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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games
20 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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China’s fan-girl culture is mobilizing against the Hong Kong protests
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Wolpertinger
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Measuring the ionisation fraction in a jet from a protostar
20 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The London Restaurant: 1840-1914
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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What We Learned from 100 Presentations of Startups
20 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Ask HN: What are the best bioinformatics books you've read?
20 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Museum of Ice Cream Valued at $200M
20 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Ethically Aligned Design [pdf]
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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A Book in My Parole Office Taught Me How to Rob Banks Better
20 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army Is Growing
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Given that I am a Software Engineer, how could I help humanity the most?
20 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Who Is Rey?
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Google moves closer to letting Chrome web apps edit your files
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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We're Whole Foods / Amazon Employees: Amazon's Collaboration with ICE Must Stop
19 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Minimizing Defection Might Be the Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons
19 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Archaeologists discover 'sorcerer's treasure trove' trunk at Pompeii
19 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Ask HN: What are the biggest obstacles to vertical farms?
19 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Khan Academy 2018 Annual Report: 8B Minutes
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The sense and essence of smell
19 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Toynbee Tiles
19 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Lunar crash may have seeded indestructible ‘water bears’ on the moon
19 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World'
19 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Why Does the U.S. Army Own So Many Fossils?
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded with Malware
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Anatomy of a Posit Number
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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It Is Criminal That We Aren’t Borrowing Trillions to Fix the Country Right Now
19 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access
19 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Ask HN: How to deal with negative "tell me about a time" interview questions?
19 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Managing Developers: Understanding Work Styles and Individual Needs
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Fairphone 3 is now available
19 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Greenland's ice is melting at the rate thought as worst-case scenario in 2070
19 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Inflammation's Hidden Role in Weight Loss
19 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Nut CPU (HP Calculator CPU) [pdf]
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Canadian resident returns after 11 years in notorious prison in Tehran
19 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Blender 2.8: New features and improvements [video]
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Creatures of the Deep Karst
19 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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8chan: Owner of extremist site lashes out as scrutiny intensifies
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Midget submarine
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Preserves: An Expressive Data Language
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Kotlin 1.3.50 Released
19 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Launching Fairphone 3
19 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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A hiker in Canada was approached by a cougar. She blasted Metallica to scare it
19 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Apple Special Event – September 10
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Interactive coin offerings (2017)
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The A-10 Warthog Is Sticking Around for at Least Another Decade
19 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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PhpCE gets cancelled after complaints about low number of female speakers
19 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Cathay Pacific, Icon of Hong Kong’s Rise, Now Reflects China’s Grip
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some adults don't move on
19 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Facebook gets closer to letting you type with your mind
19 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren proposes plan to build rural broadband networks
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Britain’s Reichstag Fire Moment
18 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Show HN: Generate a graph of any data from your terminal
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Why Are We All Paying a Tax to Credit Card Companies?
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Milton Friedman Was Wrong
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries
18 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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iPhone charging cable, looks normal, offers terminal access to victim's mac
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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For non-trivial coordination, meetings might be better than email
18 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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The History of Polish Photography (2002)
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Coca-Cola, PepsiCo finally cut ties with prominent plastic lobbying group
18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail
18 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Augmented Reality with OpenCV and OpenGL: The Tricky Projection Matrix
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Abusing WebViews to Steal Files via Email
18 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Netflix-like pirate sites offered more video than the real Netflix, feds say
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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NASA Worldview: Satellite Detections of Fire
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today
18 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Tesla launches solar rental service – solar panel system for $50 per month
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Humble Book Bundle: Python Programming by No Starch Press
18 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Overstock Loses a Spycatcher CEO
18 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Work
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Show HN: Understand the Internet by Building It in a VM (MOOC)
18 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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The Women of ‘LIFE’ Magazine
18 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Radiation Is Said to Be Released in Russian Military Accident
18 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Code Size Optimization: GCC Compiler Flags
18 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis
18 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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A scientific study has established that there is no “gay gene”
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Show HN: Rget verify GitHub releases against a public recorded cryptographic log
18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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China sends fresh troops into Hong Kong
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Tupelo as it relates to IPLD and IPFS
18 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Fighting forest crime in Guatemala
18 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Dear Tech Workers, U.S. Service Members Need Your Help
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Apple Maps in iOS 13: Sights Set on Google
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2019
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic
18 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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My Points on Flutter as a React Native Developer
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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World’s Largest Forest Has Been on Fire for Months
18 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The History of ‘Easter Eggs’
18 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Mummia
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The battle cry of the politically homeless
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Daily Mail Article Generator
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Microsoft Flow
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Making the Moon Camera
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Quantum Gravity's Tangled Time
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019