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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing
241 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Self-Crashing Cars
240 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order
240 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning
239 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
238 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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So You Want to Compete with Steam
238 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
237 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker
237 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms
237 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M
237 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan
236 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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German Union Steps Up Fight for ‘Modern’ 28-Hour Workweek
235 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset
234 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts
234 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person
234 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page
233 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Tsunami warning ends for B.C. after large earthquake strikes off Alaska
231 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Memo: Foxconn cost to Wisconsin nearing $4.5B
231 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
231 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals
230 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]
230 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]
230 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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It can all go to zero
229 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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The CLARA Method of De-Escalation
228 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece
227 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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The Rise of German Board Games
227 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials
227 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)
227 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Dutch intelligence first to alert U.S. about Russian hack of Democratic Party
227 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Show HN: Paper Programs – Run JavaScript on pieces of paper
226 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists
225 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How I review code
225 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
224 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)
224 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18
223 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Mayor quits FCC committee, says it favors ISPs over the public interest
223 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Employees at Practice Fusion got nothing as execs pocketed millions
222 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel
222 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise
221 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket
220 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015)
220 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Turning Soybeans into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Billions
220 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Principles of Chaos Engineering
219 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface
219 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
217 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby
217 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Sudden savant syndrome, in which exceptional abilities emerge after brain injury
216 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books
216 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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An update on Redis Streams development
215 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence
215 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?
214 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing
214 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Developer Skills Report
213 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Dvxk: A Vulkan-Based D3D11 Implementation for Linux with Wine
213 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Google IT Support Professional Certificate
213 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance
212 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
212 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status
212 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Leaflet – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
211 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time
210 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers
210 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV
210 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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I miss blogrolls
210 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently
210 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Data Science at the Command Line
209 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Fast base64 encoding and decoding
208 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im
208 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Getting free of toxic tech culture
207 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can
206 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations?
206 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence, pretending to be head of CIA
205 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (2016)
205 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The Eve programming language project is winding down
205 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation
205 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)
204 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
204 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Send the Barbarian in First
204 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Blizzard games were vulnerable to DNS rebinding attack
203 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft
203 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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The U.S. will impose duties on solar equipment and washing machines made abroad
202 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Why is only half of Mars magnetized?
202 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Minigo: An open-source implementation of the AlphaGo Zero algorithm
202 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done [audio]
202 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Beyond the Bitcoin bubble
201 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water
200 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance
199 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Advanced Distributed Systems
199 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming
198 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production
198 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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The 10,000 Year Clock
197 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Can We Copy the Brain?
197 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Stream Processing for Go
196 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
196 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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GitLab 10.4 released
195 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
195 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund
194 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is
193 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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On being an Engineering Manager
192 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Ethereum programming for web developers
192 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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'Text bomb' is latest Apple bug
192 points • comment • jan 18, 2018