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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Measuring QUIC vs TCP on mobile and desktop
63 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Hiring Developers: look for the ability to abstract and not for experience
62 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series
62 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Visibility and Monitoring for Machine Learning Models
62 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Show HN: Golang automation for mining cryptocurrencies on the Spot Market
62 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser
62 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Ability (2014) [pdf]
62 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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An industry has developed around the online resale of clothes
62 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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China banned letter N from internet after people used it to attack Xi Jinping
62 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Why people collect art
62 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]
62 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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General Mills to buy pet food maker Blue Buffalo for $8B
61 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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What William James Got Right About Consciousness
61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Predicting outcomes for games of skill by redefining what it means to win
61 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Memory Safety in Rust: A Case Study with C
61 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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2017 was probably the best year in the history of humanity
61 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Ask HN: Best companies to work for in Europe?
61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Launch HN: Medumo (YC W18) prepares patients for surgeries
61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Getting Started with MapD, Part 2: Electricity Dataset
61 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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How a Single Mechanical Failure Sparked 625 MTA Delays (2016)
61 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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How We Bootstrapped Our Mailing List to Ramen Profitability of $2k/mo
61 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Beautiful folds in Haskell (2016)
61 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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An Update to Our Event Ticket Reseller Policy
61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Book That Colored Charles Darwin’s World
61 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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We can learn to be more creative
61 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Agile Is Dead (2015) [pdf]
61 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Update on two pledge-related changes to OpenBSD
60 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Walmart has acquired VR startup Spatialand
60 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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TCP-Starvation
60 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?
60 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Link Deployment with AWS LambdaEdge
60 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017)
60 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
60 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Symbolic Assembly: Using Clojure to Meta-Program Bytecode (2017) [video]
60 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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The special data device SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy sent to orbit is just the start
60 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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We’re witnessing the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in at least 1,500 years
60 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Show HN: Bounding-box labeler tool to generate the training data for YOLO v2
60 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe
60 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of hardware performance degradation in prod systems
60 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Ask HN: Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?
59 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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The search for Jackie Wallace
59 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Air pollution in London passes levels in Beijing (2017)
59 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Whistleblower alleges manipulation in the VIX fear gauge
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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We took a hacker to a public WiFi café (2014)
59 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature
59 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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An Astronaut Who Might Get Us to Mars
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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In Shanghai, a prototype of a new 24-hour convenience store (2017)
59 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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The Sierra Network
59 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated
59 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Sulong – A high-performance LLVM bitcode interpreter built on the GraalVM
59 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10
58 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Tinder Lack of Encryption Raises Privacy Concerns
58 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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How Protein Conquered America
58 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia
58 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Facebook suggesting security app – it secretly owns – that tracks usage
58 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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A Russian Train Stop That Serves One Schoolgirl
58 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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We Need Fewer Product Managers
58 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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New York Times Co. Subscription Revenue Surpassed $1B in 2017
58 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries
58 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Kactus: Design version control without changing tools
58 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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A geographer's theory of regional inequality as a cause of revolt
58 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Etcd 3.3 – Improvements to stability, performance, and more
58 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Intel Ships (hopefully Stable) Microcode for Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake
58 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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North Korea’s Hacker Army
58 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests
58 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Understanding Intel's Ivy Bridge Random Number Generator (2012)
58 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The new breed of chatbot talks more like a human, but that is not always good
58 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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JDK 10 Early Access Release Notes
58 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Java 9 has six weeks to live
58 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Review of Vivek Wadhwa’s Washington Post Column on Quantum Computing
58 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Camels in early medieval western Europe (2016)
58 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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New plan to defund space station opens up some surprising possibilities
58 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The top 1% of the US makes $480k or more in adjusted gross income
58 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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A Eulogy for the Headphone Jack
58 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Rocket Lab Reveals Secret Engine and “Kick Stage” for the Electron Rocket
58 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Palantir has secretly been testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans
57 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Tesla Model 3 Teardown by Engineering Firm Reveals Flaws Like 'A Kia in the 90s'
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Unix Utilities (1989) [pdf]
57 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Fiat Chrysler pushed a UConnect update that causes constant reboots
57 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute
57 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Things that were more likely to kill you in 1970s Britain than today
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Tesla confirms having produced its 300,000th electric car
57 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Blind Signature
57 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Why Decentralization Matters
57 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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On the Nature of Wine
57 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Decimal: A high-performance, arbitrary-precision, floating-point decimal library
57 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were
57 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks
57 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Nuggets of Thought – Modern thinkers on business, philosophy of success and life
57 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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When will the world reach 'peak child'?
57 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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“Column Tetris” – Calculating and Saving Space in PostgreSQL
57 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Making Sense of the Bias / Variance Trade-Off in Deep Reinforcement Learning
57 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Building a backup bee: A novel replacement for the embattled honeybee
57 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Compressing Radix Trees Without Too Many Tears (2017)
56 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Bootstrapping a site builder to $6k in monthly revenue
56 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Live Views of Starman
56 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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HR has lost the trust of employees
56 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
56 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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IPR Process Saves 80 Companies from Paying for a Sports-Motion Patent
56 points • comment • feb 11, 2018