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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
30 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth by 40%
30 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Scolded on a job interview for not namespacing
29 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Mozilla developer fixes Chromium bug caused by Google breaking the spec
29 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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The Mind Wanders (2018)
29 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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A Debt to Education
29 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ask HN: What are some examples of 'sell shovels in a gold rush'?
29 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Preemption Is GC for Memory Reordering
29 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A judging system that can score a routine from the angles of a gymnast's joints
29 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Introducing the Ultra EPYC AMD Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
29 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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KSL: Kinematics subroutine library
29 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Ask HN: What makes you not want to work with a developer?
29 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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If You Can Correctly Pronounce Every Word in This Poem, You’re Among the Elite
29 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Man raises privacy concerns after car dealership employee turns off his dashcams
29 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Ask HN: Were you unschooled, or are you unschooling your children?
29 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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PG&E: The First Climate-Change Bankruptcy, Probably Not the Last
29 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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When People Are as Predictable as Water [video]
29 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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What Makes a Great Logo – Four Critical Qualities That Nobody Talks About
29 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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A Short Rebuttal to Searle (1984) [pdf]
29 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established Basis for Search Engines
29 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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The Beat's Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired 'On the Road'
29 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Digitally cloning a 1914 Delage Type S engine block
29 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Powder metallurgy
28 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Elixir v1.8.0 released: better introspection, faster compilation and speed-ups
28 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Toyota Supra gets new life: sports car debuts at 2019 Detroit auto show
28 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Blippar finds life after death; former investor buys assets to relaunch
28 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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'Bitcoin will go to zero': Davos talks up the future of blockchain
28 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas [pdf]
28 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Tesla Roadster is going to be able to hover over the ground, says Elon Musk
28 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Genius cheese dish of slaves
28 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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New Top Score on AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) Is 53.84%
28 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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CGRP: A new era for migraine treatment
28 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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My self-published book: 11,000 copies, $19,000 royalties, only $3,000 profit!?
28 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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A new cryptojacking tactic involving Wikipedia and downloaded movie files
28 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Inside the Strange yet Profitable World of Retail Arbitrage
28 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Apple’s Security Expert Joined ACLU to Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever'
28 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning
28 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Can a Machine Learning Model Predict the SP500 by Looking at Candlesticks?
28 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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The Problem with Full Stack
28 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice (2018)
28 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Companies are still designing open plan offices
28 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Orson Welles’ ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth
28 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Electrons don’t think
28 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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T-Mobile First to Launch Caller Verification
28 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Ask HN: What is the best way to add authentication to REST API (for mobile)?
28 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Woman says her son couldn't afford his insulin – now he's dead
28 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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N-Rays: The Imaginary Radiation That Ruined Its ‘Discoverer’ (2014)
28 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Outrage after Netflix pulls comedy show criticising Saudi Arabia
28 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?
28 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Sharon Van Etten found the drive to make music again
28 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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The Hinman Test
28 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Predictions Scorecard
28 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Duke Grad program director step down after warning students not to speak Chinese
28 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
28 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Forgery Scandal at Der Spiegel
28 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Ravenmaster Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London’s Resident Birds
28 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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What Happened to 90’s Environmentalism?
27 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year End
27 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The Data Colleges Collect on Applicants
27 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Evolutionary Advantages of an Addictive Personality
27 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO
27 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Marie Kondo and the Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Soft Power
27 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task
27 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Making Sense of Stream Processing (2016) [pdf]
27 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Related subreddits based on behavior for Hacker News
27 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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An Andy Warhol Artwork Was Stolen and Never Seen Again
27 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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A 70 percent marginal rate could help, not hurt, innovation
27 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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How to Walk 100,000 Steps in One Day
27 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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I Tried Linux as My Main Dev Environment but Was Forced Back to Windows
27 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Either bifunctor
27 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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The Puzzle of Proto-Elamite (2013)
27 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing a Modern OS
27 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia
27 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Snowflake Archeology: Early computer animation (1960s) for the DEC PDP-1
27 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Medicare for All – How Can We Pay for It?
27 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Growing Caltrain into an 8-Lane Freeway (2018)
27 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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A week in the life of a London murder detective
27 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts on April 2, 2019
27 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Remote Code Execution in apt/apt-get
27 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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A national housing crisis is brewing
27 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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U.S. Navy swapping $38K periscope joysticks for Xbox controllers on subs (2017)
27 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Tails 3.12 is out
27 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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How tech baffled an elderly Congress
27 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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New Version of the “Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile” Now Avail from W3C
26 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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IBM internal secret docs show deliberate axing of older staff
26 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Who Is Dead? (2018)
26 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry
26 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Big Mac trademark cancelled across Europe
26 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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New in Chrome 72
26 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS
26 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
26 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Free online WebAssembly Studio
26 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Show HN: I made this to get up on time, or do good
26 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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U.S. Carbon Pollution Surged in 2018, After Years of Stasis
26 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
26 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Using the New AWS Secrets Manager for Serverless
26 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility: Exploiting Active Light-Fields (REVEAL)
26 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Can We Prove Time Protection?
26 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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It’s so cold in Chicago, crews had to set fire to commuter rail tracks
26 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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We do not have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change
26 points • comment • jan 03, 2019