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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude Control (2017)
92 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013)
91 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby
91 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball
91 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries?
91 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
91 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Parenting and Panic
91 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
91 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018)
91 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Fibers aren’t useful for much any more
91 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Amazon Plans $800M Data Center in Argentina
91 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy
91 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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iPadOS Discoverability Trouble
91 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Go Is the New Ruby
90 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Is Getting Worse
90 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (2012) [pdf]
90 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses
90 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Highlight negative results to improve science
90 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Startup options are better than they look (2017)
90 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on our launch
90 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Diagnosing the Steel Failure in the SF Transit Center
90 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator
90 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French (2015)
90 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017)
90 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Quantum Experiment
89 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Offshore wind to become a $1T industry
89 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool
89 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Protests in Catalonia against referendum trial verdict
89 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
89 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Xi Jinping's daughter has returned to US to resume studies at Harvard
89 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions in sudo
89 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of children
89 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network
89 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Egypt uncovers 'huge cache' of ancient sealed coffins
89 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Hundreds shot and beaten as Chile takes to the streets
89 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
89 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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The IT revolution and southern Europe's two lost decades
89 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply
89 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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A historian's critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft
89 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta
89 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer
89 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size
88 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Show HN: CyberWeb – Building a Web Browser from Scratch on Windows 2000 [video]
88 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay
88 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
88 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
88 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love
88 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Recent advances in 3D content understanding
88 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Creativity is bad for UI design (2018)
88 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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The Decline of Stack Overflow
88 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
88 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days
88 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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K-means clustering using sklearn and Python
88 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Computational survivalist
87 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
87 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (2015) [pdf]
87 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you build applications that require zero maintenance?
87 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Sunset Geometry (2016)
87 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
87 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China
87 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Notice of Retraction due to a programming error
87 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it
87 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears
87 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm
87 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
87 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gift for His Daughter
86 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
86 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Computational Photography with Luminar 4
86 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Joint Statement on the GNU Project
86 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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#Script Lisp
86 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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What S.M.A.R.T Stats Can Tell You About a Business
86 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Tall Buildings of the Last Fifty Years
86 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root
86 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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XMPP: A Communication Protocol for the Internet of Things
86 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Show HN: Easy Serverless GraphQL APIs with Serverless Framework AppSync
86 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work
86 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Managing by Outcomes
86 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Function Currying in Go
86 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Show HN: Webwide – a discussion community for web designers, devs and makers
86 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people
86 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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NBA commissioner Silver says Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets GM
86 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
85 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Blizzard Removes Mei Statue from Gear Shop as Hong Kong Embraces Her as Mascot
85 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots
85 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers
85 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Remote war is bad war
85 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Dog Ownership and Survival
85 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games
85 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture [pdf]
85 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
85 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs
85 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services
85 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Does old concrete reveal information about air quality?
85 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Show HN: A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News
84 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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AndOTP Removed from the Google Play Store Due to Donation Link
84 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
84 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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When Introverts Act Like Extraverts (and Vice Versa)
84 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video]
84 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack
84 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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LoCHAid – An ultra-low-cost, affordable and accessible hearing aid device
84 points • comment • oct 21, 2019