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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift
117 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo
117 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin
117 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom
117 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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NIST Reveals 26 Algorithms Advancing to the Post-Quantum Crypto ‘Semifinals’
116 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Show HN: Scannable Chess Scoresheets
116 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Teaching People to Trade Stocks Is Like Starting Them on Heroin – Munger
116 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Reddit Transparency Report 2018
116 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover
116 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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The Peculiar Power of Plane Mechanic Simulator
116 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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What principal investigators taught me about my failure to land tenure
115 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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A FrankenPad Story: T25 with Quad-Core CPU and UHD LCD Panel
115 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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The rise of alternative milks
115 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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This Is Silicon Valley
115 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018 [pdf]
115 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know
114 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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I scraped all of Fandango's movie listings
114 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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New security flaw impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G telephony protocols
114 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Roger McNamee says the 'like' button was 'beginning of the end'
114 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Leading with Wikipedia: A brand proposal for 2030
114 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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A humble alternative to technical interviews
114 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Reflections on Learning Rust by Building Punchtop
114 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you get over the initial fear of learning something hard or new?
114 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV
114 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio
113 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?
113 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement
113 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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The Nuclear Option
113 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Is a shared database in microservices actually an anti-pattern?
113 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography
113 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Citizens allowed to sue on behalf of Lake Erie when it’s being polluted
112 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
112 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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41 Years Ago, There Were BBS Instead of the Internet
112 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley
112 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Is the Insect Apocalypse Upon Us?
112 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think
112 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go
112 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro [video]
112 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on?
112 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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PlotNeuralNet: Latex Code for Drawing Neural Networks
111 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review
111 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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4X
111 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Nginx 1.15.9
111 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Impossible Mathematics of the Real World (2017)
111 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Rust’s standard library was vulnerable for years and nobody noticed
111 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images
111 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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TSMC's Photoresist Material Incident: $550M Loss
111 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Sprint sues AT&T over its fake 5G branding
110 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
110 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Mobile Jazz Company Handbook [pdf]
110 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
110 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Is Elon Musk trying to commit ‘suicide by SEC’ by taunting the agency?
110 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)
110 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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U.K. Lawmakers accuse Facebook's CEO of leadership failure
110 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Review
109 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Breaking Out of Docker via RunC
109 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera
109 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game
109 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent
109 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2015)
109 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Startups
109 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs
108 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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CSS Grid the Right Way
108 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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“100 spies” will monitor all SMS and email that goes in and out of Norway
108 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Deep learning may need a new programming language
108 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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HyperCard Users Guide (1987) [pdf]
108 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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A brief history of the UUID (2017)
108 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Deep Dive into Math Behind Deep Networks
108 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People
108 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013)
107 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Tell HN: Node.js koa-router package transferred to unknown user
107 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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China's housing glut casts pall over the economy
107 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times
107 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator
107 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Amazon, GM in talks to invest in electric pickup truck maker Rivian: sources
107 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future
107 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client
107 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Why 80s BASIC still matters
107 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Why's a Big Red Tanker Drifting Near Boston?
107 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law
107 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
106 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Bitbucket Pipes
106 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech
106 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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'The Class Ceiling' Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces
106 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps
105 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Model Metropolis
105 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Overpaid CEOs 2019
105 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Show HN: AskData – API to Translate Natural Language-2-Sql
105 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Cargo's next few years
105 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Blockchain and Trust
105 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Cygwin 3.0.0-1
105 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination (2018)
104 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Recruit Is Japan’s Top Contender for Global Internet Domination
104 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Learn Computer Graphics from Scratch
104 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Showing the world how real soy sauce is supposed to taste
104 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Wyden Introduces S. 420 to Legalize Cannabis
104 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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I Deleted All of My Social Media and 60,000 Followers
104 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27
103 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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“Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure
103 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Web page service workers bypass ad-blockers after Chrome 72 upgrade?
103 points • comment • feb 17, 2019