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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)
104 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Can we write a programming language for biology?
104 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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OpenStreetMap Foundation investigation into unusual membership signups [pdf]
104 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Tox – An encrypted, p2p chat protocol that does not rely on central servers
104 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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C++ Headers are Expensive
104 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong
104 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Introduction to Dart VM
103 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement
103 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060
103 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Tesla Q4 2018 Earnings Letter
103 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page
103 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines
103 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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ChrysaLisp
103 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Zero-knowledge attestation
103 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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I was mistaken for a call girl
103 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things
102 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl
102 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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The pros and cons of placebo buttons
102 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?
101 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings
101 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Structure of recent philosophy (2017)
101 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct
101 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Dyson moves vacuum giant's HQ to Singapore
101 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Threema – Seriously secure messaging
101 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?
101 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer
101 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Show HN: Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devices
101 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?
101 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment
101 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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World's oldest periodic table chart found in St. Andrews
101 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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The Weight I Carry
100 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Modchips of the State
100 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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1859 Carrington Event
100 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Measuring the size of the Earth by watching a shadow on a wall
100 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Mozart.js
100 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale
100 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It
100 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration
100 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more
100 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997)
99 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work
99 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Apple Priced Itself Out of Shrinking Chinese Smartphone Market
99 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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FreeCAD BIM development news December 2018
99 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x
99 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Blockstream Satellite API: Pay with BTC via Lightning to Broadcast Data Globally
99 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Go 1.11.5 and Go 1.10.8 are released
99 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project
99 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Researchers develop a new houseplant that can clean home air (2018)
99 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)
98 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Capitalism and Inequality
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gateway
98 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious Than Gold
98 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Dirty lenses (2016)
98 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Toyota Lifts the Veil on Its Guardian Driver-Assist System
98 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality (2016)
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
98 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Insulin Wars: How insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors patients
98 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
98 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Ask HN: How to deal with internet addiction?
98 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News
98 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble
97 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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An addictive “murder map” of medieval London
97 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
97 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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JavaScript iterator patterns
97 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like
97 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land
97 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows
97 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps
97 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
97 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
97 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’
96 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Netheads vs. Bellheads (1996)
96 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps (2016)
96 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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MDT9100
96 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from articles
96 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Inside the booming business of background music
96 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops
96 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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My journey applying AI to horse racing
96 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport
96 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only
95 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life
95 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Fever effect
95 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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99% code coverage (2017)
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (2017)
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think
95 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Purism Librem 5 Pre Order
95 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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The Firecracker virtual machine monitor
95 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Schumpeter on Strategy
95 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Canada's Toughest Border Crossing
94 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollers
94 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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The rise and fall of the skills gap
94 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (2017)
94 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Writing custom tools with Swift
94 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
94 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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How Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China
94 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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The ABCs of Jacobin
94 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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List of review articles on ML and AI that are on arXiv
94 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go
94 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Python with a Cocoa GUI on MacOS
94 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Living and working in Sweden as engineers
93 points • comment • jan 01, 2019