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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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I've given up trying to talk to friends about how their privacy is being abused
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Porsche Unveils Taycan Interior
28 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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UC faculty to Elsevier: Restart negotiations, or else
28 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice for Your PC Office Suite
28 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Expanding Square’s Platform Beyond Payments – New Orders API
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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US spy sattelite image tweeted by Trump and then analysed by astronomer
28 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Recording Browser Interactions and Generating Test Scripts
28 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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In plain sight: California illegal pot market booming
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Keeping buildings cool without air conditioning
28 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Linux Network Performance Parameters
28 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Subinterpreter Support for Python (2018)
28 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Rebus and the Anarchic Brain
28 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Who Will Pay for the Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Younger Americans less trusting of other people, institutions
28 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Homesteading on the Indie Web (2011)
28 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Untold History of Toontown’s SpeedChat (2007)
28 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Ask HN: Why are all posts about David Koch's death being flagged on HN?
28 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Today, 28 years ago Linus Torvalds announced Linux on comp.os.minix
28 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Welcome to Feiba Peveli: Procedurally Generated Place Names from the 1820s
28 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Tête-à-Tête about Death
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Proposal: C++ Should Support Just-in-Time Compilation
28 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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China-owned oil tanker changes name in apparent effort to evade U.S. sanctions
28 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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'Range' Argues That Specialization Should Not Be The Goal For Most
28 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
28 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?
28 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The Evolution of the Male Falsetto
28 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan Club
27 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Upgrade your cargo cult for the win (2017)
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Facebook just deleted 1000s of business's posts
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Thomas Edison DC Electrical Cables
27 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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LibreSSL 3.0.0 Released
27 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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How Uber Makes Its Drivers Pay
27 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Pie – Proving, Interpolating and Eliminating on the Basis of First-Order Logic
27 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Apache Flink 1.9.0 Release Announcement
27 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Disney to Bundle Disney+, Hulu, & ESPN+ for 12.99, Same Price as Netflix
27 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Network performance regressions from TCP SACK vulnerability fixes
27 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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WeWork Analyst Warns IPO Filing a ‘Masterpiece of Obfuscation’
27 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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VLC cone (2005)
27 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Huawei Announces HarmonyOS
27 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan (2017)
27 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Roman Sacrifice, Inside and Out (2016)
27 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Google announces Python class for beginners
27 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore
27 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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'A nightmarish mess': millions in Assam brace for loss of citizenship
27 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety
27 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Jair Bolsonaro accuses NGOs of setting fires in Amazon rainforest
27 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years
27 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Kitty Hawk’s Flyer personal VTOL has now flown over 25,000 times
27 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Video games don’t cause mass shootings. But gamer culture encourages hate
27 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Moveable 0.7.0 – Support Grouping Draggable, Resizable, Rotatable
27 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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AMD EPYC Tech Docs and White Papers
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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AutoOut: Automated Outlier Detection and Treatment Tool
27 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Apache Arrow Flight (replacement for ODBC)
27 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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I don’t hire Junior data-scientists
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: introduction
27 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Douglas-Quaid – Open-Source Image Matching Library
27 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank
27 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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U.S. Code Chapter 35 – International Emergency Economic Powers
27 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Rezolus: A high-resolution systems performance telemetry agent
27 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Google OAuth API Is Down
27 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Soft skills are as important, if not more important, than technical skills
27 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Preserving Flash with WebAssembly the right way: without re-implementing it
26 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Is Line Editing a Lost Art?
26 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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New York taxi regulator tries to ban digital tablets in rideshare vehicles
26 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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iPaaS – Integration Platform as a Service
26 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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White House drafting order on tech industry 'censorship'
26 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Lust in Space (2007)
26 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Real Hackers Tell Us Why They Love the Movie 'Hackers'
26 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Starting an ISP is hard, don’t do it (2016)
26 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Show HN: Ji Language – Looking for Feedback
26 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Fracking may be a bigger climate problem than we thought
26 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Queen Approves Boris Johnson Suspending British Parliament
26 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s (2018)
26 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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SoftBank Will Let People Invest in IPOs with Less Than $10
26 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Facebook Said It Would Give Detailed Data to Academics. They’re Still Waiting
26 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
26 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Revealed: How Monsanto's 'Intelligence Center' Targeted Journalists & Activists
26 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Apple locked me out of its walled garden. It was a nightmare
26 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Show HN: I give you the most suitable outfit to wear depending on weather
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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How do calculators do trigonometry?
26 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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'Ancestors' Is an Audacious Experiment. I Never Want to Play It Again
26 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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What's a Gallon?
26 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Intent to Implement: CSS Modules V1
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Definitions of Software Architecture
26 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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A Case for Universal and Simplified Journal Systems
26 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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AMD EPYC Rome Officially Launched: 7nm High-Performance Server CPUs
26 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Safeside: A project to understand and mitigate software-observable side-channels
26 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Apple sued for not disclosing that 'iCloud storage' relies on third-party cloud
26 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Msnbc systemically reports wrong poll numbers in their graphs
26 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats
26 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The Alameda Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)
26 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Cops Are Giving Amazon's Ring Real-Time 911 Data
26 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Does a bootcamp make sense for someone with 20 years experience?
25 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Google is helping to power a US immigration cloud project, new documents show
25 points • comment • aug 29, 2019