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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use
8 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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The Case for a High Carbon Tax Now: Mitigating Risk
8 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video
8 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
8 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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ASCII Shader
8 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
8 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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If everyone ate beans instead of beef
8 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Uyghur scientists swept up in China’s detentions
8 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Bowel cancer screening in younger groups may do more harm than good
8 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Command Line Heroes: Heroes in a Bash Shell
8 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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ABC News is using footage from US gun range claiming from Syria
8 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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DIY Sleep Apnea Screening
8 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Google Funds Climate Deniers
8 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Show HN: The fastest way to run Node code on a schedule
8 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Machine learning isn’t effective at identifying fake news
8 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First
8 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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The Pixelbook Go Is a Smaller Cheaper Google-Made Chromebook
8 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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What’s New in Python 3.8
8 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Microsoft Wants to Censor Xbox Live Voice Chat in Real Time
8 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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.NET Core 3.1 Preview 1
8 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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New Windows 10 Secured-Core PCS Block Firmware-Level Attacks
8 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Real-Time experiment analytics at Pinterest using Apache Flink
8 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups
8 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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OCaml (and ReasonML) Software Foundation
8 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking
8 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Show HN: Equal UI – Vue 2 TypeScript Components Library
8 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Hong Kong government to announce new law banning masks during public assemblies
8 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Which Wrist Watches Do Fighter Pilots Wear in Real Life?
8 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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When inmates design prisons for rehabilitation (2016)
8 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Reports on China ‘organ harvesting’ derive from front groups of Falun Gong cult
8 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control
8 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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An app that translates air pollution into cigarettes
8 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Show HN: Betting game where you can choose your prize or your chance of winning
8 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People
8 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Linux Foundation Introduces a Telemetry Policy for All Projects
8 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
8 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Mess Paper Simulator (2015)
8 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way
8 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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How Telephone Phreaking Worked [video]
8 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The Cult of Rich Kid Sports
8 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
8 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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World’s super-rich hit by private jet pilot shortage
8 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations
8 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge breaks two hour marathon barrier
7 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions
7 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Show HN: ExBERT – A Visual Tool to Explore Representations in Transformer Models
7 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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California: PG&E warns of fresh power shutoffs for 500k due to fire weather
7 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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New report highlights shortcomings of Colorado electronic records retention
7 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Single reaction mixture can produce all four RNA bases
7 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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The gig economy’s deepest problem isn’t about tech at all
7 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Ask HN: What back end features are pain in the ass to build?
7 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, Has Died
7 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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SiFive unveils Shield security architecture
7 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Is Apple Sending Data from 1B Phones to China?
7 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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12 Months of Bootstraping
7 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Civilization and Its Discontents [pdf]
7 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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After using both, I regretted switching from Terraform to CloudFormation
7 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Texas Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $50M from Peter Thiel
7 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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The First Video Game
7 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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The Future of Energy Storage – Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT
7 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Hong Kong protester role-playing game suspended from Google Play Store
7 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Australian government to crack down on climate protestors
7 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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'South Park' Leans into China Censorship Controversy
7 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Computational “Match Game” Identifies Potential Antibiotics
7 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Top Microsoft exec says online privacy has reached 'a crisis point'
7 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Google Search testing new UI update
7 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Apple’s Deep Fusion hands-on: AI sharpens photos like HDR fixes colors
7 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries
7 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Beauty and the Code
7 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Master list of U.S. micro-VC's
7 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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How to Spot a Toxic Person in the First 5 Minutes [video]
7 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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On the Weaknesses of the Mathematical Mind
7 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Why I Wanted to Be a Reactor Officer
7 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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BentoML: A platform for serving and deploying machine learning models
7 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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New Surface Laptop 3 with a 15-inch model, new aluminum finish and USB-C
7 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Show HN: Online SVG XML Editor
7 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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BBC News heads to the dark web with new Tor mirror
7 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon (German) folk dance
7 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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California blackouts are a self-inflicted mess
7 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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I analyzed 10 years of my Amazon Purchase History
7 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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LeBron James’s Big Miss on China
7 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Building the Worlds Newest Amiga – The A500 (2/3)
7 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Feeling lonely? You’ve got company
7 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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MacLean and Smedley: love among the scientists (2015)
7 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Is Rust a good choice for web services?
7 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Surge Robots: Holiday Hiring Finds Automation
7 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Dallas jury convicts ex-police officer who fatally shot neighbor
7 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system
7 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Suspected fire on weather radar in Minnesota turns out to be 600k ducks
7 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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You can't see or remove non-amazon devices from your Amazon account
7 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Time and Relative Dimension in Space
7 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Hiring managers, describe the best developer portfolio / personal site
7 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Billionaires Acting Like a Persecuted Minority Is Peak Capitalism
7 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast
7 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Migrate Your AWS Node.js Lambda Functions to Kubernetes
7 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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'White terror': Hong Kong's China critics beaten in targeted attacks
7 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Leader of Largest US Organic Food Fraud Gets 10-Year Term
7 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Bot finds bugs and submits patches, masquerading as human
7 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Ask HN: Where are all the Apple Watch apps?
7 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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The Bitcoin Machine: 21 Levers that move it's price
7 points • comment • oct 04, 2019