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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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In the eye of a chicken, a new state of matter comes into view (2014)
31 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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A World In Decay
31 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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A dataset of crimes committed in Buenos Aires
31 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Privacy by Design (2010) [pdf]
31 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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A practical guide to microchip implants
31 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The Old Taxonomy of the Logical Fallacies
31 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The Law of the Somalis, a Nation Successful Without Any Central Government
31 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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All Good Magazines Go to Heaven
30 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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FSF Binutils release 2.30 now available
30 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About Running
30 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Rolls-Royce and Google Cloud attempt to make autonomous ships a reality
30 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
30 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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The Navy's ‘fast, agile’ warship has been stuck in ice since Christmas Eve
30 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Citus 7.2: Distributed Postgres with CTEs, complex subqueries, set operations
30 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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AT&T CEO’s net neutrality plan calls for regulation of websites
30 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Ask HN: Help me generate an idea for my next project
30 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Ethereum miner with Terraform
30 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Howl: a nostalgic homage to the brief, hazy era of “pure” London punk
30 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights and checks for eligibility
30 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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US appeals court says Tinder Plus pricing is discriminatory
30 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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As Cape Town water crisis deepens, scientists prepare for ‘Day Zero’
30 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Plug wars: the battle for electric car supremacy
30 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Norton I, Emperor of the United States
30 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Does Harvard discriminate against Asian-Americans?
30 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now
30 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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A shitcoin startup just exitscammed with millions of dollars – with this message
30 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Flurry of Lawsuits Fight Repeal of Net Neutrality
30 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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For Bonobos, it pays to have powerful allies
29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Why We Must Practice the Art of Good Conversation
29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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BitConnect promoters cover their asses as site struggles with server downtime
29 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Hawaii official who sent false missile alert has been fired
29 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Google expanding global infrastructure with new GCP regions and subsea cables
29 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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How Nike Avoids Paying Taxes in Australia
29 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Space mining is going to seriously disrupt Earth's economy
29 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Telegram Raises Target for Biggest ICO Ever to $2B
29 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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How we’re fixing “unlimited” vacation
29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The marketing stack that got us to 100 customers
29 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default to the X.Org Stack, Not Wayland
29 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Want to see all data Windows 10 sends Microsoft?
28 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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No salary for Elon Musk but a $7bn payout if Tesla reaches $650bn valuation
28 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Ford Is Building a Transportation Operating System
28 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The Magnetic Field Is Shifting. The Poles May Flip. This Could Get Bad
28 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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The popularity of Microsoft’s Surface is the least realistic thing on TV
28 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Preview of Scratch 3.0 GUI
28 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Best language for general AI programming?
28 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you fight self-skepticism towards your own ideas?
28 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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What are some YouTube channels to progress into advanced levels of programming?
28 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Started a new job and their existing code sucks. What to do?
28 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving a Polygamous Sect?
28 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Apple HomePod
27 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The idea that all things are conscious is gaining academic credibility
27 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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High Times Beckon for Using Hemp to Build Houses
27 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Rocket Lab sends its Electron rocket to orbit for the first time
27 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors
27 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Uber CEO calls for new ebenfits system for gig economy workers
27 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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R Function for Simulating Gaussian Processes
27 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Apple Leak Reveals Sudden iPhone X Cancellation
27 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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New Zealand's Rocket Lab launches first rocket into orbit from Māhia Peninsula
27 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Why hasn't D started to replace C++
27 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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U.S. military revising its rules after fitness trackers exposed sensitive data
27 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Social media is giving us Trypophobia
27 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Redesigning Hawaii’s Emergency Alert System UI
27 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Is RSS making a real resurgence?
27 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Documents reveal that Whole Foods is leaving some shelves empty on purpose
26 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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$534m worth of NEM stolen from Coincheck is largest ever cryptocurrency theft
26 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Net neutrality will be enforced in New York under orders from governor
26 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Is It Legal to Swap Someone’s Face into Porn Without Consent?
26 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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The Suicide Prevention Hotline is pinned to the top of r/cryptocurrency
26 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Cake raises $5M for a swipeable mobile browser
26 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Show HN: Connect to Your Data, Clean, Wrangle, Combine, Explore, Publish
26 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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No One in China Wants to Get Married Anymore, and It's Making Beijing Nervous
26 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Failing to become an internet celebrity in China
26 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Facebook Is the New Excel – Alex Muir
26 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Somehow, sometimes, this happens
26 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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The first cosplay took place in 1939
26 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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The Lightning Network
25 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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The Shallowness of Google Translate (Douglas Hofstadter, 2018)
25 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Jess Houlgrave on Blockchain for the Art Market
25 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Time Is the Ultimate Success, Not Money
25 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Show HN: Appenguin – Turn your website into an Android app
25 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Please Stop Using Local Storage
25 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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A Shrinking Pie? The IPv4 Transfer Market in 2017
25 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Ask HN: What's your email setup?
25 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Algorithms are making American inequality worse
25 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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DNS66: OSS ad blocker for Android that works for all apps (no root needed)
25 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017
25 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Trisis has mistakenly been released on the open internet
25 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Why Japanese Web Design Is (Still) the Way It Is
25 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Why Gates and Jobs shielded their kids from tech
25 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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WhatsApp Business App
25 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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A mattress conspiracy theory got even weirder after top comment got deleted
25 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Cargo raises $5.5M to let Uber drivers sell snacks and essentials nationwide
25 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Trump administration is thinking about nationalizing 5G mobile network
25 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Meteorite or Meteorwrong?
24 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Deep Learning for Forecasting Stock Returns in the Cross-Section [pdf]
24 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Smart contract tutorial – I
24 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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I go back to my old macbook air from my new macbook pro – because it was better
24 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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60% of the world’s saiga antelopes wiped out in three weeks
24 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Fees calculation in Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) explained
24 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert
24 points • comment • jan 30, 2018