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Hacker News (Apr 2018)
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB
2124 points • comment • apr 19, 2018
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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
1869 points • comment • apr 01, 2018
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Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
1631 points • comment • apr 06, 2018
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Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
1555 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
1362 points • comment • apr 04, 2018
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Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
1291 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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Facebook Container for Firefox
1258 points • comment • apr 17, 2018
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Productivity
1177 points • comment • apr 10, 2018
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Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
1074 points • comment • apr 06, 2018
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You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
1045 points • comment • apr 22, 2018
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Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
1044 points • comment • apr 24, 2018
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EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
1020 points • comment • apr 27, 2018
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I wandered off and built an IDE
1020 points • comment • apr 06, 2018
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The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
995 points • comment • apr 07, 2018
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Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
990 points • comment • apr 25, 2018
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AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
905 points • comment • apr 09, 2018
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IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)
899 points • comment • apr 30, 2018
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Dumber phone
883 points • comment • apr 24, 2018
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Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
867 points • comment • apr 12, 2018
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DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
854 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
831 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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Berkeley offers its data science course online for free
791 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
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Fuchsia is not Linux
771 points • comment • apr 11, 2018
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Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks
762 points • comment • apr 16, 2018
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Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
760 points • comment • apr 16, 2018
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Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
750 points • comment • apr 24, 2018
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Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App
737 points • comment • apr 26, 2018
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Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
732 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
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“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
727 points • comment • apr 29, 2018
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GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
723 points • comment • apr 17, 2018
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StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
714 points • comment • apr 29, 2018
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Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
708 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
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A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit
704 points • comment • apr 30, 2018
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Smugmug Acquires Flickr
701 points • comment • apr 20, 2018
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A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
694 points • comment • apr 11, 2018
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Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]
689 points • comment • apr 20, 2018
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Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
689 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
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Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)
688 points • comment • apr 26, 2018
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Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
669 points • comment • apr 23, 2018
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Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
665 points • comment • apr 23, 2018
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Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
665 points • comment • apr 11, 2018
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Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
663 points • comment • apr 04, 2018
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TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV
650 points • comment • apr 07, 2018
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Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
648 points • comment • apr 10, 2018
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My account is sending spam emails
645 points • comment • apr 22, 2018
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Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
641 points • comment • apr 13, 2018
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The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
639 points • comment • apr 19, 2018
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Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
637 points • comment • apr 27, 2018
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NirSoft Freeware (2008)
623 points • comment • apr 16, 2018
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Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief
623 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
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Stripe Billing
620 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
612 points • comment • apr 21, 2018
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Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
611 points • comment • apr 19, 2018
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ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility
611 points • comment • apr 15, 2018
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H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)
611 points • comment • apr 15, 2018
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OpenSimpleLidar
604 points • comment • apr 04, 2018
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Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is
602 points • comment • apr 08, 2018
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Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines
600 points • comment • apr 20, 2018
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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
599 points • comment • apr 18, 2018
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Make your own sourdough
598 points • comment • apr 28, 2018
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How to Decide What to Build
597 points • comment • apr 12, 2018
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Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
592 points • comment • apr 14, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
583 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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Time to rebuild the web?
582 points • comment • apr 16, 2018
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A Well-Known Expert on Student Loans Is Not Real
575 points • comment • apr 25, 2018
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Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium
571 points • comment • apr 17, 2018
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The End of Windows
570 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
565 points • comment • apr 04, 2018
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List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects
564 points • comment • apr 19, 2018
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System Shock 1 source code released under GPL
564 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
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Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf]
562 points • comment • apr 29, 2018
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Life is Short (2016)
561 points • comment • apr 01, 2018
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A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch
555 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app
555 points • comment • apr 01, 2018
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Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
553 points • comment • apr 11, 2018
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In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information
548 points • comment • apr 13, 2018
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French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals
548 points • comment • apr 01, 2018
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Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
546 points • comment • apr 09, 2018
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Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
541 points • comment • apr 17, 2018
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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
540 points • comment • apr 26, 2018
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Flask 1.0 Released
539 points • comment • apr 26, 2018
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MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’
538 points • comment • apr 23, 2018
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Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]
535 points • comment • apr 18, 2018
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Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
533 points • comment • apr 13, 2018
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How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
527 points • comment • apr 08, 2018
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Don't give away historic details about yourself
525 points • comment • apr 09, 2018
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I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
519 points • comment • apr 16, 2018
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Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
517 points • comment • apr 04, 2018
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A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet
516 points • comment • apr 25, 2018
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
505 points • comment • apr 26, 2018
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"@" on Twitter
500 points • comment • apr 27, 2018
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Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading
494 points • comment • apr 18, 2018
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Stripe Home
491 points • comment • apr 19, 2018
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UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
490 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
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Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
490 points • comment • apr 19, 2018
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Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70
488 points • comment • apr 10, 2018
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Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
488 points • comment • apr 30, 2018
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Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything
485 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
482 points • comment • apr 17, 2018
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Towards Scala 3
482 points • comment • apr 20, 2018