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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra
231 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible
231 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Great apes appear to have “theory of mind”
231 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks
231 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
231 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble
231 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (2013)
231 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64
231 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
231 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Baking a Better Loaf of Bread
230 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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No Maintenance Intended
230 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumping of hazardous waste
230 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome?
230 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you turn off notifications
230 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees
230 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Tor Browser 9.0
229 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing
229 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression
229 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview
229 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon
228 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Compact Disc Structure
228 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
228 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
228 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water
228 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
228 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Plants “panic” when it rains
227 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction
227 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls
227 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of 'bodies smashed'
227 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%
226 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht
226 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Practice Sight-Reading Music
226 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Tcl: Everything Is a String
225 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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ProtonMail iOS app goes open source
225 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
225 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal
225 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization
225 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report
224 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]
224 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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A GUI framework for C# console applications
224 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Alf.io: open-source ticket reservation system
223 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network
223 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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The Story of the Team Behind the 6502
223 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
223 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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I hate living in my tiny house
222 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler
222 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive
222 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
222 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
221 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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UTF-8 history (2003)
221 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
221 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Fast inverse chirp z-transform found
220 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?
220 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
220 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public
220 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
219 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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The iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera
219 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?
219 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
219 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical aviation
219 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Small C Compilers
219 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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LibreOffice latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina
219 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
218 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify
218 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
218 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3
217 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
217 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
216 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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OpenBSD 6.6
216 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Looping Music Seamlessly
216 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
216 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Rustup 1.20.0
216 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)
215 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
215 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli
215 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report
215 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
215 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position
214 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Project MKUltra
214 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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List of software that has free tiers for developers
214 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Electron 7.0
214 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving
213 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events
213 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton
212 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial
211 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code
211 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
210 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Most first-time visitors to Japan are struck by how clean the country is
209 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
209 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Avoid Working Alone
208 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
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The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
208 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties
208 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Why office workers can't sleep and why that's bad
207 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust
207 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
207 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Global Illumination in WebGL
207 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
207 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
206 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban
206 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator
205 points • comment • oct 18, 2019