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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next?
77 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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The Acid3 Test (2008)
77 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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An Explanation of the Rendering Equation [video]
77 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Software ideas are born: step-by-step guide on generating one for 2019
77 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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The first synthetic element
77 points • comment • jan 30, 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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A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf]
76 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
76 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Avo: Better X86 Assembly Generation from Go
76 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches
76 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
76 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Mapping Who Lives in Border Patrol's '100-Mile Zone' (2018)
76 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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HIV status of over 14,000 people leaked online, Singapore authorities say
76 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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'Hidden Figures' NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson to Release Autobiography
76 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Mapping the Brain at High Resolution
76 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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The Rationalization of the Attention Market
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
76 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas
75 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2
75 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Black Hole Evolution Traced Out with Loop Quantum Gravity
75 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]
75 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee
75 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Class of 2019: artists and writers whose works have entered the public domain
75 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Open-sourcing bioinstruments
75 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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A Quantum Experience
75 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer
75 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree
75 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight
75 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Opinion: A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities
75 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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List of hilarious and useless things at CES
75 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Show HN: Startup jobs of 2018, visualized
74 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Xenix tales: 8086 and Xenix 386 networking
74 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Availability of the Government of the United States
74 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role
74 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Photograph Your Work
74 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)
74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Analog computation, Part 1: What and why
74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Prague: A European capital cobbled with Jewish gravestones
74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Indigenous civilizations are far older and more complex than history suggests
74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Generate your document site in 3 seconds
74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike
74 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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LA is using ride-hailing startup Via to shuttle people to public transit
74 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them
74 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
73 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Seminal deep learning papers
73 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Things you should know about the Ottoman Janissaries
73 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Ledger Live: A mobile companion app for Ledger hardware wallets
73 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Night of a cascading failure
73 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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IBM Q System One
73 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End
73 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?
73 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Apple Had Five Ways to Fuel Earnings. Only One Still Works
73 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again (2018)
73 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Cars People Keep for 15 Years or More
73 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook
72 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Yield a Firehose of Data
72 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Venture Capitalists are much less ambitious than their private equity siblings
72 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Train ferry
72 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Renewables overtake coal as Germany's main energy source
72 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia
72 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize
72 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress [audio]
72 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Data Structures for coding interviews
72 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Euro area is back on the brink of recession
72 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Haskell I/O and XPath
72 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers
72 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Are there any online lawyer services?
72 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Rational rendering and floating bar
72 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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FoundationDB Summit: video roundup
72 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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eBay CEO Has a Stark Choice: Show Growth or Break Up Company
72 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone’s Head
72 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Language-Agnostic Sentence Representations
72 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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They Own the System: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching into Publishing
72 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance
71 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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12.1T Digits of Pi
71 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms [video]
71 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL
71 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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NLP Architect by Intel AI Lab
71 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers
71 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Migrating from Redshift to ClickHouse
71 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Ask HN: Why is it easier to get a raise with a new job?
71 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine?
71 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool
71 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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How I Organize My GitHub Repositories
71 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies
71 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How
71 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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What a Student Loan 'Bubble' Bursting Might Look Like
71 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
70 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (2014)
70 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Ten Years of Bitcoin
70 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Millions of Americans Flood into Mexico for Health Care
70 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX
70 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Show HN: List of serverless failure stories
70 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them
70 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Flow-Based Deep Generative Models
70 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Learn about Neural Networks and Backpropagation
70 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor
70 points • comment • jan 20, 2019