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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Ask HN: What's the best algorithms and data structures online course?
242 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away with It
242 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (2014)
240 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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AMP: the missing controversy
239 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS
239 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Show HN: Mitmproxy 3.0 released, an open-source console-based proxy
239 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)
239 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)
239 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet
238 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)
237 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Why Paper Jams Persist
237 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?
237 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)
236 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Konva – HTML5 2d canvas library for desktop and mobile applications
236 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Tesla Model S outsells German luxury flagships in Europe
236 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI
236 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Meltdown fix committed to OpenBSD
235 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug
235 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)
234 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Concerns that social media causes childhood depression
234 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64
234 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies
234 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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I reported a critical bug and now they started a police investigation on me
233 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails
233 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Reason ML toolchain
233 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Researchers Use CRISPR to Detect HPV and Zika
233 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board
232 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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16 year old app developer: Plagiarist or Prodigy?
231 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
231 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Intel hit with 32 lawsuits over security flaws
230 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)
230 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Arduino OpenCat
230 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)
230 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost
228 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
228 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’
227 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election
225 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Startup Investor School: The Basics of Seed Investing
225 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Utility poles
225 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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How and why we moved to Vue.js
224 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests
224 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform
224 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia
224 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
223 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
222 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading
222 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web
222 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring
221 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system
220 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit
220 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The Case Against Google
220 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Let’s have no managers, instead of managers with no engineering experience
220 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex
219 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct that is legal in EU
218 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier
218 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how to get there
218 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'
216 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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JMESPath – A query language for JSON
216 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager
216 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines
216 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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The reason Facebook won’t ever change
216 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War
215 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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A Clojure learning journey
214 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Days Since a Cryptocurrency Exchange Has Lost More Than $100M
214 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating
214 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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An Introduction to Cache-Oblivious Data Structures
214 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
214 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging users
213 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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How Rust Is Tilde’s Competitive Advantage [pdf]
213 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Show HN: Bookmarklet to view full size photos from Google Images
213 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Apple in China: who holds the keys?
213 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
213 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet
212 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
212 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham
212 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
211 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
211 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"
211 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol
211 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Making Direct3D games faster in Wine using modern OpenGL
211 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative
211 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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The Shallowness of Google Translate
210 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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The Dropbox Foundation
209 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Answers to front-end developer job interview questions
209 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Doctors, Revolt
209 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Americans are spending less on clothing
208 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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An opinionated guide to Haskell
208 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Decode Like It's 1999: MPEG-1 Decoder in JavaScript
208 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind
208 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails
208 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
208 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
208 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes
207 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The brazenness of the LIBOR scam
207 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
206 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while running in 1950
206 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
206 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs
206 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and other attacks [pdf]
206 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Exploring ReasonML and functional programming
205 points • comment • feb 08, 2018