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Hacker News (Oct 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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Double Slit Experiment No Mystery
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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A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory
102 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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I Can Eat Glass
102 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover
101 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Shenanigans in the Microkitchen
101 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Show HN: Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead
101 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality
101 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Green AI
101 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Show HN: Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager
101 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Lost transcription of Tale of Genji chapter found in Japanese storeroom
101 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
101 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death
100 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
100 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
100 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
100 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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India’s elephant-friendly tea garden
100 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C
100 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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The Cloud and Open Source
100 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits
100 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Airbnb in the Himalayas
99 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a 'pretty' table
99 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
99 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'
99 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Small Clojure Interpreter
99 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
99 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
99 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Show HN: A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django
99 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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The Beauty of COBOL (2018)
99 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
99 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
99 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials
99 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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“May You Live in Interesting Times”
99 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Beating C with Dyalog APL
99 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Apple is not your friend
98 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications
98 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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The Mail from Budapest (1993)
97 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Letting Bird’s scooters fly free
97 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Launch HN: Mutiny (YC S18) – Website Personalization for B2B Companies
97 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
97 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid
97 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Guitar Machine
97 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Typhoon Lands in Japan – Windy Storm-Tracking Platform
97 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Number of Self-Published Titles Jumped 40% in 2018
97 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Apple IIa – ROM for the Apple IIe That Compiles Basic (2018)
97 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab (2018)
96 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Rise of the Mathematicians
96 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
96 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Fantasy console on a console
96 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Show HN: A Gnus Back End for HN
96 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk
96 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
96 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder
96 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
96 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
96 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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SiFive U8-Series Core IP
96 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging
96 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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We Sold Pando
96 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Eight Tons of Punk
96 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming
96 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation
96 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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California Can Expect Blackouts for a Decade, Says PG&E CEO
95 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Google Announces Nest WiFi
95 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Enable Pages access control
95 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs
95 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Non-Green Plants (2013)
95 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Streamlit launches open-source machine learning application dev framework
95 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
95 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
95 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat
95 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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I'm a Google SWE that's coached 50 through the FAANG interview process. AMA
95 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers
95 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Most interesting mathematics mistake? (2009)
95 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI
95 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too)
94 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal
94 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
94 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Decorators in Go using embedded structs
94 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)
94 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Tim Cook’s internal email about HKmap
94 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer
94 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity
93 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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KeePassXC 2.5
93 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans
93 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
93 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks
93 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant
93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use
93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype?
93 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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I tried to hack my insomnia
93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Punishing Blizzard for anti-HK partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests
93 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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USB-C Has Finally Come into Its Own
93 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro
93 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships
92 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
92 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?
92 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners
92 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source (2015)
92 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude Control (2017)
92 points • comment • oct 17, 2019