hackerNews

1

I Miss Microsoft Encarta (www.hanselman.com)

1187 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082300 402 comments

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Information operations directed at Hong Kong (blog.twitter.com)

1093 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082106 417 comments

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Kerbal Space Program 2 (www.kerbalspaceprogram.com)

641 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 227 comments

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Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible (guzey.com)

574 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082100 151 comments

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Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids (www.bloomberg.com)

393 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082106 278 comments

7

Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China (newsroom.fb.com)

387 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 106 comments

5

How Rust compiles Async/Await (tmandry.gitlab.io)

335 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082106 120 comments

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Calculus Is Deeply Irrational (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

311 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082206 145 comments

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Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency (www.cassandracapital.net)

292 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082100 162 comments

3

Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster (theartofmachinery.com)

280 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082106 171 comments

9

Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (www.businessroundtable.org)

249 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082100 196 comments

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Pagemap: A mini map for your website (larsjung.de)

242 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082106 32 comments

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[IPv4 exhaustion] GCP Charging for External IPs from 1st Jan (cloud.google.com)

231 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082200 129 comments

4

New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016) (www.quantamagazine.org)

227 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082203 78 comments

6

Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2T transistor chip for AI (venturebeat.com)

219 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 214 comments

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Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study (www.bloomberg.com)

191 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082100 165 comments

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On-disk format robustness requirements for new filesystems (lwn.net)

190 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082203 58 comments

31

Woman wins 50K ultra outright and gets the 'Male' trophy too (www.runnersworld.com)

189 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082100 177 comments

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Updating our advertising policies on state media (blog.twitter.com)

181 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082021 89 comments

18

A parrot has a question for humans (nautil.us)

180 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082012 69 comments

52

Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code (status.cloud.google.com)

160 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082015 47 comments

12

All 84 Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1 (techcrunch.com)

158 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082106 119 comments

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Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets (techcrunch.com)

151 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082012 44 comments

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Julia 1.2 has been released (discourse.julialang.org)

149 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082118 50 comments

2

Performance Matters (www.hillelwayne.com)

144 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2020112709 71 comments

10

Subsurface, a Scuba Dive Logging Platform by Linus Torvalds (subsurface-divelog.org)

142 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082106 68 comments

14

Rendering on the Web (developers.google.com)

129 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082021 81 comments

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‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups (dev.to)

128 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082006 109 comments

43

Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker (www.hanselman.com)

123 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082015 31 comments

19

Traits of Serverless Architecture (www.thoughtworks.com)

118 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082021 62 comments

9

Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak (www.macrumors.com)

118 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082200 116 comments

31

Kaspersky in the Middle – what could possibly go wrong? (palant.de)

106 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082012 37 comments

12

Show HN: Crawlab: Open-Source Web Crawler Admin Platform That Runs Any Language (github.com)

105 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082103 18 comments

8

New Electric Motor Could Boost Efficiency of EVs, Scooters, and Wind Turbines (spectrum.ieee.org)

104 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 43 comments

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Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors (color.clss.hk)

98 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082021 25 comments

19

Scala Native (www.scala-native.org)

98 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082100 62 comments

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The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later (spectrum.ieee.org)

93 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082106 32 comments

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Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work? (item?id=20736347)

91 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082018 70 comments

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The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders (www.mistakenorders.com)

90 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082021 33 comments

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'Most Unusual' Vehicle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire (www.bbc.co.uk)

88 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082112 113 comments

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Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (qz.com)

86 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082012 58 comments

18

Version Museum (www.versionmuseum.com)

85 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 5 comments

20

A Topographic Map of the Moon (tabletopwhale.com)

83 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082203 6 comments

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“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries (www.theatlantic.com)

82 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082015 60 comments

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GitHub Open-Source Code for Hand Gesture Recognition – Sign Language Translation (github.com)

82 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082106 11 comments

10

Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for carriers (www.reuters.com)

81 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 24 comments

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Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons (www.sciencemag.org)

80 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082009 62 comments

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Blocking Untrusted USB Devices (roussos.cc)

80 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082203 26 comments

20

A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions (www.nytimes.com)

78 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082021 20 comments

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Solitude and Leadership (2010) (theamericanscholar.org)

76 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 18 comments

9

On Mathematical Beauty in Physics (blogs.unimelb.edu.au)

74 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082021 51 comments

9

Sushi Roll: A CPU research kernel with minimal noise for microarch introspection (gamozolabs.github.io)

70 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082115 13 comments

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Apple Targets Launch of Apple TV+ in November for $9.99 (www.bloomberg.com)

69 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082106 99 comments

11

In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite (www.nytimes.com)

67 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082503 48 comments

23

Fasty – A New CMS / App Builder Based on Openresty and ArangoDB (https://fasty.ovh)

65 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082112 6 comments

7

Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes (www.openfaas.com)

63 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082106 47 comments

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China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US original (asia.nikkei.com)

61 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082103 66 comments

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The Lost City of Heracleion (daily.jstor.org)

59 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082012 7 comments

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World's largest urban farm to open – on a Paris rooftop (www.theguardian.com)

59 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082115 24 comments

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Rashomon of Disclosure (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

59 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082018 2 comments

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Jobs and Woz (2011) (www.filfre.net)

54 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082106 37 comments

20

What is Haberman? (regexking.info)

52 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082300 10 comments

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Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses (github.com)

52 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082021 21 comments

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Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service center (english.bjinternetcourt.gov.cn)

51 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082003 21 comments

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The world’s most-surveilled cities (www.comparitech.com)

50 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082006 47 comments

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Using deep learning to analyze the ultrasonic vocalizations of rats (blogs.mathworks.com)

48 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082106 13 comments

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks (krebsonsecurity.com)

46 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082018 0 comments

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States to Move Forward with Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms (www.wsj.com)

44 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082100 46 comments

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Early Years of Computer Gaming: Steve Russell and Nolan Bushnell (2002) [video] (www.youtube.com)

43 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082212 7 comments

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Moving from macOS to Linux for Music Production: The Journey Begins (ditchwindows.com)

43 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082103 9 comments

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When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

42 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082100 7 comments

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Hacking Image Interpolation for Fun and Profit (peterhrynkow.com)

40 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082021 11 comments

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Removing Image Artifacts in C# with OpenCV (lostindetails.com)

40 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082106 4 comments

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WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer (www.cbsnews.com)

38 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082015 13 comments

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Andrew Chen on Marketplaces (stripe.com)

37 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082115 0 comments

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Schrödinger's Cat with 20 Qubits (www.fz-juelich.de)

36 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082112 10 comments

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Maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy and IQ scores in offspring (jamanetwork.com)

34 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2022092403 31 comments

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Scholars Discover Original Locke Manuscript in Greenfield Library (www.sjc.edu)

33 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082300 3 comments

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Dark Corners and Pitfalls of C++ (www.codeproject.com)

32 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082006 37 comments

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South African bank advises against the use of password managers (twitter.com)

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The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon (edition.cnn.com)

29 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082009 2 comments

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Tête-à-Tête about Death (www.asianage.com)

28 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082018 2 comments

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Moveable 0.7.0 – Support Grouping Draggable, Resizable, Rotatable (github.com)

27 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082018 13 comments

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The global gag on free speech is tightening (www.economist.com)

26 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082100 3 comments

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2011) (www.guernicamag.com)

25 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082018 14 comments

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Google OAuth API Is Down (item?id=20740386)

25 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082006 11 comments

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What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease? (www.technologyreview.com)

25 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082015 15 comments

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Make a Factory Quality 9mm Rifled Barrel Using Salt Water and Electricity (thefirearmblog.com)

24 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082009 4 comments

38

Definitions of Software Architecture (beza1e1.tuxen.de)

24 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082100 5 comments

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The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed (www.theguardian.com)

21 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082003 2 comments

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Palladian Facade Generator (2015) (www.dampfkraft.com)

21 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082100 0 comments

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Sushi Roll: A CPU kernel for cycle-by-cycle micro-architectural introspection (gamozolabs.github.io)

21 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082015 0 comments

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China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank (www.bloomberg.com)

20 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082003 21 comments

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Wolpertinger (en.wikipedia.org)

20 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082100 7 comments

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Archaeologists discover 'sorcerer's treasure trove' trunk at Pompeii (www.dailymail.co.uk)

19 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082221 3 comments

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Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition (www.theatlantic.com)

18 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082012 3 comments

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Abusing WebViews to Steal Files via Email (carvesystems.com)

17 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082015 0 comments

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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music (music.ishkur.com)

17 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2021022209 3 comments

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Humble Book Bundle: Python Programming by No Starch Press (item?id=20744401)

17 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082100 3 comments

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H-1B Visa Most Used for 'Software Engineer,' 'Software Developer' Roles (insights.dice.com)

16 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082000 4 comments

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China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters (thenextweb.com)

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Reddit Now Lets You Livestream. What Could Go Wrong? (www.wired.com)

14 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082009 4 comments

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Missouri council member chooses Dr.Seuss over the bible for swearing-in ceremony (deadstate.org)

14 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082009 0 comments

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Show HN: TabNine Local – deep code completion on your laptop (tabnine.com)

14 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082100 3 comments

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Ask HN: Why Are Conditionals Important? (item?id=20740303)

13 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082009 15 comments

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Eduard Pernkopf: The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons (www.bbc.com)

13 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082012 0 comments

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Brotli vs. Gzip Compression. How we improved our latency by 37% (medium.com)

13 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082100 3 comments

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Ask HN: Why am I stuck on 51 HN karma points? (item?id=20736294)

12 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082000 10 comments

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China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management (www.nature.com)

12 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082015 0 comments

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Class Central's Top MOOCs (www.classcentral.com)

12 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082015 0 comments

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Show HN: K3sup (ketchup) 0.2.0 – install and build Kubernetes clusters with k3s (k3sup.dev)

11 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082000 0 comments

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Pentagon conducts first test of previously banned missile (apnews.com)

10 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082009 0 comments

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Blue teams, what has had the most impact protecting against cyber attacks? (item?id=20744633)

10 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082100 5 comments

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Ask HN: How do you test your Machine Learning models? (item?id=20738054)

9 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082006 2 comments

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Don't be evil? A survey of the tech sector’s stance on lethal autonomous weapons (www.paxforpeace.nl)

8 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082006 4 comments

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World’s biggest chip created to meet demands of AI (www.ft.com)

8 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082003 5 comments

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Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip (fortune.com)

8 points first seen 2019082003 last seen 2019082003 5 comments

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An 8-minute introduction to Kubernetes (dev.to)

8 points first seen 2019082006 last seen 2019082006 2 comments

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Delta requests for application bundles: from 2002 to service workers (blog.scottlogic.com)

8 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082100 0 comments

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American Imperialists Have Always Dreamed of Greenland (foreignpolicy.com)

6 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082000 0 comments

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I Quit – Why are the majority of the engineering team leaving (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082009 0 comments

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People policing the internet's most horrific content (www.bbc.co.uk)

6 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082021 0 comments

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Smithsonian Mag's Cool Finds (www.smithsonianmag.com)

6 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082100 0 comments

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PragerU vs. YouTube (www.youtube.com)

5 points first seen 2019082000 last seen 2019082000 0 comments

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Ask HN: How to break out of a terrible job cycle? (item?id=20742507)

5 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082012 3 comments

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How to Add If-Else Logic to SQL Queries (dev.to)

5 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082018 0 comments

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Serena vs. the Drones (blog.xkcd.com)

5 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082018 0 comments

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What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before Humans Intervened (2016) (curiosity.com)

5 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082021 0 comments

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Facebook Content Mods Say Company Therapists Pressured to Share Session Details (gizmodo.com)

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Job Hunting in Academia (mobile.twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2019082021 last seen 2019082021 0 comments

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How to Deal with Incompetent People Who Lack Self-Awareness (www.inc.com)

3 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082012 0 comments

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A simple terminal app for Google Authenticator (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2019082018 last seen 2019082018 0 comments

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Universe (YC W18) Is Hiring a Swift-on-the-Server Engineer (Remote) (workatuniverse.com)

0 points first seen 2019082009 last seen 2019082009 N/A comments

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CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring an Senior Marketing Manager (Los Angeles) (www.carerev.com)

0 points first seen 2019082012 last seen 2019082012 N/A comments

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Mux is hiring an ML engineer to help train our machines to deliver better video (mux.com)

0 points first seen 2019082015 last seen 2019082018 0 comments