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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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China Sentences Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, to Death
18 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Raise the capital gains tax and treat investment earnings like ordinary income
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Ask HN: What's the most secure smartphone in 2019?
18 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Norden Bombsight (2004)
18 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Animations by a NASA Scientist Show the Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow
18 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Measuring the Age of the Earth (2014)
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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How Alexandria Ocacia Cortez Shapes a new Political Reality
18 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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USPTO guidelines to restore software patents
18 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Openrsync – a clean-room implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license
18 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature
18 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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An open letter to the mathematical community
18 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Website detailing difficult guest experiences on AirBnB called “AirBnB Hell”
18 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Google hit with £44m GDPR fine over ads
18 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials
18 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Tell HN: Alexa mute button is not hardwired
18 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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End of Apple
18 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Trump Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts with Russians Before Inauguration
18 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools
18 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Anime.Js 3.0.0 is out now
18 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Facebook Lie Files
18 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Announcing OneDev – open source Git server with unique features
18 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Why access and API tokens are the new passwords but worse
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Simple Redux–a bare-bones redux implementation for teaching purposes
18 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Q2VKPT: Fully path-traced Quake 2 fork using RTX
18 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Theresa May's Brexit deal rejected by 230 votes
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Gitea v1.7.0
18 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Show HN: All entry level jobs and internships at one place
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Newspack by WordPress.com – A New Publishing Solution for News Organizations
18 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Apple’s App Store sets record: takes in $1.22B in a week
18 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Async IO in Python: A Complete Walkthrough
18 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Skinny genes the 'secret to staying slim'
18 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Voltaire's Luck (2016)
17 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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The number of pedestrians killed by cars keeps going up
17 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie divorce
17 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Celebrate the women behind the periodic table
17 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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When Broadway Became Broadway
17 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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What happened to the 90,000 cars a day the viaduct carried before it closed?
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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China just blocked its last major foreign search engine
17 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The Art of the Pan
17 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Ford-Owned Shuttle Startup Chariot Is Shutting Down
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Show HN: 1800W Balcony Solar/Battery Microgrid that can power your fridge
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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AMD at CES 2019 Live Stream
17 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Believing without evidence is always morally wrong
17 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Leaked emails show Apple tried to use Qualcomm modems in iPhone XS/XR
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Facebook is shutting down Moments; here’s how to save all your photos
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Tech's diversity problem is because of toxic LeetCode interviews
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Slandering the Unborn (2018)
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Steam rises off Lake Michigan in Chicago as temps plunge to –23 degrees
17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet
17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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SpaceX Hid a Second, Hidden Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy
17 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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ML Digest: TensorFlow Handbook, AutoML Book, Key Papers in RL, code2vec et al
17 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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How to enter into ML?
17 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a 'Wrecked' Novel (2010)
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Were You Laid Off by Tesla? So Was I
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Falafel: The staple dish of the Middle East is as contested as the region
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Stop Obsessing Over Comments on Hacker News (2015)
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Steve Jobs was wrong about middle management
17 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Elon Musk's Tesla to cut about 3,000 jobs as cars 'too expensive'
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Ask HN: What lang and web stack is both popular and similar to Ruby and Rails?
17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Dark matter on the move
17 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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17 days into 2019 and companies still haven't updated their copyright year
17 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Show HN: Stensal SDK: Retrofitting C/C++ code with quasi-memory-safety
17 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Ride Along with the Cow Police (2016)
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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I bought a Google Home, and now I can't listen to music at work
17 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Is QA/Tester profession dead?
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Show HN: 10 year challenge with browser history back button
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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HTC Announces New Virtual Reality Headsets Vive Cosmos and Vive Pro Eye at CES
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Dell returns to public stock market after years as private company
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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I had a job interview for a position at a company called Web Applications UK
17 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Marie Kondo, Fast Fashion, and the Thrift-Store Boom
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Good technical GDPR resources?
17 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Ask HN: What’s your go-to investment for protecting cash from inflation?
17 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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C++ at the End of 2018
17 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Searching for "Antarctica" on YouTube returns conspiracy videos
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football
17 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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China is transforming Africa into the next 'factory of the world'
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Malign incompetence of the British ruling class
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Dennis Johnson, Creator of a Rediscovered Minimalist Score, Has Died
17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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China’s Looming Crisis: A Shrinking Population
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them
17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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C++17 Filesystem – Writing a simple file watcher
17 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Ring reportedly gave employees access to customer video feeds
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Another Side of MeToo: Male Managers Fearful of Mentoring Women
17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Google Easter Egg- Translating Monty Python's “funniest Joke Ever” from German
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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1940 WPA San Francisco Model Now Online
17 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Subtle Asian Dating: Why a Raunchy, Self-Aware Subtle Asian Traits group grows
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you come up with side projects?
17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others
17 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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China deletes 'malicious' mobile apps
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Alternatives to a cell phone for spontaneous communication
17 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Unsealed docs will detail how Facebook made money off children
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Ducati CEO confirms ‘The future is electric’, says electric Ducati is coming
17 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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The Topography of Disease
16 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Hack a Tesla 3 Pwn2Own to own a Tesla 3
16 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Best American History Reads of 2018
16 points • comment • jan 09, 2019