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Hacker News (Sep 2019)
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Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
246 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study
246 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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My Talk at Microsoft
246 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter
245 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Web Development Simplified with Svelte
245 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier
245 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'
244 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Little Alchemy 2
244 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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The growing science of memory manipulation
243 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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A guide to Oauth2
243 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps
243 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Facebook is trying to register BOOK as trademark in Europe
242 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]
242 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat
242 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Rust in Large Organizations
242 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World
242 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System
242 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas
241 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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How Do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?
241 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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When TCP sockets refuse to die
240 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
240 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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New Mac Pro Tech Specs
240 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport
240 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts
239 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Update from Chef
238 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and puts liens on homes
238 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’
238 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist
238 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents
238 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4
237 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
237 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers
237 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism
235 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
235 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
235 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Creating a Magical Videobooth for a Wedding
235 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Attempto Controlled English
234 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Building a Better Go Linker
234 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours
233 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
233 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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What Is a Tech Company?
233 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
232 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?
232 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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Money as a System of Control (2017)
232 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites
232 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Yogababble
232 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game
230 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
230 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Great products do less, but better
229 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?
229 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
229 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom
229 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Uncomfortable AWS Truths
228 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
228 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul
228 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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String Lengths in Unicode
227 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills
227 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Reddit was down for over two hours
227 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide
227 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
227 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety
227 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
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China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low
227 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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IBM introduces z15 mainframe
225 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, has died
225 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
225 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties
225 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte
225 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (2010)
224 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)
224 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning
224 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media
224 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
223 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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It’s not just p=0.048 vs. p=0.052
223 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x
223 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
223 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
223 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Show HN: Best of Show HN
222 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
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When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness
221 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Git Blame-Someone-Else
221 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
221 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet
220 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed
219 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Open offices are a dead end
219 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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We asked three companies to recycle plastic and only one did
218 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
218 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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The exponential function is a miracle
217 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
217 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Being ‘Indistractable’
217 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]
217 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part
217 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls
216 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa
216 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel
216 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down
216 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Dissatisfied with Docker
216 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
215 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (2009)
215 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]
215 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?
214 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Build a 6502 Computer
214 points • comment • sep 14, 2019