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Hacker News (Sep 2019)
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Quietly another drug candidate disappears
72 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law
72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments
72 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Gatekeeper – Policy Controller for Kubernetes
72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Making the Mind: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurture debate (2003)
72 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup
72 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Resources for Learning about Databases
72 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars by InSight
72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Mathematics as a Cultural Force
72 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Minimum unit pricing may have helped reduce alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow
72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production
72 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Modern Applications at AWS
72 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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College, Calculus, and the Problem with the SAT
72 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based database
71 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Venus’ Ocean of Air and Clouds
71 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble
71 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
71 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Safari 13 Is Out
71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
71 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data
71 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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The Meritocracy Trap
71 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics
71 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Reverse Engineering – The Golden Age of Computer Hacking (2018)
71 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the NPM ecosystem
71 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Ask HN: Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team?
71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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LED multiplexing layouts for hand-crafting
71 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Fine-Tuning GPT-2 from Human Preferences
71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?
71 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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New PDFex attack can exfiltrate data from encrypted PDF files
71 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Show HN: Making pro weather data free for Hurricane Dorian
71 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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First Librem 5 Smartphones Are Shipping
71 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Waveglow Inference in CUDA C++
71 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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The worrying state of Mediterranean fish stocks (2017)
70 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Mont Blanc: Glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn
70 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Anti-intellectualism in American Life
70 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl in Latin
70 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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How streaming is changing songs
70 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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OpenBSD Disabled DoH by Default in Firefox
70 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Should you buy your stock options when you quit?
70 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Rivals aim to document Facebook, Google strong-arming
70 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Xilinx FPGA Board for Arduino
70 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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We need decentralized communication
69 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850k malware infections
69 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit
69 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Goodhart’s Law: Are Academic Metrics Being Gamed?
69 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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How War Made the Cigarette
69 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Where Dollar Bills Come From
69 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs
69 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Show HN: Cherry2.0 – text classification without ML knowledge needed
69 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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The Handshake Network wants to reinvent DNS
68 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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A Low-Fare Loophole for International Travelers
68 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995)
68 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Orangutan with Human Rights Begins New Life in Florida
68 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Libraries Are Scanning Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
68 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)
68 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Former developer at software company deletes his code to protest its ties to ICE
68 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments
68 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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DOMPurify, Security in the DOM, and Why We Really Need Both [pdf]
68 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Why Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Epstein’s money
68 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013)
68 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Avoid 100vh on Mobile Web
68 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick
68 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access?
68 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Starship – a cross-shell prompt written in Rust
68 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G
67 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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I study collapsed civs. Here’s my advice for a climate change apocalypse
67 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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I Have No Idea What “Hard Work” Means
67 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work
67 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Energy of the 229 Th nuclear clock transition
67 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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A recent study of Harvard’s admissions practices
67 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf]
67 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
66 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Houses are assets, not goods
66 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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A Taxonomy of Moats
66 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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SoftBank and WeWork Are as Bad as Each Other
66 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Coleslaw: Static Site Generator in Common Lisp
66 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars
66 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Lithium-ion test results to be used as benchmarks for new battery technologies
66 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Python is not context free (2012)
66 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Going beyond images with basic video for the web
66 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
65 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?
65 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta)
65 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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The Psychology of Serial Killer Movies
65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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President Tyler, born in 1790, still has two living grandsons (2018) [video]
65 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data
65 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
65 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Show HN: Quickly generate REST API (for Postgres db)
65 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace
65 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Extreme Light Intensities Using Optically Curved Relativistic Plasma Mirrors
65 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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A Reflection on the Departure of RMS
65 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Acknowledging public sex changed how walkers interacted with Paris
65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Conference Speakers, Check Your Egos
65 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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SEC Charges Comscore Inc. and Former CEO with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud
65 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism
65 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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I dropped out of MIT and started a new college in San Francisco, AMA
65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Classroom Technology Doesn’t Make the Grade
65 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Preventing GPS spoofing is hard, but you can at least detect it
65 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors
65 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Z – A dynamic functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript
64 points • comment • sep 13, 2019