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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Venice without water
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in virtual currencies
135 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
135 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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The House That Spied on Me
134 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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PostgreSQL 10.2 Released
134 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Online voting in Finland: Conclusions and recommendations (2017) [pdf]
134 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft
134 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Open Source Color Management Is Broken
133 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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SpaceX hits two milestones in plan for low-latency satellite broadband
133 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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‘Lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows
133 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?
133 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Go 2017 Survey Results
133 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Spry Language
132 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks
132 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (2014) [pdf]
132 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages
132 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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JPMorgan, BofA Ban Cryptocurrency Transactions on Credit Cards
132 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker
132 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Things are going so well we’re doing a hiring freeze
131 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One pixel per student per day)
131 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Announcing Linode Block Storage Volumes
131 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
131 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West
131 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team
130 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Introduction to Apple WatchKit with Core Motion – Tracking Jumping Jacks
130 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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How Many Tesla Model 3 Cars Have Been Made?
130 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Ethics can’t be a side hustle
130 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email
130 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Bazel can now build Haskell
130 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Show HN: Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations
130 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Great Puri.sm Outage of 2018
130 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Many Animals Can Count
130 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture
130 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning
129 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Introducing Airbnb Plus
129 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Java Grinder: Compile Java bytecode to microcontroller assembly
129 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs
129 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Twitter Killing Its Mac App
129 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf]
129 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies
129 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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So You Think You Have a Power Law (2007)
129 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Practical, unsexy steps to become a millionaire
129 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom
129 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Ian Knot
128 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learning masters
128 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted
128 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations
128 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Creating a Linux Desktop App with Ruby
127 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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People who are less willing to apologize also tend to be less self-compassionate
127 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Just teach my kid the math
127 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Show HN: Takehome.io – Time-limited coding challenges for interviews via Git
127 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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The world's most romantic postbox
127 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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What Atari Was Really Like, According to Women Who Were There
127 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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CloudBees acquires Codeship as devops consolidates
127 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Put It All Together
127 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet service will be IP-less
126 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Interpretable Machine Learning Through Teaching
126 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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How Much Does a Compiler Cost?
126 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Switch to Windows 95
126 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Japan’s SS-520 CubeSat Launch Vehicle Achieves Success on Second Try
125 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation
125 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Falcon Heavy core booster lost at sea
125 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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How WeChat Came to Rule China
125 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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IRS Notification
125 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video]
124 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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A Practical Introduction to Container Terminology
124 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up”
124 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Micro-op fusion in x86
124 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Accurate Navigation Without GPS
124 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Camera
124 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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HEVC and the No Good Month of January
124 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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New ethics courses in computer science
124 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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6.4 Earthquake hits Taiwan
124 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (2007)
123 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games
123 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Native UIs using Vue.js and NativeScript
123 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Fall of Voodoo
123 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Adopting a more active lifestyle could benefit your personality decades from now
123 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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A Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
123 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault Storage Back End
123 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Zombie Processes Are Eating Your Memory
123 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection
123 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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S-Expressions (1997)
123 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
123 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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The Mess at Meetup
123 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Prince Rupert's cube
122 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS
122 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Engineering of the Drinking Bird Toy [video]
122 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Launch HN: Haiku (YC W18) – Build and Design Cross-Platform UIs and Animations
122 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released
122 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Understanding Dijkstra's Algorithm
122 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Uber Sales Reach $7.5B in 2017
122 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica
122 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement
122 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Astrophotographer Spots Elon Musk's Roadster Cruising Through Space [video]
121 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years
121 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]
121 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Modernish: a shell moderniser library
121 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]
121 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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An employer asked me to do a HackerRank test. Here's my alternative proposal.
121 points • comment • feb 26, 2018