Hacker News

Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fintech-company-stripe-joins-silicon-valley-elite-with-35-billion-valuation-11568912443?mod=rsswn

529 points, 189 comments, tempsy, 9 hours ago
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The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so

https://hbr.org/ideacast/2019/09/dematerialization-and-what-it-means-for-the-economy-and-climate-change

153 points, 76 comments, Anon84, 5 hours ago
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US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland

https://www.thelocal.ch/20190919/us-takes-richest-nation-on-earth-crown-from-switzerland

90 points, 70 comments, baazaar, 3 hours ago
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A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics

https://github.com/eon01/kubernetes-workshop

68 points, 13 comments, feross, 4 hours ago
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Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/amazon-orders-100k-electric-delivery-trucks-from-rivian-as-part-of-going-carbon-neutral-by-2040/

333 points, 189 comments, prostoalex, 10 hours ago
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China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fedex-pilot-detained-by-police-in-southern-china-sources-11568906801?mod=rsswn

129 points, 95 comments, smaili, 4 hours ago
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Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-19/solar-and-wind-power-so-cheap-they-re-outgrowing-subsidies

508 points, 412 comments, ph0rque, 12 hours ago
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Hard Times in Silicon Valley? Not for the Payments Startup Stripe

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/business/stripe-valuation.html

32 points, 10 comments, Reedx, 3 hours ago
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Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/silicon-valley-terrified-california-privacy-law/

434 points, 407 comments, ssklash, 7 hours ago
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The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition

https://pragprog.com/book/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition

331 points, 85 comments, duck, 11 hours ago
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AI competitions don’t produce useful models

https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2019/09/19/ai-competitions-dont-produce-useful-models/

50 points, 13 comments, baylearn, 4 hours ago
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The Infinite Silences of Japan

https://lithub.com/pico-iyer-on-the-infinite-silences-of-japan/

22 points, 4 comments, acsillag, 18 hours ago
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Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-skies-billions-of-north-american-birds-have-vanished/

81 points, 24 comments, emptybits, 6 hours ago
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Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

https://getkiss.org/

34 points, 33 comments, chacha2, 3 hours ago
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The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/760317486/the-mysterious-death-of-the-hacker-who-turned-in-chelsea-manning

79 points, 17 comments, aquabeagle, 6 hours ago
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Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World

https://www.routefifty.com/public-safety/2019/09/six-us-cities-make-list-most-surveilled-places-world/159983/

224 points, 116 comments, emrosecoleman, 11 hours ago
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Working with GitHub Actions

https://jeffrafter.com/working-with-github-actions/

99 points, 9 comments, craigkerstiens, 6 hours ago
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Birds Are Vanishing from North America

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.html

310 points, 225 comments, wiggles_md, 8 hours ago
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London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unusual-london-bars

15 points, 0 comments, pepys, a day ago
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Senior Product Manager (Web and Mobile) – Toronto Cover

https://cover.applytojob.com/apply/ZOJjlaSwxT/Senior-Product-Manager-Web-Mobile-Toronto

points, 0 comments, , 2 hours ago
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Uranium Chemistry (2008)

https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/

12 points, 1 comment, ohaikbai, a day ago
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Books on Burnout

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/burnout-work-exhaustion-josh-cohen/

79 points, 42 comments, whatami, 18 hours ago
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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++

http://blog.llvm.org/2019/09/closing-gap-cross-language-lto-between.html

219 points, 38 comments, pedrow, 13 hours ago
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LLVM 9.0

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-September/135304.html

242 points, 63 comments, AndyKelley, 8 hours ago
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Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu-te-1.5288609

131 points, 52 comments, goodcanadian, 9 hours ago
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Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Walgreens

https://qz.com/1712200/google-wing-launching-us-drone-deliveries-with-fedex-walgreens/

106 points, 79 comments, prostoalex, 6 hours ago
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Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/automattic-raises-300-million-at-3-billion-valuation-from-salesforce-ventures/

205 points, 96 comments, jblz, 13 hours ago
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Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020

https://press.airbnb.com/airbnb-announces-intention-to-become-a-publicly-traded-company-during-2020/

134 points, 120 comments, tempsy, 11 hours ago
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Launch HN: Sparkswap (YC S18) – Buy Bitcoin Instantly over the Lightning Network

item?id=21016877

112 points, 65 comments, tg3, 11 hours ago
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Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips

https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-6-9-1244

66 points, 27 comments, bookofjoe, 9 hours ago
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Hacker News

Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so

US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland

A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics

Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian

China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx

Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

Hard Times in Silicon Valley? Not for the Payments Startup Stripe

Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition

AI competitions don’t produce useful models

The Infinite Silences of Japan

Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished

Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning

Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World

Working with GitHub Actions

Birds Are Vanishing from North America

London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

Senior Product Manager (Web and Mobile) – Toronto Cover

Uranium Chemistry (2008)

Books on Burnout

Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++

LLVM 9.0

Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests

Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Walgreens

Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures

Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020

Launch HN: Sparkswap (YC S18) – Buy Bitcoin Instantly over the Lightning Network

Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips