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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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One byte used to cost a dollar
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Vineyard of Silicon Valley VC hit with $4m in penalties after bulldozing wetland
18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Do any of you tech folk ever think about just quitting tech altogether?
18 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Terms of the Dune universe; excerpts from a reading by Frank Herbert
18 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again
17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: What keyboard do you use?
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Revealed: Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network
17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Looking for Abstraction in Medieval Art
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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15 Years of Data Shows IoT Security Is Regressing
17 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Envoy Proxy in 2019: Security, Caching, Wasm, HTTP/3, and More
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Did Donald Trump tweet classified military imagery?
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Steven Sinofsky Reflects on Steve Jobs' “Bicycle for the Mind”
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Boris Johnson’s Parliament Suspension Approved by Queen
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Noah's Ark Problem (1998) [pdf]
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Show HN: HashPlane Attack Map
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Internet Videoconferencing with CU-SeeMe: History, Culture, and Usage (1995)
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Stephen Wolfram's 60th Birthday AMA IRL
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Cherry Picking: When People Ignore Evidence That They Dislike
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Ups has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Panera is losing nearly 100% of workers yearly amidst fast-food turnover crisis
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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YouTube has removed videos of robots fighting, citing “animal cruelty”
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Interview with Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai) on Future of AI
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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China’s thin-skinned online nationalists want to be loved and feared by the West
17 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Octant: A tool to help devs understand what's going on in a Kubernetes cluster
17 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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FIDO2 can now be used for Google on Android Chrome
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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The First Car to Bear the Porsche Name
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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China’s Credibility Problem
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Show HN: TabNine Local – deep code completion on your laptop
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Facebook Is Working Towards Germany's End-to-End Encryption Backdoor Vision
17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Mexican physicist’s solution to 2,000-yo problem could lead to improved lenses
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Ad Creep
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Fine-Tuned Constants
17 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Full Wikipedia Hosted on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
17 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Magic Transit: Network Functions at Cloudflare Scale
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Plsdr. Python-based software-defined radio (SDR)
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Reports say White House has drafted an order for FCC to monitor social media
17 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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““The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson“
17 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Hannah Fry: “ Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath”
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Epic 81-megapixel moon photo was stacked from 50k images – DIY Photography
17 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Turning the Nintendo Switch into Android’s Best Gaming Hardware
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Keyringless GnuPG
17 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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A virtual reality website from the time before Oculus
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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China's hackers are ransacking databases for your health data
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Locked Tesla stolen in 30 seconds in London with fob relay trick
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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The Ghosts of Our Lives
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Mayan-EDMS: Free Open Source Document Management System
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Walmart Fire Sale: After 7 roof fires, Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel flaws
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Too much fun with implantable brain electrodes
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Edward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblower’s secrets
17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Alexa left me a creepy message for somebody else. Anybody else had this?
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Burning Man: Death at US Festival Treated as ‘Suspicious’
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Large-Scale-Exploit of GitHub Repository Metadata and Preventive Measures
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Emigrés (1972)
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Opinion – Stop Mocking Vegans
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Bolsonaro has blessed ‘brutal' assault on Amazon, sacked scientist warns
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Bedbugs are giving Airbnb users headaches and itchy bites
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Facebook collected and transcribed users’ audio without permission
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Art of Pirated Software
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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How to build – and manage – a self-improving team
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Windows or Chromebook? A Best Buy salesman told me it isn't even close
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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CCleaner Installer Overrides Default Browser with Chromium Clone
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Cashify – a lightweight currency conversion library and Money.js alternative
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Commentaries on Criticisms of Magnetic Fusion [pdf]
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy urban planners (2018)
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Migrant Children Are Entitled to Toothbrushes and Soap, Federal Court Rules
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Tell HN: Learn about the state-of-the-art in Program Synthesis
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Secret Life of Kudzu
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Scott Adams: The Day You Became a Better Writer
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Show HN: Soliloquy – Note-taking for power users
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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The Rat Spill
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Software Architecture Guide
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Gilder's Law
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking?
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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On the Hunt for National Treasures with America’s Archive Detective
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Oakland on course to create more new housing units than SF in 2019
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Feds told Tesla to stop making “misleading statements” on Model 3 safety
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Athens on the Colorado
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Cisco Is Making It More Difficult to Use Pre-Owned Hardware
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Welsh Wikipedia gives me hope
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Dismantling Free Markets Won't Solve Biodiversity Threat
16 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Eduard Pernkopf: The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death (2018)
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Leonsans
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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U.S. forest firefighting icon Smokey Bear turns 75
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Ask HN: Modern day web development for someone who last did it 15 years ago
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019