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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing
59 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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AI text generator not released for concerns about implications
59 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement
59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Data-Driven Flowcharts in R Using DiagrammeR
59 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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A 5km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?
59 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Plotting hearts with Python and C
59 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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MacOS Finder Shows Zero-Size Folders
59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Productivity tricks in Visual Studio
59 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Vulnerability in Tesla Website Used to Find Details of 8500 Cars in US Inventory
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Deck-build – A powerful and tiny bash framework to build custom Docker images
59 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Declarative Programming: Is It a Real Thing? (2015)
58 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Facebook tracks users it thinks could threaten employees and offices
58 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism
58 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix
58 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
58 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Interview with Fritz Lang, Beverley Hills, August 12, 1972
58 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Where do Google's flaky tests come from?
58 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct
58 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Show HN: Road Trips in Australia
58 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Hydra – Live Coding Networked Visuals
58 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Bastion Fort
58 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
58 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor
57 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Understanding the Network Interface Card
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Show HN: AdaBound, an optimizer that trains as fast as Adam and as good as SGD
57 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Not Long Ago, Lenses Were Much Lighter
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Chinese, Taiwanese Restaurants Drop 'Golden' and 'Dragon'-Take on Mandarin Names
57 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015)
57 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Making the world a better place for the colorblind
57 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping
57 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Time passed since cURL creator applied for a US visa
57 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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When targets and metrics are bad for business
57 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Deep learning applications in drug discovery and protein structure analysis
57 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Wfirst, the Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles
57 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Benchmarking Go vs. Node vs. Elixir
56 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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The reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything
56 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Two or more diet beverages a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks
56 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook's Whole Ad Business
56 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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How we've attracted top talent to our early-stage bootstrapped startup
56 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Magnet link generator
56 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”
56 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Ask HN: Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?
56 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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A new predictive model for more accurate electrical grid mapping
56 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Show HN: Follow GitHub Organisations
56 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Artists Create “Infinite Skulls” Using GANs
56 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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CERN day 2
56 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Great Stirrup Controversy
56 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Does Carnitine from Red Meat Cause Heart Disease?
56 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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The de Havilland Comet
56 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life (2016)
56 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of This Blockchain Use Case?
56 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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A taste for fat may have made us human, says study
55 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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The U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty Is the Next Step in a Global Arms Race
55 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you manage state in your React application?
55 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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I Have 800 Passwords
55 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)
55 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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About Face: Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men
55 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Chinese New Year Is World’s Biggest Human Migration
55 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit (2017)
55 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Naming elliptic curves used in cryptography
55 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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The Internet Saved the Record Labels
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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A 13-year-old girl reportedly makes over $1,000 a day creating ASMR videos
55 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Containers as Kernel Objects – Again
55 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Writing a Fast JSON Parser
55 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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A Post Mortem on Growth Hacking
55 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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RetDec: open-source machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
55 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found alive in Indonesia
55 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Making Swallowing Safer for those who have trouble swallowing
55 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Open-sourcing Magma to extend mobile networks
55 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your burnout story?
55 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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40% of Smart Homes at Risk to Hackers
55 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Work-life balance?
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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A Distracted Walk with Fundamental Analysis
55 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Why I Gave Up on Extreme Minimalism (2015)
54 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Elegy for a vent in a Hawaiian volcano
54 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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The Value Chain Constraint
54 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Colloquium: A Century of Noether's Theorem
54 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The Shrinking Singapore Stock Market
54 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised by Activists
54 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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PG&E Contains Gas Leak That Caused San Francisco Explosion
54 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Macrostrat: A Global Geological Map
54 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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The Northwest Climate Toolbox
54 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Riot.im: The Big 1.0
54 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
54 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Hashing for large-scale similarity
54 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Environmental Cost of Semiconductors?
54 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Study Looks at Why Neolithic Humans Buried Their Dogs with Them
54 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Honda Plans to Leave Britain as Brexit Draws Close
53 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Examining Pointer Authentication on the iPhone XS
53 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Millennials still recognise songs from music’s 1960s-90s golden age, study finds
53 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Ask HN: What paths for a software engineer are age-resilient?
53 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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RIAA Lawyers Botched a Big One Against flvto.biz – So What’s Next?
53 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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How B players hire C players (2018)
53 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
53 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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0patch Blog: No Source Code for a 14-Year Old Vulnerable DLL? No Problem
53 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Neoliberalism Is a Simplistic Perversion of Economics
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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The Future of Computing Is Analog
53 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Expanding Access: Engineering Uber Lite
53 points • comment • feb 05, 2019