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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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“Why I'm not at CCCamp 2019”
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Koch-Fueled Anti-Transit Crusade Hits Phoenix, Is Seattle Next?
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Was Jeffrey Epstein under suicide watch when he died?
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Xkcd #2185: Disappearing Sunday Update
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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VMware says it’s in talks to acquire Pivotal Software
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The Data Center Reimagined: GPUDirect Enables Petabyte Scale Analytics
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Project BillVision (1995)
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Big Tech Controls Many Major Open-Source Projects. Is That a Problem?
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack: Breaking Bluetooth Security
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Why Conspiracy Theorists Will Never Believe the ‘Official’ Epstein Story
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Tesla Has Failed Massively as a Public Company
16 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Facebook scans system libs from Android app and uploads them
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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“Old age” is made up–and this concept is hurting everyone
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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PragerU vs. YouTube
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Ask HN: Why am I stuck on 51 HN karma points?
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Pipe: How the System Call That Ties Unix Together Came About
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Universal Basic Income
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Brownian Motion in Financial Markets
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [pdf]
15 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Rudyard Kipling’s American years
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Authorities Investigating 4chan Post on Epstein's Death
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]
15 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Cross platform remote GUI for Python
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Why all the Jira hate? I’ll tell you why
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Amazon rainforest fires: The truth behind the 'record-breaking' headlines
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Which Open Source projects are looking for maintainers?
15 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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PCMag: The VPN Industry Is on the Cusp of a Major Breakthrough
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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San Francisco airport bans sale of plastic bottles
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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A Small City with Big Delusions
15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
15 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Weaving two arrays, keeping relative order
15 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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What3words divides the world into squares, each with a unique three-word address
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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ExFAT in the Linux Kernel? Yes
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Missouri council member chooses Dr.Seuss over the bible for swearing-in ceremony
15 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Wreeto – a fast, cluttered-free knowledge organisation toolset
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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“Tesla Is Going to Win Level 5.” – George Hotz
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's too bad for AWS
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Reddit Now Lets You Livestream. What Could Go Wrong?
15 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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California approves solar-powered EV charging network and electric school buses
15 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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An HIV Genome from Two Decades Before Its Discovery
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Facebook to put client-side backdoors into end-to-end encryption clients
15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Denials
15 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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It took a century to create the weekend–and only a decade to undo it
15 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The “OSI Model”: There's no such thing. What they taught you is a lie
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Russian 'Sully' lands plane on corn field after bird strike
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Why I left Google
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Tsar Bomba
15 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Tunnel of Eupalinos
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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PLA's Hong Kong Chief says troops are ready to protect China's sovereignty
15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?
15 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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The Mother of All Demos (1968)
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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IBM Fired 100k Employees to Make Way for Millennials: Report
15 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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What happens when you are under constant surveillance?
15 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Modern American Capitalism Was Invented on Cotton Plantations
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Google Document Dump
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The most-shared images of Amazon fires are old or not of the Amazon
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Cloudflare ending DDoS protection for 8chan
15 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Startup says they've made an electric motor with 3x more torque
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Inequality driving 'deaths of despair'
14 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Masterpiece Theater
14 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Show HN: Code Line Daily
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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A font made from gerrymandered districts
14 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Sartre’s Bad Trip
14 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Show HN: Realtime Replication Between GraphQL and the Client-Side Database
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Being Empathetic Is Not Always Helpful – Why the Greatest Strength Is Weakness
14 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Growth mindset study finds no impact on student performance (n=5018)
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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US Senator says wireless carriers are helping Trump build 'surveillance state'
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Explosive Novels of the Cold War
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Flame retardants from plants
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Why Are Conditionals Important?
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate
14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Renowned Yale Computer Science Prof Leaves Darwinism
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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When a Mob Attacked Protesters in Hong Kong, the Police Walked Away
14 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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How to Read 2 Books a Week
14 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Food Shipment Destined for Venezuela Seized Due to US Blockade
14 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Bad mouse took down a network, and almost got us banned
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Archive.org Faces Permanent ISP Blocking Following Audiobook Lawsuits
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals from Deep Space
14 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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At MIT, more fallout from the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is ablaze
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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U.S.-based experts suspect Russia blast involved nuclear-powered missile
14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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On Me, and the Media Lab
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Apple Card launches today for all US customers
14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Why Chandrayaan-2 is taking 48 days to reach Moon when Apollo-11 took just 4
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Learning Day
14 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong No Longer Binding (2017)
14 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Satoshi Nakamoto: “My Reveal” -Part 1
14 points • comment • aug 18, 2019