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Hacker News (Sep 2019)
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Neutralizing Tear Gas
107 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Requests moved to Python Software Foundation
107 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Travel without a phone
107 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?
107 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet from Climate Catastrophe
106 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Absurd Design – Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector Art
106 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Porting my website to Workers Sites and Zola
106 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: object dictionaries
106 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews
106 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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What the Ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence
106 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W
106 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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The Legal Gray Zone of Marijuana at Airports
105 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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C++ is not a superset of C
105 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: High-Performance Distributed SQL
105 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Idled Plants
105 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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AndOTP: Open-source two-factor authentication for Android
105 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)
105 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Real-Time Touch Controller for the Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
105 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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America’s Buses Need Our Love More Than Ever (2018)
105 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Socrates Was Against Writing (2011)
105 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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US doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants
104 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Enoki: Structured vectorization and differentiation on modern processors
104 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference?
104 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas
104 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution
104 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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In Russia’s Space Graveyard, Locals Scavenge Fallen Spacecraft (2018)
104 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones
104 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Inside Bill’s Brain
104 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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RSA: Theory and Implementation
104 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything
104 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)
104 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
104 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid
104 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox
103 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does
103 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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On Extractive and Abstractive Summarization with Transformer Language Models
103 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Belgian police forced to stop using facial recognition (Dutch)
103 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 countries
103 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF
103 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Arm and TSMC Showcase 7nm Chiplet, Eight A72 at 4GHz on CoWoS Interposer
103 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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F-35's radar invisibility cloak in question
103 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund
102 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality
102 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data
102 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Using Spotify data to predict what songs will be hits
102 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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How common was it for parents to lose a child?
102 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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WeWork Cleans House, Looks to Trim Staff Close to Ex-CEO, Sell Private Jet
102 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
102 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected
102 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
102 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
102 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
102 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Most Americans see catastrophic weather events worsening
102 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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I’m Suing Lyft
102 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Natural Language in Python Using SpaCy: An Introduction
102 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Modern Script Loading
102 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx
102 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees
102 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?
102 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Remote Code Execution in Firefox beyond Memory Corruptions
102 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Aardvark – Real-time graphics and visualization in F#
101 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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DevOps Topologies
101 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with Disabilities
101 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
101 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
101 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?
101 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery, Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes
101 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Black Blacker Than Vantablack
101 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Basecamp's Protest Google Ad
101 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Ruby One-Liners
101 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Mozilla Launches a VPN, Brings Back the Firefox Test Pilot Program
101 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Cobol Web Development
101 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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The Great Public Market Reckoning
101 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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How to Make Medieval Soap
100 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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How two dead accounts allowed remote crash of any Instagram Android user
100 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism
100 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Flipping your Disk (1981)
100 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Immer is a library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++
100 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates
100 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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The brain may actively forget during REM sleep
100 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
100 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
100 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
99 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Anatomy of a High-Performance Convolution
99 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Do we need to rethink what free software is?
99 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system
99 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Understanding Foreign Interference [pdf]
99 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork
99 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Transformers 2.0: Deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch
99 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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The secret life of open source developers [video]
99 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Schism, a self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler
99 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application
99 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
99 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay
98 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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India’s Restaurants Rebel Against Food Delivery Apps
98 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Mapping Ancient Rome
98 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch
98 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Games Economists Play
98 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Show HN: fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics
98 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle
98 points • comment • sep 26, 2019