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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711
213 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects
212 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Microsoft decides IE 10 has had its fun: Termination set for Jan 2020
212 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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I have magnets implanted in my hands
212 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night
212 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1999)
211 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
211 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018)
211 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
211 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005)
209 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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An Astronaut Accidentally Called 911 from Space
209 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
209 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music
209 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Tilt – Local Kubernetes development with no stress
209 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger
207 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security?
207 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam
206 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust
205 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job
205 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2012 legal action
205 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia
204 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Sacklers Directed Efforts to Mislead Public About OxyContin, Documents Indicate
204 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Why isn't bamboo wood a bigger industry?
204 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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AMD GCN Radeon Support in GCC 9
204 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0
204 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple
204 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
204 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Company Update
203 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Analyzing Core I9-9900K performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations
203 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015)
203 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released
202 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations
202 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Despite promises, cell carriers are still selling your real-time location data
202 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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A Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old into a Rap Legend
202 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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SF restaurants are suffocating
201 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Texas has enough sun and wind to quit coal, Rice researchers say
201 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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PostgreSQL: Backend Flowchart
200 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Google gives Wikimedia millions
200 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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The state of gRPC in the browser
200 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038
200 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems
200 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer
199 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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The 40M dollar job
199 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
198 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Inside the C Standard Library
198 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Tesla Autopilot HW3 details
198 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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The AI Threat to Open Societies
197 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial
197 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Drawing is the best videogame
197 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History
197 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers
197 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations
197 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
197 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Using Fourier Transforms to Multiply Numbers
196 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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Field notes: London, England (2018)
196 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind
196 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Movfuscator – Single instruction C compiler
196 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards
196 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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The Sounds That Haunted US Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say
195 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Nim in 2018: A short recap
195 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Who is horse_js?
195 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
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Attention Economy Is a Malthusian Trap
194 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012)
193 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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The “Bug-O” Notation
193 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)
193 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime
192 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS
192 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Google cans the Chromecast Audio
192 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Is there hope for IPv6?
192 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR
191 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Special Cases Are a Code Smell
191 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The Making of Nefertiti 1kb (2018)
191 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
191 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop
190 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018)
190 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Able To Dial a Book
190 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Avoiding a transit of the United States
189 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?
189 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging
189 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989)
189 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Olive, a new non-linear video editor
189 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Hacking PostgreSQL [pdf]
188 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Samsung to Replace Plastic Packaging with Sustainable Materials
188 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Rust at speed – building a fast concurrent database [video]
188 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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We wasted $50K on Google Search Ads and the insights we got on the way
188 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)
187 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Kubernetes Security Best Practices
187 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Netflix Flexes
187 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
187 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017)
187 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)
187 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city
187 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Show HN: Postmake – A directory of tools and resources for your projects
187 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc
187 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Facebook deliberately allowed “friendly fraud” to avoid harming revenue
187 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Starting a Company Outside Silicon Valley Just Saved Me $1.1M
187 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his camera
186 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Crev: dependency vetting with a web of trust
185 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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Maze-solving algorithm implemented in sed
185 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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A Primer on Type Systems
185 points • comment • jan 30, 2019