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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data
349 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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35 Over 35
349 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
348 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
348 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
346 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself
346 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
345 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library
343 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
342 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
341 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
340 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator
339 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015
338 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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How Rust optimizes async/await
337 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The Art of Warez [video]
337 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket
336 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild
335 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
335 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects
333 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Silk
331 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)
331 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Get your work recognized: write a brag document
331 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business
330 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Contributing to the Mozilla code base
329 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
329 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Rest-client gem is hijacked
329 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why
328 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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RegExr
327 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO
326 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The We Company S-1
325 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation
324 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Calculus Is Deeply Irrational
324 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
323 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Every Noise at Once
323 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Attorney General Barr and Encryption
322 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award
322 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
321 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
319 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Words that do Handstands
318 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech
317 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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How to return to the flow faster
316 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
316 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants
316 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
316 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest
315 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers
314 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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FFmpeg 4.2
313 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors
313 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Making email more modern with JMAP
313 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters
313 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The Impact of Meditating Every Day
312 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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New React DevTools
312 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Google's software mistreats or harms the user
312 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
312 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers
312 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper
311 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Why ElementaryOS Left Medium
308 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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BlazingSQL is Now Open Source
306 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything
306 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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How to get your first ten customers (2013)
305 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
303 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use
303 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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The Most Dangerous Writing App
303 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Can ads on a page read my password?
302 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
301 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Does the Amazon provide 20% of our oxygen?
301 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains
301 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
301 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election
298 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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QEMU VM Escape
297 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests
297 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
297 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
296 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld
296 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia
294 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back
294 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Medieval people bathed regularly
293 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency
293 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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CamScanner, a malicious Android app with more than 100M downloads in Google Play
293 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York
292 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Insured price $2,758, cash price $521
291 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company
288 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men
287 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
287 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Verified by Twilio
286 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Thunderbird 68.0
285 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support
285 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game
284 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no (2010)
283 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Big Coal Plants Begin to Close
283 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
283 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Mental Models Box – A collection of models useful in everyday life
283 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine
282 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
282 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
282 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Anna Karenina Principle
281 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks
281 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003
281 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
280 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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TypeScript 3.6
280 points • comment • aug 28, 2019