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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
501 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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For the Love of Pipes
497 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Thank u, next
496 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Kubernetes Failure Stories
496 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
493 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
490 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
488 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)
488 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
483 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
481 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
481 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Oslo made its city center basically car-free
477 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
471 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
471 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station
470 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO
470 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Scratch 3.0
467 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
467 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
466 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
461 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
458 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
457 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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How to Hack an Expensive Camera
457 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories
456 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Internals of PostgreSQL
456 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games
454 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis
452 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
452 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Travis CI acquired by Idera
450 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
448 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Interactive SICP
446 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
444 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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DOJ: Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info
443 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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I'm not convinced that this wasn't the second biggest mistake of my life
442 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Tree Style Tabs
442 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook
441 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Wine 4.0 released
437 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
434 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
434 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom
433 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?
428 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
428 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Coconut: Pythonic functional programming
426 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
425 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens
425 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule
423 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
422 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
422 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Chromecast Support for Firefox
421 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies
421 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes
419 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Why I use old hardware
418 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Rust 1.32 released
416 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
415 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry
412 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton
412 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
410 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time
410 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation
409 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys
409 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
407 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
406 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards
406 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
404 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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iOS Menu
404 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
402 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get
402 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
401 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Our Software Dependency Problem
400 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health
396 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2
396 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
394 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
393 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit
392 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)
392 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low
390 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
390 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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I'm going to work full-time on free software
389 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Startups Rejecting Venture Capital
386 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Students learn from people they love
384 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]
384 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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System Down: A systemd-journald exploit
384 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license
381 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript
381 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal
380 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
380 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Advice to new programmers
378 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018
377 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Game Loop
377 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads
376 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)
376 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
376 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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How LinkedIn detects browser extensions
376 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
376 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
375 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
373 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum
373 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Show HN: A tool to find related subreddits
373 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?
372 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
371 points • comment • jan 23, 2019