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Hacker News (Nov 2019)
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How Magic: The Gathering card sets are designed
38 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
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The Treacherous Optimization (2006)
38 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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In MySQL, never use “utf8”. Use “utf8mb4”
38 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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Search warrant overrides 1M users’ choice not to share DNA with cops
38 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Launch: Basecamp Gets Personal
38 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Eton College exam question asks students to justify the Army killing protesters
38 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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Does Automating the Metro Save Money? (2017)
38 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
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‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
38 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
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'Allow no escapes': leak exposes reality of China's vast prison camp network
38 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance – Patients Paid the Price
38 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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There are now 200k games on itch.io
38 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Big Oil’s Favorite Toy: Supercomputers (2018)
38 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
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Google employee activist says she’s been fired
38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Ask HN: How to get better at taking notes?
38 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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Does malloc lazily create the backing pages for an allocation on Linux? (2009)
38 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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The Mundane, the Mystical, and the Meta
38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Observability Pipelines at Kubecon
38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating
38 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Paris Helped Shape James Joyce
38 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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Rescuers race to save 14k sheep on capsized cargo ship
38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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SEC Wins Jury Trial in Layering, Manipulative Trading Case
38 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Envoy, Ambassador and Istio: A Gzip Adventure
37 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
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What WeWork is giving laid-off employees who aren’t named Adam Neumann
37 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its ‘Impossible Whopper’
37 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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IBMs 200K Macs have made the workforce happier and more productive
37 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
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The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
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Ubiquity hardware sends telemetry and it cannot be turned off
37 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Sheryl Sandberg went from feminist hero to total sellout
37 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
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Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo Are the Top Plastic Polluters on the Planet
37 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
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The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
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For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
37 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
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Forcing vegan diet upon kids can lead to jail time in Belgium
37 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing Library for Java
37 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
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Turing as a Runner (1999)
37 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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PgFincore – A set of functions to manage pages in memory from PostgreSQL
37 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
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E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper
37 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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Gopass – The Team Password Manager
37 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Three Mysterious Philanthropists Fund Fourth-Largest U.S. Charity (2014)
37 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Crumpled Outfits Drove Me to Create Origami-Style Dresses
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
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Facebook Ads removed our permissions, still charges us money
37 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
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"My phone's camera is damaged and makes noise upon activation..."
36 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
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Apple’s credit card is being investigated for discriminating against women
36 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Choosing Go at American Express
36 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community
36 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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AMD launches ridiculously cheap overclockable $49 Athlon 3000G processor
36 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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Unpopular Opinions about Tech
36 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
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The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites
36 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Federal Crime Data Standardization and Analysis
36 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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Deconstructing a Sexploitation Attack
36 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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The Drowned Lands of the Wallkill
36 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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How mantis shrimp make sense of the world
36 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Potted plants do not improve indoor air quality
36 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Google to Acquire Fitbit
36 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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Back to Windows after twenty years
36 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
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Microsoft says yes to future encrypted DNS requests in Windows
36 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
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The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017)
36 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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We Asked People Around the World How They Feel About AI. Here’s What We Learned
36 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Downloading Large Heroku Postgres Backups
36 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
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Risk the kitsch: The life of a concert pianist
35 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
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GitRoyalty – First OSS Paywall
35 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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Show HN: HintPod – Reach product/market fit quicker
35 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
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Broadband Communism: Jeremy Corbyn gets serious about free internet
35 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
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Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot
35 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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Announcing Async-Std 1.0
35 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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The Manila Galleons: Cruel Ships of Prosperity (2016)
35 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Krispy Kreme strikes deal with kid who drives 250 miles to resell its doughnuts
35 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Mechanically transformative electronics, sensors, and implantable devices
35 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
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Show HN: Flowy – A minimal JavaScript library to create flowcharts
35 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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Nearly 1 in 5 Millennial Renters Expect to Rent Forever in Some Metros
35 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
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Ralph Merkle on Space Cryonics and Nanotechnology
35 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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Docker is just static linking for millenials
35 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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Minnesota Public Radio sent us one of the weirdest legal threats ever received
35 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
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Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language
35 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
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Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier
35 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Looking Glass 8K Immersive Display
35 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Tesla tried to have whistleblower SWATTED, arrested, placed mental health hold
35 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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Capital One refused my fraud claim because a chip was used
35 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
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Computational analysis concludes that Molière wrote the plays attributed to him
35 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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The top 1% of app store publishers drive 80% of new downloads
35 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
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T-Fuzz: fuzzing by program transformation (2018) [pdf]
35 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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Python vs. Common Lisp, Workflow and Ecosystem
35 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Portraits in Oil
35 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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The Humanoid Stain: Art lessons from our cave-dwelling ancestors
35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
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Show HN: Serialize++ – Tiny Data Serialization Library for C++
35 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
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The Horizons of Instrument Design: A Conversation with Don Buchla (1982)
35 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
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Is Publishing Too Top-Heavy?
35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
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Show HN: Bel language guide and source code with formatting
35 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Google fires four workers active in labor organizing
35 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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The Case of the Missing Barrels (2017)
35 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
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17th century warships linked to Sweden's historic Vasa found
35 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
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Kubethanos a tool to kill half of your pods randomly to test your system
35 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What is the point of algorithm-heavy interviews?
34 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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Ask HN: Any front end engineers transition to ML/AI engineering? What's it like?
34 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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Calm Before the Storm
34 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Microsoft Fluent Design System
34 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
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PA Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password
34 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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Open vs. Closed Pipes – Flutes vs. Clarinets (2007)
34 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
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Announcing TypeScript 3.7
34 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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Leadership Bits – short podcasts for tech execs
34 points • comment • nov 02, 2019