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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2
107 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017)
107 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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How to Beat Amazon
107 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Show HN: Bootrino.com – Netboot Run-From-RAM OS's on AWS, Google and Digital Ocean
106 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Rejoiner: Unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices
106 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life
106 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it
106 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013)
105 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway
105 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Towards LaTeX in the Browser
105 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
105 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Primg – Generate prime numbers whose binary representation looks like any image
105 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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A History of the Erlang VM (2011) [pdf]
104 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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High Performance Browser Networking (2013)
104 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
104 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web
104 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics
104 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
104 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)
104 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Pornhub “Hawaii on Alert” traffic stats
104 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain
103 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature (2013)
103 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network
103 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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How Does MoviePass Make Money?
102 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage
102 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam
102 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News
102 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook
102 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance
101 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Using Self-Organizing Maps to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
101 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Upcoming Go protobuf release
101 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Dr. Seuss’ arms race allegory
101 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977
100 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Mistakes in time
100 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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The MacBook Air: A Decade’s Worth of Legacy
100 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Superheroes don’t work 90-hour weeks
100 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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China’s Economic Growth Looks Strong, Maybe Too Strong
100 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
100 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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SpaceX performs static fire test on Falcon Heavy
99 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Google experiments in local news with an app called Bulletin
99 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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GDB 8.1 Released
99 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days
99 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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What gig workers can learn from romance writers
98 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Digital marketing: a free curriculum
98 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?
98 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing
98 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever
98 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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In Japan, there's an industry devoted to cleaning up after people who died alone
98 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Ursula K. Le Guin on “Spare Time”
97 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Replace Skype with Discord for Better Audio Quality and Web-Based Interviews
97 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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ARM immediate value encoding (2014)
96 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)
96 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants
96 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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CodeReddit – Reddit that looks like code
96 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Maersk reinstalled thousands of servers and workstations to fix NotPeyta
96 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers
96 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Nicolas Cage DeepFake
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf]
95 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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A man accused of cheating at video games may lose his Guinness World Record
95 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Guaranteed Minimum Agriculture: Why Basic Jobs Might Fare Better Than UBI
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Show HN: Collateralized Debt Agreements Using Smart Contracts and Virtual Cats
95 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Easy laser-cut electronics cases for maker boards (2017)
95 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Biker Protestor 'Throttles' Traffic Around FCC Headquarters
95 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Twitter's COO Noto Resigns to Become Chief Executive at SoFi
95 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization
94 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Predicting Death for Better End-Of-Life Care
94 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918
94 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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The Peterloo Massacre of 1819
94 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Visual tour of classical electromagnetism
94 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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TomTom ditches map updates for some sat-navs
94 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Cryptocurrency bloodbath continues as Bitcoin falls below $10,000
94 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers
93 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles
93 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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WebAssembly and Rust: performance analysis
93 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL
93 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Drug companies alleged to have flooded West Virginia with opioid painkillers
92 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Inside Moscow's Metro
92 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Show HN: Bistro – A light-weight column-oriented data processing engine
92 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Data Brokers: Online Game Revenue Models with AI
92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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America's Love Affair with Avocado
92 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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The Joys of Victimhood (1989)
92 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Writing Complex Macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation
92 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship
92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Building a Website with C++
92 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First
92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot
91 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawyer Disagrees?
91 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Lithium chloride kills a honey bee parasite by a systemic mode of action
91 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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The User Experience of Lootboxes
91 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Asana raises $75M Series D round led by Generation Investment Management
91 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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CSS Gridish
91 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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The Lost Art of Staying Put
90 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual
90 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (2013) [pdf]
90 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Blockshell – A minimal blockchain learning CLI
90 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase
90 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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A new grad SDE makes 2x more in SF than Toronto after tax and COL
89 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Oculus Start: Technical and Financial Resources for Beginning VR Developers
89 points • comment • jan 19, 2018