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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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Who I think Satoshi Nakamoto is
40 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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'Unsolvable' exam question leaves Chinese students flummoxed
40 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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The Secret Sci-Fi Life of Alice B. Sheldon (2006)
40 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
40 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Bike-share schemes improve safety; helmet laws do not
39 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Coetzee’s Boyhood Photographs
39 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Rough Waters: Gentrification and Cataclysmic Money
39 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Efficacy of elderberry extract for treatment of influenza a and B virus (2004)
39 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Intel CEO sold shares on same day OEMs informed of bugs: report
39 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Ameo – Redis-compatible distributed key-value store with WebSocket API
39 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Report content directly to GitHub Support
39 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Eloquis: Early in the market and targeted the wrong customer segment
39 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness
39 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Launch HN: Enzyme (YC S17) – Automating FDA Compliance and Approval
39 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, Erich Jarvis Finds Clues to Speech
38 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Finnish bank forbids employees from investing in cryptocurrencies
38 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Luna visual programming language beta release
38 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Why American men are getting less marriageable
38 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Ask HN: Providing cheaper EdTech tools for rural zones
38 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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How to Be a Rocket Ship: Be More Productive One Minute at a Time
38 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Fish skin helped bears burned in the Thomas Fire get back on their feet
38 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Analysts See Oil Demand Peaking by 2030 as Electric Vehicles Boom
38 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Show HN: Switchboard – makes it easy to route incoming calls and messages
38 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home
38 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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U.K. Appoints a Minister for Loneliness
37 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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GitHub: Commit together with co-authors
37 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Podcast Transcription with Amazon Transcribe
37 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Porn watchers will have to prove they are over 18 under new laws
37 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Watching the Bitcoin fire from a safe distance – what just happened
37 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Product Misjudgment
37 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Requiring Universities to Ban Anonymous Speech on Campus Is Unconstitutional
37 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Show HN: Amp – A text editor for your terminal, written in Rust
37 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Modifying Your Own Genes Is Just An Injection Away If You’re Feeling Lucky
37 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Show HN: One Click Shrug Emoji Copy
37 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Intel Announces Q4 2017 and FY 2017 Results
37 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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82% of Wealth Created in 2017 Went to the top 1%, says Oxfam
37 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Will Everything Stay in New Orleans If Cameras Capture It All?
36 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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What are the end to end encrypted desktop messengers?
36 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Thousands of Starbucks Employees Are Getting Raises After GOP Tax Cuts
36 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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In Praise of Simple Problems
36 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Racing to space, together
36 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?
36 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Freemasons and Ritual Murder: The Story of William Morgan
36 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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How America Fell in Love with Vodka
36 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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How do towels stay on hooks?
36 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism
36 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Finding Family Ties to Indian Slavery in New Mexico
36 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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The story of the Moscow Planetarium
36 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Richard Stallman's lifestyle
35 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Status.im puts $5M into Matrix.org to fuel FOSS decentralised comms
35 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Southwest's Bullshit Lawsuit Over a Site That Made $45
35 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Children get new ears grown from their own cells
35 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Heavy lifting with McSema 2.0
35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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80's kids started programming at an earlier age than today's millennials
35 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals
35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Shawn Pearce, author of Gerrit and Git-related projects, has died
35 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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How I built my MVP in 5 hours and got to $10k MRR in two months
35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Building Cross-Lingual End-to-End Product Search with Tensorflow
35 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Why the IRS Fears Bitcoin
35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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The Accidental HFT Firm – Now we were sending orders before the data pkt arrived
35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Boosting the performance of PostgreSQL’s COPY command by dropping indexes
35 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans
34 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing
34 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Tuskegee Truth Teller
34 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Show HN: ML data annotations and tagging made easy
34 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool
34 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Jack Dongarra on the TOP500 list of supercomputers
34 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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This new experiment could finally unite the two biggest theories in physics
34 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Epic Games acquires Cloudgine
34 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data
34 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How to Make a Consciousness Meter (2017)
34 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Why a Bitcoin future will always end up in centralization
34 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The hustle is dumb and killing you
33 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Bootstrap 4.0 Released
33 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Building a Successful Information Security Career (2008)
33 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Markov mashups of Erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers
33 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Cells Are Not Computers and DNA Is Not a Programming Language (Stanford Seminar)
33 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany for Dementia Patients
33 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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How to Prepare a Talk
33 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
33 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Tech firms let Russia probe software widely used by U.S. government
33 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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A sample of brilliance
33 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
33 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Horrible doors on British trains (2010)
32 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Gmail auto labels
32 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia's interference in US-elections
32 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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The story of the fake bomb detectors (2014)
32 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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We all think our jobs are safe from automation
32 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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A Prayer’s Chance: The scandal of mental health in West Africa (2017)
32 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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With Firefox Version 58, WebAssembly Gets 10X Faster
32 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Only 13 arrests in 7 years of SF online auto break-in reports, DA says
32 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Bolt launches an Amazon-like checkout experience for the rest of online retail
32 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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The Right Way to Accept a Job Offer
32 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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GitHub giveth; Wikipedia taketh away
32 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Ask HN: Can I ask for more severance pay?
32 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Eve is winding down
32 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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An Adaptive Packed-Memory Array (2007) [pdf]
31 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Volkswagon’s Campaign for ‘Clean Diesel’
31 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Strava fitness tracker reveals military base
31 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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$PHP = ;
31 points • comment • jan 24, 2018