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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?
39 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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It's Perfectly Fine to Only Code at Work – Don't Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise
39 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Go and Versioning: Reproducible, Verifiable, Verified Builds
39 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language
39 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Can you predict a recession by looking at pregnancy rates?
39 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Why Can’t Riding Bikes in America Just Be Normal?
39 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Tips for the Diagnostic Interview of Mental Disorders
38 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat
38 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Arc: Virus-Like Protein Is Involved in Memory and Cognition
38 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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A Statistical Search for Genomic Truths
38 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Set-top box maker TiVo exploring options, could go private
38 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’
38 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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UK Electronics Store Maplin Goes into Administration
38 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Show HN: Passpwn – check passwords in pass against haveibeenpwned
38 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Peter Thiel’s Warning to the Valley
38 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes
38 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Bitcoin Miners Fried in Game of Chicken
38 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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The Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Over a Million Rideshare Drivers [pdf]
38 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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How to Write Dockerfiles for Python Web Apps
38 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Show HN: Making good Steam games discoverable again
38 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Show HN: Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Responsive HTML Documents
38 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Library of Babel – Explore the Near In(de)finite
38 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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On the Work of Edward Witten (1990) [pdf]
38 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Ask HN: How to play the politics game at your company?
38 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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US Electric Car Sales Report
38 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Telegram Remote Code Execution Zero-Day Vulnerability
37 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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How do you build a healthy city? Copenhagen reveals its secrets
37 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Merrell Trail Glove Failures and Minimal Running in a Communist Shoe
37 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Bitcoin energy use in Iceland set to overtake homes, says local firm
37 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Former Apple developer explains why the company’s software is struggling
37 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Disabling ANSI color output
37 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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The Natural Rate of Interest Is Zero (2004) [pdf]
37 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation
37 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Scope exit in C++11 (2012)
37 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?
37 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Server-Side Swift from Scratch
37 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel
37 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Sorry, Collectors, Nobody Wants Your Beanie Babies Anymore
37 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Volatility and the Alchemy of Risk (2017) [pdf]
37 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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“Implement WebP image support” – Reported 8 years ago
37 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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The Forest That Blooms Brilliantly for Just a Few Days a Year
37 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Are voting-machine modems truly divorced from the Internet?
37 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Designing experiments for understanding performance [pdf]
37 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Global Latinists
37 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems
37 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia
37 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Mercer Family Grants $1M to MAPS for PTSD Research with MDMA
36 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Serverless Security: What's Left to Protect?
36 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Verizon to stop honoring FCC restriction, start SIM-locking phones
36 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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An agoraphobic globetrotter who uses Street View to 'travel'
36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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What’s it like to be one of the Jeopardy clue writers?
36 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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AMD unveils 14nm Ryzen Embedded V1000 to compete with Intel Xeon D
36 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Flight Simulator Installs Password-Stealing Malware in Attempt to Combat Piracy
36 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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SEC May Take Enforcement Action Against Investors Who Promoted Unregulated ICOs
36 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Place Kit – The future of augmented reality mobile apps
36 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC with Five Million Downloads
36 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Vulkan Applications Enabled on Apple Platforms
36 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Show HN: Veros, a high-performance ocean simulator in pure Python
36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Interactive ML Analytics with Google's Facets Dive and Scikit-Learn
36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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How to learn Deep Learning in 6 months
36 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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When are Lyft and Uber going to add a “refund” button within their app?
36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Unfortunately, StackOverflow is difficult-to-avoid nowadays…
36 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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A short history of Zhvandun, Afghanistan's lost magazine
36 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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South Korean Cryptocurrency Regulator Found Dead at Home
36 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Compaction Strategies Series: Write Amplification in Leveled Compaction
36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up
36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Bitcoin thieves threaten real violence for virtual currencies
36 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Why and How Java Developers Break APIs
36 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Big rise in IPv6-enabled .nl domain names
35 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Show HN: LambStatus – Status page system built on AWS Lambda
35 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Neural Voice Cloning with a Few Samples
35 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Ask HN: What about Think HN?
35 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Voice UI Is the Future. But When?
35 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Shows the Evolution of Mary Shelley’s Monster
35 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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The Uber Pay Gap
35 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Reading bits in far too many ways, part 2
35 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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A worm species called Thelazia gulosa was found in the eye of a woman
35 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us
35 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Investigators Say DB Cooper Was CIA
35 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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I Ate Nothing but Meat for 2 Weeks
35 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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A $232M Cryptocurrency Fight Comes to a Close
35 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Georgia Must Block This Flawed Computer Crime Bill
35 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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The Black Panther’s scientist role models
35 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Intel 4004 microprocessor oral history panel (2007)
35 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Student Loan Debt Clock
35 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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The American Mall Game: A 2018 Retail Challenge
35 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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What Is the Perfect Color Worth?
34 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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The Navy’s Electromagnetic Railgun Is Both Alive and Dead
34 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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When the Copyright Office Meets, the Future Needs a Seat at the Table
34 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality
34 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Node-APL: APL interpreter written in JavaScript
34 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk
34 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Bill Gates – A villain who lived to see himself become a hero? (2016)
34 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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The Importance of Taleb’s System: The Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game
34 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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SEC Launches Cryptocurrency Probe
34 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Does anyone here suffer from a speech impediment?
34 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Razer doesn’t care about Linux
34 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Filtering stream water or fresh water is medically unnecessary
34 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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There Might Be No Way to Live Comfortably Without Also Ruining the Planet
34 points • comment • feb 10, 2018