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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
2416 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
2075 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
1899 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
1741 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
1642 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
1425 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
1390 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
1286 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)
1256 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
1195 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Dotfile madness
1133 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
1126 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
1090 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
1059 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools
996 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Leukemia Has Won
996 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
996 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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We Need Chrome No More
984 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
938 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Public protest against Amazon
895 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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On Being a Principal Engineer
882 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Flightradar24 – how it works
864 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
851 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
839 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
794 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
791 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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You probably don't need a single-page app
784 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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This person does not exist
780 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
768 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
763 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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SQL: One of the most valuable skills
761 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
745 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]
729 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
724 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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HTTP/3 explained
711 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Whitespace killed an enterprise app
704 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
700 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Magic Lantern
698 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs
684 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
670 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
669 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
662 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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COI – Chat Over IMAP
657 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
656 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
638 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Winning the Blackbird Battle
618 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Going Solo, Successfully
618 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
618 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
598 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
596 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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My Twitch Live Coding Setup
595 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
594 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
593 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Google Docs gets an API for task automation
592 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Sex censorship killed the internet we love
588 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
584 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video
575 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
573 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
573 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
569 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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WireGuard for MacOS
566 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Books I Recommend
563 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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New pill can deliver insulin
561 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
555 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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About V, the language Volt is written in
555 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
553 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine
545 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago
545 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use
529 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
528 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
521 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)
514 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
514 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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A small notebook for a system administrator
510 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Bye, Bye, Google
507 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?
504 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
503 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown
502 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
499 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public
499 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
498 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
485 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
485 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes
481 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
476 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
474 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Event Sourcing is Hard
471 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Compounding Knowledge
470 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better
465 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
463 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many
462 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
458 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL
454 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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FindChips – Get instant insight into any electronic component
450 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Cleave.js – Format input text content when you are typing
448 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Hayabusa-2: Japan Spacecraft Touches Down on Asteroid
447 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
445 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
442 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences
441 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
435 points • comment • feb 13, 2019