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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Ask HN: How to get developers to care less about edge cases?
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Don’t Cheat on Interviews. It’s Obvious When You Do
32 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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How to make a flat lens
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Google’s File on You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s
32 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Brain food: a nutrient vegans lack
32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry?
32 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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America’s DIY Phone Farmers
31 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
31 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Facebook’s Ad Network Keeps Crashing, and Clients Are Fuming
31 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Riding in Cars with Jacques Lacan
31 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Where does it all go?
31 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Ask HN: Does dang read every HN comment?
31 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Animator Richard Williams has died
31 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Croup and ipecac in Anne of Green Gables
31 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Show HN: BlobCity DB
31 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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How to clean your Apple Card
31 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: I miss Google Inbox and built a replacement
31 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Anybody running serious Rust web application in production?
31 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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NetNewsWire 5.0: Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac
31 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Streets of New York
31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Coke Putting Dasani Water in Cans Amid Backlash Against Plastic
31 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS Reader Rebuilt from Scratch, Now Free and Open Source
31 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Characterizing the Performance Impact of AMP
31 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Google is killing another chat service
31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Is involuntary treatment for mental illness allowed under CRPD?
31 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Learn Vim for the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer
31 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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New publisher Modern Wolf declare commitment to “ethical game development”
31 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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The U.S. Bought 3 Virgin Islands from Denmark. The Deal Took 50 Years
31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Facebook Loses Facial Recognition Appeal, Must Face Privacy Class Action
31 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994)
31 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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TSA's Scanners Can't Figure Out Afros or Turbans, Guess Who's Getting Searched
31 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Fish Cannon (2016)
31 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Last Pirate of New York
31 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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List comprehensions across languages (2007)
31 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Apple warns its new credit card shouldn't go in your wallet, pocket, or purse
31 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Can we survive extreme heat?
31 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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A Look at the Evolution of the Dial Telephone (2004)
31 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Purism Librem 5 August Update
31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Pre-rendering static websites with the 23 year-old wget command
31 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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We Have the Touch
31 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (1951) [pdf]
31 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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How I got 7000 beta customers in less than 2 weeks with a $0 marketing budget
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Soon only the rich will be able to escape the heat. In Iraq, it’s already so
30 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Cops Who Abused Photoshop
30 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Video + canvas = magic (2010)
30 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power?
30 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Backdoor Found in Webmin
30 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Glittering loneliness – Philip Larkin and his parents
30 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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College Daily brings Chinese students in U.S. news with nationalistic undertones
30 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Using Pop Science to Build the Perfect Workforce
30 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Notes on “Camp” (1964)
30 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What game(s) are you working on?
30 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Amazon under fire for new packaging that cannot be recycled
30 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Nest Cam status lights can no longer be turned off for privacy; customers pissed
30 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Show HN: A Mood Tracker on the Web
30 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Texas Might Have Accidentally Decriminalized Marijuana
30 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Walmart Is Trying to Patent Its Own ‘Libra’ Like Digital Currency
30 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Government asks Queen to suspend Parliament
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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This porn star philosopher is challenging us to see the world differently
30 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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My Time at Google and After
30 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion
30 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Fourth Horseman of the Next Recession Approaches
30 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Bernie Sanders Promises to Tell Us About Aliens If He's Elected President
29 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Tardigrades are now on the moon thanks to a crashed Israeli spacecraft?
29 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Butt Plug Hacking: Real Penetration Testing - DEFCON 27
29 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
29 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Millions of unhashed fingerprints discovered on unsecured Elasticsearch DB
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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List: Attending Burning Man or Parenting a Toddler?
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Three Letters from Switzerland
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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[2019] Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
29 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon
29 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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A second whistleblower working at Google comes forward to warn of search bias
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Is the Political Novel Dead?
29 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Sealab II: Porpoise Post and Life Beneath the Waves
29 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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FBI says “extremists” motivated by Pizzagate, QAnon are threats
29 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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How to Rescue an Underperforming Employee
29 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Dell Unveils Updated XPS 13 with Intel’s 10th Gen Core CPUs and 4K Panel
29 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?
29 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Chrome 76 Has Given Billions of Google Users an Incentive to Use Firefox Instead
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Laws of Locality: Where in your UI you should put certain controls
29 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle
29 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded train to up ad engagement
29 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Russia tells Google not to advertise 'illegal' events after election protests
29 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas
29 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Power of Subscripts in Swift
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Ask HN: I am looking for a C and Assembly mentor
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Kostroma Moose Farm
29 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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USDC payment processing in Coinbase Commerce
29 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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I released my own Visual Studio Code Extension Pack and here is how you can too
29 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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German Ham Radio Operator Takes Picture of Solar Eclipse – From the Moon
29 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Big Tech’s ‘Innovations’ That Aren’t
29 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Where did the melody go? (2017)
29 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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We tested popular cellphones for RF radiation. Now the FCC is investigating
29 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: ortFolio, a minimal website template for image-based portfolios
29 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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How to Prove That a Turing Machine Is Universal
29 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?
29 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Two Narratives of Creation
28 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change?
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2019