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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)
239 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing
238 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The WeWork IPO
238 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
237 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
237 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Unusual, evidence-based ways to get better at a new language
236 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Why Clojure?
236 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
236 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project
236 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’
235 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
234 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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PartiQL: One query language for all your data
234 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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WiringPi – deprecated
233 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Building ages in the Netherlands
233 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances
233 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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How to Start with Machine Learning
233 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Thank you, Chris
232 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction
232 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims
232 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips
232 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell
231 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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GCC null pointer check removed
231 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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China’s assault on Cathay Pacific
230 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Cloud
230 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Emacs 26.3
230 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Focus on the high-expectation customer
229 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google
229 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory
229 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust
228 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
228 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years
228 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
228 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels
227 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference
227 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Poetry: Dependency Management for Python
227 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Why I like Clojure
227 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)
227 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
226 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Starbucks, monetary superpower
226 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
224 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Monads as a Programming Pattern
224 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high
224 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow?
224 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Credit cards have a privacy problem
223 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI
223 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre
223 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’
223 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Man and man's best friend have both been experiencing declines in sperm quality
223 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: Lunch Money, a personal budgeting tool with multi-currency support
222 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Using TypeScript with React
222 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon
221 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
221 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Fasting Cure Is No Fad
221 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room
220 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
220 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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XLOOKUP for Excel
219 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale
219 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo
219 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
219 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Racket: Lisp for Learning
218 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities
218 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
218 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website
218 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis
217 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Lumen: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly
217 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their Own Customers
215 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymous threats
214 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
214 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack
214 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion
213 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Levenshtein Distance
213 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: A clean and minimalist theme for Jekyll
213 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video]
212 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields
212 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns
211 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
211 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)
211 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Creeping normality
210 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine
210 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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NASA said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space
210 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Stand Out as a Speaker
210 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
210 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
209 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space
209 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
209 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
209 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure
209 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website
208 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight
208 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young
207 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing
207 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1
207 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time
207 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?
207 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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A World Without Power (2013)
206 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Burnout is real – how to avoid it
206 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work
206 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Open Startups List
206 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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The Tragedy of UCS-2
206 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn
206 points • comment • aug 14, 2019