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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU
112 points • comment • oct 25, 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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Snake game made in Go
112 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Swift compiler driver rewritten in Swift
112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)
112 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016
112 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Qt for Android better than ever before
111 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Lyft No Longer Showing What Individual Passengers Pay on Trips
111 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
111 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Niantic's apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go
111 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
111 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash
111 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor
111 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived
111 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)
110 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Carbon – Create and share images of your source code
110 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?
110 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says
110 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem
110 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Dropbox CTO Resigns
110 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Please think architecture (2007)
110 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance
109 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Cell and Molecular Biology Animated Textbooks
109 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO
109 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility
109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)
109 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
109 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok
109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Solving a linear optimization problem on incentive allocation
109 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth
109 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)
109 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE
109 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Learning How to Prove: From the Coq Proof Assistant to Textbook Style
108 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Goodyear Inflatoplane
108 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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TypeScript 3.7 Beta
108 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data
108 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult
108 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Show HN: Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps
107 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites
107 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications
107 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production
107 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement
107 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Back from the Blender Conference
107 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
107 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The Acid Farmers
107 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State
107 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Fast HSV to RGB Conversion
106 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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OpenAI's blog post about "solving the Rubik's cube" and what they actually did
106 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work
106 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Under-Investigated Fields
106 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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What's Coming in Go 1.14 [slides]
106 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources
106 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS
106 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Static analysis of an unknown compression format (2012)
106 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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OpenVMS: state of the x86 port
106 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h
106 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Why is Middle School so hard?
106 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (1972)
105 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)
105 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
105 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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“Rule the Waves”: a game of naval strategy (2016)
105 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Dallas school district starts video game teams on 64 campuses
105 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer
105 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
105 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
105 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Show HN: Memos – Search engine for your screenshots and photos
105 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
105 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Google Announces .new Domain Availability
105 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file?
105 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong
105 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server
105 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack
104 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Launch HN: zeroheight (YC S19) – UX design docs that stay up-to-date
104 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
104 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane
104 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery
104 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Show HN: Transform Data Without Programming
104 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries
104 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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A National Privacy Law Is Nowhere in Sight
104 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Google – polling like it's the 90s
104 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50
104 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL'ed code”
104 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them
104 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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The PDP-7 Where Unix Began
104 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Peter Ratcliffe's Nobel Prize Winning Study Was Rejected by Journal
103 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound
103 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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What the Hell Was Modernism?
103 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Show HN: Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust
103 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations
103 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max
103 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
103 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: Mac toolbar app to show electricity cutoff schedule
103 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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New ‘infrared vision’ technique can help with cancer immunotherapy
103 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
103 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status
103 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Who does that server really serve? (2010)
103 points • comment • oct 28, 2019