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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Oft-quoted paper on spread of fake news is retracted
129 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong
129 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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The Norwegian art of the packed lunch
129 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
129 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019
129 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Blocking website ads with a hosts file
128 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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In a Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses
128 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Remotely compromise devices by using bugs in Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi
128 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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5G: if you build it, we will fill it
128 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets
128 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf]
127 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Ask HN: Fastest way to get started with freelancing?
127 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Airlander 10: World's longest aircraft gets full-production go-ahead
127 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it back
127 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS
127 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]
127 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger
127 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Only when Mats was dead did his parents understand the value of his game
127 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
127 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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The cult of rotary mixers
126 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' in Search of More Productive Crops
126 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Scripting in Common Lisp
126 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video]
126 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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How ‘Magic Angle’ Graphene Is Stirring Up Physics
126 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017)
126 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work
126 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change
125 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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The Dark Side of Zero Knowledge: Masking the initial setup in Zk-SNARK
125 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer
125 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A new law in California requires pet stores to sell only rescue animals
125 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?
125 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?
125 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Cardiologist-Level Arrhythmia Detection Using a Deep Neural Network
125 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo
124 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout
124 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains
124 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Oklahoma Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files
124 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before 1923
124 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Slack Plans to Follow Spotify on Unconventional IPO Route
124 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Google Phishing Quiz
123 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original documents also exposed
123 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
123 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Bash scripting cheatsheet
123 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Original Bauhaus Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky and More
123 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Why media layoffs keep happening
123 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
123 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced
122 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water
122 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)
122 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me
122 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class
122 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Study Identifies Effective Mental Strategies for Aversive Challenges
122 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs
121 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf]
121 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic
121 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Reverse engineering GoDaddy's tracking script
121 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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New insights into mitochondria reveal how life expends energy
121 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Rust 2019: Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools
121 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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GIMP and GEGL in 2018
121 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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An Eve Online corporation has been hit with a GDPR request from an ex-member
121 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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A new documentary addresses the stigma of menstruation in India
120 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]
120 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Confessions of an Abstraction Hater
120 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Mapping and visualization
120 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++
120 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies
119 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
119 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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RE:DOM – Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces
119 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Loop, a new zero-waste platform that may change how we shop
119 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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University of the Third Age
119 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning
119 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Anker PowerPort PD 1 USB-C Wall Charger Teardown
118 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land
118 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants
118 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Crafting a life
118 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Hurricane Electric 3D network map
118 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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A command-line installer for Windows
118 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)
118 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info
118 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Ode to the 767
118 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Lidar Is a Crutch
117 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab
117 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Io_submit and Linux AIO – An epoll alternative
117 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued
117 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ask HN: IT Directors and VP's – how do you manage your time and projects?
117 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Show HN: Queueing theory intro for software developers
117 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Israel airport security stole my laptop
117 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data
117 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Chinese Spacecraft Nears Landing on Far Side of Moon
117 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence
116 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (2014)
116 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead
116 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy
116 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Show HN: Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL
116 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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How to get your money’s worth from your startup lawyer
116 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences
116 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Ask HN: How did you escape your safe meaningless 9-5 job?
115 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Una Corda, a piano with one string per note
115 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Six-Year homelab history in pictures
115 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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HN on second day from launch
115 points • comment • jan 23, 2019