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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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Twitter admits far more Russian bots posted on election than it had disclosed
10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Alcatraz inmates survived infamous 1962 escape, letter suggests
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Apple to pay $38B in U.S. taxes on foreign cash, open new campus
10 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Are you using Brave for daily browsing?
10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Apple now faces 45 lawsuits surrounding “Batterygate”
10 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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In World First, Monkeys Cloned Like Dolly the Sheep
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The Trials and Tribulations of the Title Attribute
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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However improbable: The story of an Intel microcode bug
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Finland to lobby EU for abolition of daylight saving time
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Graydon Hoare reflects on creating Rust
10 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Nouriel Roubini: Tether/USD peg of 1:1 is the mother of all scams/frauds
10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Amazon Go grocery store opened and we accidentally stole a yogurt
10 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The Search for Autonomy
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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US could topple Russia, Saudi Arabia as world's largest oil producer
10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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One Day Sprints
10 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Google Chrome now lets you permanently mute annoying websites
10 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg
10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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New California Declares Independence from Rest of State
10 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Utah man who runs popular YouTube channel is charged with possessing explosives
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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5 Notable Women in the Blockchain and Crypto Industry
10 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Where is Hubble now?
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Bitcoin won't last in world of finance, warns Nobel-winning economist
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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For every pack of cigarettes smoked the country reaps net savings of $.32 (2009)
10 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How to Create a Cryptocurrency
10 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Apple pledges $350B investment in US economy over next five years
10 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Why I’m not falling for another too-good-to-be-true VC-funded startup
10 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Color Television: NTSC Tutorials
10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress
10 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Strobe (1995)
10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Burger King makes an ad about Net Neutrality
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Censorship by Weaponizing Free Speech: Rethinking the Marketplace of Ideas
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Bitsequence has just ran away with their investors’ money
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Gearing up the Web for 2018
10 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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3 free ways to advertise your startup
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Dark Caracal: Good News and Bad News
10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality
10 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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GitLab Security Release: 10.3.4, 10.2.6, and 10.1.6
10 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer
10 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Intel promises Spectre- and Meltdown-proof chips this year
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Using Linuxkit to Build an AWS Image (AMI)
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Jordan Peterson: ‘The pursuit of happiness is a pointless goal’
10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The crimes against dopamine
10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you watch technical videos?
10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Nearly 100 people in California have died from flu this season
10 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The iPhone is Dead
10 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler
10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms
9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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OpenCensus: A Stats Collection and Distributed Tracing Framework
9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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New blood test could help detect eight common cancers before they spread
9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Soft Electronics – Flexible Futures [pdf]
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Sixty free lectures from Princeton on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Ranking Programming Languages by GitHub Users
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Things you might be forgetting when traveling
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging
9 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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How Closed Trade Deals Ratchet Up the Copyright Term Worldwide
9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Announcing TypeScript 2.7 RC
9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Chinese workers build railway for a new train station in just NINE HOURS
9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It’s Just Been Revealed
9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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The Men Who Want to Live Forever
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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How Haiti became poor
9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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State schools to make computer science a core subject – Boston Herald
9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Snapchat Threatens Employees with Jail as Facebook Lets It Starve
9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Playboy is suing Boing Boing – but linking is not copyright infringement
9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Losing Your Job for Sexual Harassment Is Not a Violation of Due Process
9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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America Is Not a Democracy
9 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Compression ignition engines are a big breakthrough–we got to try one
9 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Ask HN: Moving to Tokyo as a software engineer
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege
9 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Apple's Historic Lisa Computer Was Born 35 Years Ago Today – Inverse
9 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Stellar magnetism: What's behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?
9 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Apple shuttle buses rerouted following suspected attacks
9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Understanding Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times
9 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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You don’t have to take every handout or jump through every loophole
9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Martha Matilda Harper pioneered retail franchising, hair salon industry (2017)
9 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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The X500 Pro computer case
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Parcel v1.5.0 Released: Source Maps, WebAssembly, Rust, and More
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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50 Cent Forgot Taking 700 Bitcoins for 2014 Album; Stake Is Now Worth Millions
9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Cryptocurrencies Drop After Japanese Exchange Halts Withdrawals
9 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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California lawmakers propose raising corporate tax by 7% to offset Trump tax cut
9 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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A coding error led to $30M in ethereum being stolen (2017)
9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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US imposes tariffs on washing machines and solar panels
9 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Transitioning from R to Python with Spyder
9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Show HN: Hack interviews by studying questions recently asked by companies
9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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TypeScript 2.7 released
9 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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There is a significant ongoing decline in sperm counts of Western men
9 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed
8 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Netflix is Down
8 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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What's So Bad About Blue Light?
8 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Mexico and Hungary tried junk food taxes – and they seem to be working
8 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Ask HN: Why is Python so popular for ML/DS?
8 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Why You Should Put Your Content on Both Medium and Your Own Domain
8 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Show HN: Light weight CoinMarketCap.com alternative with additional insights
8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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A typically American response: YouTube knifes creators to “protect” them
8 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Programmers use TensorFlow AI to turn any webcam into Microsoft Kinect
8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
8 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Cryptocurrency Mining Malware That Uses an NSA Exploit Is on the Rise
8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Big Brother on wheels:Why a car company may know more about you than your spouse
8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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AWS DeepLens and the Future of AI Cameras and Vision
8 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Better Containerized JVMs with JDK10
8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018