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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Mu: A Human Scale Computer
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
46 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra
46 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Physicists searching for dark matter using lead from the bottom of the sea
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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KDE Plasma Mobile weekly update: part 2
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Qantas launches inspection blitz after cracks found on Boeing 737 jet
45 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Ask HN: What happens after no-deal Brexit?
45 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Legitimate-Ish Use of Alloca()
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong
45 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Nobel Prize: Lithium Ion Battery Creators Led a Revolution
45 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Engineering a Sort Function (1993) [pdf]
45 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Why We're Drawn into Darkness
45 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera
45 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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How I went from stay-at-home-mum to landing my first web developer job
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Postmates’ new IPO delay indicates Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley
45 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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A Scheduler for the Internet
45 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems
45 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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What costs are exponentially dropping?
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Catalonia protestors use distributed network to securely organize protests
45 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Abandoning a Cat
45 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Lion-Man
45 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream
45 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
45 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Adult Day Cares in the Rio Grande Valley
45 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Happy 15th Birthday, Ubuntu
45 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Sun Belt Cities Are Dangerous Places to Walk
44 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Tesla, in SEC filing, says U.S. auto sales fell by $2B
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Zuckerberg asserts Facebook stands for free expression
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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A Sleeping Disorder That Turns Life into a Waking Dream
44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux
44 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]
44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print
44 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Would you switch to a 4-day-a-week schedule if you could?
44 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A little SSH file copy magic at the command line
44 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Pro (noun.), abbreviation of Professional: born 1798, died 2019, aged 221
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Apple Removes Quartz News App from Chinese App Store
44 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm
44 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-angstrom resolution
44 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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The lies I told for insurance companies about 'Medicare for All' worked
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Drivers are killing pedestrians at highest rate in almost 30 years
44 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US, 1979-2016
44 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way
44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse?
44 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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The Origin of the Foot Rail
44 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Show HN: C++ Implementation of the Paper Median Filter in Constant Time
44 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”
44 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal
43 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting
43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies (2012)
43 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Whois++
43 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Ask HN: I'm losing faith in all we've invested in Apple software, what do I do?
43 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Game Boy SoC (DMG-CPU) reverse-engineered from the die photos
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Her iPhone died. It led to her being charged as a criminal
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, University of Oxford
43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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How to not get scammed hiring remote freelancers on Upwork
43 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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What Is the “Length” of a String?
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Tesla’s Summon-Your-Car Feature Spurs U.S. Safety Inquiry
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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She Heard Her Brain in Action (2013)
43 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you move up in professional status as a remote worker?
43 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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The Dark Side of Light
43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s (2013)
43 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Show HN: Opal implementation of a simple server with Express and Socket.io
43 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test
43 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Show HN: You will die in X weeks
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor
43 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Iraq army fire on unarmed civilians protesting(video, graphic)
43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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The Rosie Pattern Language
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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UK govt considering facial recognition to verify age of online users
43 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says league will not apologize to China
43 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Robots Are Catching Up to Humans in the Jobs Race
42 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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AT&T Hikes Online-TV Prices Up to 30% in Second Boost This Year
42 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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China’s Youth Are Caught in the Cult of Nationalism
42 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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A Beginner's Guide to Deep Reinforcement Learning
42 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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The Private Life of Lord Byron
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Why the Novel Matters
42 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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The Structure of DNA
42 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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In 1964 a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off New York’s Biggest Jewel Heist
42 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Facebook may be gathering residential WiFi networks
42 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending
42 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881)
42 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival
42 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (1921) [pdf]
42 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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A Philosopher's Case Against Replay Review
42 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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GNU Binutils 2.33.1
42 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Notepad++ v7.8.1: Free Uyghur
42 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Ask HN: How to cope with burnout every 6 months?
42 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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The End of Oz
42 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Using a Raspberry Pi and LED to send morse code to a smartphone
42 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Voyage Around My Cell
42 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Courts reshape the rules around AI
42 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Show HN: Virtual Card Read-Punch – Punch, Read, Execute Virtual Punch Cards
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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The Dangers of “Cancel Culture” are Distant and Abstract
42 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook
41 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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An Interactive HashiCorp Vault Shell
41 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet
41 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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NBA chief Adam Silver says profit can't come before the league's principles
41 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Fine tuning full text search with PostgreSQL 12
41 points • comment • oct 31, 2019