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Hacker News (Aug 2019)
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Math in Data Science
146 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible
145 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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SharpScript
145 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
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The lat/lon floating point delusion
145 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2012)
145 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform
145 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
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FCC closes telemarketing loophole used by scammers
145 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Colombia fines Uber more than $629k for obstructing regulatory visit
145 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006)
145 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly
144 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years
144 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Why do we need modules at all? (2011)
144 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city
143 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
143 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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The Rule of 2
143 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Facebook Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio
143 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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The Last Working Olivetti Mainframe Sits In a Tuscan High School
143 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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The Gig Economy (2018)
143 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance on the Trail
143 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Open Source Hardware Hearing Aid Part 1
143 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Wine-dark sea
143 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Understanding modern UEFI-based platform boot
143 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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GNU Parallel 2018
142 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News
142 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity
142 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events
141 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
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N-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data
141 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?
141 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
141 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Show HN: I built a poker site with Haskell
141 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
141 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome
141 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Dwindling CPAN Releases
141 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications
140 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds
140 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Launch HN: Tandem (YC S19) – A Virtual Office for Remote Teams
140 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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A Commercial Path to Fusion
140 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Capital One Cyber Staff Raised Concerns Before Hack
140 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)
140 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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What Germans Are Reading
140 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
139 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
139 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds
139 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles
139 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations
139 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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A Molecular Near Miss
139 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In
139 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World
139 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse
139 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Documentation – Your Secret Weapon
139 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring
138 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
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What we get wrong about meetings, and how to make them worth attending
138 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components
138 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
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JuliaCon 2019 Videos
138 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
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The electric car as a talisman of false hope
138 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch
138 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
138 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms
138 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number
138 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
138 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Why Finland leads the world in flexible work
137 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Show HN: Personal Management System
137 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Supercomputers will start building a 3D map of the world
137 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python
137 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates
137 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
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“Bicycle of the Mind”
137 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
137 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (2010)
137 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Ring has partnered with 400 police forces
137 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
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How Facebook Tracks You on Android (2018) [video]
137 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films
136 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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28Gbps Microstrip with Pepper Jack Cheese as Substrate (2016)
136 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB
136 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
136 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Extreme climate change has arrived in America
136 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide
136 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
136 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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What Companies Are For
136 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++
136 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
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AdoptOpenJDK: Open-source, prebuilt OpenJDK binaries
135 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
135 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Write Fuzzable Code
135 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation
135 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out
135 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum
135 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China
134 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
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An Afternoon in Tokyo with the Man Who Designs Casio G-Shock Watches (2017)
134 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update
134 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation
134 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
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The subversive messages hidden in The Wizard of Oz
134 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Glymphatic system clears toxins in the brain during sleep (2013)
134 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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GlobalFoundries sues TSMC, wants U.S. import ban on some products
134 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1
134 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists
133 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
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Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)
133 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Racket for E-Commerce
133 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story
133 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
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Security flaws caused by compiler optimizations
133 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Launch HN: Memfault (YC W19) – Crashlytics for Firmware
133 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Mosquitoes Changed Everything
133 points • comment • aug 04, 2019