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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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The 'doomsday' scenario: what happens if the shutdown drags on
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A thread on coders in newsrooms
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Only Race Cars Should Burnout
15 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Splunk donates $100k to shutdown employees
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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The Vital Engines of Commerce
15 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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I Tried to List All Linux Networking Commands and Scripts
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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FreeTier Google Cloud VPS: DNS Adblock+VPN Server to AAPL GOOGL and MSFT Devices
15 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Alien Life May Exist on Large Planet 30T Miles from Earth: Researchers
15 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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FiveThirtyEight's Data
15 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Nationalism and the Tech Community
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Machinima, one of YouTube’s biggest and oldest channels, goes dark
15 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Do they have work/life balance? Investigating potential employers with GitHub
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ways Elon Musk's Bad Writing Habits Hurt Tesla's Performance
15 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Netflix put out 90,000 minutes of original series, movies in 2018
15 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Carbon capture system turns CO2 into electricity and hydrogen fuel
15 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Facebook Open-sources Spectrum 1.0.0 for better mobile image processing
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Prosecutors Pursuing Criminal Case Against Huawei for Theft of Trade Secrets
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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The Web We Have to Save
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Samsung phones don't let users delete Facebook
14 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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The DeepSolar Project
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why
14 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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CRT Displays: These Are Not Pixels
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Apple's China Warning “Deflects Deeper Problems” for Firm
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Synology-SA-18:64 Synology Diskstation Manager
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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America’s national parks are overrun with trash and overflowing toilets
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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With new kernel method, NLP system learns in four hours what used to take 7 days
14 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Detecting Kernel Memory Disclosure with x86 Emulation and Taint Tracking (2018) [pdf]
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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In defense of skepticism about deep learning
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Jiggle syphon
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Zoom.us slow connection
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Waymo CEO: Autonomous cars won't ever be able to drive in all conditions
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Flutter Awesome
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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EBPF and FUSE = Faster FUSE File Systems [pdf]
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Slack's new logo is "A swastika made of dicks"
14 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world
14 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Stensal SDK: Retrofitting C/C++ code with quasi-memory-safety
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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California’s Camp Fire Was the World’s Costliest Natural Disaster in 2018
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Dennis M. Hope Has Owned the Moon Since 1980 Because He Says So
14 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Why Science Fiction Authors Need to Be Writing About Climate Change Right Now
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Show HN: Stowbots – Sort image downloads automatically using deep learning
14 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Quotes for developers
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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When Was the First Handshake?
14 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Two in five tech job applicants don't have the right tech chops, survey finds
14 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood to defeat aging
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Is it worth learning SmallTalk?
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Australia’s beloved kangaroos are now controversial pests
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Wifi antenna made from a tetra-brik juice box
14 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Amazon accused of knocking off AWS customers' products (2013)
14 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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On the Centenary of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poems
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Down with philanthrocapitalism, says an entertaining polemic
14 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump into the Air
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Show HN: Git Butler – IFTTT for GitHub pull request and issue workflows
14 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Show HN: Beat video game addiction
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Happy New Year
14 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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MacKenzie Bezos likely to be world's richest woman after divorce
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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The FL Project: The Design of a Function Language (1989) [pdf]
14 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Die shot collection of Pauli Rautakorpi, Wikipedia user
14 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Open Real Time Messaging System: Jabber (1999)
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Learnability can be undecidable (2019)
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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A small notebook for a system administrator
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Why I am moving away from Vue.JS
14 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Public Trello board: 100 actionable ideas to your startup's first 100 users
13 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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We are now half-way between the Y2K and the Year 2038 problem
13 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Thriller Queens: Agatha Christie vs. Patricia Highsmith
13 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Facebook users don’t know that it records a list of their interests, new study
13 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Government Shutdown in Real-Time
13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Show HN: HFT-Like Trading Algo in 300 Lines of Python
13 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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With workers on edge, SF tech companies offer self-defense classes
13 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Yale Study Shows White Leftists Dumb Down Their Speech Talking to Minorities
13 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Show HN: Skit – minimal presentation slides for the CLI
13 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Show HN: My New HN Browser Extension
13 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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A Cure for Cancer? Israeli Scientists Say They Think They Found One
13 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Galactic glimmers: of milk and Old Sinitic reconstructions
13 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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The Unsung Heroes of Modern Software Development
13 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating at Half Speed of Light
13 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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California Moves, Haltingly, Toward a Post-Lawn Future
13 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Windows 10 will chew up another 7GB of disk space to make sure it can update
13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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IINA: A modern video player for macOS
13 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Bison 3.3 Released
13 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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How I reverse-engineer an application for security assessment
13 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Bookwheel, the 16th Century Forerunner to the EBook Reader
13 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Why businesses fail at machine learning
13 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Customer Review of APL with a Mathematical Accent (2004)
13 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Using Creative Cold Emails to Acquire Customers
13 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer
13 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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The Art of Snaring Dragons (1975) [pdf]
13 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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MIT researchers use Bayesian inference, a form of AI, to make computer programs
13 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us
13 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism
13 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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National park campers cut down protected Joshua trees during government shutdown
13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Social media is rotting democracy from within
13 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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How US military cartographers and bad digital mapping created a house of horrors
13 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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What would happen if the government shut down – and never reopened? (2014)
13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Google Maps will now display speed limits for its Android and iOS apps
13 points • comment • jan 20, 2019