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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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A World Without Power (2013)
206 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Open Startups List
206 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)
206 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Interviews with programming language creators (2010) [pdf]
205 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Making containers safer
205 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens
205 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks
205 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?
204 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully
204 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Flutter looks good, but is painful
203 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Hedonometer
203 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code
203 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)
203 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval
202 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys
202 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier
202 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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What I Do as a DevOps Consultant
201 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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How Does Esperanto Sound?
201 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Case Against Octopus Farming
201 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function
200 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me
200 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Things to Know About GNU Readline
200 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers
200 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]
199 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3
199 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
199 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Rust GUI ecosystem overview
199 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
199 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Unison File Synchronizer
199 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
198 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Michael Cicconetti
198 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
198 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video]
198 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
198 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
198 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
197 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
197 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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What Makes a Good Conversation?
197 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year
197 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Typed Properties in PHP 7.4
197 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Recognizing the signs of disruption in our urban habitat
197 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Why we're saying no to Google
196 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying
196 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
196 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Sunsetting Hire
196 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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MoviePass database exposes 161M records
196 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
196 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]
196 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do
196 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Netflix “13 Reasons Why” linked to 29% increase in teen suicides 1 month later
195 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up
195 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness
195 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Facebook emails show internal concerns being raised about Cambridge Analytica
195 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925
195 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account
195 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study
194 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need
194 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption
193 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud
193 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
193 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic
192 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades
192 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'
192 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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JavaScript: The Modern Parts
192 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Waypipe: GSoC Project Complete
192 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
191 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Why did Turbo Pascal apps fail with a division-by-zero on faster systems?
191 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)
190 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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On-disk format robustness requirements for new filesystems
190 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups
190 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Apple contractors listened to 1k Siri recordings per shift: former employee
189 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Boeing's Crashes Expose Systemic Failings
189 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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From 30 to 230 Docker containers per host
189 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix
188 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless
188 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume
188 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]
187 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function
187 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Where do interrupts happen?
187 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses
187 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks
187 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters
187 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Giving up on Julia (2016)
186 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
186 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
185 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It
185 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison
185 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible
185 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?
184 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory
184 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Keeping Tesla Roadsters Alive Is Serious Work
184 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands
184 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Home 3D metal printing: first results
184 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
183 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Show HN: StoryTime – Create stories about your code instead of documentation
183 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Xfce 4.14 released
183 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013)
182 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Show HN: I wrote a book on Python regular expressions
182 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
182 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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A parrot has a question for humans
182 points • comment • aug 19, 2019