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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Neil Young Archives
35 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Datadog S1
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Burnout – All-in-one workspace for startups
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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A new clothing line confuses automated license plate readers
35 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Afghanistan Loses 42k Troops in Crackdown on 'Ghost Soldiers'
35 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?
35 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Why We Hate Taxes, and Why Some People Want Us To
35 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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My First Aragon App: Voting Supercharged with DAOstack’s Holographic Consensus
35 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The big little lie of the TV kitchen island
35 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’
35 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Heroku Is Down
35 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Studies in Power: An Interview with Robert Caro (2018)
35 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Tim Cook Sells Millions in Apple Stock
35 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical
35 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Dark Corners and Pitfalls of C++
35 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists
35 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Safecracking for the computer scientist (2004) [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Alaska records its warmest month ever; future records likely
34 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Ask HN: How to Make Money from Machine Learning?
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Regicides on the Run
34 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Cargill: The Worst Company in the World
34 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The Lonely Death of George Bell (2015)
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Domino’s asks SCOTUS to shut down a lawsuit requiring its website be accessible
34 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Tardigrades may now be living on Moon
34 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Bad Language: a Lisp-looking language with interpreter, compiles to JavaScript
34 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat
34 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Hofstadter – On Number Numbness (1982) [pdf]
34 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Warning signs: Global semiconductor sales drop 14.5% in 1H19
34 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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The Life and Death of an American Indie Press
34 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Cedar Choppers
34 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System
34 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy
34 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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8chan: The far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Marquee HTML Element
34 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Show HN: Apprise – A lightweight all-in-one notification solution (update)
34 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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fd: A simple, fast, user-friendly alternative to 'find'
34 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The ultra-rich are illegally buying cheetahs as pets, leading to extinction
34 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A Week with No Tear Gas
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Statistical foundations of virtual democracy
34 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Cork-based Apple contractors 'who heard chat on Siri' lose jobs
34 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Ask HN: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on?
34 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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A brief tour of differential privacy [pdf]
34 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Chromebooks Have an “Auto Update Expiration”
34 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React
34 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America
34 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Applegate’s Aproximada (2017)
33 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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CS Alert (1890)
33 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers
33 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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In Praise of Pretty Books
33 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]
33 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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In China, Apple Isn’t the Privacy Advocate It Claims to Be
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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In Santa Barbara Channel, underwater sound system keeps whales and ships apart
33 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Foods Linked to Better Brainpower
33 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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The Incremental Machine
33 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Airbnb quietly shut down a top host amid scathing reviews but guest were to stay
33 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Greenland could become China's Arctic base (2018)
33 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Faster AMP on the Origin: AMP and SSR
33 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Casablanca’s Gift to Marrakech and the Birth of Morocco’s Modern Art Movement
33 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Aging Shapes Narrative Identity
33 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Simulating Futures in Extended Common Lisp (1988) [pdf]
33 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Facebook quietly ditched 'It’s free and always will be' slogan from its homepage
33 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Senators demand Google make contractors full-time employees after 6 months
33 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Nuclear Reactor for Mars Outpost Could Be Ready to Fly by 2022
33 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Intermittent Fasting (Alternate Day Fasting) in Healthy, Non-Obese Adults
33 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A gentle introduction to Linux Kernel fuzzing
33 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband
33 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty
33 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Top accounting firms urged to fire pro-riot staff
33 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Make a Factory Quality 9mm Rifled Barrel Using Salt Water and Electricity
33 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing Number of Voices Say Yes
33 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Literature-Based Discovery
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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You Know You're in a Big Company When...
32 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Electric scooters aren't as eco-friendly as they seem, study finds
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how a prison's internal economy works
32 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Google Employees Should Be “Pissed Off” Their Leadership Is Misleading Congress
32 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Eight Views of Ōmi
32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols
32 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Macron says France and U.S. reached digital tax deal
32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii
32 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Baffled student tells Twitter: 'I'm not a Chinese agent'
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked
32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The World Has a Germany Problem: Debt Obsession Ate the Economy
32 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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22% of Millennials say they have no friends
32 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Hacker News is partially blocked in China now
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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440 year-old maps filled with footprints
32 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Clean Go Code
32 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Private Space Race Targets Greenhouse Gas Emitters
32 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Google: We'll give you better malware protection in Chrome, only if you sign in
32 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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From Hong Kong to Moscow, Protests Are Changing
32 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)
32 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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David Foster Wallace’s Pen Pal
32 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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The underground farm growing salad crops in a disused air raid shelter [video]
32 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Brazil’s leading payment processor begins accepting Bitcoin
32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
32 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy
32 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month
32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Drones replace patrol ships on Mediterranean
32 points • comment • aug 06, 2019