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Hacker News (Sep 2019)
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‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’
295 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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LLVM 9.0
294 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001)
294 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future
293 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half
293 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters
292 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Cash/Consent: The war on sex work
292 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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The Riemann Hypothesis
292 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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ORMs Are Backwards
289 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face
288 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Show HN: Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion
287 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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The more you learn, the faster you can learn
287 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
287 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe
286 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
286 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Four common mistakes in audio development (2016)
285 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Ban kids from loot box gambling in games
285 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Maturity
285 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
284 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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No, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from booting
283 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
283 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profit from Endorsements
283 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns
281 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
279 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go
279 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Open-Source Seeds
279 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
276 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)
276 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Show HN: Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support
276 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries
276 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out
274 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]
274 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
273 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
273 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them
273 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions
273 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
273 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel
272 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
272 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Sorry, we can't join your Slack
272 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Fairphone 3 Teardown
271 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2007)
271 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
269 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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PineTime Is a $25 Smartwatch / Companion for PinePhone Linux Phone
269 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do
268 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
268 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
267 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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The One Man MMO Project
267 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind
267 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
266 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
266 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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The Myth of the Wealthy Welder
265 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Simple words that save lives: lessons from “expert talkers”
264 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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WebGPU and WSL in Safari
264 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
263 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)
263 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Interview with Edward Snowden
263 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
263 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
262 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
262 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)
261 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian
261 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster
261 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
260 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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America’s New Sex Bureaucracy
260 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
260 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Crafting Interpreters: Closures
260 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver
259 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
259 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived
258 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
258 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Forever 21, Which Helped Popularize Fast Fashion, to File for Bankruptcy
257 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
257 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Three Tribes of Programming (2017)
256 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]
255 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Against Against Pseudoaddiction
254 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform
253 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly
253 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months
253 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
253 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Culture Fit Interview Questions
253 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies
253 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.
252 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs
252 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)
251 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
250 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Functor, Applicative, and Monad
250 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy
250 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Welcoming Semmle to GitHub
250 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
249 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips
249 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Show HN: Face Generator
249 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Escher-Like Spiral Tilings
249 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers
248 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police
248 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed
248 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review
247 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Going Fast Slowly
247 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles
247 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
246 points • comment • sep 27, 2019