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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0
300 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
299 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
299 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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DeepMind – StarCraft II Demonstration
299 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
299 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids
299 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Secure and Ad-Free Internet Anywhere with Streisand and Pi Hole
298 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more
297 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Skin printer wipes years from your face [video]
297 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets
296 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line
295 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”
295 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?
294 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha
293 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor
292 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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The State of Software Security in 2019
291 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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I'm leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely
291 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times
290 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Matz: We are mere mortals
290 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
290 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach
289 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Show HN: Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language
289 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Fossil vs Git
288 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009) [pdf]
287 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
286 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
286 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K concurrent connections on
286 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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BitPatron – A Bitcoin Censorship-Free Patreon Alternative
284 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
283 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Managing Remote Teams
282 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript
282 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty (2018)
282 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Designing an audio adblocker
281 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Systemd as tragedy
278 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
278 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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The Embroidered Computer
278 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years
278 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
277 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Deliveroo users are getting defrauded
276 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages
276 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
275 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’
274 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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8bit Workshop
274 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Making a Game Boy Game. Part 1: Getting Started
271 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (2014)
271 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)
271 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
270 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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How many .com domain names are unused?
270 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?
269 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS
268 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Gmail Services Global Outage
268 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival
268 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Syncthing graduation day
268 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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YC 120
266 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?
265 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company
265 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email
265 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Two creators are not always better than one
263 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims
262 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans
262 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing
262 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck
261 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What is the difference between Burnout/Depression/Laziness/Wrong job?
261 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
260 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app
259 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Migrate Jest to TypeScript
258 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Pathfinding for Tower Defense
258 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal
257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Privacy Tools – Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance
257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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IBM releases Elm-powered app
257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it
256 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis
256 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game
256 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site
255 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS
255 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
255 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays
255 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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EU fines Mastercard more than half a billion euros
254 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)
252 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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What I learned at work this year
252 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month
251 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me
251 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Input: Fonts for Code
250 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row
250 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
250 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Insect collapse
249 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?
249 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
249 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America
249 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
248 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure
248 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Right to Repair is already hurling into action in 2019
247 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Seneca Valley Virus has earned a reputation as a potent oncolytic agent
246 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust
245 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating
244 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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How to Use JSON Web Tokens
244 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Incident Response Documentation
243 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Cambridge University releases an app that improves concentration akin to Ritalin
243 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
243 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
242 points • comment • jan 17, 2019