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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS
412 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
411 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
410 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever
410 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Working remotely, 4 years in
407 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
405 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Family fun with deepfakes
405 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Asciinema 2.0
404 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
402 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
401 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library
401 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
400 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
399 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Worst Roommate Ever
398 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
395 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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India Wants to Give Half a Billion People Free Health Care
394 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
394 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
387 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords
384 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
379 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly
376 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'
372 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
370 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
369 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch
366 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Mark Felt-Tipped: Uncovering top-secret information by counting pixels
365 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Don't use VPN services
365 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)
362 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
361 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
361 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Vim Anywhere
360 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
360 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
357 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
357 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present
357 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)
357 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Web application from scratch, part I
354 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B
353 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Appropriate Uses for SQLite
353 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’
353 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better
351 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The Real History of TechCrunch
349 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
348 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Dtrace for Linux
347 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Nobody's just reading your code
347 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair
345 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework
345 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Collection of Useful CSS Snippets
344 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
343 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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An introduction to Reactive Programming
342 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor
342 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
341 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Video editing with Python
337 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
335 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants
333 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS
332 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave
332 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve
332 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Peace for Triple Piano
332 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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3D Color Print
331 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services
331 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Go += Package Versioning
328 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
328 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture
328 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word
328 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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YC's Series A Diligence Checklist
327 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Car Hacker's Handbook (2016)
327 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Rust things I miss in C
326 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code
326 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Facebook turned on face recognition silently
326 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time
325 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One Knows Why
324 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Dow plunges 1000 points
323 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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US startups don’t want to go public anymore
323 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Show HN: Curated, Pre-trained ML Models for Transfer Learning
321 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat
319 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
319 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files [pdf]
319 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases
319 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Self-owning corporations are legally possible
319 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies
318 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
317 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber
316 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Eldar Black Holes
313 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations
313 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Ask HN: As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?
310 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Crankshaft – A GNU/Linux for the Raspberry Pi as an Android Auto headunit
310 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure
310 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Books I used to develop a game engine
309 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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An SVG that always shows today's date
309 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Words for “yes” in Romance languages
308 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse
308 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Maintaining code quality when nobody cares
308 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Graphical linear algebra: from matrices to monoids
308 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple
307 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Best practices for user account, authorization and password management
307 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
306 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic
306 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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As we age, cancer rates go up as immune system winds down
305 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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The case for ending Amazon’s dominance
305 points • comment • feb 17, 2018