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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?
71 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (1980)
70 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Bigelow Space Operations – B330 Space Station
70 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Building low-overhead metrics collection for high-performance systems
70 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Parallel C++ on AWS Lambda for CRISPR
70 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Validating email addresses: A journey down RFC5321 [video]
70 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The Case for Lowering Your Expectations
70 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Let's Encrypt Hits 50M Active Certificates and Counting
70 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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How Cloud Storage uses Spanner for consistent bucket listing
70 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Show HN: Tiiiny growth ideas for SaaS
70 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of 'Political Correctness' (1994) [pdf]
70 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency
69 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit
69 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The Economist house-price indices
69 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing
69 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?
69 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Venus flytraps don't eat the insects that pollinate them
69 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?
69 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult
69 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Get started with KVM and Kubernetes
69 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Dream Phone' Concept
69 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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A drug that can repair cavities and regrow teeth (2017)
69 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Liberating a X200
68 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Dave Kleiman's estate sues Craig Wright for $10B
68 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Visual Studio Code January 2018 Update (version 1.20)
68 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (2010)
68 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Smart homes and vegetable peelers
68 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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What's the significance of 0.05 significance? (2013)
68 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Catalog of Missing Devices: Gadgets that could exist if not for copyright laws
68 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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The Boys Are Not All Right
68 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov
68 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Everyone Else Is Trash
67 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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A computational model of the Moth Olfactory Network learns to read MNIST [pdf]
67 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The ESA says preserving old online games isn't 'necessary'
67 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points
67 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist
67 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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The ramifications of a new type of gene
67 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Archiving JPEGs for long-term storage
67 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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LibreOffice remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability
67 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Google discloses Microsoft Edge security flaw before a patch is ready
67 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide
67 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Robonaut Has Been Broken for Years, and Now NASA Is Bringing It Home
67 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Increase in suicides the months after the death of Robin Williams in the US
67 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
67 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Show HN: Open Source Constellation T-Shirts
67 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?
67 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Genetic contribution to neuroticism associated with affluence, health, longevity
67 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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A Root Cause Analysis EBook [pdf]
67 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI
67 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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How Dropbox handles downgrades
67 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2018
67 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Mass grave may belong to Viking Great Army
67 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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The Internet Isn’t Forever
67 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question
67 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Show HN: Browser extension to read HN comments for any url, in ClojureScript
67 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
66 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback
66 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Preventative care doesn't save money
66 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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The first English professor of mathematics
66 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Standing desks 'increase pain' and slow down mental ability, study suggests
66 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The History of .NET [video]
66 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis
66 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech?
66 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Show HN: Fastr – Reload Optimizing Chrome Extension
66 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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McCLIM 0.9.7 "Imbolc" release
65 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]
65 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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What might the Amazon, Berkshire and JPM health care joint venture actually do?
65 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)
65 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Seneca Systems (YC S16) Raises $3.5M to Make Cities More Responsive, Efficient
65 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Lazy deserialization
65 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Sweden is deporting entrepreneur for lowering his own salary
65 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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A viable pathway for hydrogen as fuel
65 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Real-time updates without JavaScript
65 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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How Cockroaches Crash into Walls and Keep Going
65 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Facebook lost a million users in the US and Canada last quarter
65 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Democracy Index 2016
65 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon
65 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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The Case for React-Like Web Components
65 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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LevelDB: SSTable and Log-Structured Storage (2012)
64 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Ruby’s New JIT
64 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Apple won't approve apps that use emojis that aren't provided by the keyboard
64 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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The split brain: A tale of two halves (2012)
64 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Twilio Demonstrates Why Courts Should Review Every National Security Letter
64 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data
64 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Patio11 AMA about Japan, Technology, Business and Startups
64 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Ask HN: Why is there so little programming related content on HN?
64 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Altered Carbon – All the DNA of great science-fiction with some missing links
64 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
64 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working moms
64 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Battleship Solitaire
63 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Go Library for the VMware vSphere API
63 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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China Will Overtake the US in AI, said Alphabet's Eric Schmidt
63 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Measuring QUIC vs TCP on mobile and desktop
63 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector for Reconfigurable Hardware (2012) [pdf]
63 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Fedora on RISC-V bootable disk image
63 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Algorithms, Etc. (2015)
63 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary in 1946 (2014)
63 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Datensparsamkeit (2013)
63 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science [pdf]
63 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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When to use Dictionary Compression
63 points • comment • feb 17, 2018