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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Shipping logs show how quickly Arctic sea ice is melting
4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The Iconic Image of the Global Warming Movement Is a Fraud
4 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Easy Filters – Beautiful image filters for your photos
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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How to Catch a Cat with TLA+
4 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Study finds US carriers aggressively throttle video streams
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8
4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Kentucky using 'shocking' boats to show just how bad its Asian carp problem is
4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Trump says Tim Cook made ‘good case’ that trade war helps Samsung over Apple
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Plant-based diet can fight climate change
4 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Frameworks and Why (Clojure) Programmers Need Them
4 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Containerizing Apps with Jlink
4 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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The mythical Dune board game, once lost to licensing hell, is coming back
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Next Up for Deepmind: Protein Folding
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Slack Block Kit Builder
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Original Kindle Was Crazy
4 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Solar Delivers Far More Than Renewable Energy
4 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech?'
4 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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The Amazon Is on Fire and the Smoke Can Be Seen from Space
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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In Law Firms, 'Caste System' Persists Among Attorneys and Business Professionals
4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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PHP is the n***er of the programming world (2016)
4 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Mother of All Demos (1968)
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Reddit adds live-streaming called RPAN
4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Show HN: Research Lab Website Template
4 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Kotlin 1.3.50 Released
4 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Crisis of American Loneliness
4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The decline and approaching demise of Christian Science
4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Goodbye, iTunes
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Who’s to Blame When Algorithms Discriminate?
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Sampling Algorithms Every Data Scientist Needs to Know
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy
3 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The Salton Sea is dying, threatening communities with clouds of toxic dust(2018)
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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How to Reduce Shootings (2017)
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Extensible Extension Mechanisms
3 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Jordan Peterson speech synthesis using neural networks
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Launch HN: Remote company culture book for the Slack generation
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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We Found Archie Carter
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Trump, QAnon and an Impending Judgment Day: Behind the Rise of the Epoch Times
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Bounty Hunter Allegedly Conned Customer Data from Phone Giants with Suicide Hoax
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Law and the Multiverse
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Other cars are basically apps for Tesla systems via retrofit
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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When Elon Met Jack: Musings on AI, Mars and the End of Civilization
3 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Basic economics means Uber/Lyft can’t rely on driverless cars for profitability
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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How to Listen to Classical Music: Motifs and Seeds [video]
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Crytic: Continuous Assurance for Smart Contracts
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Peter Thiel: “An Era of Stagnation and Universal Institutional Failure.”
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Yes Silver Bullet
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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EV Price Parity Coming Soon, Claims VW Executive
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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NASA Mission Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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VAIO’s tiny, port-heavy laptop is out now in the US
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Gone – The California Sunday Magazine
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Something Big Seems to Be Going Down Near Area 51 This Weekend
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Atlassian stopped XML vulnerabilities from landing in production
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Work at CERN?
3 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Biohacker Explains Why He Turned His Leg into a Hotspot
3 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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WhatsApp vulnerabilities lets hackers take over conversations
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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The Strange Pain Hidden in Their Fantasy: Tolkien and CS Lewis
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The JavaScript event loop illustrated
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Scientists find huge world of hidden galaxies
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Definitive Guide to Boosting Your Web Application Performance
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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H-1B Secrecy Veil Torn Off as Trump Steps Up Targeting of Visas
3 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Builders Are Swapping Cement for Weed to Reduce Pollution
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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How to build an adjustable switching power supply using LM2576 [CC-CV]
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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A heavyweight candidate for dark matter
3 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Cameroon's Lake Nyos Gas Burst: 30 Years Later
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Amazon to kill Dash button functions on August 31–you have a month to hack yours
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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The Myth of American Military Dominance
3 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Show HN: Compose tcpdump expressions using simple Pythonic syntax
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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“Never Go on Reddit” by Neil Cicierega
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Show HN: Create an unbundled database with Crux and Confluent Kafka in 5 minutes
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Best Business and Finance Books in 2019
3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Show HN: Grateful Place, a community for growing resilience, peace, and joy
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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React v16.9.0 and the Roadmap Update – React Blog
3 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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List of 235 apps incompatible with macOS Catalina 10.15 Raw
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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A simple terminal app for Google Authenticator
3 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Is it anything it is like to be a bat?
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg says meeting Trump would be a waste
3 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Show HN: Birdcries, a pure-privacy tweet viewer
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Tape still medium of choice for high capacity storage
3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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HubHaus eviction underscores issues with corporate co-living
3 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Huawei Warns Trump: 'You Don't Want to Make Us Fight Google'
3 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Deduction Theorem: The Problematic Nature of Common Practice in Game Theory
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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I Wish I Could Tell You It’s Gotten Better. It Hasn’t
3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Hitting the limits of APFS is both easy and confusing
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited (2005) [pdf]
3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Planet Needs a New Internet
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Sweden's Klarna becomes biggest fintech firm in Europe
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Neal Stephenson: “Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel” (Talks at Google)
3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned
3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Biochemists discover new insights into what go awry in brains Alzheimer's
3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Julia Language: Multiple Dispatch vs. Function Overloading [video excerpt]
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Intel reveals final details on Ice Lake mobile CPUs
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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'Poop every other day' to protect the environment
3 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of 'illegal' action ahead of election
3 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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HttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services
3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Plastic-Eating Bacteria That Can Break Down PET (2016)
3 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The state of advanced code injections
3 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Streets ahead – Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Another study on the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior, with a lot of caveats
3 points • comment • aug 30, 2019