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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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The state of Android updates is still dire
136 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues fertility clinic
135 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Thanks Gitlab
135 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Everything Is Private Equity Now
135 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Fish: A command line shell for the 90s
135 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
134 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?
134 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists
134 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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California Blocks Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition
134 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core
134 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
134 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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String Diagrams for Linear Algebra
133 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
133 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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No XBL Components Left in Firefox
133 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
133 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations
133 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Stańczyk
133 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts
133 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
133 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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My own private Iceland
133 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent
133 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Machine learning in UK financial services
133 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
132 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'
132 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Hash tables
132 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system
132 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
132 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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The Walking Arm Trebuchet
132 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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How Much Money Do Parking Lots Make?
132 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
131 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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PuTTY 0.73
131 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack
131 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
131 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Pigs recorded using tools
131 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1,650 per Canadian
130 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida
130 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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International Repair Day
130 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers
130 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax
130 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App
130 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Monzo: How our security team handle secrets
129 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)
129 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros
129 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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A History of Pizza
129 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Free for Developers
129 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
129 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
129 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test
129 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers
129 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Principal Component Analysis
129 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
128 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard
128 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?
128 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
128 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The Birth of Standard Error (2013)
128 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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YouTube Regrets
128 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name
127 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People
127 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool
127 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Tilton
127 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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IMO Grand Challenge
127 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Japanese KitKats Are Replacing Plastic Packaging with Origami Paper
127 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Early-career setback and future career impact
126 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Web Based Qt Design Viewer
126 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more
126 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package
126 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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My God, It’s Full of Dots
126 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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The Necessity of Nuclear
126 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Artifact: What Went Wrong?
125 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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We Never Paid for Journalism
125 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Internet Exchange Map
125 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house
125 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)
125 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
125 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
125 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
125 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room at Saudi Summit
125 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Why open hardware needs open software
125 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds
125 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Terror management theory
125 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study
125 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Software Is Hard (2007)
124 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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RISC V: A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants
124 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram
124 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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DoNotPay app waits on hold for you
124 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Amish Counter Top Kitchen Appliances Run Off Compressed Air (2012)
124 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Mir Books
124 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport
124 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters
124 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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The myth of inevitable technological progress
124 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)
124 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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SpaCy v2.2
124 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Kim Peek
123 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Taboola and Outbrain are merging to create a clickbait giant
123 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
123 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history
123 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
123 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]
123 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Unit 731
123 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire
123 points • comment • oct 01, 2019