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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)
38 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Risk of Discovery (2017)
37 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Blender turns 25 years old
37 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Proto-internet trolls: Struensee and press freedom in 18th century Denmark
37 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Blub Paradox (2014)
37 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'
37 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Game in which you build your own CPU
37 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Revoking JWTs (JSON Web Tokens)
37 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Wikibook-Bot – Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book
37 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess
37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started
37 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Measuring Traffic Manipulation on Twitter
37 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf]
37 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is torturing me
37 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway
37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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What MDMA Therapy Did for Me
37 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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IPv6 in China
37 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Guy Says He's the First Person to Attempt Editing His DNA with CRISPR
37 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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What Deep Breathing Does to the Body
37 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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How Astounding Saw the Future
37 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent
37 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Docker tutorial for beginners
37 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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The steam has gone out of globalisation
37 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Chinese drone maker DJI uncovers corruption, sees $150M loss
36 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Mysterious “hair ice” is formed by fungus (2015)
36 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics
36 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Netflix Joins MPAA, Leaves the Internet Association
36 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Device Help
36 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Open-source and crowd-sourced book listing
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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The perils of relying on output streams in C (2011) [pdf]
36 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Scientists Identify Gene Pattern That Makes Some Animals Monogamous
36 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Billiard ball bounces are digits of Pi (YouTube)
36 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Behind the Technology That Makes Facebook 3D Photos Possible
36 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0
36 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Structuring spreadsheets with the “lish” data model (2017)
36 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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China's population shrank last year for the first time in 70 years
36 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Nobel Prizewinner James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race, DNA, and Genetics
36 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene
36 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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A 4 year old boy trapped in a teenager’s body
36 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long
36 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Netflix to raise prices by 13% to 18%
36 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Computers Determine States of Consciousness
36 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Freno – Cooperative, highly-available throttler service
36 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Ganbreeder – Create beautiful, wild and weird images
36 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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The Verified CakeML Compiler Back End [pdf]
36 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Public Dissection Was a Gruesome Spectacle
36 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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'Dear NIMBYs' – An Open Letter from a Homeless Woman in LA
36 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Rewarding Talent – Handbook on stock options for European entrepreneurs
36 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Understandable Ray Tracing in 256 lines of bare C++
36 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Plot to Kill George Washington
35 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Show HN: A Course on Deep Learning Using Google's TensorFlow
35 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan
35 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates
35 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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MAG-LEV Audio – Levitating Turntable
35 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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A long read on a former quant coder convicted of stealing algorithms
35 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation
35 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Tyson chicken nuggets might contain rubber, USDA warns
35 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Missile interception caught on snowboarder's camera in Golan Heights
35 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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An Overview of Computer Science Concepts for Engineers
35 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Josiah Royce: The philosopher we need today?
35 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Retrofuturism: Futuristic car concepts of the 1980s (2018)
35 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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How The SAFE Has Changed And It What It Means For Equity
35 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I stop caffeine intake without losing productivity?
35 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Capsule Networks- the New Deep Learning Network
35 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Linux board makers learn how to specialize
35 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Ask HN: What can we do about spam calls with spoofed numbers?
35 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Theresa May loses Brexit deal vote by majority of 230
35 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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The Small Batches Principle (2016)
35 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Farmers and Ranchers Are Completely Screwed by American Healthcare (2017)
35 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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HTTP/1 should die; HTTP/2 can do everything HTTP/1 could, only faster
35 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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‘Alarming’ burnout is making doctors want to kill themselves
35 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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The Value of Science (1955)
35 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Behavioral Programming (2012) [pdf]
35 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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The Missing History of the Explorer 1 Satellite
35 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate
35 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Do We Get What We Pay For? (2014)
34 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games
34 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Netflix Is Raising Prices. Here’s Why
34 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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A Dog Who Took the Witness Stand
34 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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A new concurrency system for Nim (2013)
34 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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I Took a Couple Years Off of Work to Swing Trade. Here’s What Happened
34 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Announcing TypeScript 3.3
34 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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“Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media
34 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm
34 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Basketball in Tibet
34 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Altruistic Autonomy: Beating Congestion on Shared Roads
34 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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I Spent $925 on a Fake Canada Goose Coat
34 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Tularosa Study: Experimental Quantify the Effectiveness of Cyber Deception [pdf]
34 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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'Silicon cowboys': The underdog story of personal computing (2016) [audio]
34 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-credit systems
34 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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RFC: Automatic variable initialization
34 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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M.U.L.E. for MSX2
34 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Worst Union in America (2012)
34 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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How Holidify Bounced Back to Hit 5M Users
34 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Gitea 1.7.0 is released
34 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera
34 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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RACK: a time-based fast loss detection algorithm for TCP (2018)
34 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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European Medicines Agency (EMA) closes London office with loss of 900 jobs
34 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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ICE set up a fake university; 100s enrolled, not realizing it was a sting op
34 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the American Psychological Assc
34 points • comment • jan 10, 2019