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Hacker News (Sep 2019)
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Ask HN: Open-source voice assistants like Siri? Or can I build one on my own?
42 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Show HN: ExhibitDay
42 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons
42 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Quake speedrun record broken after 17 years
42 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects
42 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
42 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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SoftBank is asking for the WeWork IPO to be put on hold
42 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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PyTorch – Tensor computation with strong GPU acceleration
41 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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First fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4
41 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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‘Father is Surgeon,’ ‘1 mil pledge’: The Role of Money in USC Admissions
41 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Scaling in Lower Cost Locations
41 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Recession Already Grips Corners of U.S., Menacing Trump’s 2020 Bid
41 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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A Unified Finite Strain Theory for Membranes and Ropes
41 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Show HN: A platform to share your side project
41 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Trucking 'bloodbath': 4,500 truck drivers lost jobs in August
41 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale
41 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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The Use of Mercury by the First Emperor of China (2015)
41 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD (2010)
41 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man
41 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Tourists Heeding Utah’s ‘Mighty 5’ Campaign Overpower Moab
41 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud Is Not Always Safe
40 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Ultrasound can “see” when tumor cells turn genes on and off
40 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Humans can acquire TB from deer
40 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Toilet paper startups
40 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Intel to Launch Core I9-9900KS Next Month: 5 GHz on All Cores
40 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Great Noir Lives and Dies On Dialogue
40 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Sorry about Computer
40 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (2017)
40 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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An AI learned to play hide-and-seek. Strategies it came up with were astounding
40 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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How kiteboarding was invented
40 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil
40 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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A Frightened Optimist On The Future of Humanity
40 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Chef CEO Defends Contract with ICE
40 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)
40 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Candor, Bluntness, Impedance Matching
40 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Adventures in Curling
40 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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ESA satellite dodges 'mega constellation'
40 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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The economics, risk and ethics of time compression [pdf]
40 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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PoisonTap (2016)
39 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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SMT-COP: Defeating Side-Channel Attacks on Execution Units in SMT Processors
39 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Show HN: Packagr.app – a private package repository with security scanning
39 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Ask HN: YC company walked away with customer funds – alert YC?
39 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM
39 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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WeWork’s List of Potential Conflicts Adds to Questions Ahead of IPO
39 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Enoki: Structured vectorization and differentiation on modern processors
39 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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[Dupe] Richard Stallman Resigns from the FSF after Epstein Comments
39 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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A high-performance, zero allocation, dynamic JSON Threat Protection in pure Go
39 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Reclaim Unreasonable Software
39 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions
39 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling
39 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Not a full timer
39 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Startups are using insect larvae to produce protein-rich animal feed
39 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Why Are American Houses So Big?
39 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you work with the fear of your own incompetence?
39 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Sosml: An Interpreter for Standard ML Written in TypeScript
39 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Historical speed of light measurements in southern California (2014)
39 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Girls’ advantage in reading explains gender gap in math-related fields
39 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system
39 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure
38 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Anatomy of a Coyote
38 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever
38 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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Ask HN: How can I comply with GDPR as a solo founder?
38 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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The Two Squares Puzzle
38 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Doctors say schools should not allow in children who are not vaccinated
38 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Icelandic farmers' secret ingredient: volcanoes
38 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Future Posthumous Autobiography
38 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Linux 5.4 Features Are Huge: ExFAT, New GPUs, Enabling Lots of New Hardware
38 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Stanford researchers find lead in turmeric
38 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Reinforcement Learning 10: Classic Games Case Study (2018) [video]
38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Expert reaction to study on the clinical effectiveness of sertraline
38 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, 1919
38 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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More UFOs Than Ever Before
38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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How to Survive a Lightning Strike (2014)
38 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Where to park your car, according to math
38 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Fed cuts rates on 7-3 vote, gives mixed signals on next move
38 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Show HN: Choose a Word
38 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Kīlauea volcano eruption fosters algae bloom in North Pacific Ocean
38 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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The Perfection of the Paper Clip (2012)
38 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Zelda Games on the Philips CD-i
38 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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This place is pryson
38 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Private Internet Access VPN has been blocked in Hong Kong
38 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Hong Kong Students Boycott Classes on the First Day of the School Year
38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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“They Wanted Me Gone” – Edward Snowden New Book Interview
38 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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People trying to save enough to retire by 40
37 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Ferroelectric RAM
37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Using DynamoDB to Track Changes to DynamoDB
37 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Edwin Drake
37 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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'Red mercury': why does this strange myth persist?
37 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Pourquoi-Pas (1908)
37 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Physicists score double hit in LED research
37 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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The divorce rate has fallen because the demographics of marriage have changed
37 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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An Unholy Alliance Against Public Transit
37 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Common REST API mistakes and how to avoid them
37 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Spoofing emails: The trickery costing businesses billions
37 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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NY Post's photo of Epstein has a 10k PGP key embedded
37 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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xkcd: 562k Accounts breached according to haveibeenpwned
37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Stellar just sent 100M Lumens (worth $5M USD) to 300k Keybase users
37 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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SoundScape: An Interactive Music Visualizer and Beat Builder for the Web
37 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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The Encyclopedia Reader (2016)
37 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Cover story: The curious case of a shared database
36 points • comment • sep 09, 2019