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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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Norway as a destination for tech founders
60 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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WebGPU demos
60 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Tools for Thinking and Tools for Systems
60 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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2017 Homicide Rates in Latin America and the Carribean
60 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Slack comes to Linux as a snap
60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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AI Learning How to Play Pong in RealTime – PyTorch
60 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Code alignment issues
60 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes and Taxes Shape Regional Architecture
60 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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6 alternative (and better) uses for blockchain
60 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Kickass – Asteroid on any web page
60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Analysts put GM and Waymo far ahead in driverless car race
60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Show HN: Turn a source image into an animated party emoji
60 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Hyperloop costs and challenges undermine pinned hopes
59 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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HomePod arrives February 9, available to order this Friday
59 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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A Handmade Executable File (2015)
59 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Urban Housing Solution That Has No Good Name
59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-To-Text
59 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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User succumbs to a seizure in virtual reality while other players can only watch
59 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Cooking the Books: Optimizing Purchase and Use of Ingredients
59 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame
58 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Identifying a SaaS Market That Machine Learning Can Address
58 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'
58 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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A Life Hearing Voices: How I Manage Auditory Hallucinations
58 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Lab meat to transform meat industry in 2021
58 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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A Simple Decompiler (1988)
58 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420
58 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Dutch intelligence agency spied on Russian hacking group
58 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Snowflake Computing raises $263M for its data warehouse
58 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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AMD Reassembles the Radeon Technologies Group
57 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Has Died
57 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits
57 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Why Is Bitcoin Valuable?
57 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules
57 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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The History of Kaiser Permanente
57 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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The Kessler Syndrome Explained (2014)
57 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)
57 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Women would lose $4.6B in earned tips if ‘tip stealing’ rule is finalized
57 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Voice-matching technology was developed by MIT/Lincoln Labs under NSA contract [pdf]
56 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (2016)
56 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Kernel Feature Selection via Conditional Covariance Minimization
56 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
56 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Making GHC an order of magnitude faster with one neat trick
56 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Ijk – Transforms arrays into virtual DOM trees
56 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Keep Your Hands on the Wheel and Don't Look Down
55 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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New population of one of world's rarest fish found off Tasmania
55 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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This Conversation Is Going Nowhere
55 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018 – I, Cringely
55 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Cisco Security Advisory Cisco ASA RCE and DoS Vulnerability
55 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Ask HN: Finding your weak spots?
55 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Richest 1% took 82% of new global wealth last year, report says
55 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Allstate uses social media to check claims
55 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time
55 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)
54 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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The uncertain state of video game streaming online
54 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Association Between Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cognitive Development
54 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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QISKit: A software development kit for writing quantum computing programs
54 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Snap lays off two dozen employees
54 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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2017 and the Rebirth of Cyberpunk
54 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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CSS Paint API: New possibilities in Chrome 65
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive
54 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017)
53 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt [audio]
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Intel: Meltdown, Spectre silicon fixes coming 2018; 3D XPoint RAM, not so much
53 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Porting Go Web Applications to AWS Lambda
53 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Micro Soldering Microscopes
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The narcissism epidemic is dead?
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Introducing kEdge: a fresh approach to cross-cluster communication
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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DigitalOcean doubles all plan memory for free, and provides more plan options
52 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Montana to FCC: You can’t stop us from protecting net neutrality
52 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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My next laptop isn't gonna be a Mac
52 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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TIS-100 Signal Averager (2016) [video]
52 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Serverless Architectures Security Guide
51 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Bubble, Bubble, Fraud and Trouble
51 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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10,000 steps a day: Might there be something better?
51 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How we made the microprocessor
51 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market
51 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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The Eastern Corner of Siberia Is the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth
51 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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What Flannery O’Connor taught me about chronic illness
51 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Venmo can now instantly transfer money to your debit card for 25 cents
51 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Robust research needs many lines of evidence
51 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Michael Phelps Says He Contemplated Suicide After 2012 Olympics
51 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Partial Application and Lambda Parameter Syntax for JavaScript
51 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Reverse Engineering the TEC-06 Serial Protocol
51 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch
51 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings? (2011)
51 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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“I guess you can’t use NYU Libraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?”
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Netflix is down
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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A fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in US elections
49 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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SYN packet handling in the wild
49 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?
49 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
49 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Addressing the recent attention focused on Strava and our global heatmap
49 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction
49 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Show HN: Noticeable – Easily keep your audience updated on what's new
49 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Ask HN: How to make fewer mistakes?
49 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
49 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Arbitrary code execution through unsanitized browser UI
49 points • comment • jan 31, 2018