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Hacker News (Feb 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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Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
304 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”
302 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)
301 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells in dental pulp
301 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain
301 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)
300 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
300 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change
299 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head
297 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)
296 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Quiet for Android – TCP over sound
296 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die
295 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum
295 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Farewell from Rusty Russell
295 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT
293 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic collapse
292 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick
292 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology
292 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations
291 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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“Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)
291 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Propel – Machine learning for Javascript
290 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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CRPG Book Released
290 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)
289 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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One year of cycling to work
289 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language
287 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Python’s Weak Performance Matters
286 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Beverly Clock
285 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
284 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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A Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges
284 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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New studies zero in on roots of depression and how ketamine affects it
284 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
284 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000
282 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Show HN: Ask a Dev
282 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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FCC’s Inspector General investigating whether Ajit Pai acted inappropriately
282 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying
281 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes
281 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident
280 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up
279 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're Built
279 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
279 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Origami Simulator
277 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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A Programmable Programming Language
277 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Germany considers free public transport in fight to banish air pollution
276 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now
274 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data
271 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen
270 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)
270 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
270 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster
269 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition
268 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit
268 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters
267 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)
267 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains
266 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones
266 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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CSS Grid changes everything [video]
266 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Introduction to LLVM [video]
266 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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LLVM for Grad Students (2015)
263 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Donkey Kong scoreboard strips high score claim
263 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)
263 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Nix 2.0 Released
262 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model
262 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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How to find hidden cameras (2002) [pdf]
260 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine
260 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
260 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself
259 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
259 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, Depression [pdf]
259 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a reason
259 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts
257 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
256 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated
256 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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XXY Oscilloscope
256 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Hidden work when launching a SaaS
255 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
255 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Drawing better-looking Bézier curves
255 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
253 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Escaping Hell with Monads (2017)
253 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online
253 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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A British couple who took on Google and cost it £2.1B
252 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Electron 2.0.0 beta
252 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates
252 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
251 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time
251 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules
250 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
250 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up
249 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015
248 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Cloud TPUs in Beta
247 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
247 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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ISP Spying
246 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
246 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Keep your Identity Small (2009)
245 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)
245 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)
245 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit [pdf]
245 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Arctic temperatures soar 25 degrees above normal in the dead of winter
245 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Letter [pdf]
244 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java
244 points • comment • feb 14, 2018