hackerNews

1

Python Is Eating the World (www.zdnet.com)

867 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081500 935 comments

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Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser (aeon.co)

567 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081400 200 comments

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Paged Out — magazine about programming and hacking by Gynvael Coldwind (https://pagedout.institute)

543 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081312 81 comments

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Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

435 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019081321 188 comments

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Await in Rust (docs.rs)

363 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081406 230 comments

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Xfce 4.14 (xfce.org)

362 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081309 120 comments

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Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men (neurosciencenews.com)

286 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081312 324 comments

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The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco (thehustle.co)

268 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081315 167 comments

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Spying on HTTPS (textslashplain.com)

247 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081315 102 comments

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Poetry: Dependency Management for Python (poetry.eustace.io)

225 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081312 70 comments

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Monads as a Programming Pattern (samgrayson.me)

222 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081315 76 comments

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H-1B Visa denials at all-time high (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

221 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081303 333 comments

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What You Do as a DevOps? (ilhicas.com)

200 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081303 75 comments

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Open Startups List (open-startups.xyz)

199 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081303 32 comments

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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It (ndpr.nd.edu)

178 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081221 87 comments

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Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check (2018) (www.newyorker.com)

174 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081300 11 comments

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Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer? (item?id=20670235)

173 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081303 129 comments

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Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

173 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019081306 154 comments

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Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records (www.wired.com)

167 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081312 61 comments

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Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters (la.disneyresearch.com)

150 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081306 29 comments

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When to Shut Down a Startup [video] (blog.ycombinator.com)

144 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081303 77 comments

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Math in Data Science (www.dataquest.io)

143 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081303 19 comments

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Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006) (www.nature.com)

141 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081303 108 comments

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Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over (news.rthk.hk)

141 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081303 135 comments

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Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation (www.vox.com)

134 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081306 106 comments

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Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB (www.hutter1.net)

133 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081303 92 comments

7

Show HN: Personal Management System (github.com)

120 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2020122803 40 comments

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Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't? (tomtunguz.com)

118 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019081306 52 comments

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Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events (www.reuters.com)

104 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081215 83 comments

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Keyringless GnuPG (nullprogram.com)

100 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019082703 8 comments

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J-Core Open Processor (j-core.org)

98 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081300 26 comments

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Show HN: Curated Toolkit for Remote Work (nohq.co)

98 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081303 18 comments

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A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts (www.technologyreview.com)

93 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081303 64 comments

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Death of the Neighborhood Bar (www.bostonmagazine.com)

91 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081221 147 comments

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Shepard Tone (en.wikipedia.org)

91 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2022061715 39 comments

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The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002) (www.arxiv-vanity.com)

90 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081300 12 comments

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2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked (www.thedrive.com)

88 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081303 67 comments

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Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked (www.pentestpartners.com)

88 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019081300 19 comments

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Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018) (www.expressionsofchange.org)

84 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081300 56 comments

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Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015) (www.redhat.com)

82 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081218 4 comments

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Cathay Pacific faces crackdown as Hong Kong protests hit business (www.ft.com)

80 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081300 12 comments

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Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science (2008) (www.ias.edu)

73 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081303 6 comments

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It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change (www.gsb.stanford.edu)

72 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081400 82 comments

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HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range (www.reddit.com)

71 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081221 12 comments

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Extending OCaml Programs with Lua (blog.baturin.org)

71 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081321 3 comments

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Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to 'Censor the Internet' Denounced (www.commondreams.org)

69 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081209 33 comments

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UK Politicians Disapprove of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) (twitter.com)

69 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081206 33 comments

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Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike (spectrum.ieee.org)

68 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081300 10 comments

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The modern law firm: not all partners are created equal, data and billings rule (www.wsj.com)

64 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081312 45 comments

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GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data (www.theregister.co.uk)

63 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019081300 29 comments

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Hall’s Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore’s Law (2012) (www.ribbonfarm.com)

63 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081306 2 comments

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Greek Artist Takis, Who Used Magnets to Create Pioneering Kinetic Art, Has Died (news.artnet.com)

53 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081312 4 comments

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How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query (www.dailydot.com)

50 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081215 70 comments

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Fairy wrens teach secret passwords to their unborn chicks (2012) (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

47 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081300 6 comments

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War and drugs: Together since forever (www.knowablemagazine.org)

45 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081215 13 comments

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Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste [pdf] (worrydream.com)

45 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081300 16 comments

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H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress (publicdomainreview.org)

44 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081221 11 comments

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Random walkers illuminate a math problem (physicstoday.scitation.org)

44 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081300 6 comments

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A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (2015) (www.andreykurenkov.com)

44 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081312 0 comments

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Experimental PlayStation 4 Emulator (github.com)

43 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081303 0 comments

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Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (2003) (www.historylink.org)

43 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081312 26 comments

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Lightweight Static Guarantees (okmij.org)

39 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081221 5 comments

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Learn Sketch shortcuts the interactive way (https://shortcutery.netlify.com)

39 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081309 6 comments

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical (www.the-tls.co.uk)

34 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081300 0 comments

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Impossible choices: Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox (aeon.co)

34 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081503 2 comments

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Simulating Futures in Extended Common Lisp (1988) [pdf] (ntrs.nasa.gov)

33 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081303 0 comments

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Hofstadter – On Number Numbness (1982) [pdf] (www.gwern.net)

33 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081306 5 comments

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Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols (www.atlasobscura.com)

32 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081221 6 comments

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Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked (www.forbes.com)

32 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081209 2 comments

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Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry? (item?id=20671045)

31 points first seen 2019081212 last seen 2019081218 34 comments

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I released my own Visual Studio Code Extension Pack and here is how you can too (dev.to)

29 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081206 17 comments

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AMD EPYC Tech Docs and White Papers (www.amd.com)

27 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081206 4 comments

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U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians (www.nytimes.com)

25 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081303 11 comments

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Coroutines and C++ DSLs for Human Scale Concurrency (www.snsystems.com)

24 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081300 5 comments

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Learning Python and Haskell has not improved my programming (2006) (lukeplant.me.uk)

22 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081206 8 comments

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An Actor Lost in the Background (lareviewofbooks.org)

20 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081212 0 comments

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The Tonybee Tiles (www.ernestjournal.co.uk)

19 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081206 3 comments

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Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded with Malware (www.forbes.com)

19 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081303 4 comments

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Cathay Pacific, Icon of Hong Kong’s Rise, Now Reflects China’s Grip (www.nytimes.com)

18 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081300 0 comments

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The 737-Max Grounding Is So Bad That Airlines Are Leasing 30-Year-Old 737-200s (jalopnik.com)

18 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081300 5 comments

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CEOs Who Cheat on Spouse Twice as Likely to Cheat at Work, Study Shows (www.bloombergquint.com)

17 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081200 7 comments

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Terms of the Dune universe; excerpts from a reading by Frank Herbert (usul.net)

16 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081303 0 comments

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Show HN: Soliloquy – Note-taking for power users (www.soliloquy.cc)

15 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081300 3 comments

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What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? (www.theatlantic.com)

14 points first seen 2019081209 last seen 2019081215 4 comments

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2020 Porsche Taycan Electric Car Review: Should Tesla Be Worried? (www.motortrend.com)

10 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081221 2 comments

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'Dockerfiles' for LXD (frkl.io)

10 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081221 0 comments

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Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists (electrek.co)

9 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2022060721 0 comments

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China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong No Longer Binding (2017) (www.reuters.com)

9 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081218 5 comments

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Samsung DeX Now Runs as a Windows and macOS App (www.androidpolice.com)

8 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081212 3 comments

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TypeScript types should be moved to DefinitelyTyped (github.com)

8 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081218 0 comments

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Access to Millions of Free Books Added to the Public Domain (lifehacker.com)

8 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081218 0 comments

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Show HN: Every shortcut for designers, developers and writers in one place (shortcuts.design)

8 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081303 5 comments

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The Billionaires Behind the Secret Tech Mecca in America’s Heartland (www.forbes.com)

7 points first seen 2019081215 last seen 2019081218 0 comments

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Data breaches should be treated like oil spills (www.economist.com)

7 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081221 0 comments

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A Dutch care home experiments with housing students with the old (www.economist.com)

7 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081303 0 comments

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Xfce 4.14 released after 4 years of work (www.xfce.org)

7 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081221 0 comments

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Medical privacy is fucked by the payments model (abe-winter.github.io)

5 points first seen 2019081200 last seen 2019081203 0 comments

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US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers (www.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2022082915 2 comments

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Ask HN: Why is decentralized internet more secure? (item?id=20669106)

5 points first seen 2019081206 last seen 2019081206 0 comments

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CSS Units Explained (alligator.io)

5 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081221 0 comments

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Username (and password) free login with security keys (www.imperialviolet.org)

5 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081218 0 comments

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Novelist Vikram Chandra on writing and building software for writers (leeschneider.substack.com)

4 points first seen 2019081218 last seen 2019081218 0 comments

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Akaunting: A web-based accounting sysContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1tem (lwn.net)

4 points first seen 2019081221 last seen 2019081303 2 comments

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Easy monitoring (free, open source) without Nagios (github.com)

3 points first seen 2019081203 last seen 2019081203 0 comments