42 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Apple will add 5G to 2020 iPhones to compete with Android, analyst says
42 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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DM48 Digital Chromatic Harmonica
41 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Experiment, Simplify, Ship
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Non-line-of-sight imaging using phasor-field virtual wave optics
41 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem (2018)
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Ask HN: What still sucks about remote work?
41 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Scholars Discover Original Locke Manuscript in Greenfield Library
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Sexism in the Academy: Women's narrowing path to tenure
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'
41 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Paranoid and Madcap, the Manchurian Candidate Is Our Timeliest Novel
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Harvard Mark I
41 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Keybase SSH CA
41 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Windows 10 Urgent Update
41 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Microsoft Publishes ExFAT Spec, hopes for Linux adoption
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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T-Mobile Put My Life in Danger, Says Woman Stalked with Illegal Location Data
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?
41 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Running the Arctic’s Alt-Weekly Newspaper
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Tiny lensless endoscope captures 3-D images of objects smaller than a cell
41 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Useful Linux Commands
41 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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A movie changed one man's vision (2012)
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Submarine escape and rescue: a brief history
41 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Socialite Cordelia Scaife May Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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A Guide to Climate Change
41 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Google says hackers have put 'monitoring implants' in iPhones for years
41 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Chinese forces prepare to use 'giant fork' on Hong Kong protesters
41 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Nipkow disk
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Hacking Image Interpolation for Fun and Profit
40 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Another ex-JP Morgan precious metals trader pleads guilty to ‘spoofing’
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Saudi Arabia implements end to travel restrictions for Saudi women
40 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Removing Image Artifacts in C# with OpenCV
40 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your favorite educational non-tech podcasts?
40 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Build Your Idea for Free
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Loss of cultural song diversity in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community
40 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Show HN: NextStep – Product to help SaaS companies improve conversion rates
40 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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David Koch, billionaire industrialist and Republican mega donor, dies aged 79
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt
40 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Rise of Peer Review Bots
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Make science PhDs more than just a training path for academia
40 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Tesla motors make classic Ferraris go faster
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer
40 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real time
40 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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OpenStreetMap PBF Perfomance Tricks
40 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug
40 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
40 points • comment • aug 29, 2019