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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
185 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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It was Bill Joy's password, not Ken Thompson's, that had a control character
185 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
185 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)
185 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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SQLite is easy to compile
184 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
184 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Show HN: I've made a rotary dial number input, because why not?
184 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Designing a COM Library for Rust
184 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
184 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Frab – free and open conference management system
184 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite
184 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist
184 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Show HN: Change Python code while it's running using a reloading loop
183 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails
183 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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ET Don't Phone Home
183 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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We moved our servers to Iceland
183 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users
182 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
182 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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How bullying may shape adolescent brains
182 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook's Libra Network
182 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
182 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Preparing for 25 Years
182 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says
181 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees
181 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Which Way Do You Run?
181 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for facial recognition
181 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?
181 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm
181 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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A Useful Thing in Bash
181 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
181 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
181 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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A New R6RS Scheme Compiler
180 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Faces of Open Source
180 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Working with Errors in Go 1.13
180 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Fractional Brownian Motion for Terrain Generation
180 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Biology Is Eating the World
179 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability
179 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Why some software developers hate Agile
179 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
179 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
179 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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The Isle of Man is not in the UK
179 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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BPF at Facebook and beyond
178 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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How oral contraceptives may affect women’s minds
178 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Key Change
178 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years
178 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
177 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet
177 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant
176 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all
176 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Tina is not a CMS
176 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing
176 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Court says FCC’s net neutrality repeal can’t stop state laws
176 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe
176 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
176 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Victor Mono – A free programming font
175 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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U.S. Seeks to Heighten Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in Tech, Infra, Data
175 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
174 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Betrayal at Krondor
174 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain
174 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)
174 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping
174 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?
174 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done
174 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Hams must remove repeaters from CA mountaintops or pay huge fees [pdf]
173 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
173 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420
173 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes
173 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes
172 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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The crisis in physics is not only about physics
172 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed
171 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
171 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster
171 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
171 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices
171 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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The $10m Engineering Problem
171 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Twitter “Silenced” Dissenting Voices During Protests in Egypt: Research
171 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
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New chips for machine intelligence
171 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public health crisis
171 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak
170 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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The privacy trade-offs of cheap Android smartphones
170 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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RaptorCS's redemption: the POWER9 machine works
170 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend
170 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
170 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be flooded by a dam
170 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies
169 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
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The Internet and the Third Estate
169 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)
169 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks
169 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices
169 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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We Don't Want to Run This Ad but Forced To
168 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
168 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Startpage is now owned by an advertising company
168 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Show HN: Magic Sandbox – hands-on Kubernetes training on real infra
168 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules
168 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
168 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
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Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside
167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
167 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy
167 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
167 points • comment • oct 15, 2019