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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence (2016)
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness
14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Visual Studio Code July 2019 Update
14 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Ethan Zuckerman: On Me, and (Leaving) the Media Lab
14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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8Chan Refugees Blow Their Anonymity
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?
14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Google Chrome Is Losing the 'Close Other Tabs' Option
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched
14 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Pierre Lamond On Cerebas' New Deep Learning Chip
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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How to Respond to Ageism in a Job Interview
14 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Apple Is Copying Mozilla’s Anti-Tracking Policy
14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Verizon demands $880 from rural library for just 0.44GB of roaming data
14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Hong Kong Way
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
14 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How to Become a Good Manager Using OKRs Methodology
14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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First vaper reported dead after mysterious lung disease
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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California: Bees drop dead around 5G towers
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Former Uber Self-Driving Car Executive Indicted – Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets
14 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein, My Sick Pal
14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Why is AWS documentation so poor?
14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Automating capture of airplane pics with Raspberry Pis, ADS-B and IoT software
14 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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July 2019 Was Not the Warmest on Record
14 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)
14 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Cisco to pay $8.6M fine for selling hackable technology to government
14 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Insiders are selling stock like it's 2007
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A Giant Volcano Could End Human Life on Earth as We Know It
14 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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IT’S Time to Get Rid of the Lottery
14 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Scabby the giant inflatable protest rat may be banned from picket lines
14 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests
14 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Tracing the path of the Crusades as it traveled through European history
14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
14 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Pan-Africanism – Infrastructure must be the first priority
14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The art of sharpening pencils (2007)
14 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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A conversation with Popehat about a billboard, free speech, and the Constitution
14 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Ask HN: Where can I learn about Nikola Tesla?
13 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Why I translate all of Trump's tweets into Chinese
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Netflix's the Great Hack Brings Our Data Nightmare to Life
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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'Gods of the Upper Air' Traces the Birth of Cultural Anthropology
13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Klaus Fuchs: a spy for the atomic age
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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History of Balloons and Ballooning (2017)
13 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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AMP Adds Support for Server-Side Rendering
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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American Wealth Is Broken
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Announcing React/NodeGUI – Build Native Desktop Apps with JavaScript and CSS
13 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Jeff Bezos is letting his charities do something radical – whatever they want
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The cost of next-day delivery
13 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Introducing Coil: a Kotlin-first image loading library on Android
13 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Spybot Anti-Beacon: Disable Tracking/Telemetry in Windows
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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'Dockerfiles' for LXD
13 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Why can’t we stop climate change? We don’t empathize with our descendants
13 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Opinion: Speeding Up Baseball to Save It
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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IPCC Special Report – Climate Change and Land
13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Ask HN: What languages / frameworks to learn now to become more employable
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Why Alibaba Will Be Bigger Than Amazon
13 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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1957 German Grand Prix
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Great Debate
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Entropy and Symmetry
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Cloudflare terminates service for 8chan after El Paso shooting
13 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Nine killed in Dayton, the second US mass shooting in 24 hours
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Are developers honestly happy working 60-hour weeks?
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: Mead – how I'm pushing back against Medium
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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How Wordsworth and Coleridge shaped each other
13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Mathematician's 'Mysterious' New Method Just Solved a 30-Year-Old Problem
13 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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iPhones RF emissions above safe levels?
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Peter Thiel's Religion
13 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Apple is locking iPhone battery replacement
13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Was Email a Mistake?
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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To understand the brutality of American capitalism, start on the plantation
13 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Angering China Can Now Get You Fired
13 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Here's the Memo About the Burden of Being Black at Google
13 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Sputnik virophage
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Crown Sterling sues over being booed at Blackhat
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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A Reminder That Video Games Are a Force for Good
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Is Britain Becoming a Failed State?
13 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein is dead from alleged suicide
13 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Algeria blocks YouTube and Google services after publication of political video
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The Haiku Operating System
13 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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20 years later, and still nobody's even come close to PHP's ease of deployment
13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Bruce Schneier: you can secure America's e-voting systems tomorrow, use paper
13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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A Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them (2018)
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Collect Your Company Knowledge on Autopilot with OneBar
13 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates – Official Trailer – Netflix
13 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Architecting a Roles and Permissions System Using Rails, GraphQL and React
13 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Popular JavaScript library starts showing ads in its terminal
13 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The Man Who Thinks the U.S. Is Better Off as a Bunch of Separate Countries
13 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The Expanding News Desert (2018) [pdf]
13 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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From the Depths of Counterfeit Smartphones
13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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MSDN Magazine will publish its last issue in November
13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Amazon Facial Recognition Misidentified 1 in 5 California Lawmakers as Criminals
13 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Facebook Is Getting Rid of “Secret” or “Closed” Groups
13 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Amazon Prime Day 2019 – AWS Metrics
13 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Indian child dies of rabies; denied vaccine due of lack of biometric Aadhaar ID
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Version 27 of Java evolutionary computation library ECJ released
13 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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The Emacs Problem (2005)
13 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Brotli vs. Gzip Compression. How we improved our latency by 37%
13 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Ask HN: What does your ideal “read it later” service look like?
13 points • comment • aug 27, 2019