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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Fandom under fire: how fanzines helped sci-fi survive the Blitz and beyond
13 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Donald Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland from Denmark
13 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Climate Grief [video]
13 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Juggling: Theory and Practice [pdf]
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Kayfabe (Wikipedia)
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Panera losing nearly all workers in fast-food turnover crisis
12 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Ask HN: Beginner Programmer: Haskell Book or SICP?
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How much equity should I get as the first employee?
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Access to Millions of Free Books Added to the Public Domain
12 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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How hospital lobby derailed legislation against surprise hospital bills in CA
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America (2017)
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Napier's Bones
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Hundreds of homeless board a bus out of SF every year. What happens to them?
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths Is Thawing
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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8chan: Ex-users of far-right site flock to new homes across internet
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Dallas airport passengers silently salute the return of a fallen hero
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Bill Nye: US taking 'extraordinary steps in the wrong direction' on climate
12 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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AWS Tokyo Region – Major Connectivity Issues
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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VMware Workstation and Hyper-V – Working Together
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Solid in Java: Liskov Substitution Principle
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Blue teams, what has had the most impact protecting against cyber attacks?
12 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Ask HN: Recommendations for full-blown polyglot web IDEs
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Can the West Learn from Social Media in China?
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Certified Mess
12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Ask HN: What ONE book would you recommend?
12 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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US military purchased $32.8m worth of electronics with known security risks
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Finding the Brain’s Compass
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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China Tries to Teach Trump Economics
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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The Difference Between Chef's Knives
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Distilling Bert Models with SpaCy
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Ask HN: What slows you down most when starting new programming projects?
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The pitfall of using PostgreSQL advisory locks with Go's DB connection pool
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Show HN: McDonalds' outlets in the US represented by Burger emojis
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Huawei Interested in Fuschia OS
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Oculus Co-Founder Doesn't Believe in VR Gaming Anymore
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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A new species of leech is discovered
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Degate – Open-Source Chip Reverse Engineering Tool
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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r/HongKong removed from trending subreddits
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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How to lose customers: Remove a feature you thought they weren't using
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony commit to disclose drop rates for loot boxes
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Aston Martin Is Getting into the 'Evil Lair' Business
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Habits of Highly Effective Programmers – Inspired by an Ex-Google TechLead
12 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Microsoft Icecaps
12 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Neural Networks from Scratch
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Kant and the Contraption: A Thought Experiment
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Firefox users now invisible to webmasters that use Google Analytics
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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David Koch, Industrialist Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Vodka Was Made Using Contaminated Grain from Chernobyl
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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A Toy Company Now Owns Death Row Records
12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Have your weekends evolved into “workends”?
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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We just got our 10th paid user!
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
12 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Show your own blog/vlog
12 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Overstock CEO Takes Aim at ‘Deep State’ After Romance with Russian Agent
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Architect 6.0: Ruby, Python, CDNs, and CloudFormation
12 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere every day
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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P++ FAQ
12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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North Carolina Sues 8 More Vape Companies for Allegedly Marketing to Kids
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Life of a Person Who Wakes Up Early
12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Vernemq: A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results
12 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Class Central's Top MOOCs
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Disentangling Propagation and Generation for Video Prediction
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Is Twitter Aiding India’s Quest to Silence Kashmiris?
12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Bolsonaro rejects 'Captain Chainsaw' label; data shows deforestation 'exploded'
12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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How are Tesla’s solar roof tiles now?
12 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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A First Look at Disney+
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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The Secret History of 'Easter Eggs'
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The Way to the Sea
12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Lovecraft on the Tabletop
12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy
12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Letter from a Region in My Mind (1962)
12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Show HN: Free Automated QA Testing: AI Finds, Creates, & Repairs Your UI Tests
12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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BMW unveils “blackest black” car sprayed with Vantablack
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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RISC-V Bases and Extensions Explained
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront
12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Older adults can boost longevity 'with just a little exercise'
12 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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The chemistry behind a giant soap bubble
12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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From Zero to React
11 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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A Quest for the Holy Grail: On D. W. Pasulka’s “American Cosmic”
11 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Amiga C Tutorial
11 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The New York Times Company tanks 20% after saying ad revenue will decline next Q
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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It's time to end “trending” on Twitter
11 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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What's Wrong with Buying a Dinosaur?
11 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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A complete guide to outsourcing software development in 2019
11 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs
11 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Helm adds a link to a YouTube video on all charts
11 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Tesla Model S Explodes After Crash, Injures 3 People
11 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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It's time to forcibly reform big tech
11 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren proposes a public option for the Internet
11 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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I used “deep fakes” to fix the Lion King
11 points • comment • aug 09, 2019