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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
148 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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No Radical Changes in GNU Project
148 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says
148 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew
148 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
148 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Why Graphiti?
148 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates
148 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3
148 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Httpx: A Ruby HTTP library
148 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
148 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools
147 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
147 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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GitHub and US Government Developers
147 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
147 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations
147 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row
147 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
147 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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How to Read “Gilgamesh”
146 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Apple Q4 Results
146 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Love Letter to Clojure
146 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job
146 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
146 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts
146 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Show HN: Slouch Stoppah
146 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Why EdDSA held up better than ECDSA against Minerva
146 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Is Death Reversible?
145 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/children of alumni/donors
145 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room
145 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit
145 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet
145 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Mun Programming Language
145 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
145 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Software projects written in Haskell
144 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?
144 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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On Recent Controversial Events
144 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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The Wonders of the Suffix Tree Through the Lens of Ukkonen’s Algorithm
144 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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NixOS 19.09
144 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms
144 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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The myth of the teacher pay gap?
144 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Bhopal disaster
144 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator
143 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook
143 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy
143 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Understanding the OWASP list
143 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
143 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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A new hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips
143 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
143 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Scientists create device that cuts desalination costs by 90%
142 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo
142 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool
142 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices
142 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
142 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit
142 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)
141 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
141 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI, and its source code (2017) [video]
141 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Telling Whiskey from Whisky
141 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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The FBI Lost Our Son
141 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters
141 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Men hold more positive attitudes towards ex-partners than women do
141 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Square Canada has a Cuban coffee issue
141 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Show HN: Small Clojure Interpreter
141 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
140 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks
140 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family
140 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
140 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer
140 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Why async fn in traits are hard
140 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
140 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]
140 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
140 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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We May Not Have to Age So Fast
140 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
140 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Tech giants have hijacked the web – Some innovators are developing new platforms
139 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Lua 5.4.0 beta
139 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations
139 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Solving the Wrong Problem (2011)
139 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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BZFlag
139 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch
139 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018)
138 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories
138 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault
138 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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An Update on Plugin Security
138 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test
138 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Show HN: Micro CRM, a CRM for People Who Hate CRMs
138 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database
138 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Craftsmanship – The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset (2018)
138 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]
137 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Why are cars killing more pedestrians?
137 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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A Landmark Climate Trial Turns on Whether Exxon Cooked the Books
137 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Open Libra: An open platform for financial inclusion
137 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Australia’s Darling River is running dry
137 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada and SPARK
137 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste, a Nobel winner suggests
137 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Google and Ambient Computing
136 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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The state of Android updates is still dire
136 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Potatos are as effective as carbohydrate gels for prolonged cycling performance
136 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
136 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down
136 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories
136 points • comment • oct 12, 2019