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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
182 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech
182 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Civilizational Collapse, Part 4
182 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Updating our advertising policies on state media
182 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors
182 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013)
182 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (2011)
181 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016)
181 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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On me, and the Media Lab
180 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Suicide Prevention Hotline Number Should Be 3 Digits, 988, Agency Says
180 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?
179 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything
179 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies
179 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Introduction to Svelte
179 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Computer Science Illustrated (2014)
179 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain
179 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch
178 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses
178 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Nonplanar Printing
178 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
178 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M
177 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
177 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On
177 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
177 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models
176 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Hiring Is Broken?
176 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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The Principia Discordia (1963)
176 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)
176 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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I found an easter egg from 1977
176 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls
175 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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'It's crazy': Chase forgiving all debt owed by its Canada credit card customers
175 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon
175 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike
175 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
175 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
175 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)
175 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Dyson Tree
175 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Franky Zapata: Flyboarding Frenchman crosses English Channel
174 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check (2018)
174 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data
174 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Cathay CEO lists self instead of giving names to CCP
174 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
173 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Tumblr
173 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
173 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Dignity
172 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders
172 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (2016)
172 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’
172 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
172 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail
172 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware
172 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones and smart home devices
171 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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YouTube blocks recording of public domain Schubert/Liszt composition
171 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone
171 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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China lets yuan break 7-per-dollar level for first time in over a decade
170 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study
170 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Bulk Data Structures C++
170 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail
169 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet
169 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat
169 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records
168 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
168 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster
168 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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More Fires Now Burning in Angola, Congo Than Amazon
167 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
167 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Bill Gates Resume (1974)
167 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Peloton S-1
167 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Parallelism in PostgreSQL
166 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Show HN: TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game
166 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Show HN: Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work
166 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child
166 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Somehow I Became Respectable
166 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry
166 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program
166 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls
166 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
166 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Helsinki Central Library chosen as the best new public library
166 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer
166 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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House Prices Drop Again in San Francisco and Silicon Valley
165 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder
165 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
165 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Martin (2018)
165 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Basic Electron Framework Exploitation
165 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Why a mock doesn’t work
164 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency
164 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Brazil has the power to save the Amazon rainforest, or destroy it
164 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Tech backlash has come to Stanford
164 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
164 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago
164 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Escape rooms are big business
164 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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I Took a Pay Cut for a More Meaningful Job
163 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Patterns on goods designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers
163 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)
163 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Disassembling the Sony FE 135mm F/1.8 GM
163 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Social share buttons that don't allow the social sites to track your users
163 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
163 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group
162 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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North American versus European distribution systems (2011)
162 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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US Appeals Court Voids Google Cookie Privacy Settlement That Paid Users Nothing
162 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Off-Facebook Activity
162 points • comment • aug 20, 2019