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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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REST and GraphQL really aren't that different
86 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Tip-off from a Nazi that saved my grandparents
86 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think they know the most
86 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Star topics that interest you
86 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of Eudora eMail client
86 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule
86 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review
86 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition
85 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
85 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Student cracks theologian's baffling religious code
85 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter
85 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city
85 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida
85 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Soros at Davos: China's social credit system and Big IT are mortal threat
85 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Show HN: Snigl – Forth with Lisp in C
85 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation using tomcrypt
85 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
85 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Intel Open Image Denoise: High-Performance Denoising Library for Ray Tracing
85 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Purism announces PureOS Store
85 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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World's Writing Systems
85 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Show HN: Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager built in ReasonML
85 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The escape-room games industry is booming
85 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data
84 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Show HN: A Clojure-based on-demand delivery routing system
84 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Projecting Unicode to ASCII
84 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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California inmate takes unlikely path to freedom: podcasting
84 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race (2018)
84 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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The Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (2018)
84 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ember v3.7 Released
84 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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How to write code in modern Fortran (2011) [pdf]
84 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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The subscription-pocalypse
84 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Pipelining Consensus Writes to Speed Up Distributed SQL Transactions
83 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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I'm a millionaire who creates zero jobs. Why do I pay less tax than you?
83 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare Game
83 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Capture the Flag (CTF) Events?
83 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Radiation-hardened quine (2014)
83 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages
83 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings
83 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down
83 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review
83 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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History of the Plan 9 kernel (1990 – 2003)
83 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)
82 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Grundig Satellit 650 Radio
82 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Remastered 1964 films show origins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
82 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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How To Edit A Low-Budget Blockbuster [video]
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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European Union has canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Show HN: Chaoslist – A self-prioritizing todo-list
82 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable (2014)
81 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Einstein Summation in Numpy
81 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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ELSA: Efficient Long-Term Secure Storage of Large Datasets
81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?
81 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Why Elon Musk is tweeting about a stainless-steel starship
81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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China’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasses
81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services
81 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network by Flipping His System Admin
81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
81 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Be Moore Like Chuck
81 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed
81 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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How does the brain learn by talking to itself?
80 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Iridium Completes Constellation Replacement
80 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Creating Languages in Racket (2012)
80 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Writing my network protocol in Rust
80 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Disable Flash support by default in Firefox 69
80 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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How Alan Turing Deciphered Shark Skin
80 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances
80 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Arborists are bringing the “dinosaur of trees” back to life
80 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors
80 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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The Market for Lemons
80 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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It will become easier to buy a house
80 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Odd History of the SD Logo [video]
80 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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DAN64, an AVR based 8-bit microcomputer
80 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
79 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Compile Ruby into WebAssembly
79 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage
79 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better
79 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Skipper – An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition
79 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening
79 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Huawei finds itself in the crosshairs of Western security agencies
79 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Achieving super low latency for critical real world internet applications (2018)
79 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Rustic Shelters Called Bothies
79 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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OpenEdge – Extend cloud computing, data and service to edge devices
79 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Taking Stock of the World’s Debt
79 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster–this time in Canada
79 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings
79 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Zero to $1B: Lessons Scaling a Startup
79 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Yellow vests knock out 60% of all speed cameras in France
79 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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On Concurrency in Go HTTP Servers
78 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Embedded Rust Experiments: Is My STM32 MCU Running Fast?
78 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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A summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices
78 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Hubble telescope camera is broken and US government shutdown could delay repairs
78 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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What Data Compression Does to Music (2012)
78 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism
78 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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An Explanation of the Rendering Equation [video]
77 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams
77 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Firefox Fights for You. We keep your data safe, never sold
77 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF
77 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio bursts
77 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]
77 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Iberia claims it is part of a department store to avoid Brexit shutdown
77 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next?
77 points • comment • jan 09, 2019