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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Show HN: Deep Work Stats – How much time do you have for deep work?
62 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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A Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’
62 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner
62 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Water rabbits and logs: The nature of Sun Tzu’s war, reexamined
62 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Bank of the Underworld (2015)
62 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Oracle Says Co-CEO Mark Hurd Has Died
62 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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HackPPL: A universal probabilistic programming language
61 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train
61 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Slog: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff
61 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Finding meteorites with 10cm NEXRAD weather radar
61 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Grise Fiord, Canada's most northerly community
61 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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The long history of parents complaining about their kids’ homework
61 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Pathfinder's priority inversion problem, discovered and fixed on Mars (1998)
61 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb
61 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
61 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Is Amazon Unstoppable?
61 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing Library for JavaScript/Node.js
61 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism
61 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population
61 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Ancient Greek Scroll's Hidden Contents Revealed Through Infrared Imaging
61 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Julian Assange extradition judge refuses request for delay
61 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
61 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Google clamps down on free storage
61 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success
61 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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The Demise of Physical Comedy
61 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Farmers sue German government over climate change failures
61 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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The Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius
61 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Scientists pinpoint neural activity's role in human longevity
61 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Engineers without borders, silos, and vendor walls
60 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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The Google Antitrust Investigations – Learning from Germany’s Facebook Inquiry
60 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Timing Technology
60 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff
60 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Designing File Formats (2005)
60 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Ask HN: I want my tech lead's job
60 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Google removes Hong Kong protester role-playing app
60 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Climate change causes Australia to downgrade Great Barrier Reef′s outlook
60 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Rapatronic Camera
60 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Frugal Computing
60 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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The Myth of 10,000 hours
60 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Toru Iwatani, 1986 Pac-Man Designer
60 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Leaked Zuckerberg audio: 'You go to the mat and you fight'
60 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
59 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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History Is Written by the Losers (2016)
59 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads
59 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan Divide
59 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha?
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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NYC Votes to Close Rikers Island
59 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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California Live Fire Maps
59 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you post your email address publicly?
59 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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War Elephants
59 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Minimal Wim
59 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019)
59 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs
59 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Show HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – Automated Causal Analytics
59 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't
59 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make data more useful
59 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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WeWork's Adam Neumann will reportedly get a $1.7b deal to step down from board
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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S3st: Stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal
59 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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The Crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121: Analysis
58 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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An Unexpected Character Replacement
58 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Andrew Yang proposes that your digital data be considered personal property
58 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting
58 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Python is not a great programming language
58 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants
58 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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How to change emotions with a word: study (2018)
58 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt
58 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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An antique audiotape was a dispatch from D-Day
58 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Libc++ 9.0.0 adds explicit support for WASI
58 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Improving maintenance of your Jenkins(file) pipelines
58 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Trees That Survived California Drought May Hold Clue to Climate Resilience
58 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Prewarming PostgreSQL I/O caches
58 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Space: A Major Legal Void
58 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
58 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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U.N. Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300B. Here's How
58 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Jackson Pollock's painting technique
58 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
58 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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How Is Python 2 Supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux After 2020?
58 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations
58 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Six Nines in Pi
57 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The Qualified Manifesto on Hiring Software Developers
57 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Just 6% of US adults on Twitter account for 73% of political tweets
57 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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The Computer as a Communication Device
57 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Statistics have lost their power (2017)
57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK
57 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Terra Nullius
57 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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CBP Agent Rams Vehicle into Videographer
57 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading
57 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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On Authorship and Style (1860)
57 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes
57 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
57 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Logo 15-word challenge (1997)
57 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Insomnia is now part of Kong
57 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Dnscrypt-proxy 2 – A flexible DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols
57 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Teleconsole: Share Your Unix Terminal
57 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Moving Beyond Types (2017)
57 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
57 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Brian May completes stereoscopic 'devil cards' collection
57 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video]
57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019