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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Put Driverless Cars Back in the Slow Lane
20 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Wire Chat App is now actually close-sourced
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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In just 24 hours, 5,000 Android devices are conscripted into mining botnet
20 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Show HN: Hey Meta – Quickly check, improve and generate your website's meta tags
20 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Show HN: GitMeet – Attract and Retain GitHub Project Contributors
19 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Show HN: Jobder – Find the job match your open source contribution
19 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Saferwall – A hackable malware sandbox
19 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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I'm a Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist
19 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers
19 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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‘99.9999%’ uptime – it’s an illusion
19 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Why A.I. Researchers at Google Got Desks Next to the Boss
19 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Dow Plunges 1,175, the Biggest Point Drop in History
19 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s Sake
19 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Scavenging for Intelligence: The Secret Search for Objects During the Cold War
19 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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The Comprehensive Illusion of Football (2015)
19 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Bitcoin dropping alongside global stock markets, discrediting safe haven theory
19 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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I passed $50,000 in monthly revenue as an indie maker
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision: 'Accidentism'
19 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Feeling Good About the Future of Computer Science
19 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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What a Number Is (1991)
19 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Trainee doctors left 'crying' after computer glitch crashes online exam
19 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector
19 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Ask HN: How to escape my own zombie startup?
19 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga
19 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Building a Well System
19 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Inside Russian Troll Farm, the Internet Research Agency (2015)
19 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Introducing HTTP/2 Server Push with NGINX 1.13.9
19 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Genetics Dominate Environmental Influences on Self-Control in Children
19 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Why your programmers fantasize about a big rewrite
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Easy PostgreSQL Performance Stats with PgHero and Docker
19 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It?
19 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Is there anything like HN for creatives
19 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Machine Learning with TensorFlow is now published
19 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Obama Targeted Killing Document: If We Do It, It’s Not Illegal (2013)
18 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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US CBP Haven't Properly Verified Visitor Passports for a Decade Plus
18 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Trump Cuts US Cash for International Space Station
18 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Federal Crackdown on Immigration Activists Threatens to Chill Free Speech
18 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Why New Zealand is releasing a rabbit-killing virus
18 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Weak Men Are Superweapons
18 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Predicting Productivity Gains from Parking Behavior (2014)
18 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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A single night of sleep loss impairs working memory in women, but not men
18 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Blockchain is a useless technology
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Silent Witnesses: Two Manuals of the Sart Language
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Is Rails Still Popular in 2018?
18 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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OpenAI Releases Algorithm That Helps Robots Learn from Hindsight
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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WhatsApp Co-Founder Puts $50M into Signal to Supercharge Encrypted Messaging
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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An intro to Reinforcement Learning (with otters)
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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How Banks Could Control Gun Sales If Washington Won’t
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1994) [pdf]
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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House moves toward eliminating agency tasked to prevent voting machine hacking
18 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Early Facebook and Google employees are planning to lobby against tech addiction
18 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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White settlers buried the truth about the Midwest’s mysterious mound cities
18 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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The Game Boy Camera, one of Nintendo’s weirdest, most ingenious inventions
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Hipster ipsum
18 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Show HN: Automated payroll service for Indian startups
18 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Terminal Recorders: A Comprehensive Guide
18 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Ask HN: How to take back my attention and discipline?
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Toyota Prius software fix may reduce fuel efficiency, experts say
18 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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What Bitcoin Reveals About Financial Markets
18 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say
18 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Meet Uber’s software engineer apprentices
18 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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UI Design for Startups (Monthly Service)
18 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Ask HN: What are your experiences re: relocating?
18 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Ask HN: Do any accelerators specialize in “Remote First” or “Remote Only” teams?
18 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Mercedes-Benz caused an outcry in China by quoting the Dalai Lama
18 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Why are we addicted to getting rich?
18 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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HomePods are staining wooden tables with a white ring
18 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Alt-right leaders can no longer spread disinformation on Medium
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Ask HN: What is your company doing for GDPR compliance?
18 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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‘Bitcoin is my potential pension’: What’s driving people in Kentucky to join
17 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Would you live in a town built for remote workers?
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Kaspersky Says Telegram Flaw Used for Cryptocurrency Mining
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Your Facebook data is creepy as hell
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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YouTube Red is having an identity crisis
17 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Telegram apps fall foul of iOS App Store content rules
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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How Facebook took the news business
17 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Women go into science careers more often in countries without gender equality
17 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Show HN: Memes on the Blockchain
17 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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FogBugz rebranded to Manuscript
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Google starts taking payments for apps via Kenya's M-Pesa service
17 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Common Lisp Brazil Community
17 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Get Ready for Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says
17 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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"Not Rocket Science": The story of Monotone and Bors (2014)
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Why Sweden Clears Snow-Covered Walkways Before Roads
17 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Show HN: A HN or Reddit like social network for musicians and music learners
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Ask HN: Has anyone built a platform for sharing stuff online (curating)
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Almost four environmental defenders a week killed in 2017
17 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Goreuse: Generic Code for Go
17 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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GitHub Is Enabling HTTPS on GitHub Page
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 15 Results
17 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Why I rejected my manager
17 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Performance debugging: from 1.3X slower to 48X faster than Apache Kafka
17 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Would you pay to have a penpal?
17 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Bitcoin Regret Club
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Microsoft’s compiler-level Spectre fix shows how hard this problem will be
17 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Ethereum founder warns cryptocurrencies 'could drop to near zero at any time'
17 points • comment • feb 17, 2018