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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
1840 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Google Memory Loss
1355 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
1344 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
1221 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Ursula Le Guin has died
1124 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
1059 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Aaron, 5 years later
1000 points • comment • jan 13, 2018
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Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
982 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
961 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Ending Bitcoin Support
958 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Start Your Own ISP
926 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
909 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
902 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive
817 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Facebook open-sources Detectron
797 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections
793 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Intel Has a Big Problem
775 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
752 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Waze Carpool
747 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
723 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
723 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Wine 3.0 Released
716 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
705 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware
687 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
683 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
681 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000
678 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
660 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
640 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Show HN: Observable Notebooks
629 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb
629 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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My new favorite book of all time
624 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
619 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Content-aware image resize library
599 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
596 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Is it time for open processors?
590 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Learn FFmpeg the hard way
574 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Hetzner Cloud
547 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
546 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies
536 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
535 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)
526 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Laws of UX
525 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
520 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware
513 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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People leave managers, not companies
507 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer
506 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine
505 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol
498 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
494 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Extensions in Firefox 59
490 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
490 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
486 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018
486 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere
483 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
483 points • comment • jan 14, 2018
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The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it
474 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
463 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal
463 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?
460 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone
457 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
456 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Branchless Doom
450 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Programming Notes for Professionals books
447 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice?
446 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide
446 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH
440 points • comment • jan 14, 2018
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Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
438 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers
435 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
431 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values
427 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The Follower Factory
425 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died
424 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features
418 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
415 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Moving efficiently in the CLI
410 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Brushing up on operating systems and C programming
410 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)
407 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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List of oldest companies: Before 1300
404 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Luna 1.0 Beta is out
404 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Microsoft MakeCode
400 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own
400 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online
396 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
395 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Building an AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras
395 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?
394 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing
388 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales
386 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors
386 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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How to Work Out What to Charge Clients
382 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Software Complexity Is Killing Us
381 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Pick strong consistency whenever possible
376 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position
375 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan
371 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
371 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
367 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
365 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018
361 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
360 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
360 points • comment • jan 26, 2018