hackerNews

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WeWTF (www.profgalloway.com)

791 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081909 266 comments

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Tech Interview Handbook (yangshun.github.io)

714 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019082012 321 comments

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Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com)

590 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2021062000 149 comments

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Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode (heise.de)

532 points first seen 2019081815 last seen 2019081906 136 comments

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Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability (thenextweb.com)

510 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081918 153 comments

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Rules for Intuitive UX (learnui.design)

420 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019082100 107 comments

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Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry (saag.pashi.com)

295 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081921 167 comments

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Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks (ngoldbaum.github.io)

281 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019082003 138 comments

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Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading (mccormick.cx)

272 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081912 29 comments

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Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory? (item?id=20729252)

255 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081918 70 comments

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Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly (github.com)

254 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2021020615 118 comments

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Netherlands Building Ages (parallel.co.uk)

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In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels (arstechnica.com)

227 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081915 142 comments

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Why Software Architects Must Be Involved (insights.sei.cmu.edu)

215 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081915 172 comments

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The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure (www.sciencealert.com)

206 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081906 325 comments

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Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code (github.com)

202 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081900 38 comments

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HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls (news.rthk.hk)

165 points first seen 2019081815 last seen 2019081906 39 comments

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J can look like APL or English (wjmn.github.io)

151 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019082021 22 comments

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GNU Parallel 2018 (zenodo.org)

141 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081903 66 comments

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Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome (www.thurrott.com)

139 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081903 98 comments

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You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds (www.studyfinds.org)

138 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081906 75 comments

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Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde (news.microsoft.com)

136 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081906 53 comments

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Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China (www.defenseone.com)

133 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081906 64 comments

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Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount (www.nytimes.com)

125 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081903 70 comments

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Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs (www.philosophicalhacker.com)

113 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081900 140 comments

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The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (tgceec.tumblr.com)

104 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081921 31 comments

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With friends like these... (blogs.perl.org)

98 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081906 22 comments

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U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet (www.bloomberg.com)

98 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081821 118 comments

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Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently, it got completely annihilated (www.syfy.com)

94 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081900 51 comments

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“The Nemo effect” is untrue: animal movies promote awareness, not harm (www.ox.ac.uk)

93 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081915 23 comments

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The World's Largest Submarine: The Soviet Union's Pr. 941 Typhoon SSBN (2014) (imgur.com)

91 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019082021 20 comments

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Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines (azure.microsoft.com)

89 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081903 3 comments

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The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random (onezero.medium.com)

89 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019081915 34 comments

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Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management (michael.stapelberg.ch)

88 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081903 60 comments

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Plastic recycling is a myth: What happens to your rubbish? (www.theguardian.com)

80 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081818 47 comments

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Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] (geosci.uchicago.edu)

79 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081903 43 comments

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Why doesn't Britain make things any more? (2011) (www.theguardian.com)

78 points first seen 2019081815 last seen 2019081912 105 comments

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Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail (twitter.com)

77 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2022031521 21 comments

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Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change (phys.org)

77 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081903 56 comments

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Plastic Free July (paulrhayes.com)

71 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081915 61 comments

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Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL (developer.squareup.com)

67 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081812 43 comments

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Moore's Law Is Not Dead (www.tsmc.com)

67 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081921 48 comments

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The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering (elidourado.com)

65 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081900 23 comments

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Diagnostics with Tracing, a Unified Instrumentation System for Rust (tokio.rs)

63 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081803 7 comments

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Psychology vs. the Graphics Pipeline (2017) (scattered-thoughts.net)

63 points first seen 2019081815 last seen 2019081903 4 comments

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Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis (eandt.theiet.org)

63 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019082000 77 comments

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The Completely Reasonable Reason People Are Flying with Mini Horses (www.nytimes.com)

61 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081906 102 comments

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Cephaloponderings (putanumonit.com)

59 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081906 5 comments

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Homemade Liquid Nitrogen with the Joule-Thompson Effect (hackaday.com)

57 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019082000 32 comments

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Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari (arxiv.org)

56 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081909 3 comments

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How Life Sciences Actually Work (guzey.com)

56 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2022011821 32 comments

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Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year (www.zdnet.com)

55 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081900 31 comments

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Humans Migrated to Mongolia Much Earlier Than Previously Believed (www.ucdavis.edu)

52 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081818 10 comments

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YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords (www.oneangrygamer.net)

51 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081800 61 comments

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General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf] (user.it.uu.se)

51 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081909 11 comments

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The Software Arts (news.ucsc.edu)

49 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019082003 8 comments

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Stock trading strategies using machine learning (github.com)

48 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019081903 5 comments

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Silicon Valley Looks North as Tech Giants Expand in Toronto (www.wsj.com)

47 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081818 48 comments

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Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online? (item?id=20724959)

47 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019081818 73 comments

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Ask HN: Hackable external wireless SSD storage? (item?id=20723995)

45 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019082000 21 comments

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Seymour Cray: An Appreciation (1997) (www.cs.man.ac.uk)

44 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019081903 12 comments

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The Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin (www.wired.com)

41 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081818 19 comments

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A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug (gizmodo.com)

40 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081818 5 comments

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As populations decline birds forget their songs (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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Missing tattoos: Altered photo lineup by Portland police draws objection (www.oregonlive.com)

38 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081806 24 comments

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Deep Operation (en.wikipedia.org)

37 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081900 6 comments

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“Water droplets have been made to do the seemingly impossible”[video] (vimeo.com)

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Greenland could become China's Arctic base (2018) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat (www.cbc.ca)

33 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081815 10 comments

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China is buying anti-HK propaganda ads on Twitter (twitter.com)

32 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081806 4 comments

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In Praise of Pretty Books (www.washingtonpost.com)

32 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081900 6 comments

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David Foster Wallace’s Pen Pal (www.theparisreview.org)

32 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081906 12 comments

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Top accounting firms urged to fire pro-riot staff (www.globaltimes.cn)

31 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081800 12 comments

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Animator Richard Williams has died (www.bbc.co.uk)

31 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081809 7 comments

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Video + canvas = magic (2010) (html5doctor.com)

30 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081812 4 comments

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China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power? (wiseinternational.org)

29 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081903 49 comments

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Recording Browser Interactions and Generating Test Scripts (github.com)

28 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081915 0 comments

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Starting an ISP is hard, don’t do it (2016) (www.slashgeek.net)

25 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081818 0 comments

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Why America’s biggest charities are owned by pharmaceutical companies (www.economist.com)

25 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081915 2 comments

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Fracking may be a bigger climate problem than we thought (www.vox.com)

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Anti-sex toilets to spray users with water jets (www.independent.co.uk)

21 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081800 31 comments

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‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is using facial recognition to make arrests (www.theguardian.com)

21 points first seen 2019081800 last seen 2019081806 2 comments

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Ask HN: How relevant is The Mythical Man-Month outside the software industry? (item?id=20724592)

21 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081815 29 comments

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A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics (nautil.us)

21 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081912 2 comments

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Unsealed Warrant and Forfeiture Complaint Seek Seizure of Oil Tanker “Grace 1” (www.justice.gov)

20 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081803 4 comments

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An Open Letter to Intel (www.cs.vu.nl)

17 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081809 0 comments

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The History of Polish Photography (2002) (culture.pl)

17 points first seen 2019081821 last seen 2019081906 0 comments

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Greenland's ice is melting at the rate thought as worst-case scenario in 2070 (www.businessinsider.in)

16 points first seen 2019081803 last seen 2019081803 5 comments

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Project BillVision (1995) (web.archive.org)

16 points first seen 2019081809 last seen 2019081903 0 comments

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Athens on the Colorado (local-memory.org)

16 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019081903 0 comments

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Two quakes in two days, no warning from ShakeAlertLA (www.latimes.com)

16 points first seen 2019081815 last seen 2019081815 11 comments

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Interview with Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai) on Future of AI (scale.com)

16 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081906 0 comments

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Weaving two arrays, keeping relative order (mohit.athwani.net)

15 points first seen 2019081812 last seen 2019081821 5 comments

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Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Universal Basic Income (www.reddit.com)

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Aston Martin Is Getting into the 'Evil Lair' Business (jalopnik.com)

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The Inevitable Crash Is Coming (medium.com)

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Breakthrough prize criticized for rewarding 'failed ideas' (physicsworld.com)

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Can Low Interest Rates Hold Off Recession? (With Richard Wolff) (www.youtube.com)

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The Long Hot Summer of Grammar (www.newyorker.com)

8 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081903 2 comments

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Half-Life 2's Invisible Tutorial (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to algorithms/data structures for software interviews? (item?id=20728477)

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Surrounded by Tragedy, Venezuelans Are Laughing Like Crazy (www.bloomberg.com)

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Hash table tradeoffs: CPU, memory, and variability (medium.com)

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Global Bank and Working Days API (https://calendarific.com)

5 points first seen 2019081815 last seen 2019081818 0 comments

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What I Wish I Had Known at Demo Day: Tips from Past YC Founders (www.atrium.co)

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Ice-making submarine would pop out bergs to help fight climate change (www.nbcnews.com)

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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

4 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081818 0 comments

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Fix Bugs as Soon as You Find Them (ministryoftesting.com)

4 points first seen 2019081818 last seen 2019081818 0 comments

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Containerizing Apps with Jlink (blogs.oracle.com)

3 points first seen 2019081806 last seen 2019081806 0 comments

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A smart phone from 1984 – the STC Excutel (www.youtube.com)

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