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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Chrome canary (66) blocks symantec issued SSL certificates
56 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Compressing Radix Trees Without Too Many Tears (2017)
56 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Buy Now, Pay Later Helps JAB Billionaires Build Beverage Empire
56 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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IPR Process Saves 80 Companies from Paying for a Sports-Motion Patent
56 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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More diagnostics data from desktop
56 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Old Smartphones Are a Problem for Apple and Samsung
55 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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It’s Time to End the Scam of Flying Pets
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Protonmail Online Security Guide for Journalists
55 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Randomness: the Ghost in the Machine? (2014)
55 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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The Last Scan: Keeping old TVs alive
55 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures'
55 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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One File Linux – live linux distro combined in one EFI file
54 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The U.S. government is set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year
54 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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One of EFF's directors is running for congress
54 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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How New Zealand Made Edmund Hillary, the Man Who Conquered Everest
54 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize
54 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Incivility in the Workplace: The Effects of Gender, Agency and Communion
54 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Some Notes on the “Andrew Ng” Coursera Machine Learning Course
54 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission [pdf]
54 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Traces of Old Egyptian in Eurasian languages?
54 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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An Underground Farm Delivering Rare Herbs to New York’s Top Chefs
54 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Cuba's Lack of Literature
54 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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This Is a Generic LinkedIn Rant
54 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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The way we run Exist
54 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
54 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Reddit bans /r/deepfakes
54 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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“A thread on the best reading lists I've come across so far.”
53 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Tiny Core v9.0 Released
53 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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More evidence of rent declines in Portland
53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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A ranking of the highest tech salaries in the US, adjusted for cost of living
53 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Google Parent Alphabet and Aramco in Talks to Build Tech Hub in Saudi Arabia
53 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Center for Humane Technology
53 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Performance
53 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction
53 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Retpoline: A Branch Target Injection Mitigation [pdf]
53 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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China will soon have air power rivalling the West’s
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Steven Pinker makes case for human progress in ‘Enlightenment Now’
53 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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A Kingdom from Dust
53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Methods for Studying Coincidences (1989) [pdf]
53 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories
53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks (2010)
53 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Herbert Simon: The Architecture of Complexity (1962) [pdf]
53 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Stealing Data with CSS: Attack and Defense
53 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Couple that paid $90k for a private street in SF is forced to give it back
53 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Ripgrep 0.8.0
53 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Pass-Through Businesses Are Rethinking Their Status in Wake of Tax Law
53 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Save the CR100
53 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native Caribbeans
53 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Why do we keep designing streets for speed?
52 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Veil is private browsing for the ultra-paranoid
52 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Firefly book series announced: Joss Whedon to serve as consulting editor
52 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Dabbling in the Cryptographic World (1999)
52 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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HP EliteBook: A friend to the User
52 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Five tips on making every day count, by Richard Branson
52 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
52 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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An Interview with Tom Quisel, Former CTO of OkCupid (2017)
52 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Murders in US very concentrated (2017)
52 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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High-Level Rendering Using Render Graphs
52 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?
52 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accurate
52 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Progress Continues on Firmware Updates
52 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader
52 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Ask HN: How are you implementing GDPR-compliant soft deletes?
52 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Building and Running a Geographically Distributed Engineering Team
52 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Bijlmer: City of the Future, Part 1
52 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Apocalypse now: London’s property crash has begun
52 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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xkcd's 2018 CVE List
51 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Japan to buy at least 20 more F-35A stealth fighters
51 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Direction for ISO C++ [pdf]
51 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Techniques of Systems Analysis (1957) [pdf]
51 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Containers won the battle, but will lose the war to serverless
51 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (2012)
51 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things
51 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Waymo is readying a ride-hailing service that could directly compete with Uber
51 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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As Bitcoin Bubble Loses Air, Frauds and Flaws Rise to Surface
51 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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BACE1 deletion in the adult mouse reverses preformed amyloid deposition
51 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Java language oddities
51 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Ask HN: What best practices for in-house Docker Registry?
51 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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What Is Going to Happen With Whois?
51 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Gobee.bike pulls out of France due to mass destruction of its bike fleet
51 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Show HN: CloudMapper, open-source tool for visualizing AWS environments
51 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Gig economy is the mass exploitation of millennials
51 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Meritocracy and its discontents: The merits of revisiting Michael Young
51 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Optimizely’s decision to ditch its free plan
50 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for macOS devs?
50 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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In Running Like A Startup, Nonprofits Find Success
50 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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The weak scientific case for emotional support animals
50 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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When Everything Is Too Safe, Add Risk
50 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge”
50 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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JavaScript in the Internet of Things: JerryScript and the Fitbit Ionic
50 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai Factory
50 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela's lawless roads
50 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Meet India’s Women Open Source Warriors
50 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks
50 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility
50 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'
50 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (2010)
50 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Undocumented 8086 Opcodes, Part I
50 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones–now it’s dead
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2018