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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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The Californians forced to live in cars and RVs
22 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Unsealed Warrant and Forfeiture Complaint Seek Seizure of Oil Tanker “Grace 1”
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Stick ‘em up – A surprising history of collage
22 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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D.A. Pennebaker, Pioneer of Cinéma Vérité in America, Dies at 94
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Picking Rust for Web
22 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Reasons Not to Buy from Amazon, According to Richard Stallman
22 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Ask HN: How relevant is The Mythical Man-Month outside the software industry?
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Digital Ocean Experiencing Issues
22 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google
22 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Palladian Facade Generator (2015)
22 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Media Observatory – Quantifying Media Bias
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Ask HN: As a freelance dev how do I get back on top after hitting rock bottom?
22 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is using facial recognition to make arrests
22 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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One in five millennials are lonely and have 'no friends'
22 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
22 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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The 737-Max Grounding Is So Bad That Airlines Are Leasing 30-Year-Old 737-200s
22 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Apple Contractors Allegedly Listened to 1,000 Siri Recordings a Day – Each
22 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Walter Benjamin: Fragments, Salvage and Detours
22 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Reddit, with wigs and ink
22 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Fakemyinbox – Free Temp Mail Generator
22 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Palantir CEO: Silicon Valley Shouldn't Dictate US Policy
22 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Benefits of High-Tech Job Growth Don’t Trickle Down
22 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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2 Condos Were Illegally Converted into 18 Micro Apartments in NYC
22 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Greenland Lost 12.5B Tons of Ice in a Single Day
22 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Irish Teen Wins 2019 Google Science Fair for Removing Microplastics from Water
22 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Ask HN: How much time should I spend reviewing code?
22 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Free Open Source VPN – AES 256 – WireGuard and OpenVPN
22 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Sketches Revealed Underneath Leonardo's 'Virgin of the Rocks'
21 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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CEOs Who Cheat on Spouse Twice as Likely to Cheat at Work, Study Shows
21 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Getting the First 100 Users
21 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Myths of Robust Systems
21 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Tridactyl has been delisted from AMO
21 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics
21 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole
21 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Free open source tool for labeling photos online
21 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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The MeToo Backlash
21 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Google Sign-In Is Down?
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists
21 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet
21 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Nearly all mass shooters have four things in common
21 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) Surveillance Tools
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The Arctic is ablaze: Peat fires are the latest symptom of climate change
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Where to “hang out” online these days?
21 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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US withdraws from nuclear treaty with Russia, prepares to test new missile
21 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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What’s the Difference Between Copenhagen and Everett?
21 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties
21 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Facebook is ordered to delete any Facial Recognition Templates within 90 days
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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ADAC and HE Puzzles from GEB (2009)
21 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Underground line to heat up north London homes
21 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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New medical procedure could delay menopause by 20 years
21 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Terrifying
21 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Jay Leno loves his Tesla: ‘There’s almost no reason to have a gas car’
21 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Reading Gandhi Reading
21 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Fortnite coach who helped create teenage millionaires
21 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Marty the grocery store robot is a glimpse into our hell-ish future
21 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland
21 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The New Museum of the Dog
21 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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An Actor Lost in the Background
21 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Second Amendment solution to gun violence
21 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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What Happens When Americans Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill
21 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Key yield curve inverts to worst level since 2007
21 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Strengthen Free Software by Telling Congress to Reject the Stronger Patents Act
21 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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8chan's new provider BitMitigate goes offline
21 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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An Open Letter to Intel
21 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Gnome and KDE work together on the Linux desktop
21 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Old English Wikipedia (or at least I think it is)
21 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Who kicked them out? On St Patrick [audio]
21 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Predictably Random
21 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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150 Meter Starhopper Flight Test [video]
21 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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After 12 years in ‘vegetative state’: reveals ‘I was aware of everything’
20 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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'Brief radiation spike' after rocket engine blast in northern Russia
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The Internet Must Change – Start with the Data
20 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Show HN: Isonotes – Create notes in rich text format or markdown
20 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Dan Povey, Developer of Kaldi, Fired from JHU
20 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Taking History Personally
20 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Breakdown Palace: R.D. Laing’s radical asylum
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Encrypted Training with PyTorch and PySyft on MNIST
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Why Free Speech (Even Hate Speech) Is the Best Friend of the Oppressed
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Nushell – a modern shell written in Rust
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Palmerston Island, Population 35
20 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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The Unsettling Rise of the Urban Narc App
20 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Volex TTX2000 S: Teletext Adapter for the ZX Spectrum
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Airbnb introduces new search tools for business travelers
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Europe’s flight-shame movement has travelers taking trains to save the planet
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant
20 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Invenia Blog: JuliaCon2019
20 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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What We Know We Don't Know
20 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Intel’s first 10nm Ice Lake CPUs revealed: here’s your decoder ring
20 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Curiosity and the Cat: Quantum Theory and the Coen Brothers (2015)
20 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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New Results: WPA3 vulnerable to a second class of side-channel leaks
20 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery
20 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The CEO of Whole Foods says eating plant-based 'meats' is unhealthy
20 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
20 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Splunk Alternatives?
20 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Land of the Free: A brief history of early American nudists
20 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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1999: The Last Great Year in Movies
20 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens
20 points • comment • aug 04, 2019