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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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He Disparaged the Police on Facebook. So They Arrested Him
57 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This
56 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Designers Spill the Beans: How to Make Your Own Logo from Scratch
56 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Something Is Broken in Our Science Fiction. Why Can’t We Move Past Cyberpunk?
56 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
56 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Bitwig Studio 3: Enter The Grid.
56 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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VPS VPN – GhostiFi
56 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Track daily tasks using Google Assistant, IFTTT and Spreadsheet
56 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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5,000 Pages of Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public
56 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Facebook takes down Britain First ads
56 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Show HN: OormiPass – free, cross platform and open sourced password manager
56 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Hitman Runner Mark Fellows Convicted of Murder on GPS Watch Data
56 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader
56 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Infinite Repeating Dashed Lines in SVG
56 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Rules for Writing Detective Stories by S.S. Van Dine (1928)
56 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Tracking Users with CSS (2018)
56 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Superior Testing: Stop Stopping
56 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's Core Memory
56 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Cast All the Things: Send videos from many online sources to your Chromecast
56 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE
56 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Saudi Arabia: Khashoggi was not an isolated case
56 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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A DNA-based voltmeter for organelles
56 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala (2018)
55 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba
55 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Father Time
55 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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An elementary introduction to the geometry of quantum states with a picture book
55 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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The Water Computer (2016)
55 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Factors in authentication
55 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Ranking Vegetables by How Healthy They Are
55 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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I’m Only 9, and I’m Already in College. Here’s What Life Is Like for Me
55 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing
55 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Gatwick airport trial for valet-parking robots
55 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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A Review of Tiny Languages (2016)
55 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor
55 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm
55 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your rules-of-thumb for personal finance and saving?
55 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Programming: Mostly a hate story
54 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The Sacred Harp: Let Everybody Sing
54 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Unix Error Messages (joke)
54 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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The Last Question (1956)
54 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Show HN: Quid – try micropayments instead of ads or subscriptions
54 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Saudi Thirst for Water Is Creating a Toxic Brine Problem
54 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Getting Answers
54 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Empathy and Failures of Democracies
54 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Courier: Dropbox migration to gRPC
54 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Updated Debian 9: 9.7 released
54 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Why Are All Apple Products Photographed at 9:41 A.m.?
54 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (2012)
54 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Planning scientific equipment for Antarctic conditions
54 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Return of the Runtimes: Rethinking the Language Runtime System (2017) [pdf]
54 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Elite Soccer’s Culture of Graft
54 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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More young men dropping out of job market to spend time in an alternate reality
53 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Tales of an Aging Gamer: We keep getting older, the games stay the same
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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SSA is Functional Programming (1998) [pdf]
53 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Atrazine in Australian water affects male fertility
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Mozilla: Ad on Firefox’s new tab page was just another experiment
53 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Scientists are transplanting faeces into obese people with type 2 diabetes
53 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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The Tunnel of Samos (2004)
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem (2017)
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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SageDB: a learned database system
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Travels with Smalltalk (1995)
53 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Too Many Americans Will Never Be Able to Retire
53 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?
53 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Roll Your Own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH Reverse Tunnelling
53 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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The Fastest Growing SaaS Companies of 2018
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Improved Doxygen documentation and search for C++ projects
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Software patents poised to make a comeback under new patent office rules
53 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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The Tech Revolt
53 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Bruno Buchberger’s algorithm: Gröbner bases and applications (1998) [pdf]
53 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed income
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of Food Science
53 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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A Philosopher Redefining Equality
53 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Toyota Finally Has the Power in Electric Cars
53 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Another Study Blames Uber and Lyft for Public Transit’s Decline
52 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Photo-Sketching: Inferring Contour Drawings from Images
52 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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For years, Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mt Pleasant, Iowa
52 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Family Tree of Economics
52 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
52 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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TypeScript Roadmap 2019
52 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Show HN: SoundZoom – Microtonal and Isomorphic Keyboard HTML5 App
52 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Hi-Ten Bomberman
52 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Google is discontinuing their free weather API
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are all in Australia
52 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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A happy numeric coincidence
52 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Did wine cause a full-scale revolution in Armenia?
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Proving Cantor's Theorem in Clojure Using LaTTe
52 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Awesome Dotfiles
52 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Troubled legacy of Terry Davis, ‘God’s lonely programmer’
52 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Despite Bitcoin’s Dive, a Former Soviet Republic Is Still Betting Big on It
52 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Gamma error in picture scaling
52 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Carbon emissions and costs of subsidizing New York nuclear vs renewables
52 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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A Mouse is a Database (2012)
52 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Business Programming Languages and the Legibility of Programming
52 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Characteristics in Music
52 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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The Antisocial Laptop
52 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Show HN: Code generation tool for quick struct content comparison
52 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Which countries are on the right track, according to their citizens
52 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what it means to be “an African writer”
52 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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The Inevitability of Apple's Current Predicament
52 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu
52 points • comment • jan 01, 2019