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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Off-Facebook Activity
162 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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North American versus European distribution systems (2011)
162 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act
161 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party
161 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite
161 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality
161 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Alcohol Belts of Europe
161 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
160 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Static Type Checking in Common Lisp
160 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Running Lisp in Production (2015)
160 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)
160 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera
160 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1
160 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Old Paris Is No More
160 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code
160 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The Browser Monopoly
160 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years
160 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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N.Y.P.D. Adds Children as Young as 11 to Facial Recognition Database
160 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures with RabbitMQ
159 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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P++ idea: FAQ
159 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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O Oberlin, My Oberlin
159 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
159 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
159 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Standard JS: npm install funding
159 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts
159 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
158 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements
158 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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How to become a great impostor
158 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Kegan's Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness
158 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning
158 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Highlights from Git 2.23
157 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Crossword Panic of 1944
157 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead
157 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
157 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Small towns in much of the country are dependent on punitive fines and fees
157 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Datacenter Locations Driven by 19th Century Politics
157 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Interslavic Language
156 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Announcing Notqmail
156 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months
156 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Libspng – C library for reading and writing PNG files
156 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Court Rules That “Patent Troll” Is Opinion, Not Defamation
156 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (2014)
155 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain
155 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)
155 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over Friends’ Social Media Posts
155 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked
155 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
155 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis
154 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
154 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon
154 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Why the French love to say no
154 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
154 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?
154 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession
154 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning
153 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Website Builder Webflow (YC S13) Went from Near Bankruptcy to $72M Series A
153 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4
152 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)
152 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns
152 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)
152 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash
152 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector
151 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Facebook uploads all system libraries on your Android
151 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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J can look like APL or English
151 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters
151 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Exploring Mathematics with Matplotlib and Python
151 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Being basic as a virtue
151 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Living Off the Land in Linux
151 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Julia v1.2
151 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Julia's Release Process
151 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Speeding Up Traffic
151 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image
151 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Food is free if you know where to look
150 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
150 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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If you must run Windows 10
150 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016)
150 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Using bacteria to make self-healing cement
150 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability (2012)
149 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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10 Years SeL4: Still the Best, Still Getting Better
149 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Better Encrypted Group Chat
149 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Photos taken by the EPA reveal America before pollution was regulated
149 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Finnair Flight 915
148 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?
148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]
148 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits
148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog
148 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over
148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
148 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Chicken Hypnotism
148 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |
148 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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TV detector van
147 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked
147 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
147 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]
146 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints
146 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Geocities Archive
146 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde
146 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Crispr now cuts and splices whole chromosomes
146 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
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When to Shut Down a Startup [video]
146 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Moravec's Paradox
146 points • comment • aug 15, 2019