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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
123 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
122 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects
122 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
122 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller
122 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game
122 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900
122 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Police blow up innocent man's home. No recompense, court rules
122 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement
121 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Social Networks That Failed
121 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
121 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf]
121 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
120 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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A neural algorithm for similarity search (2017)
120 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification
120 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively
120 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
120 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2019
120 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Cryptocurrency Startup School
120 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production
120 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
120 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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“Dune” Endures (2013)
120 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Seam Carving
120 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam
120 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)
119 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Interpreting Go
119 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?
119 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
119 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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From rags to Richer: A business success story built on treating people well
119 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB
119 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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PG&E Outage Darkens Northern California Amid Wildfire Threat
119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5
119 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON
119 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (2016)
119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Lego logic gates and mechanical computing
119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A dissident who beats up Tai Chi masters
119 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire
119 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
118 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Essential elements of good documentation
118 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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IBM Responds to Google Claims: On “Quantum Supremacy”
118 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them
118 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Can Computers Prove Theorems?
118 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
117 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?
117 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017)
117 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
117 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
117 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City
117 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Sudo vulnerability
117 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast
117 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)
117 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
117 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Bills
117 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
117 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Video Architecture Search
117 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Massacre
116 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations
116 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode
116 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades
116 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life
116 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong
116 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Royal Society journals are free to access until Oct 27
116 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Fab in India: India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry
116 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Gio: Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go
116 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm
116 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch
115 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia
115 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems
115 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
115 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Ackermann Steering Geometry
114 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs
114 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Lightning Strikes Twice as Much over Shipping Lanes
114 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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China’s Millennials
114 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Docker Hub Registry is down
114 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts
114 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
114 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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An Intern's Experience with Rust
114 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Monty Hall Problem
114 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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DNS over HTTPS–What Is It and Why Do People Care? [pdf]
114 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds
114 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly?
113 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Release
113 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Western firms kowtow to China's increasing economic clout
113 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Facebook and Speech
113 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Attempting to Use GNU Guix
113 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’
113 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?
113 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
113 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself
113 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms
113 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
113 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Perl is dying
113 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Node.js 13.0
113 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos
113 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
113 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Show HN: Glaze – Illustrations for Products and Presentations
112 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Swift compiler driver rewritten in Swift
112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Super Mario Bros. game was just 31 Kilobytes. How's that possible?
112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Cross-Laminated Timber
112 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Snake game made in Go
112 points • comment • oct 31, 2019