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Hacker News (Jan 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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Show HN: Noticeable – Easily keep your audience updated on what's new
49 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
49 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
48 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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How Duolingo achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer hires
48 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Fermented Shark, Anyone?
48 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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One data scientist on the hype around artificial intelligence (2017)
48 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The evolution of the trackball
48 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Show HN: Hyperlogs – Easy time tracking
47 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Alto Restoration Part 18: We Crash Our Disk Drive [video]
47 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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How Bitcoin Compares to History's Big Bubbles
47 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems
47 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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How to Find Problems to Solve and Get Early Adopters by Cold-Calling Businesses
47 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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A fresh approach to neuromorphic computing
47 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The Setenv Fiasco (2015)
47 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Jean Piaget and the Child’s Spontaneous Geometry
47 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Tesla’s Pay Deal to Keep Elon Musk: All or Nothing
47 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's
47 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Jack the Ripper letters written by the same person, forensic linguist concludes
47 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Understanding Extreme Numbers
46 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Awl Ends
46 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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UX Copywriting in Product Design
46 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Quantified sickness when you have OpenAPS and the flu
46 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Computer scientist uncovers clue to deciphering the Voynich manuscript
46 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC
46 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Linux Kernel 4.15 Released
46 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app
46 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Valve appeals $2.4M fine as Australian legal battle rages on
46 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Ask HN: What is the Bitcoin price level at which miners will leave?
46 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Show HN: Stylepill – Share your project's UI components with your coworkers
46 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Better than holograms: new 3-D projection
46 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Donald Knuth celebrated his 80th birthday in Piteå
46 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Netflix adds 8.3M subscribers in Q4, revenue up 33%
46 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews
46 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Heroin addiction in the U.S
46 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Construction Costs: Metro Stations
46 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Quickly counting lots of stuff in little RAM: CountMinSketch in Python
46 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Steve Wozniak: ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’
46 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Researchers implement 3-qubit Grover search on a quantum computer
45 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Transputer
45 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Stochastic Computing in a Single Device
45 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Compiling a Subset of APL into a Typed Intermediate Language (2014) [pdf]
45 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses (2015)
45 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Google Just Broke Amazon’s Workaround for YouTube on Fire TV
45 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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A conversation about how public transport really works
45 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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No, machines can’t read better than humans
44 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly
44 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Fishing for graphs in a Hadoop data lake
44 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Warmux – An old Worms clone project (2016)
44 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Heroku Postgres PGX: Bigger Databases, Improved Infrastructure, Same Price
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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A Spiraling Bees’ Nest
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Sound and fury: how pronunciation provokes passionate reactions
44 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Scientists move Doomsday Clock ahead to 2 minutes to midnight
44 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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I’m answering all the stupid questions about startup so you don’t have to ask
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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How to secure your website with Nginx and Let's Encrypt
44 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Redundancy of x86 Machine Code (2009)
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Fine-Grained Text to Image Generation with Attentional GAN
44 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps
44 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Gray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems [pdf]
44 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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What the Count of Monte Cristo Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
43 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests
43 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Sharing Software Licenses and Modules on Blockchain
43 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts
43 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Notifications
43 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Scientists Discover a Bone-Deep Risk for Heart Disease
43 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Santa Monica Measured Residents’ Well-Being for Four Years
43 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Don’t do the long take home assignments like coinbase
43 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012)
43 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture
43 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism
43 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You)
43 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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How to access Ethereum-based applications?
43 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Reading in the Dark: Does fiction matter in a post-fact age?
43 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Soros calls Facebook and Google a menace to society and obstacles to innovation
42 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Illinois Ponders Pension-Fund Moonshot: A $107B Bond Sale
42 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network
42 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Saildrone: autonomous sailing craft with instruments for collecting data
42 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Layoffs strike as Firefox's Mozilla reworks Asian operations
42 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Anatomy of the thread suspension mechanism in Windows
42 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging
42 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Are Australians Accidentally Redomesticating the Dingo?
42 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection
42 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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A tiny robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish
42 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Writing extendable and hardware-agnostic GPU libraries
41 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are bringing back the browser wars
41 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech
41 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Sourcetrail 2018.1 – Visual Source Explorer for C, C++ and Java
41 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Ask HN: What do you look for in an applicant's GitHub?
41 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Dear Apple, please fix notifications
41 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Introducing Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies on Robinhood Crypto
41 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Polymer 2.4: Paving the way for 3.0 and TypeScript support
41 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
41 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Swift Forums
41 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US
41 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities?
41 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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SpaceX’s New Beast of a Rocket Is Go for Launch
41 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Show HN: Levels.fyi – Compare career ladders across companies
40 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?
40 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters?
40 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Apple previews iOS 11.3
40 points • comment • jan 24, 2018