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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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“For Ursula”: A Poem by Naomi Novik for Ursula Le Guin
7 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Could Self-Driving Trucks Be Good for Truckers?
7 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Amateur astronomer tries out new camera, catches supernova at its start
7 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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San Francisco Man Has Spent Years Trying to Turn His Laundromat into Apartments
7 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Facebook Hackers Gaming Its Video Algorithm
7 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Ask HN: RFC – Ubuntu Minimal Images
7 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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SREXero: Managing Incidents Part I
7 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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A student called Kevin holds the fate of the Merkel coalition
7 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Moving a Large and Old Codebase to Python3 – Anders Hovmöller – Medium
7 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Open-source, centralised, zero-knowledge file syncing software?
7 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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All the things I hate about Python
7 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Apache Mesos 1.5.0 has been released
7 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Bitcoin is my potential pension: What’s driving Kentuckians to join the craze
7 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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A new type of solar cell is coming to market
7 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Google May Step into Gaming with ‘Yeti’ Streaming Service
7 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you backup data of your projects
7 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It?
7 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Why “Open Borders” Is a Dangerous Idea
7 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (2012)
7 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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InfoWars' main YouTube channel is two strikes away from being banned
7 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Research Team Uncovers Hidden Details in Picasso Blue Period Painting
7 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Is there a podcast on the history of Unix?
7 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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UK banks ban Bitcoin purchases with credit cards
7 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Is your software racist?
7 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Elon Musk's Tesla to give solar panels and batteries to 50,000 SA homes
7 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Priority Bicycles: How a Startup Builds a Better, Cheaper Bicycle
7 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Racist, Sexist AI Could Be a Bigger Problem Than Lost Jobs
7 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's glue that holds communities together (2016)
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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SPED – A text-based non-destructive sound file editor (2007) [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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How to create an ML framework from scratch: Our high school thesis
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Poor Man’s Cryptocurrency Google Sheet
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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How to create desktop applications with JavaScript (Electron) in 30 minutes
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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NASA Rediscovers Lost Satellite, IMAGE
6 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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The case for Ethereum maximalism
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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The Girl Who Turned to Bone
6 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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“Hello World” Spotted on United Airlines Login Site
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Fast JSON API Serialization with Ruby on Rails
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Which Open Source projects need more maintainers
6 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture
6 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Ripcord allegedly fires employee over claims of toxic work environment
6 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Bitcoin energy use in Iceland set to overtake homes
6 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Where Are the Startups? Loss of Dynamism Is Impeding Growth
6 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Tell HN: Atrium Academy – free fundraising bootcamp March 24-25
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Someone Is Sending Sex Toys to Strangers. Amazon Has No Idea How to Stop It
6 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Ask HN: How to improve my code review skills?
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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America No Longer a 'Nation of Immigrants,' – USCIS
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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U.S. Border Patrol Hasn't Validated E-Passport Data for Years
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Global smartphone market drops 9% in biggest ever fall
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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From cyber-libertarianism to national-populism (The many faces of fascism pt. 1)
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Quit Genius, backed by Y Combinator, wants to help you quit smoking
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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A personal inquiry into the tech industry
6 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Ask HN: What Python web programming frameworks and tools are you using?
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Hypocrisy of AT&T’s “Internet Bill of Rights”
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Fundraising Advice from Female Founders
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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In-the-wild DDoSes use new way to achieve unthinkable sizes
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates all traces of cancer in mice
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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SpaceX Hid a Second, Secret Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy, and It Sounds Amazing
6 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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More Mac OS X and iPhone sandbox escapes and kernel bugs
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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COINHOARDER: Tracking a Ukrainian Bitcoin Phishing Ring DNS Style
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Petro: the first State-issued cryptoasset
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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A new version of BriskBard web browser has been released
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Ask HN: What is the best way to future proof a new home your about to build?
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Checking Firewall Equivalence with Z3
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Gellhorn
6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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America Should Have Stayed Home This Flu Season
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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A Day at a Time: Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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U.S. court says Trump travel ban unlawfully discriminates against Muslims
6 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Flashback: For 1930s Dallas schoolgirls, posture was a required course
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Intel Rolls Out New 3D NAND SSDs – InsideHPC
6 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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EMEs – the most controversial HTML5 extension
6 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Making tunnels the way you make spaceships
6 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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New EU Privacy Law May Weaken Security
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Russian trolls on Twitter ‘rile’ Americans on gun violence
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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How Bill Gates aims to clean up the planet
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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The Engineering of the Drinking Bird [video]
6 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Liquid-crystal contact lenses that will be able to switch focus
6 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Dow Tumbles Over 1,100 Points in Biggest Point-Drop Ever
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Trump administration considering privatizing International Space Station
6 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The Rise of a Visual Internet: Welcome to the Post-Text Future
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Tesla’s cloud was ‘hijacked’ by hackers to mine cryptocurrencies
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Uber, Lyft and others want self-driving cars–but only if they operate as a fleet
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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For Billionaire “Crypto-Whales”, Puerto Rico Is the New Cayman Islands
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Add-on clip turns smartphone into fully operational microscope
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Whom do you follow for personal growth?
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Celebrating 50 years of an unforgettable tale of the desert
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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China Railway project involving 1,500 workers completed in less than 9 hours
6 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Ask HN: Is there any WINE like software for running OS X software on Linux?
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Why Code Breaks
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Tesla Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Update [pdf]
6 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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VMware Acquires CloudCoreo
6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Amazon has agreed to acquire Ring for more than $1B
6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Exponential Backoff in Service Startup
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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AMD sending out free processors to solve firmware flashing Catch-22
6 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Roth Agonistes
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018