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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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Show HN: Cobrowse.io – Add screen sharing to any iOS or Android mobile app
89 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Hawaii’s false missile alert sent by worker believing attack on US was imminent
89 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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GG-flip: simplest and most efficient ways to flip the sign of a number
88 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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How much does it cost to build a home in Silicon Valley? (2016)
88 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Tether Is Breaking Its Peg to the Dollar
88 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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What’s North Korea like?
88 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
88 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Photo Metadata and Search on MacOS
88 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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The Melancholy of Don Bluth (2017)
88 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour
88 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Dropbox Developer Terms and Conditions
88 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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More than 10 percent of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen
87 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The Open Sourcerer's Magic Spell Book
87 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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A theory of the learnable
87 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How to write a CHIP-8 interpreter
87 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Best ways to kill your startup
86 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi, Google Brain
86 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War
86 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Paying journalists to promote brands in articles
86 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Tips for Application Performance (2015)
86 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Show HN: Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API
86 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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V8 memory quiz
86 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store
86 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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“Pump-and-Dump” schemes in Telegram groups drive penny crypto coin prices up
85 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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What Does It Mean to Die?
85 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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A Washington state bill that would make it easier to fix your electronics
85 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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The best way of looking at the brain is from within
85 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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In California, Where Cancer Warnings Abound, Coffee Is Next in Line
85 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The London Time Machine
85 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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LibreOffice 6.0 is coming
85 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
84 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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What's new in Swift 4.1
84 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Show HN: HardyPress – Use WordPress as a static site generator
84 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Biotech booms in China
84 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment
84 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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GDPR and Google Analytics
84 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Isomorphic Go
84 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Retrospective: Looking Glass
84 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Twenty years of speedcubing (2003)
84 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript IPFS
84 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
83 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson
83 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Watching a Ridge Slide in Slow Motion, a Town Braces for Disaster
83 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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The De Bruijn-Newman constant is non-negative
83 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent original by 2018
83 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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A daredevil climber risking his life for breathtaking views
83 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Kotlin and linear programming
83 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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LinkedIn won't show you your own connections without paying?
82 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat’s Video Company
82 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. It didn’t exist
82 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling
82 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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The reviewer’s fallacy: when critics aren’t critical enough
82 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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U.S. To Probe Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones
82 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry (2015)
82 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Remote workers, how do you show your work?
82 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
82 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Waymo heads to Atlanta to test its self-driving cars
82 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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SEC halts AriseBank ICO
81 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items an hour
81 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Drug lords make billions smuggling gold to Miami
81 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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When a Therapist Puts Buddhism into Practice
81 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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MacOS High Sierra Kills Terminal FTP
81 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (2016)
80 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages (2013) [pdf]
80 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Quantifying the Effect of Tether
80 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Software Updates for IoT Devices and the Hidden Costs of Homegrown Updaters [pdf]
80 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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US regulators charge three Bitcoin operators with fraud
80 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Great founders lead with product strategy
80 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into sky
79 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Ask HN: I own a large adult business and am moving to the Bay Area soon
79 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Apple in 2017: Report Card
79 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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The SCO vs IBM Zombie Shambles On
79 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Let Me Ruin This for You: The Schadenfreude of Criticism
79 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Lojban
79 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate
79 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Using page speed in mobile search ranking
78 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
78 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Blocking via an Unsolvable CAPTCHA
78 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Bitcoin May Split Many Times in 2018
78 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors
78 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Copyright Royalty Board Boosts Songwriters’ Streaming Pay Nearly 50%
78 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Bitcoin’s energy usage is huge – we can't afford to ignore it
77 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Bitcoin and Ethereum tumble after renewed fears of regulatory crackdown
77 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization
77 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Tether has issued $450M USDT in past 4 days
77 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (1972)
77 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Linear Regression A Tale of a Transform
76 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Ask HN: Where do you find great remote developers?
76 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weight Polaris Windows Core
76 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in
75 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Write dumb code
75 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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RFC 8314: Use of Transport Layer Security for Email Submission and Access
75 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Connections between high blood sugar and dementia
74 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The Humanity Star
74 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Can I buy a GPU yet?
74 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others?
74 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Launch HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – predictive models for app conversions and churn
74 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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PointCNN – A simple and general framework for feature learning from point cloud
73 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Keurig to Acquire Dr Pepper Snapple in Largest Soft-Drink Deal Ever
73 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Show HN: Gymphy – Create Free Shareable Workout Plans
73 points • comment • jan 27, 2018