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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
57 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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A Counterintuitive Probability Game
56 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter
56 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Routine glucose monitoring may be unnecessary for people with Type 2 diabetes
56 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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A Navigator for America's Deadliest Cold War ICBM
56 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Beachheads and Obstacles
56 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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CERN's Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conceptual Design Report [pdf]
56 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum
56 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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The type of char + char
56 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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WeWork Rivals Pitch to Win Back Market Share, Try Not to Gloat
56 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail
56 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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DeepSORT: Deep Learning to Track Custom Objects in a Video
56 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
56 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Army War College paper predicts possible collapse of US military within 20 years
56 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
56 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Erdogan Threatens Europe with New Wave of Refugees: Syria Update
56 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust
56 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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The Audio Revolution
56 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down?
55 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don't make obvious
55 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York
55 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside
55 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Southeastern Anatolia, minute by minute
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you
55 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Clustering in R
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud”
55 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents
55 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
55 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Wazo Platform: build carrier-grade programmable IP communication infrastructures
55 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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China introduces facial-recognition step to get new mobile number
55 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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404: Disney Scrubs Winnie the Pooh Off the Internet
55 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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The MIT Dropouts Who Created Ms. Pac-Man (2017)
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Cable Company Fees Add $450 to Typical Annual Bill
55 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
55 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years
55 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Mark Zuckerberg Has Quietly Advised Pete Buttigieg on Campaign Hires
55 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Going from macOS to Ubuntu
55 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
55 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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The Slave of Seriousness
54 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
54 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings
54 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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WeTransfer Migrated to Stripe
54 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Show HN: A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs
54 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Naming and shaming companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests
54 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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CME Group Statement on Vanity Fair Article
54 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Finetuning GPT-2 to Generate Beatles Lyrics
54 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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GitHub Student Developer Pack
54 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Senators propose near-total ban on worker noncompete agreements
54 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Resilience is not a DIY endeavour
54 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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TikTok famous: How the app is turning teenagers into celebrities
54 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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The History of Medicinal Lithium
54 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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I hate Xlib
54 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Stable Memory with Unstable Synapses
54 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Software Test Desiderata
54 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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The Puzzles of Thermopylae
54 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Single malt Scotch whisky targeted by United States tariffs
54 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
54 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain?
54 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife
53 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Erdogan threatens to flood Europe with refugees
53 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Conflicts in the GNU project now affect Guile
53 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless
53 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Climate and Unsheltered Homeless in the Continental United States
53 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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GitHub’s latest security features
53 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Smart speaker system uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing
53 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Houston Rockets general manager apologises for Hong Kong protest tweet
53 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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The “Strong Towns” Book Is Out Today
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs (2018)
53 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Detecting and Geolocating Jammers and Spoofers
53 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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The Evolution of the Hard Hat
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town
53 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Resilience Engineering Papers
52 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms
52 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Microsoft Offers Windows 7 Extended Update Support to SMBs
52 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton's 'geek' community
52 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Quantum gold rush: private funding pouring into quantum startups
52 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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PG&E Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade
52 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test
52 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Stones and Apples
52 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Dropbox Hires New CTO and GM
52 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Edison’s greatest invention was a way of thinking about technology
52 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
52 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning
52 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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WeWork postponed thousands of layoffs because it can't afford to pay severance
52 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Vulcain: A REST-Based Alternative to GraphQL
52 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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StackOverflow's apology on the removal of a moderator(post not votable)
52 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?
52 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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The Profitability Challenge for Challenger Banks
52 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Where do all the censored developers go?
52 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America
52 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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SchemeBBS
51 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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GCC's Assembler Syntax
51 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Germany's cyber-security agency recommends Firefox as most secure browser
51 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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The Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism
51 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
51 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Boeing Engineer Complaint Cites Focus on Profit over Safety on 737 Max
51 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Steve Wozniak: 'I've given up' on Level 5
51 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border
51 points • comment • oct 15, 2019