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Hacker News (Sep 2019)
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Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD”
213 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
213 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?
213 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
212 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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The Highest Suicide Rate in the World
212 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
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The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
212 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker?
211 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Whatever happened to Six Sigma?
211 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Types for Python HTTP APIs
211 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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End Software Patents (2007)
211 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?
210 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Harvesting LinkedIn data for fun and profit
210 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Camera sales are falling sharply
210 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics
210 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms
209 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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There are no adults in the room
209 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to settle claims
209 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)
208 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)
208 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Absolute Scale Corrupts Absolutely
207 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted
207 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones
207 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type
207 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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Wag's new TOS charges users $1000 for going off Wag
206 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei
206 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
205 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
205 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law
205 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)
205 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Facebook Horizon
205 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide
204 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier
204 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Avoiding Intellectual Phase Lock
204 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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Ristretto: A High Performance, Concurrent, Memory-Bound Go Cache
204 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Anxious tech workers are going to therapy
203 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
203 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
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A man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard (2016)
202 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
202 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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American Phrase Book
202 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts
202 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
201 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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How do managers get stuck? (2017)
201 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Metronomes in JavaScript
200 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
200 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
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Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
199 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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DRM Broke Its Promise
199 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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S0lly's Cellivization – Civ 1 Clone in Excel
199 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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Need a USB Cable? Build One
198 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine (2007)
198 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Why industry is going green on the quiet
198 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
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When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone
197 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Billiards Is a Good Game (1975)
197 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python
197 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
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Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics
197 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image
197 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control
197 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators
197 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
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iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs
196 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Warning: Implicit Backdoor
196 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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AI competitions don’t produce useful models
196 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas
196 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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On Sharding
196 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
196 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy
196 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running
195 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
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What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?
195 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx
195 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
195 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper
195 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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New productivity software startups
195 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
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Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes
195 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession
194 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
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How the “Mail & Guardian” got taken down
194 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
193 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
193 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
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Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
193 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Don't build growth teams
193 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
193 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
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Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
193 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
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Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B
193 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life
193 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
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Bloomberg Misreports on Whatsapp Story
193 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
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Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse
192 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Performance metrics for web apps
192 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
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Entropic Gravity
192 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar
192 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
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The Plot to Assassinate Orwell
192 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
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A Love Letter to Personal Websites
192 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
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Why Positive Cashflow Matters
192 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
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US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland
191 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
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Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)
191 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
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Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?
191 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
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Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation
190 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
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Timeline for Logic, λ-Calculus, and Programming Language Theory (2012) [pdf]
190 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
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New York Uncovers $1B in Sackler Family Wire Transfers
190 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
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China Telecom's BGP Hijacking [pdf]
190 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
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Application Layering – A Pattern for Extensible Elixir Application Design
189 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
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Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
189 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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Linux Kernel 5.3
189 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
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The days are long but the decades are short (2015)
188 points • comment • sep 07, 2019