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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised
269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)
269 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
269 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?
268 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Messages via JSON
267 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics
266 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
265 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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The Future of Mathematics? [video]
265 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder
265 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals
265 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions
264 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)
263 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
263 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
263 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
263 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms
263 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
262 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
262 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management
262 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
262 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?
261 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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PyTorch Mobile
261 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer
261 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA
261 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
259 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
259 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
259 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems
258 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Bazel Release 1.0
258 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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California power outage triggers chaos in science labs
258 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report
257 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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My Vision of D’s Future
256 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
256 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
256 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
255 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement
255 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
254 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design
254 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
254 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
254 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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The Unix Game
254 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
253 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
252 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account
251 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé
251 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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How we hit our $30k ARR milestone
251 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA
250 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US
250 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Working asynchronously
250 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources
250 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic
249 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
248 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Why you should have a side project
248 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
248 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?
248 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by using volunteer moderators?
247 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers
246 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Unix Turns 50
246 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum
245 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses
245 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?
244 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
244 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Panopticlick
244 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Visualizing Music with GANs
244 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Update on free software and telemetry
244 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Pizza Hut’s First Website
242 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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2019 Js13kGames Winners
242 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Assange in Court
242 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
242 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
241 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it
241 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
241 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
240 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers
239 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints
239 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Which Planet Is Closest?
238 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
238 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered
238 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Homemade IC (2018)
237 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
237 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn
237 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications
237 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
237 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
236 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society
236 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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What You Can't Say (2004)
236 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
236 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Calculus for the Curious
236 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)
235 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicated server and Go
235 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
235 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Remove default "terraform" partner_id
235 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
235 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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My favorite Rust function
234 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
234 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter
234 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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JavaScript Is C
234 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
233 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)
233 points • comment • oct 24, 2019