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630
498
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476
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402
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395
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394
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345
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323
269
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311
185
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279
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266
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255
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248
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238
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225
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220
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216
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215
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Levenshtein Distance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
211
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204
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https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html
201
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OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
https://medium.com/@vanya_cohen/opengpt-2-we-replicated-gpt-2-because-you-can-too-45e34e6d36dc
198
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MoviePass database exposes 161M records
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/moviepass-database-exposes-161-million-records/
191
123
Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/22/oracle-directors-give-blessing-to-shareholder-lawsuit-against-larry-ellison-and-safra-catz/
180
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Nonplanar Printing
https://tams.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/research/3d-printing/nonplanar_printing/index.php
174
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Dignity
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170
78
Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster
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167
58
Show HN: Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work
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165
112
The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines
163
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147
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Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss
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90
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145
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Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/netflix-hulu-cable.html
140
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Why Finland leads the world in flexible work
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101
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137
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Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10k Verdicts in Denmark
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134
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After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6401227?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
133
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Caviar was a free bar snack
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205
The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/
India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/technology/india-electric-vehicle-rickshaw.html
118
72
Yuan falls to 11-year low
https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDCNH:CUR
117
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Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/bernie-sanders-climate-change.html
116
32
Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-does-the-army-own-dinosaurs
54
Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/leaked-documents-show-brazil-bolsonaro-has-grave-plans-for-amazon-rainforest/
115
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A DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49394758
110
15
Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf]
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109
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https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/16114
107
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Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-marmelada
105
6
Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models
https://blog.dominodatalab.com/deep-learning-illustrated-building-natural-language-processing-models/
103
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Apple's petition against RED
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16
A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites
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48
Brazil's President Blames NGOs for Amazon Fires
https://latinamericareports.com/bolsonaro-blames-ngos-for-amazon-fires/2940/
5
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https://dttw.tech/posts/SJ40_7MNS
89
18
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-treasures-pompeii-180972829/
60
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21
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Crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02472-0
80
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World of Warcraft Classic Relase
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76
Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output
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